Short Movie Competitions

2021 Short movie competition

The rules for the 2021 competition are:

  • Deadline 26th November 2021 [important, note: there will be no extensions, as winners to be announced at the Early Career day on the 8th December]

  • Max 3 minutes (including titles).

  • Must be self-produced by early career (PhDs, postdocs, Fellows).

  • Permission of PI must be obtained.

  • Competition is open to members of the IOP Biological Physics group (at least one of the people credited must be a member). See http://www.iop.org/activity/groups/subject/bp/#gref for joining.

  • Video should be pitched to level of a physics undergraduate.

Prizes: £250 for Winner and £100 for a Jury's Award.

By submitting the video, you allow the IOP committee to make use of the material for the purpose of highlighting the community, for example a collection might be posted on youtube after the competition. Movies should be compressed with a suitable codec so that they are <250MB in size. They should be in avi format and playable by vlc player on a windows OS. They should be put on some online repository and a link to them made available to Prof Pietro Cicuta, with an email to pc245 at cam.ac.uk by the deadline. The email should cc the PI and should contain a statement that the conditions above are understood and agreed to.


2020 Short movie competition entries

schramma.avi

Dr. Maziyar Jalaal and Nico Schramma

Joint winner

demaleprade.mp4

Helene de Maleprade

Joint winner

nettesheim.avi

Guil Nettesheim

Runner-up

hush.mp4

Paul Hush


mcdermott.avi

Samuel McDermott


pambos-outofcomp.mp4

Oliver Pambos

[Not part of the competition]

pearce.avi

Philip Pearce


taylorwilliams.mp4

Michaela Taylor-Williams