InLab International Jury Award
2024
The documentary A Year in a Field is a silent cry about the climate crisis and a challenging musing on what life is. Filmmaker Christopher Morris, previously awarded three BAFTA awards, kept a meter-high monolith in an English field company for a year. The InScience International Grand Jury praised the film for its “rich contemplative approach to the challenges facing humanity. The documentary invites the audience to take a less human-centered perspective, taking the viewer into the slow and steady pace of a non-living entity – with humor, panache and beautiful music.”
This year’s International Grand Jury consisted of four international professionals from the worlds of film and science. Multi-award winning filmmaker Martin Dohrn won the audience award last year at InScience 2023 for his film My Garden of a Thousand Bees. This film can be viewed on NPO Start. Irem Couchouron is deputy director and head of program of Silbersalz Science & Media Festival. Filmmaker Safi Graauw has a background in Earth Studies and, as a storyteller, tries to add something positive to the world, with the message being leading. Professor Enny Das (Radboud University) conducts research into the power of stories and studies how communication can influence people’s behavior.
2023
Geographies of Solitude has been named best science film of InScience 2023 by both the InScience Jury and the Student Jury. Director Jacquelyn Mills receives the InScience Jury Award worth €2,500. This year the professional jury consisted of Alexis Gambis, Dan Jin Wu, Ronald Veldhuizen and Valerie van Zuijlen.
The Student Jury praised the film with these words: “Seaweed has become an aesthetic medium of creating images never seen before. The senses are tickled. One becomes truly part of this island. You can almost smell the flowers in between the grasses.”
2021
The InScience Jury Award was presented for the third time in 2021. The jury consisted of Sandra den Hamer, George van Hal, and Anna Gimbrère. In 2020 Robbert Dijkgraaf, Patricia Pisters and Maartje Nevejan formed the InScience Jury. The award was introduced in 2019, in honor of the fifth edition of InScience. In 2019, the jury consisted of Rob van Hattum, Ruben van Leer, Barbara Visser, and Jim Jansen.
Winners previous editions
In previous years the InScience Jury Award was presented to the following films:
- 2021: In Silico / Noah Hutton
- 2020: Spaceship Earth / Matt Wolf
- 2019: Ik Ben er Even Niet / Maartje Nevejan