Edition 2025
The sixth edition of #LabMeCrazy! Science Film Festival 1,679 productions from 108 countries participated. These were the winners and finalists in each category:
#LabMeCrazy! Science Film Festival 2025
Winning documentary:
→ Blue Carbon: Nature's Hidden Power.
United Kingdom, 85 min, 2023.
Make Waves, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios
→ Eternal You. Germany and USA, 87 min, 2024. Beetz Brothers Film Production(see video).
→ Flyways: The Untold Journey of Migratory Shore Birds. Australia, 85 min, 2023. Screen Australia, Screen Queensland, ZED, Antidote Films, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, ABC, PTS, Storyland. (See video.)
→ Fungi: Web of Life. Australia, 41 min, 2024. K2 Studios, Screen Australia, Stranger Than Fiction(see video).
→ Hunt for the Oldest DNA. Canada, 82 min, 2024. Handful of Films, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, NOVA/BGH, DR. (see video).
→ Of Medicine and Miracles. United States, 95 min, 2022. Sean N. Parker Foundation, Randomgood Foundation, network Light Films(see video).
→ Rachel's Farm. Australia, 87 min, 2023. Wildbear Entertainment(see video)
Winning TV program:
→ The Nature of Things - Butt Seriously
Canada, 44 min, 2024. 90th Parallel
→ Órbita Laika - Science in the supermarket. Spain, 58 min, 2023. RTVE (see video)
→ Let's Find Out - Protecting Planet Earth! Ireland, 16 min, 2024. stop. watch.(see video)
→ Quèqui - Missatge Interestel.lar. Spain, 34 min, 2024. 3cat.(watch video)
→ The Alliterate: The Science of Reading. Republic of Korea, 45 min, 2023. Documentary K - EBS(see video).
→ Wildlifers!- Gatecrasher. Australia, 12 min, 2022. Wildbear Entertainment(see video)
Winning production:
→ Creatures of the Kaleidoscope
United Kingdom, 18 min, 2023
Hannah Jodie Alexander
→ Becoming Weightless Spain, 5 min, 2021. Miguel Antón(see video)
→ Limit Point. Venezuela, 11 min, 2023. Jhonnatan Piña.(see video)
→ More Than Meets the Eye: Octopus. United States, 7 min, 2024. Autumn Rodgers(see video)
→ Ocean Sentinels. Australia, 12 min, 2023. Ilana Jean Wolchinsky. (see video).
→ True Places Never Are. United Kingdom, 23 min, 2023. Jeff Young(see video)
work winner:
→ RESTORE - The Living Indus
Kenya, Pakistan and United States, 13 min, 2024
United Nations Environment Programme
→ Aquanauts Under the Volcano. Spain, 14 min, 2023. UNED (see video)
→ Did Darwin Get It Wrong? United Kingdom, 20 min, 2024. National Film and Television Schoo. (see video)
→ Galapagos - Beneath the Surface. Austria, 45 min, 2023. Boku University(see video)
→ Plastic Swamp. Colombia, 25 min, 2023. CES University.(see video)
→ Sea Dragon. United Kingdom, 17 min, 2021. Becklow Films, Association for Science Education(see video).
→ The Easiest Thing Nature Does - An Introduction to Fusion Energy. Netherlands, 30 min, 2022. FuseNet(see video)
Winning video:
→ TikToktives
Spain, 30 min, 2024
RTVE Lab
→ Flight of Fancy. Lithuania, 1 min, 2023. Emilija Juzeliūnaitė, Emilė Maigytė(see video).
→ Mother Nature in the Boardroom. South Africa, 5 min, 2024. Sea Change Project(see video)
→ My Neuroplasticity. United Kingdom, 3 min, 2023. Superdoodle.(see video)
→ What happened in the tropics during the last great extinction? Colombia, 3 min, 2021. Paleontropica(see video).
→ The Human Future: A Case for Optimism. United States, 32 min, 2023. Melodysheep(see video).
→ The Weirdest Thing About Microwaves. United States, 7 min, 2023. Minute Food (see video)
→ Why Are They All in Antarctica? United States, 4 min, 2023. MInuteEarth(see video).
Winning video:
→ Curiosity: Origin
Spain, 15 min, 2024
Luis Amigó Curiosity
→ Lara Jones and Paleocinematography. Spain, 39 min. 2024. Luis Amigó Curiosity(see video).
→ Seeing is believing. Spain, 3 min, 2023. high school of Fomento Miravalles - El Redín (see video).
The "Passion for Science" award recognizes the professional career of scientists and researchers in the different branches of knowledge. In the 2025 edition, the winner was Sara García Alonso.
Sara García Alonso (León, 1989) has a degree in Biotechnology (2012) and a Master's Degree in Biomedical research (2013) from the University of León, and in 2018 she received her PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Salamanca. García Alonso has worked for the Spanish National Research committee (CSIC) doing research on oncological medicine and also at the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) leading a project on experimental oncology and drug finding . In 2022 Sara will be appointed as a member of the Astronaut reservation of the European Space Agency (ESA).
The León scientist has been awarded several prizes and distinctions, such as the award Ada Byron Joven 2023, the Silver Medal of the Community of Madrid and Hija Predilecta de León (Favorite Daughter of León), among others.