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  • Episode 8: Determined
    Topic: Determined | Raw Science Film Festival 2020, Finalist Best Feature Documentary Moderator: Keri Kukral, Raw Science Guests: Melissa Godoy , Director |Therese Barry-Tanner , Producer | Karen McElwee, Key Cast | Gina Green-Harris, Key Cast Film Description: Three women at high risk for Alzheimer's disease offer their brains and bodies to a medical study. After the deaths of their mothers, these daughters are determined to contribute to the search for a cure. This is the latest fight against Alzheimer's - by those with a very personal stake in the battle. Filmed in an observational style with supplementary interviews, the film follows women from contrasting communities in Wisconsin over five years. Barb and her large family take turns caring for their dying mother in a rural corner of the state. In Milwaukee, Karen struggles to raise her adolescent son after her own mother's passing. She joins the Community Advisory Board, a watchdog group that works to protect Black lives in the study. Meanwhile, Sigrid, a retiree in a college town, focuses full-time on adopting a lifestyle that she believes can stave off the disease. Each woman visits the research site regularly and undergoes rigorous physical and cognitive tests with researchers on the front lines.| Length: 34 minutes
    35 min
  • Episode 7: The High Frontier

    Topic: The High Frontier | Raw Science Film Festival 2020, Official Selection Feature Documentary Moderator: Keri Kukral, Raw Science Guests: Director, Ryan Stuit | Producer, Will Henry | Producer, Dylan Taylor Film Description: THE HIGH FRONTIER reveals the untold story of the life and influence of the late physicist and space colony pioneer Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill. In 1969, Dr. O’Neill released the book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space, which sparked the enormous grassroots movement to “open the high frontier” with the goal of making space colonization available and beneficial for all mankind. The film is told through “Gerry’s Kids” as they affectionally call themselves; his peers, family, and the younger generation who followed that movement and are now leading the modern day space industry.| Length: 25 minutes

    25 min
  • Episode 5: LIGO - The Way the Universe Is, I Think
    Topic: LIGO: The Way the Universe Is, I Think | Raw Science Film Festival 2020 Finalist 
    Moderator: Keri Kukral, Raw Science | Guests: Physicist Rana Adhikari | Writers/Directors | Carrie McCarthy, Hussain Currimbhoy, Mark Pedri Length: 38 minutes | Film Description: A character documentary about a mechanic-turned-scientist who tuned the machine that spurred a dramatic re-envisioning of the universe through the detection of gravitational waves. Over 100 years after Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted the existence of gravitational waves, a team of scientists proved the theory by detecting the first wave using LIGO. This film examines the journey of a scientist who debugged the machine to find the signal in the noise of the universe. The film explores his life as a scientist and a musician, revealing how his character has informed his work that led to a Nobel Prize.
    39 min
  • Episode 4: Collapse

    Topic: Collapse| Raw Science Film Festival 2020 Finalist Moderator: Keri Kukral, Raw Science Guests: Dr. Nelson Varas-Díaz, Director/Psychologist | Dr. Domingo Marqués, Clinical Psychologist | Mark Padilla, Producer Film Description: One hurricane, one study, thousands dead. On September 20, 2017 hurricane María hit the island of Puerto Rico with category four winds. The local government reported the number of dead at 64, while a Harvard University led study estimated 4645. This film tells the story of the research team that completed this historic study from the perspective of Dr. Domingo Marqués, the only team member to experience the hurricane firsthand. See how the local government reacted to the now famous study, and how a country that distrusts scientists prepares for the next catastrophic event. | Length: 27 minutes 

    28 min
  • Episode 3: Hanger's Limb

    Topic: Hanger's Limb| Raw Science Film Festival 2020 Jury Award, Best Student Dramatic Short Moderator: Keri Kukral, Raw Science | Guests: Joel David Santner, Writer/Director | Markus Jorgenson, Actor - "James Hanger | Ryan Vaughaun, Sound Design | Film Description: After surviving a brutal amputation during the Civil War, James Hanger returns home emotionally and physically broken. In order to survive his depression, he designs and builds the first prosthetic leg with knee and ankle joints. Recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Production Grant. | Length: 28 minutes 

    29 min
  • Episode 2: Science + The Law | Future Biological Threats
    Topic: What does the future hold for dealing with bio threats? What can we do scientifically and legally? Opening of casinos versus churches, the speed and safety of vaccines, the role of simulations and preparedness, and the responsibility of scientists versus federal agencies and the courts. Moderator: Sr. Judge Loren Smith, US Court of Federal Claims Guests: Dr. Asha George, Dr.PH -Executive Director of the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense  | Dr. Robert Rosner, William E. Wrather Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics, and the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago | Partner: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | Length: 36 minutes
    37 min

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