The Second Science Film Festival 2006

November, 21 - 26 2006
Science Centre For Education (Ekamai)
Children's Discovery Museum (Jatujak Park)

The Second Film Festival is jointly organized by the Goethe-Institut, the French Embassy in Bangkok, the Thai Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology (IPST) and National Science and Technology Devolopment Agency (NSTDA). Main partners are BAYER (Thailand) , the Thai Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science.

The festival serves the demand to disseminate knowledge via media. It focuses on science films as a tool to communicate information and education about nature, science and technology to the public. To arouse public interest in questions and answers, in solutions and dangers related to science and technology is our aim. We assume that a high degree of edutainment in science documentaries or in science-shows helps to catch the public´s interest. The festival has a special interest in films for children, films for youth, family programmes and ecology films.

Science films have success stories of their own. They fascinate the public and shape their expectations towards future and development. Science films are eye-openers and help us understand our world better. They bridge gaps between knowledge which can nowadays be produced anywhere in the world and its benefit and effects on our everyday-life. They translate globally produced and applied knowledge into our mother-language and adapt knowledge to our needs and the questions and problems of our local society and the culture we live in.

Science and technology are factors of growing importance in the change of our everyday life. The speed and global expansion of scientific discoveries and technical innovations present a challenge even for experts like engineers or teachers. For them as much as for the broader public, science editorial offices, scriptwriters, film producers, TV-programme makers contribute inestimably to spread knowledge from the science labs into the living rooms, to update school-book knowledge, and to make us understand the world in our body, on earth or in space. Science films inspire us to make intelligently use of nature and environment.

Thai-German-French cooperation favours an interest in knowledge transfer from Europe and Asia as regions for scientific and cultural reference, for both technological development and information dissemination. The festival supports the international reputation of Europe in general, Germany and France in particular for science-based social and economic development. It encourages Thai students to study abroad. It serves the needs of the Thai society to disseminate knowledge via the media.

The Goethe-Institut Bangkok in cooperation with the “Deutsche Welle” is kindly inviting all European countries and the TV-stations from China, Japan and Korea to take part in the Second Science Film Festival Bangkok and to turn in their films. Participants from Germany, Austria and Switzerland are welcome to hand in their films in German language.

Films selected for the competitions will be translated (subtitled or dubbed) into Thai language. There is no restriction to the topic of the films: nature, wild life, environment, medicine, chemistry, pharmacy, natural resources, human health, nano-technology, were topics of last years festival and can well be topics among others this year again. We intend to form special film programmes for children and for children and youth.

To revere the Jubilee of 60th Anniversary of His Majesty´s King Bhumipol Adulyadej Monarchy, the festival has chosen the image of Carbon60 to pay tribute in particular to education and the scientific development, in particular in the field of medicine. The famous buckyball, Buckminsterfullerene Model for Carbon 60, is therefore our playful image for this festival. The similarity of the buckyball with a soccer-football underlines that learning and education are hip and fun.

Deadline for Application is July 1st 2006. Please make use of our electronic application form. .