Friday October 24 @ Triad Theater NY

DRAMATIC AWARD WINNERS

10:00 AM Demon Core (Student Dramatic < 40) 27 min

10: 27 AM Code Red (Professional Dramatic < 40) 8 min

10:35 AM Retake (Professional Dramatic < 40) 20 min

BEAUTY IN SCIENCE

10:55 AM Spectral (Jason-Marc Mohamed) (Professional Documentary < 40 min) 18 min

11:14 AM The Art of Looking (Professional Documentary < 40 min) 17 min

11:31 AM Gentle as Moss on Stone (Professional Animation < 40 min) 11 min

11:42 AM Spacetime (Professional Documentary < 40 min) 12 min

11:54 AM Cosmic Coda (Professional Documentary > 40 min) 1 hr 26 min

1:20 PM discussion/break

1:25 PM lunch break

PHYSICS

2:05 PM Dark Matter Hunters: A Quantum View of the Invisible Universe (Best Educational Media) 11 min

2:16 PM The Eagle Obsession (Raw Breakthrough Award) 1 hr 27 min

3:45 PM discussion

4:00 PM - END-

Address: 158 W 72nd St, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10023

  • Public Transportation: Subway line 1, 2, or 3 to the 72nd St station

  • Accessibility: The theater on 2nd floor, street-level entrance and an elevator lift.

Saturday October 25 @ Florence Gould Theater, NY

ENERGY IDEAS

10:00 AM Fission (Student Documentary > 40) 1 hr 14 min

11:14 AM A Water Dream for 2100 Raw Resonance Award (stories that reverberate across nations) 58 min

12:12 PM break 5 min

FROM THE EARTH

12: 17 PM Graphene Hugo Sindelar, Akash Gulati (Professional Documentary < 40) 5 min

12: 22 PM A Map of the World in Time (Professional Documentary < 40) 1 hr 17 min

1:40 PM discussion 5 min

1:45 PM lunch break 30 min

HONOREES

2:15 PM Ape to Ape (Student Documentary < 40, Grand Jury Prize) 21 min

2:35 PM discussion 5 min

2:40 PM DNA Break Repair by Homologous Recombination (Best Visual Effects) 4 min

2:45 PM Ending HIV: Journey to a Vaccine (Best Professional Documentary > 40 min) 1 hr 12 min

3:55 PM discussion 10 min

  • Dr. Larry Corey, Matias Trachter, and Norbi Zylberberg will join a conversation about Ending HIV: Journey to a Vaccine, which won Jury Award for Best Professional Documentary Feature.

    Dr. Larry Corey is an internationally renowned expert in virology, immunology and vaccine development, and the former president and director of Fred Hutch Cancer Center. His research focuses on herpes viruses, HIV, the novel coronavirus and other viral infections, including those associated with cancer. For 25 years Dr. Corey has led the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, the largest international research network focused on developing a safe and effective vaccine against HIV. In 2020 he was selected by Dr. Anthony Fauci to lead the CoVID Prevention Network to run the clinical trials for COVID-19 under Operation Warpspeed. The scientific work on HIV made it possible to achieve a COVID vaccine in record time. In turn, COVID vaccines gave us mRNA technologies and the ability to speed up vaccine development and save more lives.

  • The Grand Jury Prize was won for the first time in the festival’s history by a student filmmaker named Meike Schaapveld out of the Netherlands for her graduation film Ape to Ape. It is presented as a letter to the world-famous primatologist Frans de Waal, who passed away in 2024. The film reveals the age-old and vital social bond between humans and great apes. Meike will be in attendance to accept her award.

  • The Raw Science Backstage Best Actor Awards go to actor Connor Paolo (Gossip Girl) for the film Demon Core, a dramatization of the final days of Louis Alexander Slotin, the physicist who sacrificed his own life in order to save his colleagues during a criticality incident in 1946 involving a plutonium core known as The Demon Core. Actress Devin Sidell won Backstage Best Actor Award for her performance in the dark comedy “Love, Danielle” about her experiences as a carrier of the BRCA1 gene mutation.

  • The Best Public Art Award goes to Einstein! The Play, a solo play written and performed by Jack Fry and directed by Tom Blomquist. It is the longest running show in Los Angeles and portrays Einstein’s years in war torn Berlin as he struggles to prove his theory of General Relativity and prove his relativity as a father. Jack Fry will perform excerpts from this critically acclaimed show at the awards ceremony.

  • Premiere films include The National Science Foundation-funded feature documentary A Map of the World in Time. Over the course of 34 days at sea deep in the arctic circle, aboard the Research Vessel Neil Armstrong, the wages of knowledge are explored. The ship's mariners and scientists reflect on their life at sea, as they attempt to gain a greater understanding of climate change both past and present.The project was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, with additional support from the 2023 European Geosciences Union Journalism Fellowship, the latter awarding Georg Koszulinski a Science Journalism Fellowship.

  • A Water Dream for 2100 won the Raw Resonance Award for stories that reverberate across nations. This is the story of the French and American scientists who have helped shape the revolution in space oceanography and hydrology, from 1992 to the present day. It is arguably one of the greatest successes in the history of space science and engineering.

    Address: 55 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022 (between Park and Madison Avenue)

    • Public Transportation:

      • By Subway:

        4/5/6 to 59th St.

      • By Bus:

        M1, M2, M3, M4 or Q32

    • Accessibility:

      • Wheelchair info: Removable seats in last row of orchestra.

      • Elevator accessible

      • Curb ramps

      • Restrooms: Same level as theatre. One mens room and one womens room.