National Geographic Studios and Public Road Productions’ Jane (pictured) and Bigger Bang’s Stephen Hawking’s Favorite Places are among the finalists at the 2018 Jackson Hole Science Media Awards.
The Jackson Hole Science Media Awards (JHSMA) celebrate the best in science storytelling across 20 categories spanning content, program and craft in the science media field.
This year’s finalists were selected by a panel of more than 100 international judges who screened 1,250 hours of content. The competition saw more than 500 entries competing for 21 special awards.
The award-winners will be announced at a gala celebration on Sept. 27 in Boston as part of the Science Media Awards and Summit in the Hub (SMASH).
The 2018 Jackson Hole Science Media Awards finalists are listed below. A full list of finalists is available here.
CONTENT CATEGORY FINALISTS
Earth & Sky
Death Dive to Saturn
A NOVA Production by Terri Randall Productions, Inc. for WGBH Boston
One Strange Rock: Gasp
Nutopia Ltd, Protozoa Pictures, Overbrook Entertainment for National Geographic
Space’s Deepest Secrets: Cassini’s Grand Finale
BBC Worldwide Limited
The Farthest–Voyager in Space
Crossing the Line Productions, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, and Irish Film Board for PBS
Science of Life
700 Sharks
Le Cinquieme Reve for National Geographic
Attenborough’s Ant Mountain
A Production of Terra Mater Factual Studios in association with BBC and ABC Australia produced by Ammonite Ltd.
Laws of the Lizard
Day’s Edge Productions for Smithsonian Networks
The Kingdom – How Fungi Made Our World
Smith & Nasht, Real to Reel Productions in association with CuriosityStream, Steve Burns; The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Sue Dando; ZDF/ARTE, Linde Dehner; SVT2 Sweden Anna Schytt; Screen Australia, Telefilm, Creative NSW
Changing Planet
Before the Flood
National Geographic Presents a RatPac Documentary Films Presentation of an Appian Way Production in association with Insurgent Docs and Diamond Docs
Mosquito
Yap Films for Discovery Channel
POV: The Islands and the Whales
A co-production of Intrepid Cinema and Radiator Film in association with American Documentary | POV
The Serengeti Rules
HHMI Tangled Bank Studios & Passion Planet
Health & Medicine
My Love Affair with the Brain: The Life and Science of Dr. Marian Diamond
Luna Productions
The Surgery Ship
Media Stockade, National Geographic, Screen Australia
Unseen Enemy
Sierra/Tango Productions, Vulcan Productions
Vital Bonds
ID Docs, National Film Board of Canada
Technology & Innovation
AlphaGo
Moxie Pictures
Digits: Episode 3
Partisan Pictures for CuriosityStream
The Bit Player
The IEEE Information Theory Society
Being Human
Dian Fossey: Secrets in the Mist – Dark Side of the Mountain
Tigress Productions Limited for National Geographic
Great Human Odyssey
A NOVA Production by Clearwater Documentary Inc. in association with CBC, A NOVA Production by Lawrence Klein Productions, LLC for WGBH Boston
Jane
National Geographic Studios in association with Public Road Productions for National Geographic
Short Form Series (under 20 minutes)
Deep Look
KQED, PBS Digital Studios
I Contain Multitudes: Short Series
HHMI Tangled Bank Studios and Room 608 Productions
Retro Report/STAT
Retro Report/STAT
Skunk Bear with Adam Cole
NPR
Long Form Series (longer than 20 minutes)
Digits
Partisan Pictures for CuriosityStream
NOVA Wonders
Pangloss Films LLC, Ark Media, Little Bay Pictures, Lawrence Klein Productions LLC, and Lone Wolf Media for WGBH Boston
One Strange Rock
Nutopia Ltd, Protozoa Pictures, Overbrook Entertainment for National Geographic
Stephen Hawking’s Favorite Places
Bigger Bang for CuriosityStream
Short Program
Colors of Change
Pongo Media Productions
Cosmic Twin: Why There Could be Many Identical Copies of You
A film made by Melissa Hogenboom and Pierangelo Pirak for BBC Earth
Genes As Medicine
Barrat Media Inc. and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Mapping the Darién Gap
BelugaSmile Productions, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The End of Snow
Day’s Edge Productions
Think Like a Scientist: Renewal
Plumb Productions, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios
Micro Movie (under 5 minutes)
A New View of the Moon
Wylie Overstreet, Alex Gorosh
L’orchestre D’hibernation Animaux (or: How Animals Hibernate)
Popular Science
Meet the Real Wolf
Grizzly Creek Films, Rocky Mountain Wolf Project
Stunning Close-ups: Meet These Frogs Before They Go Extinct
National Geographic
The Snow Guardian
Day’s Edge Productions
Interactive
Augmented Reality Keeps Rivers Free-Flowing
World Wildlife Fund, One Big Robot
Fisheries Collapse
Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, Cortina Productions
Human Anatomy Atlas 2018
Visible Body
What Happens in a Bomb Blast?
Outrider Foundation, Alex Wellerstein, Bluecadet
Virtual Reality/360° Storytelling
Greenland Melting
FRONTLINE, Emblematic Group, NOVA, xRez Studio, Realtra
My Africa
A Passion Planet Production is association with Vision 3 for Conservation International
The Protectors
Annapurna Pictures, Here Be Dragons and National Geographic
This Is Climate Change: Fire
Participant Media, Condition One
Science Journalism
POV: The Islands and the Whales
A co-production of Intrepid Cinema and Radiator Film in association with American Documentary | POV
The Farthest–Voyager in Space
Crossing the Line Productions, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, and Irish Film Board for PBS
The Serengeti Rules
HHMI Tangled Bank Studios & Passion Planet
VITAMANIA – the sense and nonsense of vitamins
A Genepool Productions feature documentary for SBS Australia, CuriosityStream, and ARTE France. Principal production investment from Screen Australia, in association with Film Victoria
Science Ambassador
Attenborough’s Ant Mountain
Terra Mater Factual Studios GmbH, A Production of Terra Mater Factual Studios in association with BBC and ABC Australia produced by Ammonite Ltd.
My Love Affair with the Brain: The Life and Science of Dr. Marian Diamond
Luna Productions
Myth or Science: The Power of Poo
Infield Fly Productions in association with The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Produced with the participation of the Canada Media Fund, OMDC, CAVCO and Rogers Telefund
VITAMANIA – the sense and nonsense of vitamins
A Genepool Productions feature documentary for SBS Australia, CuriosityStream, and ARTE France. Principal production investment from Screen Australia, in association with Film Victoria
Engaging Young Scientists
Amazon Adventure
SK Films, Picture Projects, Aventuras Produções
Backyard Wilderness
Arise Media / Archipelago Films
Dream Big: Engineering Our World
MacGillivray Freeman Films
Myth or Science: The Power of Poo
Infield Fly Productions in association with The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Produced with the participation of the Canada Media Fund, OMDC, CAVCO and Rogers Telefund
Student & Emerging Science Filmmaker
A Million Dollar Nose?
Sarah Hight with support from The Centre for Science Communication at Otago University
Illuminating Disease
Alain Douchinsky
Life of Pine
Chris O’Flaherty, Todd Amacker, Shireen Rahimi, Olivia Schmidt, and Tim Treuer
Outnumbered in Africa
Clare Fieseler, Gabby Salazar
CRAFT CATEGORY FINALISTS
Writing
Attenborough’s Ant Mountain
Terra Mater Factual Studios GmbH, A Production of Terra Mater Factual Studios in association with BBC and ABC Australia produced by Ammonite Ltd.
Jane
National Geographic Studios in association with Public Road Productions for National Geographic
Second Genesis
HHMI Tangled Bank Studios and Market Road Films for PBS
VITAMANIA – the sense and nonsense of vitamins
A Genepool Productions feature documentary for SBS Australia, CuriosityStream, and ARTE France. Principal production investment from Screen Australia, in association with Film Victoria
Editing
Jane
National Geographic Studios in association with Public Road Productions for National Geographic
The Farthest–Voyager in Space
Crossing the Line Productions, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, and Irish Film Board for PBS
The Serengeti Rules
HHMI Tangled Bank Studios & Passion Planet
Visualization
700 Sharks
Le Cinquieme Reve for National Geographic
One Strange Rock: Home
Nutopia Ltd, Protozoa Pictures, Overbrook Entertainment for National Geographic
The Farthest–Voyager in Space
Crossing the Line Productions, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, and Irish Film Board for PBS
The Kingdom – How Fungi Made Our World
Smith & Nasht, Real to Reel Productions in association with CuriosityStream, Steve Burns; The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Sue Dando; ZDF/ARTE, Linde Dehner; SVT2 Sweden Anna Schytt; Screen Australia, Telefilm, Creative NSW