Awards

Nominees 2023

Best Science Documentary

Silbersalz Awards - Best Science Documentary Space Trash
Space Trash

Director/author: Liza Fanjeaux
Producer: Emmanuel Priou
Production Company: Bonne Pioche Productions
Country: France
Broadcaster: France Télévisions

Website

Silbersalz Awards - Best Science Documentary - The Science of Dad
The Science of Dad

Director/author: Larissa Klinker
Producer: Robert Pütz
Executive Producer: Tristan Chytroschek
Production Company: a & o buero filmproduktion
Country: Germany
Broadcaster: NDR/Arte

Website 

Silbersalz Awards - Best Science Documentary - Venus of Willendorf
Venus of Willendorf - The Naked Truth

Director/author: Klaus T. Steindl
Producer: Jakob Pochlatko, Dieter Pochlatko
Production Company: Epo-Film
Country: Austria
Broadcaster: ORF, ZDF/ARTE 

Website

Best Science Documentary

 Silbersalz Awards - Best Science Documentary - Let´s talk about Sex - A Century of Sex Education
Let's talk about Sex -  A Century of Sex Education

Director/author: Ina Kessebohm, Nadine Neumann
Producer: Nadine Neumann
Executive Producer: Reinhardt Beetz,Bettina Walter
Production Company: Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion GmbH – A Leonine Company / BWP Barcelona
Country: Germany, Spain
Broadcasters: ARTE, WDR, NDR, SVT, TV3

Website

 Silbersalz Awards - Best Science Documentary - Isaac Asimov, a message to the future
Isaac Asimov, a message to the future

Director/author: Mathias Théry
Producer: Juliette Cazanave
Production Company: Kepler22 Productions
Country: France
Broadcaster: ARTE FRANCE

Website

Best Science Documentary

Best Factual Series

 Silbersalz Awards - Best Factual Series - Australia´s Wild Odyssey
Australia's Wild Odyssey
3 x 55 mins

Director, DOP: Nick Robinson
Producer, Writer: Nick Robinson, Peta Ayers
Production Company: Wild Pacific Media
Executive Producers: Electra Manikakis, Nick Robinson
Country: Australia
Broadcaster: ABC, ARTE France

Website

 Silbersalz Awards - Best Factual Series - Archeology 3.0 - Making the dead speak
Archeology 3.0 – Making the dead speak

Director/author: Stéphane Jacques, Alexandra Barbot
Producer: Nicolas Cennac, Dominique Tibi
Production Company: Roche Productions
Country: France
Broadcaster: Planete+, ZDF, HISTORIA

Website

 Silbersalz Awards - Best Factual Series - Great Lakes Untamed
Great Lakes Untamed

3 x 52 mins

Director, Series Producer & Executive Producer: Ted Oakes
Director(s): Jeff Morales, Nick De Pencier
Writer(s): Paul Spillenger, Phil Fairclough, Erna Buffie,John Larose, Ryszard Hunka
Executive Producer(s): Ted Oakes,  Phil Fairclough, Merit Jensen Carr
Production Company:  Oak Island Films Canada and Merit Motion Pictures in association with Two Wise Monkeys, TVO, Smithsonian Channel, and Terra Mater Studios
Country: Canada
Broadcaster: TVO, Smithsonian Channel, and Terra Mater Studios

Website

Best Factual Series

Silbersalz Awards - Best Factual Series - The Gown and the Shipwreck
The Gown and the Shipwreck
3 x 50 mins

Director: Arnold Van Bruggen
Executive Producer(s): Laura Verduijn, Sanne Wiltink,  Irene Uit Den Bosch
Creative producer: Eefje Blankevoort
Production Company: Prospektor
Country: the Netherlands
Broadcaster: NTR

Website

Silbersalz Awards - Best Factual Series - Surviving Hothouse Earth
Surviving Hothouse Earth
3 x 50 Mins

Based on an idea by Florian Breier
Director(s), Writer(s): Dirk Gilson, Tilman Wolff, Florian Breier
Executive Producers Marcus Uhl, Dietmar Lyssy
Editorial: Caroline Reiher, Carmen Peter, Linde Dehner, Nikolas Hülbusch
Country: Germany
Production Company: Bilderfest Factual Entertainment
Broadcaster: ZDF info
In cooperation: arte.tv, ZDF studios

Website

Best Factual Series

Best Short Series

 Silbersalz Awards - Best Short Series - Ammodo Docs
Ammodo Docs
7 x 15 mins

Directors/authors:  Marleine van der Werf, Hester Overmars, Renko Douze, Suzanne Raes
Producer(s): Maartje Bakers, Eline Van Wees, Hasse Van Nunen, Sanne Cousijn, Ilja Roomans
Production Company: Ammodo Docs
Country: the Netherlands
Broadcaster: NTR/NPO2

Website

 Silbersalz Awards - Best Short Series - Oxford Sparks ep. The Symphony of the Brain
Oxford Sparks ep. The Symphony of the Brain

Director/author: Rob Key
Producer: Fiona Suttle
Executive Producer: Michaela Livingstone-Banks
Production Company: Oxford Sparks
Country: United Kingdom
Broadcaster: Youtube

Website

 Silbersalz Awards - Best Short Series - North Star
North Star
5 x 15 mins

In collaboration with Laurie Rousseau-Nepton
Director/author: Patrick Bossé
Producer: Pierre-Mathieu Fortin
Executive Producer: Nathalie Cloutier
Production Company: National Film Board of Canada
Country: Canada

Website

Best Short Series

 Silbersalz Awards - Best Short Series - Agree to Disagree
Agree to Disagree!
6 x 26 mins

Director/author: Fabian Korbinian Wolf
Producer: Alexandra Minzlaff
Executive Producer: Patrick Hörl, Andreas Martin
Production Company: Autentic
Country: Germany
Broadcaster: ZDF, arte

Website autentic
Website arte

 Silbersalz Awards - Best Short Series - Science for Future
Science for Future
3 x 30 mins

Director/author: Jacob Beautemps, Markus Kauert, Max Langfeldt, Susanne Erler, Lena Willems, Amanda Mock
Producer: Jacob Beautemps, Anne Hollaender
Executive Producer: Henrik Wittmann, Thomas Konzett
Production Company: i&u TV Produktion GmbH
Country: Germany
Broadcaster: SWR / ARD Mediathek

Instagram
Youtube

Best Short Series

Short & Crisp Award

 Silbersalz Awards - Short & Crisp Awards - Our Ark
Our Ark

Director/author: Deniz Tortum, Kathryn Hamilton
Producer: Firat Sezgin
Production Company: Institute of Time
Country: the Netherlands, USA, Turkey
Platform: Vimeo

Website

 Silbersalz Awards - Short & Crisp Awards - What a bacterium getting sick have to do with generic engineering?
What does a bacterium getting sick have to do with genetic engineering?
Director: Stephanie Okeyo
Author: Grace Kago
Producer(s): Sheldon Mutei, Gift Kyansimire
Executive Producer: Stephanie Okeyo
Production Company: Creatives for Science by Under the Microscope
Country: Kenya
Platform: Youtube

Website

 Silbersalz Awards - Short & Crisp Awards - The Quest to Save Parasites
The Quest to Save Parasites

Director/Producer/author: Emily V. Driscoll
Executive Producer: Jeffery DelViscio
Production Company: Emily V. Driscoll
Country: USA
Platform: Scientific American

Website

Short & Crisp Award

Silbersalz Awards - Short & Crisp Awards - Chasing Sprites in Electric Skies
Chasing Sprites in Electric Skies

Director/Producer/author: Joy Ng
Producer: Lina Tran
Executive Producer: Denise Hill
Production Company: NASA
Country: USA
Platform: Youtube

Website

Silbersalz Awards - Short & Crisp Awards - Listen up Dylan
Listen Up: Dylan

Director/author: Hannah Draper
Producer: Hannah Draper
Executive Producer: Penny Palmer
Production Company: Catalyst, ABC Television
Country: Australia
Broadcaster: ABC Television
Platform: Youtube

Website

Short & Crisp Award

Southern Lights Award

 Silbersalz Awards - Southern Lights Awards - Colonies in Conflict
Colonies in Conflict 

Director/author: Rajani Mani
Producer(s) Bipin Nair, Axel Brockmann
Executive Producer: Rajani Mani 
Production Company: Elephant Corridor Films
Country: India
Distributor: ZDF Studios GmbH

Website

 Silbersalz Awards - Southern Lights Awards - Saving the Himalayan Yak
Saving the Himalayan Yak
Director, Writer: Rakesh Andania
Producer: Anoop Kaur, Surjit Singh
Country: India

Youtube

 Silbersalz Awards - Southern Lights Awards - Return of the little Tern Seabird on the Floating Artificial Sand Island
Return of the Little Tern Seabird on the Floating Artificial Sand Islands

Director: YEOM Sang-Seop
Writer: PARK Sohee
Executive Producer: SON Jongho
Producer: SHIN Dong-man
Production Company: KBS, Wildnet
Country: South Korea
Broadcaster: KBS

Website

Southern Lights Award

 Silbersalz Awards - Southern Lights Awards - Secret lives of Trees
Secret lives of Trees

Director/Author: Jessica Lee Chu En
Assistant Producers: Cyrus Tan, Phoebe Low
Executive Producers: Donovan Chan, Jocelyn Little
Production Company: Beach House Pictures
Country: Singapore
Broadcaster: Channel NewsAsia

Website

Silbersalz Awards - Southern Lights Awards - African Moot
African Moot

Director, Writer: Shameela Seedat
Producer(s): Shameela Seedat, Francois Verster, Don Edkins, Tiny Mungwe, Juha Lopponen, Venla Hellstedt
Executive producer: Don Edkins
Production Company: Undercurrent Film and Television, STEPS
Country: South Sudan

Website

Southern Lights Award

Homeland Earth Award

 Silbersalz Awards - Homeland Earth Award - Holy Shit - All that Breathes
All that Breathes

Director/author: Shaunak Sen
Producer: Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann, Teddy Leifer
Co-Producer: Florrie Priest
Executive Producer: David Guy Elisco, Sean B. Carroll
Production Company: A Sideshow & Submarine Deluxe Release In Association With Hbo Documentary Films, A Rise Films & Kiterabbit Films
Production In Collaboration With Hhmi Tangled Bank Studios
Country: India
Broadcaster: HBO

Website

Silbersalz Awards - Homeland Earth Award - The illusion of abundance
The illusion of abundance

Director/author: Erika Gonzalez Ramirez & Matthieu Lietaert
Producer: Erika Gonzalez Ramirez & Matthieu Lietaert
Production Company: Not So Crazy! Productions
Country: Belgium, Colombia
World Sales: First Hand Films

Website

 Silbersalz Awards - Homeland Earth Award - Holy Shit - Can Poop Save The World?
Holy Shit - Can Poop Save The World?

Director/author: Rubén Abruña
Producer: Valentin Thurn
Production Company: Thurn film in co-production with Peacock Film (Zurich)
Country: Germany
Broadcaster: WDR, BR, SRF

Website

Homeland Earth Award

 Silbersalz Awards - Homeland Earth Award - When Ocean Threaten Cities
When Ocean Threaten Cities

A film by Laurence Thiriat & Thomas Marlier
Director: Laurence Thiriat
Producer: Anne Labro
Production company:  Tangerine Productions, in co-pro with Composite Films
Country: France
Broadcaster(s): France Télévisions (France 5), Earth X

 

 Silbersalz Awards - Homeland Earth Award - Soul of the Ocean
Soul of the Ocean

Written and edited by Mark Fletcher, Howard Hall
Narrated by Russell Boulter
Producer: Michele Hall
Produced by Markus Klammer
Executive Producers: Andrea Gastgeb, Sabine Holzer
Production Company: Terra Mater Studios
County: Austria

Website

Homeland Earth Award

Young Audience Award

 Silbersalz Awards - Young Audience Award - Planet noise
Planet noise

Title: Planet Noise (Original Title: Klimakrach)
Director/author: Alice Karasek, Markus Englisch, Jürgen Karasek
Producer: Alice Karasek
Executive Producer: Alice Karasek
Production Company: Gokid Media/ Soleilfilm
Country: Austria

Website

 Silbersalz Awards - Young Audience Award
Flower Power: The Mysterious Conqueror

Authors: François Tribolet, Clément Champiat
Director : François Tribolet
Producer: Marc Berdugo, Serge Khalfon, Elfriede Leca
Executive Producer: Florent Chevolleau, Anne Rochefort
Production Company: Magneto
Country: France
Broadcaster: France Télévisions

Website

 Silbersalz Awards - Young Audience Award - A Language of Shapes
A Language of Shapes

Director/author: Samantha Moore
Producer: Abigail Addison
Executive Producer: Gary Thomas
Production Company: Animate Projects
Country: United Kingdom

Website

Young Audience Award

  Silbersalz Awards - Young Audience Award - Frag Lena
Terra X (ZDF) TikTok: Frag Lena

Director/author: Lena Paul
Producer: Nils Otte, Neslihan Feßler
Executive Producer: Marcus Uhl
Production Company: Bilderfest GmbH
Country: Germany
Broadcaster: ZDF (Terra X)
Social Media Platform: TikTok

Website

Young Audience Award

Immersive Science

 Silbersalz Awards - Immersive Science - We are Guardians
We are Guardians / VR, 360

Director/author: Max Crow
Producer: Ben Squires
Executive Producer: Paul Mowbray
Production Company: NSC Creative
Country: United Kingdom

Website

 Silbersalz Awards - Immersive Science - Symbiosis / VR Installation
Symbiosis / VR Installation

Director/author: Marcel van Brakel & Mark Meeuwenoord
Producer: Corine Meijers
Executive Producer: Marieke Nooren
Production Company: POLYMORF & Studio Biarritz
Country: The Netherlands

Website

 Silbersalz Awards - Immersive Science - Cell Worlds / Multi-media Installation
Cell Worlds / Multi-media Installation

Director/author: Terence Saulnier & Renaud Pourpre
Producer: Fred Daudier
Executive Producer: L'Exploratoire
Production Company: Arcanae
Country: France
Broadcaster: Youtube

Website

Immersive Science

 Silbersalz Awards - Immersive Science -Goliath: Playing With Reality
Goliath: Playing With Reality - VR Experience

Director, author: Barry Gene Murphy
Co-Director, Author, Executive Producer: May Abdalla (Anagram)
Interactive Design, Development Lead - Michael Golembewski
Lead Producer: Anetta Jones
Executive Producer(s): Kirsty Jennings, Rebecca Frankel, Mark Ordesky, Liz Rosenthal
Production Company: Floréal & Anagram
Country: France, UK
Broadcaster: Meta (Oculus)

Website

 Silbersalz Awards - Immersive Science - Ernst Grube - The legacy
Ernst Grube - The legacy - VR Experience

Director: Philipp Grieß
Producer(s): Joachim Kosack, Frank Govaere
Technical Lead: Dr. Oliver Schreer
Production Company: UFA GmbH
In association with: Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute (HHI)
Country: Germany

Website

Immersive Science