2009 Press Kits
ISFF 2009 Trailer Festival Press Kit

Press Releases
2.27.09 ISFF 2009 (PDF) 5.06.09 AAAS and ISF Unite
6.26.09 Festival Press Release  

Printed Media Coverage
Date Publication Author Description
2/12/10 Science, Vol. 327 Martin Enserink News Focus on science film festival trends, including the ISFF
12/04/09 Science, Vol. 326 Cat Bohannon, et al. “Science Goes Hollywood”
4/09 Natural Selections   ISFF call for submissions
10/10/08 Village Voice Eudie Pak NYC Best of 2008:
Getting the facts out on camera
10/22/08 New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer at ISFF
2/14/08 Nature: Spoonful of Medicine Juan Carlos Lopez Kate Jeffrey, Nature Medicine editor and ISFF coordinator
10/8/08 Nature Jascha Hoffman Science at the movies
8/08 Natural Selections Kate Jeffrey Accessibility of science through narrative film (PDF)
Fall 2004 Bardian   Article from Bard College publication on graduate Alexis Gambis’s combination of art and science

Online Press
03/02/10 Skepticality Podcast with Swoopy Segment with Alexis Gambis; listen online here
01/07/10 The Benshi Randy Olson The Director of Sizzle praises the ISFF
12/02/09 Nerdabout New York Joanna Burgess & Heather Quinlan “Imagine Science Film Festival, Movies That Make You Think”
11/15/09 Nerdabout New York Heather Quinlan Video interview with Alexis Gambis on the ISFF
10/11/09 NewScientist   “Alexis Gambis: The art of the science film”
10/10/09 Examiner.com Terra King ISFF 2009
8/24/09 New York Blog Barry Hudson Interview with ISFF Founder Alexis Gambis
8/6/09 MovieMaker Magazine Elissa Suh Interview with Alexis Gambis on the ISFF
8/3/09 AAAS Edward W. Lempinen “AAAS, Science Join Partnership with NYC’s Imagine Science Film Festival”

8/4/09 New York Hall of Science   Press release: the Hall named partnering venue for ISFF 2009
7/31/09 The Newbie Yorker Robin Kilmer “The Not Odd Couple: Alexis Gambis Unites Science and Film”
5/30/09 MovieMaker   Festival listings
5/29/09 Lab Manager Magazine® Monitor   “Submit Your Film”
5/29/09 Nature Network New York Blog Barry Hudson ISFF 2009 Fundraiser on June 26th
4/26/09 Discover Andrew Grant Sleep Dealer at the 2008 ISFF
4/21/09 Vimeo Staff Blog Daniel Hayek ISF and Vimeo team up for Online Video Contests
3/19/09 Yale Graduate School News and Events   Alternative Careers for Ph.D.’s: Science and the Media panel featuring Alexis Gambis
3/18/09 New York blog Caryn Shechtman ISF/Rockefeller special screening of Naturally Obsessed
3/2/09 NYC.gov Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater & Broadcasting Call for submissions by local NYC film festivals
2/23/09 ScienceBlogs: Living the Scientific Life GrrlScientist ISFF 2009 call for films and A Fruit Fly in NY
2/20/09 Nature Network   Imagine Science Films Special Screenings
2/17/09 Discover Magazine, The Loom Carl Zimmer Attention All Aspiring Science Filmmakers
2/10/09 Secret Science Club Blogspot Secret Science Club Call for film submissions
2/4/09 BioTechniques Colleen M. Smith Call for submissions to ISFF 2009
1/13/09 Scienceline Carina Storrs Profile of ISF Founder Alexis Gambis
12/21/08 Discover, The Loom Carl Zimmer Zimmer chats with Alexis Gambis about movies and science
11/13/08 Feminist Press: Under the Microscope Neda Afsarmanesh Where Art and Science Connect on Film
11/10/08 TalkingScience Karen A. Frenkel Interview with The Wormhole director, Jessica Sharzer
11/4/08 TalkingScience various Reviews of ISFF movies
10/31/08 Documentary.org Tamara Krinsky Paul Devilin’s Blast!
10/27/08 TalkingScience Talia Page Review of Fermat’s Room
10/26/08 Discovery – Space Blog Mark Devlin Blast! Screening at ISFF
10/26/08 National Math and Science Initiative Blog Rena Pederson Blast! Screening at ISFF
10/21/08 io9 Alex Carnivale Mad scientists and ISFF
10/19/08 IMDB   Habitacion de Fermat (Dr. Fermat’s Room) and film release info
10/17/09 Cine Latino en Nueva York Christian Del Moral Fermat’s Room
10/15/08 New York Academy of Sciences   ISFF panel discussion led by Science Friday’s Ira Flatow
10/15/08 io9 Charlie Jane Anders Dropping the Weird Science, New York Style
10/14/08 BioTechniques Breaking News Video of the Week: Imagine Science Film Festival Begins
10/14/08 The Gothamist Jen Carlson Alexis Gambis Q&A with Alexis Gambis on ISFF
10/10/08 Medical Museion Blog   A Biometric Tale
10/10/08 Science News   Imagine Science Film Festival
10/7/08 BioTechniques Colleen Smith Breaking News: Imagine Science Film Festival
10/3/08 Independent Magazine Paul Devlin Paul Devlin talks about Blast!
10/1/08 Scienceboom Michael Doig Ira Flatow, Ari Handel, Billy Shebar, Darcy Kelley, and Sydney Perkowitz
9/27/08 Tribecafilm.com   ISFF kickoff with panel discussion led by Science Friday’s Ira Flatow
8/23/08 EasternBlot Eva ISFF in NYC and A Fruit Fly in NY
4/26/08 Uncertain Principles Chad Orzel A Pro-Science Film Festival: Why Not?
4/22/08 EasternBlot Eva Review of Blast!

TV & Radio
10/23/04 Science & The City NY Academy of Science Podcast of ISFF Opening Nite panel discussion
10/20/08 Bloomberg Radio Charlie Pellett Interview with Alexis Gambis
10/16/04 NY1 Jerónimo Rodríguez Noticias De Criticas: The Sleep Dealer
10/13/04 Niteshift, WBAI Mike Surgant Life is like Science Fiction: Mike Surgant interviews Alexis Gambis

Press from Partner Organizations
Fall 2008 Blast! Movie Website   Blast! Premier at ISFF
Fall 2008 Bronx High School of Science   Premiere of ISFF
Fall 2008 CUNY Graduate Center   Blast! The Movie at ISFF
Fall 2008 Museum of Moving Image   ISFF Screenings
Fall 2008 New School   Imagine Science Film Festival premiere
Fall 2008 New York Academy of Sciences   ISFF kickoff
Fall 2008 Rockefeller University   Announcement: Rockefeller hosts first ever ISFF
Fall 2008 Union Hall/Secret Science Club   SSC and ISFF team up