Utah Film Center Salt Lake City, UT
Jody Oostema
Program manager, Utah Science and Engineering Fair
Science Fair— Research from the Utah science fair
Program Description
Post-film discussion featuring competing students, coordinated by Jody Oostema, program manager of the Utah Science and Engineering Fair.
Presented At
Utah Film Center Salt Lake City, UT
Film Synopsis
Filmmakers follow nine high school students from around the globe as they compete at the International Science and Engineering Fair. Facing off against 1,700 of the smartest, quirkiest teens from 78 countries, only one will be named Best in Fair.
Hailed by critics as "immensely likeable," "brilliant and quirky" and an "ode to the teenage science geeks on who our future depends," and winner of the audience award at Sundance and SXSW, National Geographic Documentary Films' Science Fair follows nine high school students from around the globe as they navigate rivalries, setbacks and, of course, hormones, on their journey to compete at The International Science and Engineering Fair. The film, from Fusion and Muck Media and directed by the DuPont Award-winning and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaking team Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster, offers a front seat to the victories, defeats, and motivations of an incredible group of young men and women who are on a path to change their lives, and the world, through science.