This year's festival includes 10 feature films and 44 shorts. The curated selection focuses on a range of critical environmental issues, such as animal extinction and climate change.
Check out all of the women-directed and co-directed docs airing on “POV’s” upcoming season. Inventing Tomorrow, Directed by Laura Nix, will air July 29, 2019.
Forget about Marvel. These kids are the real superheroes of the future – the ones who might actually make a difference. It's beyond inspiring to see that high school children, some from real disadvantage, could come up with these ideas.
[The Farthest] is a reminder of the idealism and optimism of the people who worked in the space program over 40 years ago, and serves as a call to recapture their spirit and ingenuity.
The feature-length film attempts to explain how nature works by looking at the importance of the top predator. It follows ecologists and zoologists building off of Paine’s theory that the when a predator is removed, like a starfish in a tide pool, biodiversity collapses.
Chevy Chase, MD (November 14, 2018)— HHMI Tangled Bank Studios is proud to receive the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award for THE FARTHEST—VOYAGER IN SPACE documentary, which celebrates 40 years of NASA’s famed Voyager mission to the outer planets. This prestigious award, administered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), honors distinguished science reporting for a general audience.
THE FARTHEST—VOYAGER IN SPACE, BACKYARD WILDERNESS, and THE SERENGETI RULES recognized for excellence in science media.
CHEVY CHASE, MD (October 3, 2018)—HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, Crossing The Line Films and PBS proudly accepted the News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary for THE FARTHEST—VOYAGER IN SPACE documentary celebrating the scientists and engineers behind NASA’s Voyager mission to the outer planets.
CHATTANOOGA, TN/BOSTON, MA (September 28, 2017) — Arise Media/Archipelago Films, SK Films and HHMI Tangled Bank Studios are thrilled to announce Backyard Wilderness took home five prestigious Achievement Awards at the Giant Screen Cinema Association’s (GSCA) 2018 conference.
As of June 4, 2018, Voyager 1 is the most distant man-made object from Earth, being over 13.2 billion miles from the sun, and traveling at a rate of 10 miles per second. The Farthest tells the complete story of the Voyager mission. More than that, it’s a beautiful and inspiring documentary about man’s fascination with space travel, and the wonderment of what we know awaits us in the cosmos.
The top honor of the festival, the Green Fire Award, is granted to The Serengeti Rules by filmmaker Nicholas Brown. This beautifully shot and poignant film shares the story of a band of young scientists and their time in the most remote and spectacular places on Earth. Driven by their insatiable curiosity about how nature works, they discover a single set of “rules” that govern all life.
