October 3, 2011 4:14 pm
It’s in the top three for ‘Best Fulldome Program’ and this week ‘We Are Astronomers’ will be showing daily for attendees of the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. This is the first year JHWFF has had a category specifically for Fulldome productions.
For all you JHWFF attendees, ‘We Are Astronomers’ will be showing in EarthMatters dome at the following times:
Monday 3 October 13.00
Tuesday 4 October 10.30
Wednesday 5 October 13.30
Thursday 6 October 13.30
We hope you enjoy the show!
August 15, 2011 10:18 am
‘We Are Astronomers’ has succeeded in proceeding to the final three of the newly created ‘Best Fulldome Program’ category of the prestigious Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. The awards are an annual event held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA.
The entries this year included 510 films from 30 countries; more than 60 judges whittled down the entries to leave three finalists in each category.
We will be in Wyoming for the festival 3-7 October so please get in-touch if you want to hook up and talk immersive films.
Official press release here >
More info about the festival here http://www.jhfestival.org/
May 20, 2011 3:02 pm
We Are Astronomers reached for the stars and won big at this year’s Immersive Film Festival in Espinho, Portugal held between 29 April – 1 May 2011.
We Are Astronomers took home the honours of ‘Best Script’ and ‘Best of IFF’ in the long show category.
We’ve already received lots of lovely emails from new fans of the show that saw it for the first time at the event but do please get in touch if you want to share your love via Facebook or the dedicated website http://weareastronomers.com/
Here’s the IFF description of what the awards are all about:
‘Best of IFF’
This award will distinguish all main aspects of an Fulldome production such as: content, technical implementation, innovation, artistic achievement, production values, creativity, originality, narrative, design, entertainment value, and advancement of visualization in the artistic and scientific fields of Fulldome technologies.
‘Best Script’
This award will focus on the creativity, originality, design, entertainment value of the narrative, creating the best balance in storytelling.
Thank you to everyone involved in IFF 2011, the organisers, sponsors, jurors and of course the attendees. We hope to join you next year with new shows and shorts.
May 13, 2011 12:17 pm
As a result of our epic ‘Creative Business of the Year Award’ win picked up at this years Leicestershire Business Awards we’ve been given the keys to a car branded with our logo on for a few days. I feel a roadtrip coming on…
July 22, 2009 6:49 pm
Just read a really good article on making a Fulldome show in Attractions Management magazine (2009 issue 3). We’re a little biased as we wrote it 
Please go check out the article and see what we have to say about our workflow and approach to making our latest digital planetarium show, We Are Astronomers. They picked out some good quotes too!
“They asked for a gentle beginning, because our previous shows were quite dramatic and scared small children!”
“It was about making astronomy exciting and sexy but still credible.”
Thanks to Attractions Management for inviting us to contribute to the magazine, why your there you should subscribe to the digital version of the mag, it is a good read for anyone involved in the attractions/visitor centre arena.
Time to go read the article >
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