Edition 2023
The fourth edition of #LabMeCrazy! Science Film Festival 1,115 productions from 94 countries participated. These were the winners and finalists in each category:
#LabMeCrazy! Science Film Festival 2023
Photo galleries of the 2023 edition
Winning documentary:
→ Carbon: The Unauthorised Biography
Australia, 89 min, 2022.
Genepool Productions and Handful of Films
→ Atomic Hope - Inside The Pro-Nuclear Movement. Ireland, 83 min, 2022. Kennedy Films(see video)
→ Make People Better. United States, 83 min, 2021. Rhumbline average.(see video).
→ The Bastard King. Austria, 89 min, 2021. Terra Mater Factual Studios, Bonne Pioche and Shibumi Films(see video).
→ The First Wave. United States, 94 min, 2021. National Geographic Documentary Films, Participant and Our Time Projects. (watchvideo)
→ The Future of Food. Netherlands, 53 min, 2022. Sugar Rush Film(see video)
→ The Hunt for Planet B. United States, 92 min, 2021. CNN Films and Crazy Boat Pictures(see video).
Winning TV program:
→ The brain hunter - Brushes and pipettes at the Prado.
Spain, 30 min, 2022. RTVE and Minifilms TV
→ Changing Seas - Habitats: The Key to Florida's Fisheries. United States, 27 min, 2022. South Florida PBS(see video)
→ Guardians of Formosa - Ocean. Taiwan, 51 min, 2022. EBC.(see video)
→ Órbita Laika - The science of sound. Spain, 57 min, 2021. K 2000 for RTVE (see video).
→ The Insect Rescuers. Germany, 29 min, 2020. ZDF.(see video)
→ The Nature of Things - Ice and Fire: Tracking Canada's Climate Crisis. Canada, 44 min, 2022. YAP Films Inc for CBC(see video).
Winning production:
→ The Caretakers
United Kingdom, 21 min, 2021
Tom Hanner
→ As Time Goes By. Taiwan, 3 min, 2022. Hao Xuan Tan(see video).
→ Brocky. RChile, 3 min, 2021. Luciano Chamblas and Rodrigo Alonso Ferrada(see video).
→ I Know Nothing about Seagulls. Spain, 10 min, 2021. Ana Tejedor(see video)
→ It's Bean Too Hot. UK, 25 min, 2021. Hedvika Michnová. (seevideo).
→ Mosquito Fish. United States, 2 min, 2021. Bryn Wright.(see video)
→ Sea Shepherd. Portugal, 5 min, 2019. Débora Mendes.(see video).
→ Sonora. United States, 24 min, 2021. Johnny Holder.(see video)
work winner:
→ Luminous
United States, 88 min, 2022
Sam Smartt
→ Way to congress - Ch 1: the congress. Spain, 16 min, 2021. Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía and CSIC (see video).
→ Evolution. 250 years of the National Museum of Natural Sciences. Spain, 60 min, 2022. National Museum of Natural Sciences, CSIC, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (see video).
→ The science hidden in the Cathedral of Burgos - Mathematics. Spain, 14 min, 2021. Scientific Culture Unit UBU - CIBA (seevideo).
→ Molecular Chirality: A Scientific Documentary. United Kingdom, 14 min, 2022. Robert Cameron(see video)
→ New Physics. Mexico, 54 min, 2022. Akanus and Canal 22, with the partnership of the Institute of Nuclear Sciences of UNAM.(see video)
→ Plastic Age - Forever? Austria, 19 min, 2022. Sebastian Postl and Sebastian Pichelhofer(see video).
Winning video:
→ I Was Just a Child
Republic of the Philippines, 5 min, 2022
Breech Asher Marfil Harani
→ Algorithmia. Spain, 18 min, 2022. RTVE Lab(see video)
→ Coronavirus Variants: What you need to know. United Kingdom, 6 min, 2021. Dan Fox(see video)
→ Gravitational Waves: A New Way to Observe the Universe. United States, 6 min, 2021. MOWE Studio(see video)
→ One Day We Will Dance With You. Greece, 10 min, 2020. Alkis Papastathopoulos. (seevideo).
→ Our Earth. Islamic Republic of Iran, 2 min, 2022. Reza Khodadadi(see video).
→ Terra Cene. United Kingdom, 8 min, 2021. Nono Ayuso and Rodrigo Inada(see video).
→ The Power of Pollinators. United States, 6 min, 2022. Neil Losin(see video)
→ The Sounds of Space: A Sonic Adventure to Other Worlds. United States, 20 min, 2022. Melodysheep(see video).
→ Tik Tok divulgacionciencia_unam: Zombie ants. Mexico, 1 min, 2022. Alejandro Ortiz Pellicer and Karen Uxue Martínez Pérez.(see video)
The award "Passion for Science" recognizes the professional career of scientists and researchers in the different branches of knowledge. In the 2023 edition, the winner was Clara Isabel Grima.
Clara Isabel Grima (Coria del Río, Seville, 1971) holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Seville, where she is a full professor at the department of Applied Mathematics I. She currently chairs the knowledge dissemination committee of the Spanish Royal Mathematical Society (RSME).
Clara Grima's research has focused on graph theory and computational geometry, where she has provided interesting results such as, for example, her contribution together with other researchers in the identification of a new geometric shape that has been found in the epithelial cells of curved tissues, the escutoids.
Grima combines his work professor and research with the scientificknowledge dissemination of mathematics, with the publication of books, participation in conferences, congresses, scientific events, lectures in schools and institutes, and interventions in various media.
Dr. Grima has received numerous awards and recognitions including the Gold Medal Province of Seville (2022), award Roma (2019) for her work as a popularizer, award Mario Bohoslavsky (2018), award COSCE to the Dissemination of Science (2017), award Bitácoras to the best podcast (2016) and to the Best Blog of Education (2011), or the award PRISMAS to the best website of knowledge dissemination scientific (2013), among many others.