BIG SCREEN SCIENCE
2005

Big Screen Science, supported by The Wellcome Trust and NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), was a nationwide project that enabled secondary school students to produce films focussing on a range of issue-based biomedical science topics from Xenotransplantation to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

We worked with the six schools chosen from across the UK to make the Big Screen Science films.

The project resulted in six 10 minute films and an accompanying teaching resource pack.

The six films are:

The Stem Cell Controversy
Ballyclare High School, Belfast, NORTHERN IRELAND

A documentary looking at stem cell therapy through the eyes of a former pupil who was
left paralysed after a rugby accident.

The Law of Averages
Barrhead High School, Glasgow. SCOTLAND
A drama about organ donation.

Lab Rats
Stanwell School, Penarth, WALES
A film based on the style of a reality TV show looking at the morals and ethics of stem cell therapy.

The Perry Pigger Show. Manchester, ENGLAND (NORTH)
Abraham Moss High School with an animated film about xenotransplantation

The Boy Who Would be Good
Ridgeway School, Plymouth, ENGLAND (SOUTH-WEST)
A drama about ADHD

Facing up to Life
Frogmore School, Hampshire, ENGLAND (SOUTH-EAST)
A drama about face transplants

Contact: Hiraani Himona 020 7538 8070

Commissioned by: First Light Movies

Website: Big Screen Science