Scinema 2011 at Byron Bay Events & Programme

7 sessions, 5 Socials, 3 Parties, over 2 weekends -- the 1 place to be!!

FREE ADMISSION!
Sat  20 Aug

4 pm       Science of Everything
6 pm       Mix & Mingle: GALA NIGHT: music (to be announced)
Welcome to Country/ Mayor Jan Barham
7.30 pm   Life of Oceans

Sun 21 Aug

4 pm       Being Human
6 pm       Mix & Mingle
7.30 pm   Industrialisation & Sustainabililty

Fri    26 Aug

6 pm        Mix & Mingle
7.30 pm     Space!

Sat   27 Aug

6 pm       Extreme Life PARTY NIGHT: music by (to be announced)
dress up burlesque, goth, mod or beat!
7.30 pm  Life in Extremes
followed by AFTER PARTY (til 10 pm)

Sun 28 Aug

6pm        Mix & Mingle  VISION FINALE

7.30 pm  Environment

Film sessions run approx 2 hours plus Q & A with guest experts

Mix & Mingle:

Displays, Expert Guests, Soapbox Speakers, Networking
Ceremonies, Food, Music, Prizes, Raffle,

Water Wheel: pH Water Testing:
bring a water sample from your stream, creek or beach
and test with our pH metres. Your results will be added
to our  regional map, to be published after film fest 2011.

more about the Water Wheel project

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Check Websites, Radio, Papers and other Media for updates about Guests, Sponsors and more
For more info or to be a sponsor ring local contact 0423 742 792

Thanks to Southern Cross University for donating use of their room at Byron Bay Community Centre. What a wonderful gesture! Their kindness makes the entire festival possible.

And many thanks to CSIRO for making the SCINEMA 2011 programme available nationally!

LIST OF FILMS by THEMES
The Science of Everything: Holbach + Quantus + The City Dark + This program also features the winning films from SCINEMA’s national Student Short (Chemistry) Film Challenge (to be announced  Mon 18 July 2011)

Life in the Ocean: Dissolving Densities + Under Kimberley Waters + Oondoorrd: Married Turtle + One Ocean: The Changing Sea

Being Human: Twist of Fate + Immortal + Skin Deep

Industrialisation and Sustainability: Teclopolis + Waste Not + 99% Rust + The Light bulb Conspiracy

Space: Wonders of the Solar System: Dead or Alive + Looking at SKA + Voyage of the Planets

Life in Extremes: Invertebrate + Aliens of the Amazon: Secret Alliance + Life in Hell- Survivors of Darkness

Environment: Climatedogs + Where the Wild Things Were + Carbon Cycle Caper + Tainted Wolves + Rwanda Back to the Garden + Worm Hunters



LIST OF FILMS by ALPHABET

Aliens of the Amazon: Secret Alliance Quincy Russell - United Kingdom - 2009
Equipped with state-of-the-art imagery gear, a group of researchers embarking on an expedition in Ecuador has revealed the infinitely strange, observed the hitherto unseen, listened to the most outlandish of sounds and elucidated previously-unexplained entomological mysteries.

Carbon Cycle Caper David Bunting - 2011
An innovative animated film promoting an education game, enabling students to understand the carbon cycle, how it has been affected by our use of fossil fuels since the Industrial Revolution and how this underlies current worries about climate change.

The City Dark  Ian Cheney- USA-2011
Looking at the loss of night, filmmaker Ian Cheney asks a simple question - do we need the stars? Exploring the threat of killer asteroids in Hawaii, tracking hatching turtles along the Florida coast, and rescuing injured birds on Chicago streets, Cheney unravels the myriad implications of a globe glittering with lights.

Climatedogs Graeme Anderson - Australia - 2010
Victoria is well known for its variable climate. From year to year, four global climate processes vary their behaviour, potentially resulting in wetter or dryer seasons.

Dissolving Densities Brandon Strathmann - USA - 2011
Following a little crab through the coral reef, we see the effects of ocean acidification and learn that what we do on land affects what happens to the oceans.

Immortal Sonya Pemberton - Australia - 2010
Deep in the DNA of a humble pond creature an Australian-born scientist discovered an immortalizing enzyme, a chemical catalyst that can keep cells forever young. Far from fiction, in 2009 this discovery was awarded a Nobel Prize. But this is no simple cure for aging - for the same enzyme that fuels endless life, also fuels cancer.

Holbach Romain Di Vozzo - France - 2010
This short video loop brings you inside the intimacy of the Matter, where reality is collected on the surface of vibrating nanoframes which function is to record human actions, so as to remind us the brittleness of Nature and the value of video design as a prospective field of Environmental Aesthetics Research.

Invertebrate James McAleer - United Kingdom - 2010
Invertebrate shows us the complex machinations of a day in the city of the insects. Shot in a scale model of a human city, the man-size creatures display incredible humanity in their dramatic stories within their alien caste system. When the end comes, it will not be the strongest, or the most intelligent species that will survive. It will be the species that can adapt to change that will dominate the Earth. Real Insects, real Drama, no CGI.

Life in Hell: Survivors of Darkness Thierry Berrod - France - 2010
In some of the planet’s harshest environments, micro-organisms rule. A remarkable equilibrium, extremely fragile and often unimaginable, exists in these micro-communities rarely explored.

The Light bulb Conspiracy Cosima Dannoritzer-Spain - 2010
Once upon a time products were made to last. Then, in the 1920s, a group of businessmen were struck by an insight: 'A product that refuses to wear out is a tragedy of business' - thus Planned Obsolescence was born, and shortly after, the first worldwide cartel was set up to reduce the life span of the incandescent light bulb, a symbol for innovation and bright new ideas, and the first official victim of Planned Obsolescence.

Looking at SKA Australia - 2010
Brian Boyle, Director of Australia’s bid to host the world’s largest telescope, the Square Kilometre Array, talks about the exciting scientific challenge of re-writing astronomy history.

One Ocean: The Changing Sea Canada - 2010
From the majestic kelp forests of Monterey Bay to a magical night on a coral reef; from the storm-tossed waters of the mighty North Pacific to the crystal blue of the Mediterranean Sea: “One Ocean” explores some of the most stunning underwater locations in the world as it sets sail on a scientific race to predict the fate of the global ocean and it’s amazing creatures.

Oondoorrd: Married Turtle Mitch Torres - Australia - 2009
For the Bardi people of the Dampier Peninsula north of Broome in the West Kimberley of Australia, it is Oondoorrd time, a time of celebration and friendly competition as young men try to spear their first ‘married turtle’ – a rite of passage into being a good hunter of turtles.

Quantus Beau Janzen - USA - 2008
Quantus addresses the ubiquitous question in math classes: “when am I ever going to use this stuff?” Quantus shows math as a language for describing and understanding literally everything.

Rwanda Back to the Garden Patrick Augenstein - China - 2010
Can Man reverse the damage we've done to the planet, and restore the Garden of Eden we inherited? Across the Globe, landscapes have been degraded by over-farming, conflict, and desertification. But now some countries in Africa are helping demonstrate that ruined landscapes can be regenerated.

Skin Deep Franco Di Chiera – Australia - 2009
Focusing on ground-breaking research and personal accounts from scientists around the world, this documentary powerfully demonstrated that the evolution of skin colour is solely an adaptation to the environment. It showed that judging people on the basis of colour is not only morally unacceptable, but scientifically wrong.

Tainted Wolves Amitabh Avasthi - USA - 2009
Each year, nearly 70 percent of gray wolf pups in Minnesota die from a virus common in domestic dogs. Scientists believe that a series of rare mutations and increased air travel helped a feline virus jump from cats to dogs, and then to gray wolves.

Teclopolis Javier Mrad - Argentina - 2010
A gorgeous stop-motion animation set in a world made from recycled technology.

Twist of Fate Karen Aqua - USA - 2009
This beautiful experimental animation explores the transformative experience of being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. As an expressionistic piece, it captures impressions of such an experience: upheaval, uncertainty, a sense of physical intrusion, and loss of control. Exploring this emotional landscape, the film visualizes an internal world inside the body, imagined on a cellular level.

Under Kimberley Waters Trevor Almeida - Australia - 2010
In mid 2008 marine scientists from the Western Australian Marine Science Institution head out into the rarely visited region of the remote Kimberley coastline in the far North West of Australia. Battling giant tides and unsurveyed marine waters they attempted to collect the first baseline data of the region.

Voyage of the Planets - Richard Smith and Chris Thorburn - Australia -2010
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to leave Earth? To lose sight of our home planet and go where no human has gone before? This documentary explores the pleasures and pitfalls of travel to the very alien planets of our own Solar System.

Waste Not Ruth Hessey – Ausytralia - 2011
What keeps a 21st Century metropolis like Sydney clean and sparkling? Even as we hover on the brink of a monumental eco-catastrophe, an army of truck drivers, scientists, environmentalists, gardeners and even a famous chef are working to transform the mountains of stuff we throw away into something valuable again.

Where the Wild Things Were Amber Cherry Eames - United Kingdom - 2010
Set in the Scottish Highlands, this film explores the history of deforestation and its effect on today's remaining Caledonian pine forests. We travel with several species, exploings behaviours that are now considered essential for the regeneration of Scotland's ancient Caledonian pine forests.

Wonders of the Solar System: Dead or Alive Paul Olding - United Kingdom - 2010
Professor Brian Cox visits some of the most stunning locations on Earth to describe how the laws of nature have carved natural wonders across the solar system. He explores the physics of what keeps the celestial bodies of our solar system alive and how they die.

Worm Hunters Randall Wood - Australia - 2011
In a Turkish headquarters the world’s top earthworm scientists concoct a plan to find and name their ultimate discovery. Nothing will stop them as they travel to all corners of the world with spades, GPS worm locators and secret worm outing fluids to unearth their prize.

99% Rust Nenko Genov-Bulgaria-2010
This documentary explains the all-too-short life cycle of metal. About 70% of all metal is used just once and then it is discarded, the remaining 30% is recycled.