Scinema 2009 film festival highlights

SCINEMA 2009 film festival highlights include:

• Between the Folds, by US filmmaker Vanessa Gould, which tells the story of ten artists and scientists who abandon their careers to forge careers as modern day paper folders
• Australia’s Andrea Ulbrick’s Rodney’s Robot Revolution documentary about the race to create the world’s first affordable personal robot
• The Good Heart Attack by UK duo Uli Hesse and Sean Davidson about how a strange paradoxical discovery is saving lives
• UK filmmakers Sasha Andrews and Jeanne Guiraud’s Sound Waves tells the story of two families with deaf children and Cochclear Implants
• Big Bang in Tunguska by Germany’s Christop Schuch explores the scientific origin of the largest explosion recorded in human history

The full program, including details of the guest speaker’s presentations around the country, is available online at: http://www.csiro.au/scinema/

Scinema part of National Science week August 15 to 23, 2009.

SCINEMA, a science film, video and multimedia festival, brings a program of science drama, documentaries, and short subjects, as well as a number of guest speakers, to venues from Cairns to Hobart, and Sydney to Perth.

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