| Science Fair | |
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| Directed by | Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster |
| Written by | Jeffrey Plunkett, Darren Foster, Cristina Costantini |
| Produced by | Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster, Jeffrey Plunkett, Isaac Lee (EP), George Lansbury (EP), Keith Summa (EP) |
| Edited by | Tom Maroney, Alejandro Valdes-Rochin |
| Music by | Jeff Morrow |
Production companies | Univision Muck Media |
| Distributed by | National Geographic Documentary Films |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Science Fair is a 2018 National Geographic[1] documentary film that premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, winning the first ever Festival Favorite Award.[2]
It covers the lives of 9 teenagers as they prepare for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Characters followed in the film include Kashfia Rahman, a student from South Dakota who did research on the effects of risk-taking behaviors in teenagers, Anjali Chadha, a student from Kentucky who designed a project to test for arsenic, Ivo Zell, a German student who designed a new method of airplane propulsion, and two Brazilian students who innovate a way to treat the Zika virus.[3]
Regarding the Festival Favorite Award, it was described as "so engaging and inspiring that we felt it would delight audiences and be a strong contender for this award"[2] by the director of the Sundance Film Festival, and as "an ode to the teenage science geeks on whom our future depends".[4] The movie also received the Festival Favorite award from the 2018 South by Southwest Film Festival[5] and the Best Documentary Award from the 2018 Portland International Film Festival.[6] It was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary at the 40th News and Documentary Emmy Award.[7]