August 4, 2104—The Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival is delighted to announce the finalists selected for its second biennial 2014 Jackson Hole Science Media Awards. This year’s saw more than 480 entries competing for 21 special awards.
Finalists include a number of GSCA members, including the American Museum of Natural History, BBC, Cosmic Picture, Day's End Pictures, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, National Geographic, Oxford Scientific Films, SK Films, Spring Garden Pictures, Spitz Inc., and Tangled Bank Studios.
More than 140 international judges screened an aggregated 3000+ hours in order to select the finalist films. Finalists in the peer-judged Craft Categories (Visualization, Editing, Writing and Audioscape) and Special Consideration nominations will be announced August 15.
The 2014 Science Media Award winners will be selected by a distinguished panel of judges preceding the three-day Science Media Symposium, an industry conference hosted in partnership with WGBH in Boston, September 17-19, and will be announced at a gala Awards Celebration at the New England Aquarium, on September 17th.
CONTENT CATEGORIES:
Best Earth Sciences Program (Including Geology, Paleontology, Oceanography, and Meteorology)
Your Inner Fish: Your Inner Reptile
Tangled Bank Studios & Windfall Films, for PBS
The Day the Mesozoic Died
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive 3D
Colossus Productions
Best Biological/Life Sciences Program (Including Botany, Zoology Genetics, Neuroscience and Evolution)
Your Inner Fish: Your Inner Fish
Tangled Bank Studies & Windfall Films, for PBS
Unnatural Selection
Sky Vision & Terra Mater Factual Studios, GmbH
Decoding Neanderthals
A NOVA Production by Arrow International Media, Ltd. for WGBH
Best Environmental & Conservation Sciences Program (Interdisciplinary Examination of the Environment and Ecosystems)
Earth a New Wild: Plains
National Geographic Television & Passion Planet for PBS
Battle for the Elephants
Everwild Media for National Geographic Television
Inside the Megastorm
Dragonfly Film & Television Productions, Ltd. for NOVA/WGBH in association with BBC
Killer Whales-Fins of Change
Terra Mater Factual Studios, GmbH, Brian Leith Productions, WNET/Thirteen & NDR Naturfilm Doclights
Best Medical Sciences Program (Including Clinical Science, Epidemiology, Pharmacology, Bioengineering, Stem Cell Research and Public Health)
American Experience: The Poisoner’s Handbook
An Apograph Productions, Inc. film for American Experience
American Experience is a production of WGBH
Jabbed: Love, Fear and Vaccines
Genepool Productions
Kids on Speed? Episode 1
Essential Media and Entertainment
Toxic Bees – Nature’s Mayday
Public Television Service, Taiwan
Best Physical Sciences Program (Including Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy and Nanoscience)
Particle Fever
PF Productions, LLC & Anthos Media, LLC
COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey-Standing Up in the Milky Way
Fuzzy Doors Productions, Cosmos Studios, Inc. in association with FOX Broadcasting Company & National Geographic Channel
Eyes of Atacama
Terra Mater Factual Studios, GmbH
Best Technological Sciences Program (Including Robotics, Computer & IT, Artificial Intelligence, Mechanical & Systems Engineering)
The Incredible Bionic Man
Darlow Smithson Productions, Ltd. for Smithsonian Channel
Genius of Nature: Sensing
Terra Mater Factual Studios, GmbH, Oxford Scientific Films & BBC
Zeppelin Terror Attack
Windfall Films, Ltd. for NOVA/WGBH, Channel 4 & National Geographic Channel
Rise of the Drones
Pangloss Films, LLC for NOVA/WGBH
Best Human & Social Sciences Program (Including Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, Linguistics and History of Science)
The Perfect Runner
Clearwater Documentary, Inc. & Smithsonian Channel
The Ultimate Formula: What is the Universe Made of?
NHK
Enigma Man-A Stone Age Mystery
Electric Pictures
PROGRAM CATEGORIES:
Best Limited Series
COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey
Fuzzy Door Productions and Cosmos Studios, Inc. in association with FOX Broadcasting Company & National Geographic Channel
Your Inner Fish
Tangled Bank Studios & Windfall Films, for PBS
Years of Living Dangerously
Roaring Fork Films
Richard Hammond’s Miracles of Nature
Terra Mater Factual Studios, GmbH, Oxford Scientific Films & Hamster’s Wheel
Best Short Program
Your Inner Fish: We Hear with the Bones that Reptiles Eat With
Tangled Bank Studios & Windfall Films, for PBS
Snows of the Nile
Day’s Edge Productions
Invisible Ocean: Plankton & Plastic
Emily V. Driscoll/BonSci Films
Return of the Cicadas
Samuel Orr/www.MotionKicker.com
Best Short Series Program
Freaks of Nature
Off the Fence Productions
QUEST: The Science of Sustainability
KQED in collaboration with five partner stations
WildFIRE PIRE: Wildfires, Climate Change, & the Ecosystem
Dennis Aig and Daniel Schmidt, Montana State University, Department of Science and Natural History Filmmaking
Best Radio & Podcast Media
The STEM Story Project-The Poison Squad: A Chemist’s Quest for Pure Food
Sruthi Pinnamaneni
Desperate for a Cure: The Search for New Alzheimer’s Treatments
WCAI-The Cape and Islands' NPR Station
Shared Planet
BBC Natural History Unit
Best Hosted or Presenter-led Program
COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey-Standing Up in the Milky Way
Fuzzy Doors Productions & Cosmos Studios, Inc. in association with FOX Broadcasting Company & National Geographic Channel
Richard Hammond’s Miracles of Nature-Super-Bodies
Terra Mater Factual Studios GmbH
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive 3D
Colossus Productions
Best Children’s Education Program
Wild Kratts: When Fish Fly!
KrattBrothers Company, Ltd. & 9 Story Entertainment
Plum Landing
WGBH Educational Foundation & Global Mechanic
Watermelon Magic
Spring Garden Pictures
Survival of the Sexiest, Parts I & II
Animator: Baker & Hill
Developed by National Geographic & Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
Best Integrated/Cross Platform Media
Tales from the Poisoner’s Handbook
American Experience/WGBH Educational Foundation
Live from Space
Arrow Media, Channel 4 & National Geographic Channel
Birds of Paradise: Amazing Avian Evolution
Developed by National Geographic & Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
Best Student and Emerging Science Filmmaker
Seizing the Unrecorded
Ingrid Pfau
Montana State University, MFA Science and Natural History Filmmaking Program
When the Peacock Sings: A Prequel to the Monsoons
Shaz Syed
University of Salford: Mediacity
Pride
Rosh Patel
Montana State University, MFA Science and Natural History Filmmaking Program
Best Immersive Cinema (3D/Large Format)
Flight of the Butterflies 3D
SK Films
Jerusalem 3D
A Cosmic Picture/Arcane Pictures Film, National Geographic Ventures
Mysteries of the Unseen World (IMAX)
National Geographic Entertainment & Day’s End Pictures
Best Immersive Cinema (Fulldome)
Moons: Worlds of Mystery
Charles Hayden Planetarium & Boston Museum of Science
Bella Gaia: Beautiful Earth
Remedy Arts, LLC & Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Dark Universe
American Museum of Natural History
Supervolcanoes
Spitz Creative Media, Mirage3D & Thomas Lucas Productions in association with Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Best Online and Interactive Media
Sound Uncovered: An Interactive Book for the iPad
Exploratorium
The RNA Lab
NOVA
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive App
Colossus Productions
About JHWFF:
Recognized as the premier event of its genre, the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival is an unparalleled industry gathering. Hosted biennially in Grand Teton National Park, over 650 international delegates participate in an exceptional slate of leading-edge equipment presentations, seminars and state-of-the-art screenings. The Festival’s international board of directors is comprised of some of the most well respected companies affiliated with conservation and natural history and science filmmaking and broadcasting.
Current Board Members include: Animal Planet, BBC Natural History Unit, Discovery Channel, Disneynature, Fujinon, The Gorongosa Project, Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Tangled Bank Studios, National Geographic Television and National Geographic Channel International/NatGeo WILD, Nature/WNET, National Parks Conservation Association, The Nature Conservancy, ORF/Austrian Broadcasting, Off the Fence Productions, PBS, Sony Electronics, Terra Mater Factual Studios, Vulcan Productions, WGBH/Boston and World Wildlife