𖤓 Luminaries are enlightened Science New Wave Members

𖤓 Luminaries include artists, filmmakers, journalists & researchers who inspire us in their approaches to scientific storytelling. Instead of succumbing to stereotypes or conventions, they challenge the status quo and propose singular new visions.

𖤓 Luminaries are beautiful hybrids that challenge and celebrate crossbreeding and experimental interdisciplinary collaborations. They take risks, cross boundaries and fuse genres, blending process and realism with subjectivity and commentary.

𖤓 Luminaries are invested critics and keep revisiting the Science New Wave blueprint proposing amendments, objections and mutations to the original manifesto.

𖤓 Luminaries are key and active enzymatic players in our ongoing evolution.

𖤓 Luminaries play a decisive role in highlighting the latest crop of science cinema.

𖤓 Luminaries propose solutions and ideas to facilitate encounters, materialize collaborations, produce and disseminate work, always striving for equal access to opportunities, transparency and open-access.

Luminary Receive

Basic Membership Benefits + the following

☀︎ A Founding Member of the SNW Lab + Acknowledgement on the SNW Luminary Wall.

☀︎ Voting rights for the Science New Wave Awards at the annual Science New Wave Festival presented by Imagine Science Films. Films in competition will be available to watch virtually by only Luminaries on the Labocine platform.

☀︎ option to sign up for a Labocine PRO (affiliated to your Habitat profile) account for your organization (check out our network of universities, museums, festivals, production companies and distributors dedicated to changing the landscape of science cinema education, production, exhibition and dissemination).

☀︎ opportunities/resources/assistance to feature your films, research, screenings, organizations & programs/events.

We will be reaching out ever now and then to invite you to take part in SNW projects, pow-wows, experiments and meetings.

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• Every year, the selected filmmakers and Symbiosis participants of the Science New Wave Festival will be invited to join the Luminary circle.

• New Luminary Members are handpicked from the pool of existing members by our existing Luminary circle. This illuminated Luminary status appears in your Habitat profile.

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You are not a SNW Luminary Member but deserve to be one? Make your case by following the steps below.

Submit the following to info@labocine.com:

No attachments. Please respond concisely.

• Subject: [Full Name] - Science New Wave Membership

• Body: Send us a link to your Habitat Profile that includes your bio and SNW Member DNA ID + tell us briefly why you want to be a SNW luminary + how do you want to contribute and/or take part in the SNW community? Provide links to your research and/or creative work (text, web, art, image, video).

• Upload your Science New Wave Manifesto Video from your Account page.

Every request will be reviewed by our Luminary members. We have a rolling deadline so you can send us a message any time, any day. We will get back to you shortly afterwards.

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A few days before the opening of the SNW Lab, we will announce the founding Science New Wave Luminaries and unveil the SNW Luminary Wall.

image 1: Galileo Galilei: sunspots - Illustration from Galileo's Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti (“History and Demonstrations Concerning Sunspots and Their Properties,” or “Letters on Sunspots”), 1613.

image 2- Representation of the genetic code (as drawn by E.N. Trifonov in https://is.muni.cz/el/1431/jaro2011/Bi8960).

lu·​mi·​nary | \ ˈlü-mə-ˌner-ē

~ a person of prominence or brilliant achievement.
~ a body that gives light.
~ one who inspires or influences others.