Jury & Awards

Rob van den Bergh was a programmer at the InScience Film Festival from its first edition in 2015 until 2024. After that, he became head of film programming at arthouse GIGANT in Apeldoorn, where he still occasionally sneaks science films into the program.

Joost Rekveld is an artist and researcher who explores what humans can learn from a dialogue with the machines they have built. Through a form of media archaeology, he investigates ways of material engagement with devices from forgotten corners of science and technology history. The outcomes of these explorations often take the form of abstract films that function as alien phenomenologies.

Rekveld’s films have been screened at festivals and venues worldwide, and he has an extensive history of collaborations with composers, ensembles, theater companies, and various workshops and laboratories. His work has been the subject of retrospectives at venues such as the Barbican in London and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. In 2017, he was the “Filmmaker in Focus” at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Since 1990, he has been active as a curator and film programmer, and since 1996, as a lecturer and speaker. From 2008 to 2014, he was the head of the ArtScience Interfaculty program at the Royal Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Since 2017, he has been affiliated as an artistic researcher with the School of Arts at University College Ghent.

Rebecca Snabel is a passionate film enthusiast and works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences. Later this year, she will defend her dissertation, in which she has studied the changing identities of individual cells during development. During her PhD research, she bridged the gap between the world of molecular biology—where the pipette takes center stage—and data science, expanding her knowledge of machine learning techniques to explore large datasets.

Rebecca believes that film is a powerful medium for making scientific knowledge more accessible and complex concepts more tangible. In her view, film places this knowledge in a societal context, making festivals like InScience not only important for showing the community what scientists are working on but also for teaching scientists how society perceives their research.

Marileen Dogterom is the president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and a professor of Bionanoscience at TU Delft. For many years, she led the Bionanoscience Department at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in Delft. She is one of the pioneers in the field of biomolecular and cellular physics.

Her research focuses on the cytoskeleton: the microtubules that provide living cells with their shape and mechanical function. Through the national consortium BaSyC (“Building a Synthetic Cell”), which she leads, Dogterom aims to understand the processes of life by constructing an artificial cell.

In recognition of her work, she received the NWO Spinoza Prize in 2018, the highest scientific award in the Netherlands.

I am Annemijn, I am from Nijmegen so I am super stoked to be a part of Inscience Nijmegen. I am a student Film and Television Cultures at the Universiteit Utrecht, one of biggest hobbies is going to the movies as well .

My name is Tina (they/them), a cinephile from sunny Sicily. I am currently pursuing a Master’s in Film and Television Cultures at Utrecht University. I am eager to explore the use of science in films and understand how it shapes storytelling. With a background in the humanities, I am always curious to ask professionals how and why they choose to experiment with certain subjects in their movies.

Hi! I’m Joyce (they/he), 21 years old and study Artificial Intelligence at Radboud University. In my off time you’ll often catch me watching YouTube or listening to music, but I also love creating and am the kind of person that always is down to learn new things! This is also how my interests for science and film intertwine: being able to explain something so ‘difficult’ in such a creative manner. I am looking forward to see all the film screenings during InScience!

Suzie is studying a master’s in Film and Television Cultures at Utrecht University with a focus on game and adaptation studies. As part of the InScience Student Jury, she looks forward to discussing how film and science come together.

I am Zeynep Bayrakci. I moved to Netherlands three years ago to study Biology. So far, I am really enjoying my time here and I am almost done with my bachelors. I grew up with National Geographic, which has a high impact on my decisions for studying biology and being interested in documentary making. These all led me here, to this step as a jury for InScience Film Festival.