In Our Cells, Our Selves you are invited to a science bedtime story with 7-year old Sylvie, a recently diagnosed diabetic, who is discovering the wonders of the immune system. Sylvie’s mother tells a story that takes us back hundreds of millions of years to explore how the balance between access to food and immune protection evolved into the modern human immune system. Learn that under rare circumstances, things can go wrong, leading to auto-immune diseases like Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes. The story closes with a look at the future of medicine and the potential for cures!

Produced by Regenerative Medicine Partnership in Education
Approximate running time: 15 minutes
Suitable for ages 5 and up, families, and school groups.

Principal funding from a Science Education Partnership Award, National Center for Research Resources,
National Institutes of Health A Partnership of PTEI, Duquesne University, ETCglobal and Carnegie Science Center,
one of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh

Experience a dramatic and different way of looking at climate and climate change.

This show will present a dramatic and different way of looking at climate and climate change. A visually spectacular story will unfold on a global scale, revealing how the climate first evolved and how it has been endlessly transformed by weather patterns, Ice Ages and the appearance of new life forms.

Floods or droughts, rain or shine, hot or cold; it all occurs within the remarkably thin veneer spanning the Earth – the Atmosphere.

Produced by Melbourne Planetarium, Scienceworks Museum, Museum Victoria
Appx. running time: 28 minutes
Suitable for school groups ages 10-16 and general audiences
Exclusively Distributed by Sky-Skan

After thriving for 8 million years in the high bamboo forests of mountainous western China, it took only a few centuries of human expansion to push the giant panda to the brink of extinction. Yet today, with pandas numbering less than 1,600, there is new hope for the species—thanks to a massive effort by the Chinese government to turn the tide.

“Pandas: The Journey Home” is a groundbreaking natural-history film that captures for the first time the highly endangered pandas breeding at the Bifengxia Panda Base, and being prepared for release back into the wild at Wolong National Nature Reserve, both in the People’s Republic of China.

Recently, with giant pandas numbering less than 1,600 worldwide, the story of this beloved creature took a surprising twist. The same Chinese government that built the colossal and controversial Three Gorges Dam is throwing its massive political heft and technological prowess into reversing the panda population’s freefall.

Produced by National Geographic
Appx. running time: 36 minutes
For general audiences.
Available in 3D

Every day, as new scientific discoveries reveal answers to cosmic mysteries, we wonder how we fit into this vast universe. Taking audiences on an unforgettable voyage of billions of light years, Passport to the Universe, produced by the American Museum of Natural History and narrated by Tom Hanks, is an incredible journey from our home planet and the Milky Way galaxy to the edge of the universe. Audiences fly beneath the rings of Saturn, into the heart of the Orion Nebula, to the edge of the observable universe, and back to Earth through a black hole, experiencing these and other stunning cosmic destinations as never before possible.

Created in collaboration with NASA, Passport to the Universe relies on AMNH’s Digital Universe, an unprecedented database containing over three billion stars, and on data and visualizations from the world’s top astrophysics and research institutions. The combination of these incredible resources results in an immersive experience that educates and inspires, taking audiences on a virtual tour to the limits of the universe and back again.

Produced by the American Museum of Natural History
Approximate running time: 20 minutes
Narrated by Tom Hanks

Planetary Visions is a fantastic, interactive program that is best described as an adventurous tour of the Solar System. With its whimsical, flying robot main character, Toggle, and the interactivity of the operator with the show and the audience, this is a treat for all who attend. This show is excellent as a 3rd grade and above school program.

A distinctive feature of this program is that it is fully interactive! The presenter converses with the main characters at key points to utilize the “theater” in your planetarium.

Produced by Bays Mountain Productions
Running time: 36 minutes

Presented in the style of a game show, The Planets tests people s knowledge of the planets in our Solar System. The audience find themselves transported from planet to planet, immersed in spectacularly different environments.

Great fun, the show also has enough facts and concepts to provide real educational value.

Produced by NSC Creative
Narrated by Ben Jackson
Approximate running time: 25 minutes
Suitable for ages 5 and above and school groups

When is a planet not a planet? Travel to the outer limits of the Solar System to explore what makes Pluto so different.

Discover how science, history and culture have shaped our view of where Pluto fits in.

Produced by Melbourne Planetarium, Scienceworks Museum, Museum Victoria
Running time 30 minutes
Suitable for ages 8 and up and school groups
Exclusively Distributed by Sky-Skan

An artistic show exploring the dome format as a medium for film and stories, which offers a modern and somewhat surrealistic version of the Shakespeare classic Romeo and Juliet performed by a group of young people amidst a party atmosphere.

The “play in a play” starts in a desert. A group of young people pulls a truck with building materials through an empty landscape until they discover the “right spot”. They stop the truck and start building a stage from wood and fabric as a party space. Finally the stage is ready and the play can begin.

Produced by LivinGlobe
Running time 20 minutes

A Brief History of Life

A journey to the origins of space and our life. The award winning fulldome show tells in breathtaking pictures the story of the universe and the Earth– from the big bang to the onset of modern man.

The universe appears as a huge organism where stars, galaxies and planets are born and die. On one particular planet a wonderous process started – and life began. The show leads the audience through the complete history of life.

Produced by Softmachine
Approximate running time: 24 minutes

Relentless Night is a fulldome short film that immerses the viewer in scenes atop the extinct volcano of Maunakea in the Central Pacific, amongst the biggest collection of telescopes ever built.

Derived from the Awesome Light series, Relentless Night’s footage was shot over four years in stereo fisheye. The film provides unique views of the remarkable summit landscape and the nightly ballet of these magnificent machines as they search for secrets in the stars. Set to the haunting beauty of the Eliza Aria re-tuned to a powerful dubstep mix, Relentless Night pays homage to this tour de force of scientific discovery.

Produced by Sky-Skan for ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaii
Appx. running time: 22 minutes
For general audiences.