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Jena, Germany – The seventh annual Jena FullDome Festival concluded June 1 at the Zeiss-Planetarium in Jena, Germany. The Festival highlights both professional work and the work of students from colleges and universities around the world.
Following is a list of awardees at the Festival:
The Janus Awardees
The Janus FullDome Awards have been presented to nine out of 87 FullDome Festival submissions.
First Year Students’ Award
Millivette González-De Jesús, Ringling College of Art and Design, Florida
for the first semester student contribution The Dreamer
decided by the FullDome Festival jury, endowed with 500 Euro, donated by the California Academy of Sciences.
Creative Award
Min-Kyung Ko, Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach
Sound design: Felix Deufel, Yannick Hofmann, Hochschule Darmstadt
for the student contribution Bon Voyage
decided by the FullDome Festival jury, endowed with 500 Euro, donated by ZEISS, Planetarium Division.
Performance Award
Jochen Isensee, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig
for the student contribution Schrödinger’s Birds
decided by the FullDome Festival jury, endowed with 500 Euro, donated by ZEISS, Planetarium Division.
Audience Award
Karim Eich / Livius Pápay, Bauhaus Universität Weimar
for the student contribution In the Name of the King
voted by the audience of the Festival Gala, endowed with 500 Euro, donated by ZEISS, Planetarium Division.
Didactic Dome Award
Julia Wiesner, Fachhochschule Potsdam
for the student contribution The Five-Step Model of Vilém Flusser
decided by the FullDome Festival jury, endowed with 500 Euro, donated by the FullDome Festival.
Emphasis on Emotion Award
Daniel Weik / Moritz Degen, Fachhochschule Potsdam
for the short film Von Furcht und Freiheit (On Fear and Freedom)
decided by the FullDome Festival jury, endowed with 500 Euro, donated by Aqua Wellness Institute, Musia Heike Bus.
Spatial Sound Award
Aaron Bradbury, NSC Creative
for the short film VORTEX with Spatial Sound Wave soundtrack
decided by the the FullDome Festival jury, endowed with SHURE high fidelity headphones.
Innovative FullDome Production Award
Robin Sip, Mirage 3D
for the full-length feature show Dinosaurs at Dusk
decided by the FullDome Festival Directors, endowed with 500 Euro,
donated by Sky-Skan
Directors Award
Maciej Ligowski, Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw
for the full-length feature show Dream To Fly
decided by the Fulldome Festival Directors, endowed with 500 Euro,
donated by the FullDome Festival.
The Spatial Sound Recognition Awardees
Spatial Sound Recognition Award
Peter Popp, Softmachine Munich
for the full-length feature show The Life of Trees with Spatial Sound Wave soundtrack
decided by the the FullDome Festival jury, endowed with SHURE high fidelity headphones.
Spatial Sound Recognition Award
Planetarium Hamburg & bluphase.media
for the short film Precious Life with Spatial Sound Wave soundtrack
decided by the the FullDome Festival jury, endowed with SHURE high fidelity headphones.
Spatial Sound Recognition Award
Felix Deufel / Yannick Hofmann / Natascha Rehberg / Klaus Schüller, Soundscape & Environmental Media Lab, Hochschule Darmstadt
for the student contribution I, Water, a Spatial Sound Wave composition,
decided by the the FullDome Festival jury, endowed with SHURE high fidelity headphones.
The FullDome Festival Honorable Mentions for outstanding and innovative productions
In alphabetical order by titles:
NSC Creative
for the full-length feature show Cell! Cell! Cell!
Rocco Helmchen / Johannes Kraas
for the full-length feature show Chaos and Order
Parque de las Ciencias, Granada
for the full-length feature show Escher’s Universe
California Academy of Sciences
for the full-length feature show Earthquake: Evidence of a Restless Planet
Mariano Hernandez Rodilana
for the full-length feature show Leo
Carolyn Collins Petersen and Mark C. Petersen (Loch Ness Productions)
for the short film Losing the Dark
Johnny Ranger, Société des arts technologiques
for the full-length feature show Six Mil Antennas
Spitz Creative Media, Mirage 3D and Thomas Lucas Production
for the full-length feature show Supervolcanoes
Ralph Heinsohn
for the short film Syncode 360
Softmachine
for the full-length feature show The Life of Trees
UNC Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
for the full-length feature show The Longest Night
Sky-Skan in association with the Franklin Institute
for the full-length feature show To Space and Back
The FullDome Festival Finalists
The FullDome Festival Finalists have been selected by the jury and the Festival Directors in addition to the awarded contributions and have been shown at the FullDome Festival Gala. In alphabetical order by titles.
Friendship
Short Film by Toby Norman-Wright and Chris Vandyke, Encompass 360 Degree Digital Dance
Guardian Angel
Student contribution by Jeffrey Boos, Ringling College of Art and Design
Led Zeppelin
Short reel by Mike Murray, David Merrel – Clark Planetarium
Losing the Dark
Short Film by Carolyn Collins Petersen and Mark C. Petersen, Loch Ness Productions
Mnemnesia Visual Music Trailer
Student contribution by Florian Breuer, Sascha Schienmann, Roland Nebe, Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf
Shark Attack
Short Film by Emma Wolf and Diego de Anna
Striare
Student contribution by Christina Chang, Ringling College of Art and Design
Syncode 360
Short Film by Ralph Heinsohn
The Hollow Earth of Edmund Halley
Student contribution by Gentian Begolli, Bauhaus Universität Weimar
Venatio
Student contribution by Oliver Reichert, Hochschule Anhalt Dessau
Waltz of the Ocean
Student contribution by Anne-Marie Stöter, Hochschule Anhalt Dessau
