The winners of the Awards!
The day of the Award show is always an exciting day. The votes have been counted and the Student Jury has been discussing for a long time. But the winners are known!
Chasing coral
Jeff Orlowski’s Chasing Coral has won the NTR Audience Award. On Sunday, November 12th, Elisabeth van Nimwegen, known from the NTR Program De Kennis Van Nu, awarded the NTR Audience Award, worth €2,500,-, during the InScience Awards show. Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. A team of divers, photographers and scientists set out on a thrilling ocean adventure to discover why and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world. Did you not see the film during InScience? Chasing Coral is also available on Netflix.
The film was screened twice during InScience. The film screenings were deepened by meteorologist and climate scientist Richard Bintanja of the University of Groningen, who told about climate and environmental change, and by marine ecologist Han Lindeboom of the Wageningen University, who discussed the status of the coral reefs in the Netherlands.
The top 3 public favorites of InScience 2017 are:
- Chasing Coral | Jeff Orlowski | Documentary | 2017
- Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith | Stuart Staples | Documentary | 2016
- The Farthest | Emer Reynolds | Documentary | 2017
DUsk chorus – Based on Fragments of Extinction
The documentary Dusk Chorus – Based on Fragments of Extinction by Alessandro D’Emilia and Nika Saravanja won the Student Jury Award, worth €500,-. The film is about eco-acoustic composer David Monacchi, on his mission to record the sounds of the Amazon. The soundscape of this region is as rich as the diversity of the nature that produces it. The sound spectrum of the forest is based on a subtle balance in which each species communicates at a very specific frequency. A unique experience to listen to the disappearing sonic heritage of millions of years of evolution.
Director Alessandro D’Emilia was present at InScience and after the film told about his experiences of making this film and discussed the problems of noise pollution. D’Emilia was present at the Award show and was very happily surprised:
”The importance of the film for me is to keep going and finding new topics and new input. It is not a new topic, but the way in which it is made is showing a whole other way to tell about extinction.”
Photo © Almicheal Fraay