Teatro Dal Verme - 31st March 2008

The Opening Ceremony of the Vedere la Scienza Festival. From the left Daniela Benelli (Councillor for culture, cultures and integration of the Provincia di Milano), Pasquale Tucci (Director of the Festival), Luisa Comencini (Segretary General of the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana), and Giosué Boetto Cohen, Rai Educational journalist.

Teatro Dal Verme - Opening Ceremony of the Vedere la Scienza Festival

From the left Giosué Boetto Cohen, Rai Educational journalist, Daniela Benelli (Councillor for culture, cultures and integration of the Provincia di Milano), Pasquale Tucci (Director of the Festival), and Luisa Comencini (Segretary General of the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana).

Teatro Dal Verme, Vedere la Scienza Festival - Opening 2008

The introduction from Daniela Benelli, Councillor for culture, cultures and integration of the Provincia di Milano.

Teatro Dal Verme, Vedere la Scienza Festival - Opening 2008

The introduction from Pasquale Tucci, director of the Festival.

Teatro Dal Verme, Vedere la Scienza Festival - Opening 2008 and Awards 2007

Jack Micay author and director of "Understanding the Book of Life" (Canada, 2006) won the Special Jury Award at Vedere la Scienza Festival 2007.

Teatro Dal Verme, Vedere la Scienza Festival - Opening 2008 e Awards 2007

Carlo Mario Ferrario, President of the Fondazione Brera gives the award for the 2007 best documentary to Liz Keynes, producer of "The Queen of Trees" (by Marc Deeble and Victoria Stone, Great Britain, 2006) è Category B (production companies, Televisions and independent producers).

Teatro Dal Verme, Vedere la Scienza Festival - Opening 2008 and Awards 2007

Andrea Bernardoni (author, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze), is awarded for "Leonardo's Colossus" (Italy, 2006), as the best documentary produced by museums, universities, research institutes (Category C). Paola Campadelli (left side), chief of the Science Faculty of the University of Milan, gave the award.

Teatro Dal Verme, Vedere la Scienza Festival - Opening 2008 and Awards 2007

Giovanni Fabrizio Bignami, President of the Italian Space Agency, gives the 2007 Best Short Video Award to Mogi Vicentini (independent author) (Categoria D) for his "From Eudoxus to Copernicus" (Italy, 2005/2006).

Teatro Dal Verme, Vedere la Scienza Festival - Opening 2008 and Awards 2007

Roberto Vittori, ESA astronaut, gives the 2007 Best Scientific Promotional Video Award to Stefano Parisini (author, Ufficio Comunicazione INAF) for "I Picked Physics Because..." (by Stefano Parisini and Marco Malaspina, Italy, 2006).(Category E)

Teatro Dal Verme, Vedere la Scienza Festival - Inaugurazione 2008 e premiazione 2007

Hanna Shell receives the award for the Best Video realized by a young author for her "Locomotion in Water" (USA, 2005). Pasquale Tucci, director of the Festival, gives the award.

Teatro Dal Verme, Vedere la Scienza Festival - Opening 2008 and Awards 2007

Talk by Roberto Vittori (ESA astronaut) and Giovanni Fabrizio Bignami (Presidente ASI). Chairman Giosué Boetto Cohen, Rai Educational journalist.

Teatro Dal Verme, Vedere la Scienza Festival - Opening 2008 and Awards 2007

Talk by Roberto Vittori (ESA astronaut) and Giovanni Fabrizio Bignami (Presidente ASI). Chairman Giosué Boetto Cohen, Rai Educational journalist.