FAQs

  • You are the venue in our film festival model. We will give you a password protected URL that will give you all of the themed programs below. You’ll obviously need a laptop or interactive whiteboard or screen or, if you’re lucky, your venue has a theatre. The programs go live on the morning of Friday 8 August, and will stay live to end of day Friday 29 August. You can play the films one at a time, in their themed programs, however you want. Our themed programs are just ‘suggestions,’ but particularly for teachers we have curated the student-friendly programming together. You need to find your own audience, do your own publicity.

  • Our Festival Director is a certified film classifier, and has given the films each a rating compatible with the usual G, PG, M, MA, and R. We particularly want a teacher playing SCINEMA when they need to make a decision about playing a film to their students. Note that a science documentary doesn’t usually have car chases and gratuitous violence, but will often deal with adult concepts or might show surgical procedures.

  • Apologies, our film permissions loaned to us by the filmmakers who enter only cover Australia.

  • Go to National Science Week website to register as a venue, to receive your program information.