Edition 2021
The second edition of #LabMeCrazy! Science Film Festival 1,120 productions from 92 countries participated. These were the winners and finalists in each category:
Video - summary of the 2021 edition
Photo gallery
Winning documentary:
→ My Octopus Teacher
South Africa, 85 min, 2020.
Off the Fence and The Sea Change Project.
→ Hi, AI. Germany, 87 min, 2019. Kloos & Co.Medien(see video).
→ Human Nature. United States, 107 min, 2019. Sandbox Films, News and Guts Films, The Wonder Collaborative. (watchvideo).
→ MS. Netherlands, 55 min, 2019. Docmakers. (watchvideo)
→ The Last Artifact. United States, 57 min, 2019. Montana PBS and Montana State University(see video).
→ The Serengeti Rules. United States, 84 min, 2018. HHMI Tangled Bank Studios and Passion Planet. (watchvideo).
Winning TV program:
→ Changing Seas: "Corals in Crisis."
United States, 26 min, 2019.
South Florida PBS
→ America First - Nature Last. Germany, 29 min, 2019. ZDF.(watch video)
→ Creatures of darkness. Spain, 30 min, 2019. El Huyar (Teknopolis - EiTB). (watchvideo).
→ The Method - A virus from laboratory? Spain, 10 min, 2020. El Cañonazo and The Facto (TVE).
→ Órbita Laika - Seas and oceans. Spain, 56 min, 2019. RTVE and K 2000(see video).
Winning production:
→ Those in Grass Houses
United Kingdom, 30 min, 2020
Christian Lawes
→ A Natural Code. United Kingdom, 10 min, 2019. Cristina Ceuca(see video).
→ Hidden Tides. Spain, 10 min, 2019. Mònica Cambra(see video).
→ Paludiculture. Germany, 20 min, 2020. Swantje Furtak(see video).
→ The Side Effect. United States, 5 min, 2019. Dmitry Kovalev.
→ The World's Coolest LEGO Set! United Kingdom, 10 min, 2020. Joshua Chawner.
work winner:
→ A voice above nature
United Kingdom, 13 min, 2018
UWE Bristol
→ Alice In Typhoidland. United Kingdom, 5 min, 2020. University of Oxford.
→ Everything is Broccoli. United Kingdom, 10 min, 2020. National Film and Television School(see video).
→ LIfespan. United Kingdom, 22 min, 2020. National Film and Television School.
→ What if Babel was just a Myth? France, 56 min, 2019. Sandrine Loncke.(see video)
Winning video:
→ I am Vital
France, 6 min. 2020
Florian Ledoux
→ Be ResponSEAble. Spain, 5 min, 2018. Maria Calvo Uyarra, Ángel Borja Yerro, Carolina Alonso Rodriguez and Fernando (Pernan) Goñi Olalde.
→ Guadalupe Island, 15 years conserving our biological diversity. Mexico, 2 min, 2020. Pedro Sierra Romero.
→ Neurocosas 12: how much energy does the human brain consume? Spain, 5 min, 2017. Pablo José Barrecheguren Manero.
→ The Burn. Germany, 10 min, 2019. Johannes Walden.
→ The Portal Diaries. Poland, 80 min, 2020. The Kissinger Twins.
→ The World Is Thirsty. Spain, 1 min, 2020. Isabel de la Torre.
→ Where Is Everybody? United States, 1 min, 2020. Oliver Carr.
The award "Passion for Science" recognizes the professional career of scientists and researchers in the different branches of knowledge. In the 2021 edition, the winner was Margarita del Val.
Margarita del Val holds a PhD in Chemical Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. After a five-year postdoctoral stay in Germany she joined as a researcher at high school de Salud Carlos III in Madrid where she worked for 19 years. Since 2010 she has been a researcher at the Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa in Madrid and is also a researcher at committee Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Margarita del Val's research has focused on the improvement of the control of the body's immune system against different viral infections in order to contribute to the subsequent development of vaccines design .
Del Val has positioned herself as one of the reference letter scientists in Spain to explain the coronavirus crisis and the positive contribution of science to this global challenge, with her participation in different media.