The
European Science TV
and New Media Festival 2010
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The Environment
in European TV
and New Media Festival 2009
2 November, 2009
The Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London W1
Screenings of TV Documentaries and Drama from across Europe, with panel led discussions geared to a teenage audience,
but open to all.
The Festival is supported by
the Stem Careers Project
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The Festival
Screenings of TV programmes from across Europe,
with talks and discussions from programme originators. The 2009 Festival
will feature both an international jury of scientists and TV people,
and a teenage jury who will select their own winner in the Documentaries
and Drama category.
Running Order 2 November Festival Day
9.00am
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Arrivals |
| 9.10 - 9.12am |
Introduction by Andrew Millington,
Director of EuroPAWS, OMNI Communications |
| 9.12am |
HERE COMES THE SUN VPRO
The Netherlands |
| 10.05am |
CLIMATE WARS, Episode
3 BBC Science |
| 11.10 - 11.25am |
Coffee Break |
| 11.25am |
ITER BIEN SUR Television Locale Provence, France |
| 11.48am |
DIE GROSSE FLUT (the Big Flood) ZDF, Germany |
| 12.35pm |
Panel 1
Pat Morton, Head of STEM Careers Project
Gaby Hornsby, BBC Producer, Climate Wars
Andrew Millington, Director EuroPAWS |
| 13.00pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
| 14.00pm |
HEAT WAVE SAT1, Germany |
| 15.05pm |
WINDS BBC Scotland |
| 16.10pm |
COUNTDOWN ON THE YANGTZE WDR Germany |
| 17.05pm |
Panel 2
Andree Molyneux, Artistic Director, OMNI
Communications
Michael Burke, BBC Series Producer, WINDS
Kate Bellingham, Broadcaster and Teacher,
Stem Careers Project |
| 17.30am |
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Profiles of the Panellists
 Andrew Millington
After a PhD in Physics from Cambridge University, Andrew became a journalist with the science journal Nature. He then joined the BBC and in the 1980s led a team to produce an extended Horizon on the discovery of the W particle, with a record audience, and won the Grand Prix at the Paris International Science TV Festival with ‘What
Einstein Never Knew'. In 1993 he and a colleague founded Omni Communications and the PAWS venture, to bring more science into TV drama, and later EuroPAWS its pan-European equivalent. Recently, Andrew expanded PAWS to include science in all TV and New Media genres, and to raise the profile of women in science and engineering. Andrew is currently making a film on the ATLAS Experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. |
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 Andree Molyneux
Andree Molyneux has produced television drama, mainly single films for the BBC. These include their first feature film Dancing
thru the Dark, by Willy Russell (International Cinema release and Venice Film Festival), Road, Winner of the Golden Nymph Award of Monte Carlo, A
Breed of Heroes by Charles Wood, nominated for a BAFTA award, and Money
for Nothing a film by Tim Firth which won the Writers Guild Award for best screenplay. Andree won three BAFTA awards as producer/director of drama for children, and an RTS award. She is now a freelance script consultant , and a member of the Board of the Tricycle Theatre and Cinema. |
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 Kate Bellingham
Kate Bellingham is the National STEM Careers Co-ordinator (STEM Careers Champion for the DCSF). She has had a ‘portfolio' career. With a degree in physics, MSc in electronics and QTS, she has worked as a computer programmer, broadcast engineer, TV presenter (including ‘Tomorrow's World'), and secondary maths teacher. As well as her Careers Champion role, she is currently the Bloodhound Education Ambassador, President of Young Engineers and a Patron of WISE. She will also be returning to our screens next year in a BBC 2 science documentary series. |
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 Pat Morton
Pat Morton is a Principal Lecturer within the Centre for Science Education at Sheffield Hallam University. She is Project Manager for the STEM Subject Choice and Careers Project (funded by DCSF) and part of the STEM Action Programme to increase the take up of STEM subjects and careers by young people. She leads the WiSET team, working to increase the participation of girls and women in STEM and built environment. |
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 Michael Burke
Michael
Burke is an award winning television documentary maker who has worked for all the major UK broadcasters, making films for well-known strands such as Cutting
Edge, Dispatches and Inside
Story. He has founded and run his own independent production companies, and because of a passion for cinema and storytelling, in 2002 he founded the Commonwealth Film Festival to showcase the talents of filmmakers from the 53 countries of the commonwealth.
For the last few years he has been part of the BBC's specialist factual team in Glasgow, making science films such as Jetstream,
10 Things You Didn't Know About Tsunamis, Earthquakes and Avalanches and the Weather series, Winds, Rain and Snow. He has just made a film in Kenya with the presenter Jimmy Docherty, part of a series looking at how the world's farmers are using science to feed the world. Jimmy's
Global Farm will be broadcast on BBC2 in the new year. |
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 Gaby Hornsby
Gaby Hornsby is a film-maker whose work encompasses a wide range of genres, including factual entertainment, social history and science. Past credits include Earth
- The Climate Wars for BBC Two, the critically acclaimed series The
Secret Life of the Motorway and The
Secret Life of the Airport for BBC Four, and the popular hit Dog
Borstal for BBC Three.
Before focusing her energies on television she also worked as a print journalist and a radio producer. |
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The Professional Jury
 Raymond Seltz
Raymond Seltz obtained his doctorate
in nuclear physics from the University of Strasbourg.
He joined CNRS in 1960 where his research activities
were in experimental nuclear physics, accelerator technology
and use of nuclear radiation technologies in agriculture
and industry. He has been director of the "Centre
de Recherches Nucléaires-Strasbourg", member
of scientific committees at CNRS and CERN and co-founder
of NUPECC, the "Nuclear Physics European collaboration
Committee". From 1991 to 2000 he was in charge
of the CNRS bureau in Bonn (Germany) and joined the
French Embassy as scientific attaché with the
mission of improving the French- German scientific
collaboration. Since 2000 he is the secretary general
of Euroscience with the task of leading and co-ordinating
Euroscience’s activities. Through his personal
involvement Euroscience was participating in several
European projects related to science communication
via movies, TV and web. |
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 Tiziana Rossetto
Tiziana
Rossetto is a Reader in Earthquake Engineering. She is an expert in structural vulnerability under dynamic loading, in particular in the assessment of cities and urban areas to seismic risk. She is the founder and director of the EPICENTRE (Earthquake-People Interaction Centre), a dynamic multi-disciplinary research group that aims to bridge the gap between traditional Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Risk Reduction, through a series of projects that combine engineering expertise with psychology and social sciences. EPICENTRE is funded by the £1M EPSRC (UK's Engineering and Physical Science Research Council) Challenging Engineering Grant won by Tiziana in 2007, and has a dedicated MSc course in Earthquake Engineering with Disaster Management.. She is a reviewer of several international journals, heads the Research Committee of the UK Society of Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics, and is UK representative in working group 4 of the EU funded COST C26 action on "Urban Habitat Constructions under Catastrophic Events".. In 2007, she presented the BA Isambard Kingdom Brunel Award lecture, ‘Why earthquakes become disasters and what are engineers doing about it?' at the BA Festival of Science in York. Tiziana has undertaken a number of field missions to assess damage to buildings and infrastructure in earthquake zones including the Kashmir Earthquake of October 2005, the Sumatra Earthquake and Tsunami of 26 December 2004, and the Bhuj Earthquake of January 2001 in Gujurat, India. |
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 Diarmaid Mac Mathuna
Diarmaid is Head of Production at Agtel, a digital media and communications group based in Dublin which specializes in television, video, and web production. He has a strong track record in video production, and his deep understanding of science communication, television and on-line video is complemented by his Masters Degree by Research in Physics. Diarmaid has produced a series of four educational DVDs for the European Space Agency's education programme, and he has also produced and directed numerous videos that help communicate scientific research.
His portfolio of clients includes the Irish government's awareness-raising initiative Discover Science and Engineering as well as the country's largest scientific research organisation Teagasc. These projects have made significant use of the web as a video distribution channel along with DVD and television. One of the television documentaries that Diarmaid was involved with is the BBC Northern Ireland documentary "Northern Star" which tells the story of physicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell and the discovery of Pulsars. He also publishes the specialist blog "Science Communication Review". |
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Fiona Scott
Fiona Scott has been a programme maker for ten years, having worked on hit programmes for the BBC such as Supervolcano and Krakatoa: The Last Days. She has produced and directed a number of science documentaries for BBC2, Channel 4 and The Discovery Channel, and is currently focusing on developing new science and history shows at Darlow Smithson Productions. She has a BSc Hons in Physics and an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College, London, and is now working towards an MA in Archaeology via Distance Learning with the University of Leicester. |
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 Katharine Way
Katharine started writing at the age of 6, but had to wait till she was 15 before her first short story was published in a collection of work by children and teenagers. After gaining a BA in English Literature from Queens' College, Cambridge and an MA in Theatre Studies from Lancaster University, she came to London and worked for Amnesty International for seven years while establishing herself as a writer. She has been a commissioned writer of British TV drama since 1994 and has written for the UK's best-known medical drama and police drama and many other top-rating TV shows including five different soap operas. She has been nominated twice for Writers' Guild Awards. Katharine's first radio play, Miracle
Worker, about a child faith healer, was broadcast on BBC radio in 2008 and she is developing a number of original projects for TV smf radio, as well as writing for the award-winning daytime drama Doctors and teaching screenwriting on university degree courses.
Katharine is an active member of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, having chaired its TV Committee for five years, and been elected onto the Executive Council for six years before becoming Chair of the Writers' Guild for three successive years, from 2006 - 2009. She is now on the Board of the European Writers' Council. |
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The Teenage Jury
Jessica Lewis and Duncan
Edgely from Comberton Village College,
Comberton, Cambridgeshire
Allie-Louise Grover and
Chelsea Jones from The City
Technology College, Kingshurst, Birmingham |
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Entry Criteria and Background
EuroPAWS invited entries for its Festival and Awards 2009, in the
following three categories:
Environmental science and technology in:
- TV Documentaries and Drama
- TV General Programming (i.e. magazines,
politics shows, natural world etc) - an item in context or a complete programme
- New Media Productions (including WEB, iPOD, Promotional Video etc)
The winners in each category will receive the three MIDAS Prizes 2009, awarded by an international jury of scientists/science communicators and TV people. There will also be an extra prize in the Documentary and Drama category awarded by a teenage jury.
The environmental science and technology theme has been chosen again this year
for a number of reasons:
The challenges of the environment are assuming an ever greater prominence in
the public mind, with the key issues of global warming, extreme weather conditions
and floods, waste disposal, more environmentally friendly energy provision and
transport, the evolution of new products and processes geared to minimizing carbon
emissions as well as the impact of natural phenomena like tsunamis.
The "Kyoto 2" conference in Copenhagen in December 2009 will set the scene for
fresh action on the environmental, with an ever greater onus on the audio-visual
media (and others) to bring home the issues both effectively and in a captivating
way. So 2009 offers a chance to demonstrate some of the recent communication
successes in Europe across TV and AV genres.
Europe shares a common agenda in presenting environmental issues to its public,
and the EuroPAWS annual festival and awards provides a natural platform to bring
together programmes and approaches from across the continent.
A programme or programme section (in a magazine say) will be considered eligible
if it focuses on some aspect of the environment and the science or technology
behind the understanding in at least a major thread within the production. Some
programmes will link environmental issues say to energy production or political
decision-making. The acceptance criteria will not be over-pedantic, providing
that the illumination of the environmental aspect and its science and technology
play a significant enough role.
Full list of MIDAS PRIZE CANDIDATES
Environment in TV and New Media Festival and Awards 2009
Category 1: TV
Documentaries and Drama
RACE FOR THE FUTURE CAR
From the series Backlight, VPRO, The Netherlands
COUNTDOWN ON THE YANGTSE
WDR Germany
EARTH: THE CLIMATE WARS
Episode 3 Fight for the Future BBC Science, BBC UK
DIE HITZEWELLE (Heat Wave)
Janus Film for SAT1, Germany
DIE GROSSE FLUT (The Big Flood)
Abenteuer Wissen Special ZDF, Germany
HERE COMES THE SUN
From the series Backlight, VPRO, The Netherlands
ITER BIEN SUR (ITER of course)
Television Locale Provence, France
RESEARCHING ANTARCTICA
Danish Broadcasting Corporation, DR2
WINDS
Episode of the series The Weather, BBC Scotland, BBC UK |
Category 2: TV General programming
ELECTRIC CARS AND BEES
Adjacent items from The
Daily Politics, BBC2, UK
ETHICAL MAN - DETROIT
Newsnight, BBC2, UK
ETHICAL MAN - TEXAS
Newsnight, BBC2, UK
E-WASTE SCANDAL IN GHANA
From the series Galileo, Prosieben, Germany
GO WITH THE FLOW
From the series Earth Report XIV, TVE London for BBC World
LES REPORT-TERRE
An episode of the magazine, Martange Production for France 5
OPERATION EARTH
Episode, Finnish TV series
QUARKS and CO
An Episode on Fish and the Oceans, WDR, Germany
1, 2 or 3 VOLLER ENERGIE
Children's Programme, ZDF, Germany |
Category 3: New Media
FUSION 2100
Video from EFDA (European Fusion Development Agreement)
CLIM CITY
Interactive Web Game by CAP SCIENCES and Objectif Prod, France
SOLARCENTURY CSR REPORT
Web Production for Youtube by Solarcentury, UK
MALTA AND LAMPEDUSA FOR MARINE ENVIRONMENT
Video from Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale
ELEMENT: CLIMATE CHANGE
Video package from TVE London, UK
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
Web Production for Youtube by ITER, France/World
WATER; SAVE LOCAL SOLVE GLOBAL
Video by Sapiens Productions, The Netherlands |
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