Film Screening with the Utah Film Center
Science Fair
Directed by Cristina Costantini & Darren Foster
90 min | 2018 | USA | Not Rated
Presented in English, with some Portuguese and German with English subtitles
Recommended for ages 10+
Post-film discussion featuring competing students, coordinated by Jody Oostema, Program Manager, Utah Science and Engineering Fair.
Every year, over 1,700 students from 75 countries compete in the annual International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), a highly competitive showcase of the world’s top young scientific minds. Selected from millions of students who qualified through sanctioned events to reach the international competition, these finalists are competing for the coveted top prize that, as one previous winner explains, “will change your life in ways you won’t even comprehend.”
Science Fair follows one mentor and nine students from around the world as they prepare their projects and team for the 2017 ISEF event in Los Angeles. Though all are participating for the love of science, we also learn that there are other underlying influences motivating them to pursue their dreams of participating in the competition. Featuring interviews with the charming young scientists, their parents and mentors, as well as past ISEF winners, this absorbing film illuminates a group of amazing young men and women who are on a path to change the world through science.
Winner: Festival Favorite Award–2018 Sundance Film Festival, Festival Favorites–2018 SXSW Film Festival; Official Selection–2018 Tumbleweeds Film Festival
Science Fair premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in the KIDS section, a program curated in collaboration with Utah Film Center.
Part of the Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Children & Youth year-round free programming and
Science on Screen® is an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre. With major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Performances & Presentations | Movies |
NOTE: The Main Library's Rooftop Terrace is closed for renovations.
Salt Lake City's Main Library, designed by internationally-acclaimed architect Moshe Safdie in conjunction with VCBO Architecture, opened in February 2003 and remains one of the most architecturally unique structures in Utah. This striking 240,000 square-foot structure houses more than 500,000 books and other materials, yet serves as more than just a repository of books and computers. It reflects and engages the city's imagination and aspirations. The structure embraces a public plaza, with shops and services at ground level, reading galleries above, and a 300-seat auditorium.
A multi-level reading area along the Glass Lens at the southern facade of the building looks out onto the plaza with stunning views of the city and Wasatch Mountains beyond. Spiraling fireplaces on four floors resemble a column of flame from the vantage of 200 East and 400 South. The Urban Room between the Library and the Crescent Wall is a space for all seasons, generously endowed with daylight and open to magnificent views.
