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Awards

Winners & Nominees 2024

Many exciting and innovative contributions were nominated for the SILBERSALZ Science & Media Awards this year. On Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, the winners were chosen at the Science & Media Award Show, at the Ulrichskirche in Halle (Saale).

The winners are:

WINNER Best Science Documentary
"Life and Other Problems"

WINNER Best Factual Series
Serie "Dynamic Planet"

WINNER Short & Crisp Award
"Short Trips in the Land of Math"

WINNER Southern Lights Award 2023
"Physical Beauty - Hidden Stars"

WINNER Homeland Earth Award
"Boiling Seas"

WINNER Best Nature Program
"Cactus Hotel"

WINNER Young Audience Award
"Take Off - Science Challenge Show"

WINNER Immersive Science Award
"ASTRA"

WINNER MDR Science & Media Award
"Saving the Animals of Ukraine"

Best Science Documentary

The sun

Director/author: Fabian Korbinian Wolf
Producer: Kay Siering
Editorial Director: Marita Hübinger
Production Company: Spiegel TV GmbH
Country: Germany
Broadcaster: ARTE

Hunt for the Oldest DNA

Director/author: Niobe Thompson
Producer: Niobe Thompson, Niobe Thompson, John Rubin, Sean B Carroll
Production Company: HHMI Tangled Banks and Handful of Films
Country: Canada, United States
Broadcaster: PBS/Nova, DR, ZDF

A Powerful Cycle

Director/author: Maja Meiners, Heinke Schröder
Creative Producer: Tatjana Mischke, Valentin Thurn
Production Company: Thurnfilm GmbH
Country: Germany, Belgium, United Kingdom
Broadcaster: ZDF / ARTE

Tardigrades - Life in the Extreme

Director: Raphaël Hitier
Writers: Raphaël Hitier and Sally Blake
Producer: Sally Blake
Production Company: Films à Cinq, Capa Presse
Country: France
Broadcaster: ARTE

Best Science Documentary

Plastic People

Director/author: Ben Addelman, Ziya Tong
Producer: Stephen Paniccia, Vanessa Dylyn
Executive Producer: Peter Raymont, Rick Smith, Steve Ord
Production Company: White Pine Pictures
Country: Canada
Broadcaster: TELUS Independent

Life and Other Problems

Director/author: Max Kestner
Producer: Vibeke Vogel
Production Company: Bullitt Film
Co-produced with: Plattform Produktion and Hopscotch Films
Country: Denmark, Sweden, UK
Broadcaster: TV2 Denmark
Website

Resistant

Director/author: Bego Zubia Gallastegi
Producer: Ana González Jaka
Executive Producer: Garazi Andonegi Beristain
Production Company:Elhuyar
Country: Spain

The Battle To Beat Malaria

Director: Catherine Gale
Producer: Alex Keefe
Executive Producers: Archie Baron, Jared Lipworth, Sean B. Carroll, Hélène Ganichaud, Axel Villard-Faure, Julia Cort, Chris Schmidt
Production Company: Wingspan Productions, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, ARTE France, in association with BBC and NOVA/GBH
Country: United Kingdom
Broadcaster: PBS, BBC, ARTE

Best factual series

Dynamic Planet

Director/Author: Ben Lawrie, Laura Evers Swindell, Siddharth Nambiar, Sophie Musgrove, Job Rustenhoven
Producer: Ben Lawrie
Executive Producer: Sue Woodfield/ Martha Jeffries
Production Company: NHNZ Worldwide
Country: New Zealand

From Macro To Micro: Uncovering Earth's Unseen Wonders

Director/author: Andreas Sawall
Producer: Katrin Pecher
Executive Producer: Patrick Hörl, Andreas Martin
Production Company: Autentic Studios
Country: Germany, Japan
Broadcaster: ZDF, ARTE, NHK

Der Metall-Planet

Director/author: Ole Gurr
Producer: Wolfram Giese
Production Company: k22film
Country: Germany
Broadcaster: ZDF & ARTE

Best factual series

Scotland – The New Wild

Director: Fergus Gill
Authors/Writers: Nigel Pope, Jackie Savery
Producers: Fergus Gill, Jon Morrice (Series Producer)
Executive Producers: Nigel Pope & Jackie Savery (Maramedia); David Harron (BBC Scotland); Tom Synnatzschke (Doclights/NDR Naturfilm); Andrea Gastgeb & Sabine Holzer (Terra Mater Studios)
A co-production of Terra Mater Studios, Maramedia, Skyland Productions, Doclights/NDR Naturfilm & BBC Scotland
Country: Austria

Secret World of Sound

Directors: Rebecca Hart, Gemma Brandt, Bridget Appleby
Series Producer: Sharmila Choudhury
Producers: Stephen Dunleavy (Humble Bee Films), Dugald Maudsley (Infield Fly Productions)
Countries: United Kingdom, Canada
Broadcasters: Netflix, Sky TV, CBC, The Nature of Things

Europe`s Wildest Heritage

5 x 43 mins
Directors: Ariane Lamarsaude, Victor Jullien, Guilaine Bergeret, Nicos Argillet, Samuel Guiton, Augustin Viatte
Company: Le Cinquième Rêve
Countries: France

Lift the Ice

6 x 60 mins
Directors: Elliot Kew, Chris Baron, Leila Battison, Dominic Hill, Rob Sixsmith
Company: Beach House Pictures
Country: Singapore

Best Nature Programm

A Note for Nature

Director/author: Cepa Giblin
Producer: Cepa Giblin
Executive Producer: John Murray, Aifric Ní Chianáin
Production Company: Crossing the Line Productions
Country: Ireland
Broadcaster: RTÉ

The Andaman Elephant Enigma

Director : Philippe Gautier
author: Prajna Chowta, Philippe Gautier
Producer: Charlotte Uzu / Prajna Chowta
Production Company: Les Films d’Ici, Bayerischer Rundfunk
Country: France
Broadcaster : ARTE GEIE / RTBF / PLANETE+

Dangerously close

Director/author: Andreas Pichler
Author: Andreas Pichler, Georg Tschurtschenthaler
Producer: Yara Hueck Costa
Executive Producer: Kathrin Isberner
Production Company: Beetz Brothers film production and Miramonte Film
Country: Germany, Italy
Broadcaster: BR, SWR, Sky

Best Nature Programm

Saving the Animals of Ukraine

Director: Anton Ptushkin
Producers: Elizabeth Trojian, Anton Ptushkin, Zoya Soshenko
Executive Producers: Elliott Halpern, Elizabeth Trojian, Zoya Soshenko
Production Companies: Yap Films Inc, VSE Sam LLC
Countries: Canada, Ukraine
Broadcasters: PBS Nature , CBC Gem

Cactus Hotel

Director/Author: Yann Sochaczewski
Producer: Yann Sochaczewski
Executive Producer: Henry M. Mix
Production Company: Altayfilm Gmbh
Country: Germany
Broadcaster: WDR, ARTE, SVT

Planet Soil

Director: Mark Verkerk
Author: Ignas van Schaick, Koos de Wilt
Producer: Ignas van Schaick, Jeffrey de Graaff
Executive Producer: Ignas van Schaick
Production Company: EMS FILMS
Country: Netherlands

Among the Wolves

Director/Author: Tanguy Dumortier and Olivier Larrey
Producers: Nicolas Zunino, Nicolas Cennac, Henri De Gerlache, Virginie Chapelle
Production Companies: Le Cinquième Rêve, Belgica Films
Country: France, Germany
Broadcaster: ARTE France, RTBF, Proximus, RTS.

Short & Crisp Award

Trips in the Land of Math - Chaos Theory, Order in Disorder?

Director : Denis van Waerebeke
Author : Denis van Waerebeke, Etienne Ghys
Producer : Les Films d’Ici, Valérianne Boué
Coproducer : Arte G.E.I.E. - Les films du Poisson Rouge, Catherine Esteves – Le Blob
Broadcaster : ARTE

Moonshot Mission

Director/author: Sara Kolster
Producer: Maartje Bakers
Executive Producer: Eline van Wees
Production Company: Ammodo Docs, Basalt Film
Country: The Netherlands
Broadcast: NPO2EXTRA (NTR)

The ice builders

Director/Author: Francesco Clerici, Tommaso Barbaro
Producer: Fabio Saitto
Executive Producer: Andrea Zatta, Lobzang Wangtak
Production Company: Point Nemo Film
Country: Italy

Short & Crisp Award

Earth-Human Connections

Director/author: Katia Jasbinschek Pinheiro
Production Company: IUGG (International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics) and IAGA (International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy)
Country: Germany, Brazil

The crisis that (almost) nobody talks about

Director & host: Cedric Engels
Research & script: Dr. Dennis Eckmeier
Head of Editorial: Jonas Bradtke
Producer: Manuel Zilleken
Production Company: TWENTYTWO Film GmbH
Country: Germany

Southern Lights Award

The Human Era

Director/Author: Iara Cardoso
Producer: Iara Cardoso
Executive Producer: Iara Cardoso
Production Company: Storm Group
Country: Brazil
Broadcaster: Globoplay
Website

Saving Bhimanama: The Giant Turtle

Director/author: Bahar Dutt, Vijay Bedi
Author: Bahar Dutt
Executive Producer: Round Glass Sustain
Production Company: Bedi Universal
Country: India
Broadcaster: Youtube

The library of all possible things

Director/Author: Ana Fraile And Lucas Scavino
Producer: Ana Fraile, Daniel Botti
Production Company: Pulpofilms
Country: Argentina

Southern Lights Award

!Aitsa

Director: Dane Dodds
Producer: Dane Dodds, Clara Sølvsteen
Executive Producer: Eno Stabell
Production Company: MED CINE
Country: Denmark, South Africa

Physical Beauty - Hidden Stars

Director/author: Rosario Jiménez Gili, Andres Gomberoff
Producer: Gaston Chedufau, Mariana Hidalgo
Executive Producer: Gaston Chedufau
Production Company: Las Minas Smartmedia
Country: Chile
Broadcaster NTV Chile

Homeland Earth Award

Dormouse Detectives

Director/author: Rosie Koch, Roland Gockel
Producer: Verena Feige
Executive Producer: Annette Scheurich
Production Company: Marco Polo Film AG
Country: Germany
Broadcaster: BR/Arte, MDR

TerraForma

Director/author: Kevin Brennan, Laurence Durkin
Producer: Kevin Brennan, Laurence Durkin
Executive Producer: Kevin Brennan, Laurence Durkin
Production Company: Silverstrand Productions
Country: Ireland

Arctic Dive (Expedition Arktis 2 – Tauchfahrt zum Nordpol)

Director/Author: Philipp Grieß, Manuel Ernst
Executive Producers: Philipp Grieß, Marc Lepetit
Production Company: UFA Documentary GmbH
Country: Germany
Broadcaster: NDR/DAS ERSTE

Homeland Earth Award

Signal Fire: Towards Reconciliation

Director: Kelly Milner
Producer: Kelly Milner
Executive Producers: Carmen Wong, Lawrence Ignace, Heidi Swanson, Katherine Van Ballegooyen, Mary Jane (Gudia) Johnson
Production Company: Shot in the Dark Productions
Country: Canada

Boiling Seas

Director/author: Minhoe Kim, Sujeong Kyeong, Hyeongyeong Kim
Producer: Yunjeong Lee, Jihui lee
Executive Producer: Jeonghoon Jo
Production Company: KBS - Korean Broadcasting System
Country: Republic of Korea
Broadcaster:KBS

Anthropocene, the undeniable truth

Director/author: Cédric Defert, co-author Cécile Dumas
Producer: Vincent Gaullier
Co-producer: NHK
Production Company: Look at Sciences, ARTE France
Country: France
Broadcaster: ARTE France, Ushuaia TV, NHK, ERT

Good News from Planet Earth

Director(s): Michael Ralph Gärtner, Salim Butt-Lutz, Ilka aus der Mark, Max Meis, Frank Nischk, Claudia Schmitt, Hendrik S. Schmitt, Tanja Winkler
Producer(s):Tanja Winkler
Executive Producer(s):Thomas Weidenbach, Sarah Zierul
Company: Längengrad Filmproduktion
Country: Germany
Broadcaster: BR, MDR in collaboration with Arte

Young Audience Award

The mystery of the disappearing lymphocytes

Producer: Charlotte Stoddart
Animation: Jules Bartl
Editorial lead and advisor: Yvonne Bordon
Supervising producer: Dan Fox
Country: United Kingdom
Broadcaster: Nature.com, YouTube

How Grizzlies Feed Trees with Salmon I Climate Heroes

Director/author: Katrin Hemmer
Producer: Katrin Hemmer
Executive Producer: Eva Schmidt
Motion Graphics: Mathias Muckenhuber, Daniel Budka
Production Company: Terra Mater Studios GmbH
Country: Austria

Take Off – Science Challenge Show

Project Management: Lucie Zeches, Léa Mérino, Joseph Rodesch
Chief editor: Deborah Ceccacci
Directors: Cédric Béringer, Paul Maas
Producer: Yann Figuet
Representative of the format: Riho Västrick
Production Company: FreeLens
Country: Luxembourg
Broadcaster: RTL (Luxembourg), YouTube

Young Audience Award

SKILLZ - Competencies for the Future

Hosted by Martina Socrate
Author: Davide Di Stadio, Marina Liuzzi
Director: Maria Francesca Marcelli
Executive Producer: Fabrizia Biondi
Broadcaster: RAI - Digital Content and Transmedia

Mistakes of Inaction

Writer: Elizabeth Cox
Director: Elizabeth Cox, Kirill Yeretsky
Producer: Brooke Brewer
Production Company: Should We Studio
Country: USA

Immersive Science Award

Quantum Jungle

Installation
Director/author: Robin Baumgarten
Country: Germany

In Arm’s Reach

VR, AR, Installation
Director/author: Afrida Mehzabin, Katja Rempel, Zack Wang, Julian Hoffmann Anton, Felix Herbst
Country: UK, Bangladesh, China, Germany
Platform: Cross-Platform (Quest3, WebXR, Android Browser, iOS Browser)

Emperor

Virtual Reality
Director/author: Marion Burger, Ilan J. Cohen
Producer: Lead Producer: Oriane Hurard (Atlas V)
Coproducers: Katharina Weser (Reynard Films), Jeanne Marchalot (France Télévisions)
Executive Producer: Pierre Zandrowicz, Arnaud Colinart, Antoine Cayrol, Fred Volhuer
Production Company: Atlas V, Reynard Films, France Télévisions
Country: France, Germany
Platform: Meta Quest

Immersive Science Award

Astra

Virtual Reality
Director/author: Eliza Mcnitt
Producer: Aurélie Leduc, Arnaud Colinart
Executive Producer: Antoine Cayrol, Arnaud Colinart, Fred Volhuer, Eliza Mcnitt
Production Company: Atlas V
Country: France
Platform: Meta Quest

MIRADOR

Sound Immersive Exhibition
Director/author: Azusa Maruyama
Producer: Koji Yamamoto
Executive Producer: Shigeki Ishigami, Ryota Kotani
Production Company: NHK Enterprises
Country: Japan