SCINEMA International Science Film Festival – call for entries

Back for its 25th year, SCINEMA is the largest science film festival in the southern hemisphere. We are passionate about showcasing the best in science cinema from around the world.

If you have produced a film, television series, documentary, short, vertical, educational video or animation that has a science theme, then we would love to hear from you. By science, we include: technology, engineering, mathematics, health and medicine, social and natural sciences and the nexus between the arts and technology.

All shortlisted films will be available online for people to watch at home, in schools, libraries and community centres. Viewing the festival is free to all as we want to engage people with science. Registration is required to watch films to support filmmakers who have distribution deals. SCINEMA 2023 attracted an audience of more than 50,000 in Australia and beyond.

This year we have introduced a Vertical Video award in the open and junior categories. We hope this new category will bring science to a wider audience and inspire a new generation of filmmakers.

SCINEMA is a celebration of the power of the moving image to tell stories about the world, how it works, and our place in it. Whether it’s the long slog and occasional thrill of discovery, the awesome scale of our universe, the beauty of nature, environmental challenges that we face on our planet, or how technology will shape our future, there are hundreds of science stories we want to see on screen.

SCINEMA, established in 2000, attracts entries from across the world, including some of the world’s most respected science factual programs, producers and directors.