Come and join us for a night of Inspirational Science films. Screening also will be locally produced vodcasts facilitated by the Science Hub Orange Cowra Cabonne, co-hosted by NRM- Natural Resource Management committee Cowra. Supported by Inspiring Australia + the CORRIDOR project + Cowra Council.

What is being shown at the event…..

SCINEMA is the largest science film festival in the southern hemisphere showcasing the best in science cinema from around the world. SCINEMA is a celebration of the power of the moving image to inspire the young, satisfy the curious, explain the baffling and ask the impossible....films include.....

Virtual Humans (Spain) 6:00 mins

Award for Technical Merit. Directed by Guillermo Marin, Fernando Cucchietti produced by Peter Coveney, Mariano Vazquez. Written by Roger Highfield, Peter Coveney, Guillermo Marin, Fernando Cucchietti. This short film takes us to a future where a complete copy of you can be created, and used to monitor, study, and enhance your health. A future that might not be far from now.

The secret to making better decisions – catalyst (Australia) 1:30 mins (excerpt only)

Award for Scientific Merit

Directed and Produced by David Symonds, Nicholas Searle. Mathematician Lily Serna believes maths can provide the answer to life’s tough decisions and she shows us how in this excerpt from Catalyst.

Grassroots (Australia) 19:10 mins

Best Documentary. Directed by Frank Oly. Produced and Written by Tegan Nock. A story about farmers, the soils they work and a piece of powerful knowledge that nearly slipped through their fingers. Grassroots follows Guy Webb and his friends, unlikely heroes on a quest to bring a genuine climate change solution to the world.

ASTROTURF (UK) 1:00 min

Best Experimental Film. Directed by James Uren. Produced and Written by Nidhi Gupta. Using the strange sounds of recordings of satellites in space, Astroturf juxtaposes the minutiae of human life with the incredible size of our universe.

TIMELAPSE (Spain) 11:00 mins

Best Director. Directed and Written by Aleix Castro. Produced by El Dedo en el Ojo. What would you say if you could work a whole month in a single second? Welcome to the future of neural implants. A new way of understanding work has arrived, but factory worker Laura is not convinced.

KCLOC (USA) 2:30 mins

Best Animated. Film Directed, Produced and Written by Ninaad Kulkarni. What does time mean to you? This 3D animated film explores our perceptions of time, with exquisite animation and great wit.

Irony (Australia) 8:00 mins

Best Short Film. Directed, Produced and Written by Radheya Jegatheva. An astonishing adaptation of the award-winning poem, ‘Seven Billion’ by Radheya Jegatheva, irony explores the relationship between humanity and technology…told from the perspective of a phone.

Planet Earth II – Grasslands (UK) 1:30 mins (excerpt only)

Special Jury Award. Directed and Produced by Chadden Hunter. Grasslands cover one quarter of all land and support vast gatherings of wildlife but to survive here animals must endure the most hostile seasonal changes on the planet.

The kingdom – how fungi made our world (Australia) 52:00 mins

Best Film. Directed by Annamaria Talas, Simon Nasht (Australia). Produced by Susan mackinnon (Australia), Anne Pick, Bill Spahic (Canada). Some fungi will save us, others will threaten us, and we are just beginning to understand which is which. The great, untold story of how fungi shaped all life on land.

Local vodcasts produced by the Science Hub Orange Cowra Cabonne for SCIENCE WEEK 2018 including:

• DPI - Department of Primary Industry Orange, Jordan Bailey discusses her role as lead curator of the Herbarium and biosecurity. 3mins

• Western Science meets Traditional knowledge on water ecology, and native endemic grasses - Jo Lenehan and Orange Fibre Artists 3mins

• A local farmer + artist using technology to improve farming practice with a minimal footprint.- John Daly 3mins