At Congress \u201922, the three winners of the International Science Documentary Funding Competition were unveiled, with films from Lion TV, ZED and Windfall Films selected.<\/p>\n
Lion TV\u2019s The Lost Wonders of the World: In Search of the Hanging Babylon<\/em> and ZED\u2019s Destination Moon<\/em> won in category one, covering ancient civilizations, archaeology, paleontology, geology and space exploration. In category two, which includes projects exploring how cutting-edge science can provide solutions to save the planet, Windfall Films\u2019 The Forest<\/em> won.<\/p>\n Honorable mentions went to Blink Films\u2019 Pompei Secret Underworld<\/em> in category one and Media Stockage\/ZED\u2019s Resurrection Planet<\/em> in category two.<\/p>\n The winning projects were selected from 55 submissions from 13 countries. They were chosen by an international jury composed of representatives from France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions, ZDF (Germany), Channel 4 (U.K.), CBC (Canada), SVT (Sweden), ORF (Austria), ABC Australia, NHK (Japan) and RAI (Italy).<\/p>\n \u201cWe were all extremely impressed with the variety of subjects submitted\u2013how very unusual and intriguing many of the subjects were\u2013and with the depth of research that went into them,\u201d said Caroline Behar, head of international co-productions and acquisitions at France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions. \u201cThe valued partners who so generously joined France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions in this initiative all showed great commitment, and I found the quality of our discussions hugely enriching.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At Congress \u201922, the three winners of the International Science Documentary Funding Competition were unveiled, with films from Lion TV, ZED and Windfall Films selected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":19084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1367,6662,1277,289,6454,522,4466,851,1264,2391,527,4823,1706,528,178],"class_list":["post-19083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-abc-australia","tag-caroline-behar","tag-cbc","tag-channel-4","tag-congress-22","tag-france-televisions","tag-lion-tv","tag-nhk","tag-orf","tag-rai","tag-svt","tag-windfall-films","tag-world-congress-of-science-and-factual-producers","tag-zdf","tag-zed","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n