Professional science documentaries created from this Science-in-Action Storytelling™ model have reached broad public audiences, shared around the world on a variety of distribution platforms including Netflix, PBS, Kanopy and PIVOT and in multiple film festivals, winning dozens of film festival awards.
Atlantic Crossing: A Robot’s Daring Mission aired more than 400 times on PBS stations from 2010-2012 reaching a potential audience of 180 Million people. See TRAC Carriage Summary.
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Atlantic Crossing was a prominent component of the Smithsonian Museum’s Sant Hall three year exhibit (2010-2013) featuring the historic mission of Rutgers RU27 ocean glider robot.
Antarctic Edge: 70° South was released in theaters in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, broadcast on Netflix for three years (2015-2018) and screened in film festivals around the world.
Thailand Untapped: The Global Reach of Engineers without Borders, the 25 minute documentary filmed by undergraduate students Chantal Eyong and Steve Holloway was screened on PBS and nominated for a 2012 Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award.
Life on the Edge: Exploring New Jersey’s Coastal Ecosystems (2023) featuring Dr Daphne Munroe and directed by three Rutgers undergraduate students 2023 screened in 7 film festivals and won 3 film festival awards.
Fields of Devotion 2023
This 30 minute science-in-action story follows farmers and scientists as they work together to tackle devastating disease that is wiping out farmers’ crops.
Winner of multiple film festival awards, broadcast on NJPBS in 2023 and now available on Kanopy:
https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/13131055
Mysteries of 9° North (a feature length science-in-action documentary in development) https://mysteriesof9north.marine.rutgers.edu/ follows an interdisciplinary science team traveling to one of the world’s most remote and hostile locations, the East Pacific Rise at 9° North, where active deep-sea volcanoes support rich and complex biological communities.
The trailer for Mysteries of 9° North that includes testimony from participating undergraduate science storytellers has been screened as part of Keynote presentations at Syracuse University, SUNY ESF, George Washington University’s Planet Forward Summit and the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience.
Mysteries of 9° North feature science-in-action documentary is expected to be released Fall 2026.