The inaugural UCD Imagine Science Film Festival will get underway tonight (July 5) with the Irish premiere of writer/director team Rodrigo Sopena and Luis Piedrahita’s thriller ‘Fermat’s Room’.
Sopena and Piedrahita will both attend tonight’s event at 6.30pm in The Light House cinema in Dublin where they will also take part in a panel discussion with esteemed Mathematician Prof Cedric Villani and Margaret E Ward.
Held in collaboration with New York’s Imagine Science Film Festival, UCD Imagine Science Film Festival will take place in various venues across Dublin until July 14 and will host a number of filmmakers, celebrated scientists and critical thinkers, and aims to give the public an exciting way to access scientific issues through a line-up of films, shorts, animations and discussions.
The festival will feature over 86 short films, spanning 17 countries. Among the key events is a panel discussion on ‘The Future of Film & Video’ with Oscar-winner Anil Kokaram, BAFTA Award-winning producer and director Mark Jacobs (Jesse’s Story) and Simon Robinson, founder and chief scientist of visual effects house The Foundry. That discussion will take place at the Science Gallery on July 13.
Other highlights include the European premiere of French director Yann Arthus –Bertrand’s ‘Planet Ocean’ on July 14 as well as the Irish premiere of actor Jeff Goldblum’s ‘The Race for the Double Helix’, which will also feature a discussion with American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Prize winner James Watson; and the Irish premiere of ‘The Creator’, a film by Al Holmes and Al Taylor on visionary scientist Alan Turing.
The full list of events are:
July 5
‘Fermat’s Room’ with Prof Cedric Villani Opening Night Film
The Light House Cinema
July 6
Science for Nanos – Parent & Children Screening
The Light House Cinema
HIGGS, into the heart of imagination
The Light House Cinema
Avant-Garde Science with NIETO & betav#03
The Sugar Club
July 7
Controlled Experiments
The Light House Cinema
Imagine Consciousness
The Light House Cinema
July 8
‘Solaris’
Meeting House Square, Temple Bar
July 11
INSIDE-OUT Film Programme and Discussion
July 12
Semiconductor Films
The Factory, Barrow Street, Dublin 4
Avant-Garde Science
The Sugar Club
July 13
The Race for the Double Helix – Life Story, James Watson
The Light House Cinema
The Future of Film & Video
Paccar Theatre, Science Gallery
Maths, Apples and Alan Turing
The Light House Cinema
Bad Robots
The Light House Cinema
Sci - Lens Yurodny Ensemble
The Factory, Barrow Street, Dublin 2
July 14
Science Expression Film Competition
The Light House Cinema
Imagine Consciousness - Empathy
The Light House Cinema
‘Planet Ocean’ and UCD Imagine Science Films Awards
The Light House Cinema
For more details on each of the above events see UCD Imagine Science Film Festival's profile on IFTN
