Our science-in-action storytelling™ 5-step methodology has proven effective at producing professional science documentaries that 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.
Demonstrated Impact of Story Products resulting from Science-in-Action Storytelling™:
2026 Mysteries of 9° North
A National Science Foundation supported science-in-action™feature length documentary in development.
https://mysteriesof9north.marine.rutgers.edu/
Mysteries of 9° North 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.
2026 Ocean Farming
This 30 minute science-in-action documentary follows the relationship between New Jersey oysterman Dale Parsons and scientist Dr Ximing Guo. The story also shares the process of Dr Guo’s NOAA supported research that has substantially benefited food security around the world.
2023 Fields of Devotion
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
2023 Life on the Edge (14 minutes)
Featuring the coastal ecosystem research of Dr Daphne Munroe
Screened at Wildlife Conservation Film Festival, Natures Without Borders International Film Festival and Social Impact Film Festival.
2015 Women of Nsongwe (16 minutes)
Directed by Rutgers undergraduate Jeanpaul Isaacs and featuring the USAID research of Dr Jim Simon supporting women farmers in Zambia and shared on the USAID website
2015 Antarctic Edge: 70° South
Funded by the National Science Foundation and featuring the Antarctic science of Dr Oscar Schofield. This science-in-action feature documentary 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.
2014 Skycatcher
Featuring the National Science Foundation funded research of Dr Ann Marie Carlton, shared on Environmental Protection Agency website
2013 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.
2010 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.
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.
