Newsroom24x7 Staff
BOSTON, MA.(USA): Jackson Hole WILD has announced the complete list of winners selected for its third biennial 2016 Jackson Hole Science Media Awards (JHSMA). JHSMA celebrates the world’s most effective science storytellers and stories. This year’s competition saw more than 500 entries competing for 25 special awards. More than 115 international judges screened an aggregated 2100+ hours in order to select the finalist films. Editor-in-chief of newsroom24x7 and founder president of the NGO CREW, Lalit Shastri was in the international panel of judges to select the finalists.
Award winners were honored September 21 night at the Harvard Art Museum in Boston.
This film competition anchored the Science Media Awards and Summit at the Hub (SMASH) at WGBH Studios in Boston, a three day conference gathering 300+ top scientists and science media stakeholders from around the world to share new work, new approaches and new ideas.
2016 GRAND HELIX AWARD WINNER:
David Attenborough’s Light On Earth
Terra Mater Factual Studios/Ammonite Films, CuriosityStream, with: BBC, UKTV, ABC Australia
Director/Producer: Joe Loncraine, Director of Photography: Martin Dohrn, Cinematographers: Jack
Hynes, Fraser Johnston, Elliot Lowndes, Jonathan Esling, Ian Stewart
CONTENT CATEGORY WINNERS:
Earth & Sky (sponsored by SkySkan)
Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough: Ep.1 Builders
Atlantic Productions
Science of Life (sponsored by HHMI Tangled Bank Studios)
Sonic Sea
Discovery Channel presents a Natural Resources Defense Council, Imaginary Forces,
International Fund for Animal Welfare, and Diamond Docs production
Changing Planet (sponsored by North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences)
Racing Extinction
Okeanos – Foundation for the Sea and Discovery Channel present an Oceanic Preservation
Society film in association with Vulcan Productions, The Li Ka Shing Foundation, Earth Day
Texas, JP’s Peace, Love & Happiness Foundation, Diamond Docs, and Insurgent Docs
Health & Medicine (Discovery Channel)
Twice Born: Stories From The Special Delivery Unit: Ep. 1
Trailblazer Studios
Physical Sciences (sponsored by Panasonic)
Inside Einstein’s Mind
A NOVA Production by Windfall Films Ltd. (part of the Argonon Group) for WGBH Boston
produced in association with the BBC
Technology & Innovation (sponsored by National Geographic Partners)
The Origami Code
La Compagnie des TaxiBrousee, Fact + Film, Leonardo Film and ZDF/3Sat
Being Human (sponsored by Vulcan Productions)
Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman: Are We Bigots?
Produced by Revelations Entertainment for Science Channel
PROGRAM CATEGORY WINNERS:
Short Form Series (sponsored by PBS Distribution)
Think Like A Scientist
Produced for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute by Day’s Edge Productions
Long Form Series (sponsored by The Nature Conservancy)
Uranium – Twisting the Dragon’s Tail
Genepool Productions, in association with Screen Australia, Film Victoria, SBS, PBS and
ZDF/ARTE
Short Program (sponsored by WGBH)
Moth Mimicry: Using Ultrasound to Avoid Bats
Gorongosa Media Project and Off the Fence, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Immersive: Fulldome, 3D & Large Format (sponsored by Fujinon)
David Attenborough’s Conquest of the Skies 3D
Atlantic Productions, Sky 3D
Interactive (sponsored by Brookline Interactive Group)
Connected Worlds
NY Hall of Science, Design I/O
Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality (sponsored by Terra Mater Factual Studios)
HoloAnatomy
Case Western Reserve University’s Interactive Commons and Cleveland Clinic
MicroMovie (sponsored by AAAS)
Mangroves
Natural Numbers
Science Journalism (sponsored by Minnesota Public Television)
Vaccines—Calling the Shots
A NOVA Production by Tangled Bank Studios, LLC, in association with Genepool Productions
Pty Ltd. for WGBH Boston
Science Ambassador (sponsored by Nature/WNET)
E.O. WilsonOf Ants and Men
Shining Red Productions, Inc. for PBS
Host: E.O. Wilson
Engaging Young Scientists (sponsored by Boston Museum of Science)
Design Squad Global
WGBH Educational Foundation
Student & Emerging Science Filmmaker (sponsored by National Geographic Society)
Red Wolf Revival
Roshan Patel, Nestbox Collective
Audible Science: Radio & Podcast (sponsored by BBC)
Invisibilia
National Public Radio
CRAFT CATEGORY WINNERS:
Writing (sponsored by World Wildlife Fund)
Return of the River
Elwhafilm LLC
Writer: Jessica Plumb
Editing (sponsored by PBS)
Racing Extinction
Okeanos – Foundation for the Sea and Discovery Channel present an Oceanic Preservation
Society film in association with Vulcan Productions, The Li Ka Shing Foundation, Earth Day
Texas, JP’s Peace, Love & Happiness Foundation, Diamond Docs, Insurgent Docs
Editor: Geoffrey Richman, A.C.E., Lyman Smith, Jason Zeldes
Visualization (sponsored by Sony Electronics)
Forces of Nature: Shape
A BBC Production with PBS coproduced by France Televisions
Cinematographers: Simon de Glanville, Tim Cragg, Roger Munns
Special Jury Awards
Archiverse
Jacob Hammon
Operation: Lighthouse Rescue
A NOVA Production by Windfall Films LTD (Part of the Argonon Group) for WGBH Boston
Transistors: Teeny Tech That Changed the World
Abby Kent
About Jackson Hole WILD
Jackson Hole WILD presents industry conferences and programs including the Science Media Awards and Summit, Jackson Hole Conservation Summit and Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, recognized as the premiere event of its genre, convening a biennial five day industry conferencce that draws over 650 international conservationists, journalists, filmmakers and broadcasters. JHW encourages the production of natural history programming around the world by providing nonfiction media industry stakeholders with an international film forum to conduct
business, test new equipment, refine production techniques and celebrate the world’s finest nature and science programming. For more information, please visit jhfestival.org.
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