Finalists

Below are the 20 finalists in our $200,000 Filmmaker Competition.
Check out the Jury Prize Winners here, announced at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

Adult Stem Cells

Sarah Hanssen

Adult Stem Cells are a promising new field of treatment for a myriad of injuries...

A Glacier in the...

Marco Della Coletta &...

Dutch artist Ap Verheggen is determined to inspire people to respond to climate change in...

Bones Don't Lie and...

Kim Munsamy

After two decades the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala (FAFG) remains dedicated to the work...

Bringing Light

Bert Klasey, Chris Baron...

In the painstaking process of removing brain tumors, neurosurgeons are constantly challenged by the inability...

Build yourself.

Tristan Copley Smith

In the farmlands of Missouri, an unlikely Polish physicist is developing affordable, easy to build...

CYBORG FOUNDATION

Rafel Duran Torrent

Neil Harbisson was born with achromatopsia, a rare condition that causes complete colour blindness. In...

Diamonds on the Inside

Stephen Scoglio & Jasmine...

Using diamond sensors to help treat cancer sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but...

Gaia Soil

Greener Media

Paul Mankiewicz is the creator of Gaia Soil, a light-weight soil used for urban gardens....

GÖMBÖC

Márton Szirmai

Meet two Hungarian engineers who have invented a new geometric body, using the pure force...

Grow

Vladimir Druts

The story of two farm boys turned bio-engineers who are harnessing the magical power of...

In The Vault

David Osit

At 78˚N in the Arctic Circle lies the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a gigantic structure...

Mine Kafon

Callum Cooper

A short documentary portrait on a designer who has created a low cost solution to...

Protovillage

Christian Amundson & Rajiv...

Kalyan Akkipeddi introduces Protovillage, a replicable model for integrated rural development in Andhra Pradesh, India.

Scott Summit

Ondi Timoner

Scott Summit, Founder of Bespoke Innovations, creates prosthetic limb fairings for amputees using 3D printing.

SLINGSHOT

Paul Lazarus

Best known for his Segway Personal Transporter, inventor Dean Kamen is taking on the world’s...

Small Country, Big Change

Aaron Hodgins Davis

A short documentary that explores Iceland's attempt to eliminate its use of fossil fuels.

The Artificial Leaf

Jared P. Scott &...

Dan Nocera has a simple formula to save the planet: sunlight + water = energy...

The Red Dot

Boston McConnaughey & Andrew...

While a sophomore in high school, Riley Ennis used a protein from horseshoe crabs to...

The Super Supercapacitor

Brian Golden Davis

Ric Kaner set out to find a new way to make graphene, the thinnest and...

Winding Up

Matthew Scholes

Trevor Baylis is one of a kind—an old-fashioned inventor whose motivation is to help those...