Jackson Hole Wildlife Festival Announces Science Media Award Winners

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Tornado Alley, winner of Best Immersive Program

Jackson Hole, WY, USA -- TheJackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival has announced the finalistsselected for its inaugural Science Media Awards Competition. Internationallyrenowned as the largest and most prestigious competition of the natural historygenre, this latest initiative creates the first comprehensive internationalforum to celebrate excellence in communicating the wonders of science to publicaudiences. This year’s entries included 280 films entering more than 450categories to compete for 18 special awards.  More than 80 internationaljudges screened an aggregated 1500+ hours in order to determine the finalists. Programs were selected from over 400 entries by a prestigious jury including: DavidDugan, William Grant, Richard Hutton, Valentine Kass and Alison Leigh andcelebrated a gala event hosted at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Winners of the prestigious international competition are:
CONTENT CATEGORIES:Best Earth & EnvironmentalProgram, sponsored by One World One Ocean (IncludingGeology, Paleontology, Energy, Oceanography, Weather, and Climate)
FLYING MONSTERS 3DAtlanticProductions & SKY3D with National Geographic Entertainment
Best Life Sciences Program, sponsored by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (IncludingBiology, Bio-diversity, Ecology, Genetics, and Genetic Engineering)PRIMEVAL NEW ZEALANDNHNZ withNHK, Television New Zealand and New Zealand on Air
Best Medical Science Program, sponsoredby Science ChannelNOVA: SEPARATING TWINSPresented by electricsky.com, A WTFN Productionfor NOVA
Best Physical Sciences Program, sponsoredby The Nature Conservancy (IncludingAstronomy, Cosmology, Physics, Chemistry, and Nanotechnology)CURIOSITY: DID GOD CREATE THE UNIVERSEDarlow Smithsonand Discovery Channel
THE FABRIC OF THECOSMOS WITH BRIAN GREENE: WHAT IS SPACE?A NOVA Production by 32-12 Media, withARTE France and National Geographic Channel
Best Technological SciencesProgram, sponsored by Discovery ChannelCONCORDE: FLYING SUPERSONICDarlowSmithson and Smithsonian Channel
Best Human and Social SciencesProgram, sponsored by Center for the Advancement of Informal Science Education
THE GRAMMAR OF HAPPINESSEssentialMedia and Entertainment and Smithsonian Channel
PROGRAM CATEGORIESTheatrical Program, sponsored by Fujifilm Optical DevicesHIDDEN BEAUTYBlacklight Films
Best Limited Series, sponsored byTerra Mater Factual StudiosAUSTRALIA: THE TIME TRAVELER’S GUIDEEssential Media and Entertainment
Best Short, sponsored by theWyoming Film OfficeTHE MAKING OF THE FITTEST: NATURAL SELECTION IN HUMANSHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Holt Productions
Best Immersive Program, sponsored by National Geographic TelevisionTORNADO ALLEY
Graphic Films and Giant Screen Films
Best Institutional MediaInstallation, sponsored by Denver Museum of Nature & ScienceTHE CHANGING CLIMATE SHOWScienceNorth
Best Immersive--Fulldome Program, sponsored by Global ImmersionUndiscovered Worlds: The Search Beyond our Sun
Charles Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Science, Boston
Best Interactive & New Media, sponsoredby Scientific AmericanBear 71
National Film Board of CanadaBest Nonprofessional Program,sponsored by Animal PlanetGROWING UP WITH GADGETSCaseyKanode
Best Host or Presenter, sponsoredby QUBEAustralia:The Time Traveller's Guide, Episode 2
Essential Media and Entertainment
Host/Presenter: Dr. Richard Smith
CRAFT CATEGORIES:Best Visualization, sponsored byPanasonic Solutions PLANET YOU 3DTerra Mater Factual StudiosCinematography: Johannes Poetscher and ChristophGroppenbergerScience Visualization Team: Reinhold Fragner, RudiErlach and Alfred Vendl
Best Editing, sponsored by SonyElectronicsTHE BONES OF TURKANANational Geographic Television
Edited by: Maggie Noble
Best Writing, sponsored byAmerican Association for the Advancement of ScienceFABRIC OF THE COSMOS WITH BRIAN GREENE: QUANTUM LEAPA NOVA Production by SpineFilms, with ARTE France and National Geographic Channel Written by: Josh Rosen,Julia Cort and Joseph McMaster.
Based on the book, The Fabric of theCosmos, by Brian Greene
In addition, Special Jury Award, sponsored by Sony Electronics was awarded to:
IMMORTAL
December Films & Pemberton Films

For more on the Science Media Awards, visit www.jhfestival.org
About JHWFF: Recognized as the event premier of its genre, the Jackson HoleWildlife Film Festival is an unparalleled industry gathering. Hosted bienniallyin Grand Teton National Park, over 650 international delegates participate inan exceptional slate of leading-edge equipment presentations, seminars andstate-of-the-art screenings. Also presented biennially, the Jackson HoleSymposium brings together 350 public and institutional media professionals tocelebrate the finest science media programming.The Festival’s international board members include: Animal Planet,Arete Media, BBC Natural History Unit, Denver Museum of Nature & Science,Disneynature, Discovery Channel, FUJIFILM Optical Devices, Inc., Giant ScreenFilms/D3D Howard Hughes Medical Institute, MacGillivray Freeman Films/One WorldOne Ocean, National Geographic Television & Film, The Nature Conservancy,Nature for WNET New York Public Media, NHK Japanese Broadcasting, NHNZ, Ltd.,nWAVE Productions Distribution, Off the Fence Productions, Panasonic Solutions,Principal Large Format, Sony Electronics, TERRA MATER Factual Studios, andUNIVERSUM/ORF Natural History Unit.