BOSTON, MA. - Sept. 27, 2018 — Jackson Hole WILD is delighted to announce the complete list of winners selected for its fourth biennial Jackson Hole Science Media Awards (JHSMA). JHSMA celebrates the world’s most effective science storytellers and stories. The winners were announced this evening at the MIT Media Lab.
This year’s competition saw more than 500 entries competing for 21 special awards. Over 100 international judges screened an aggregated 1,250 hours of media in order to select the finalists. The winners were selected by an esteemed panel of international judges.
The awards celebration concludes the three-day industry conference called the Science Media Awards and Summit in the Hub, or SMASH, in Boston. This unique forum allows more than 300 science media stakeholders to gather and celebrate exceptional media, cutting-edge discoveries and explore new ways of communicating the wonders of science to a global audience in a rapidly-changing media landscape.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2018 GRAND HELIX AWARD WINNER:
Laws of the Lizard
Day's Edge Productions for Smithsonian Channel
CONTENT CATEGORY WINNERS:
Earth & Sky (sponsored by North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences)
One Strange Rock: Gasp
Nutopia Ltd, Protozoa Pictures, Overbrook Entertainment for National Geographic
Science of Life (sponsored by HHMI Tangled Bank Studios)
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, Create NSW
Changing Planet (sponsored by Off the Fence)
POV: The Islands and the Whales
A co-production of Intrepid Cinema and Radiator Film in association with American Documentary | POV
Health & Medicine (sponsored by PBS)
Unseen Enemy
Sierra/Tango Productions, Vulcan Productions
Technology & Innovation (sponsored by Nat Geo WILD)
AlphaGo
Moxie Pictures
Being Human (sponsored by Vulcan Productions)
Jane
National Geographic Studios in association with Public Road Productions for National Geographic
PROGRAM CATEGORY WINNERS:
Short Form Series (sponsored by International Fund for Animal Welfare)
Deep Look
KQED, PBS Digital Studios
Long Form Series
Digits
Partisan Pictures for CuriosityStream
Short Program (sponsored by World Wildlife Fund)
Genes as Medicine
Barrat Media Inc. and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Micro Movie
A New View of the Moon
Wylie Overstreet, Alex Gorosh
Virtual Reality/360° Storytelling (sponsored by University of Southern California--Jaunt Cinematic Virtual Reality Lab)
My Africa
A Passion Planet Production in association with Vision 3 for Conservation International
Interactive
Fisheries Collapse
Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, Cortina Productions
Science Journalism (sponsored by NATURE)
POV: The Islands and the Whales
A co-production of Intrepid Cinema and Radiator Film in association with American Documentary | POV
Science Ambassador (sponsored by Science Channel)
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 Engaging
Young Scientists (sponsored by Disneynature)
Backyard Wilderness
Arise Media / Archipelago Films, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios
Student & Emerging Science Filmmaker (sponsored by Nat Geo WILD)
Illuminating Disease
Alain Douchinsky
Audible Science: Radio & Podcast
Undiscovered
Science Friday
CRAFT CATEGORY WINNERS:
Writing
Jane
National Geographic Studios in association with Public Road Productions for National Geographic.
Writer: Brett Morgen, based on the writings of Jane Goodall
Editing (sponsored by Terra Mater Factual Studios)
The Serengeti Rules
HHMI Tangled Bank Studios & Passion Planet.
Editor: Andy R. Worboys
Visualization (sponsored by Fujifilm & Fujinon)
The Farthest - Voyager in Space
Crossing the Line Productions, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, and Irish Film Board for PBS.
Cinematographer: Kate McCullough. Production Designer: Joe Fallover. CGI Visual Effects: Ian Benjamin Kenny. Art Director, Tangled Bank Studios: Fabian de Kok-Mercado
Special Jury Awards
Vital Bonds
ID Docs, National Film Board of Canada
2018 Jackson Hole Science Media Awards Finalists Trailer
Wildlife-film.com says very well done to all winners, with special congratulations to members Smithsonian Channel and Crossing the Line Productions for their very well-deserved wins!
About Jackson Hole WILD
For more than 26 years, Jackson Hole WILD has held the biennial Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival and Conservation Summit, which is recognized as the premiere event of its genre. The week-long industry conference and film awards gala draws more than 700 international conservationists, journalists, filmmakers and broadcasters to Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. The festival encourages the production of natural history programming around the world by providing non-fiction 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 jacksonholewild.org. |
