DomeFest: Global FullDome Festival

DomeFest is a juried show of some of the best and most innovative fulldome experiences ever created. Topics range from art and entertainment to science visualization and educational show outtakes.

DomeFest includes works by some of the most prestigious fulldome producers as well as excellent examples of individuals and students‘ experimental work in fulldome. DomeFest is designed to demonstrate fulldome’s full potential and to entertain and inspire local audiences and producers to support the theaters that screen it. Each DomeFest year’s show reel is sold separately.

Produced by Lodestar Astronomy Center and University of New Mexico
Available for conferences, festivals, short-term screening programs, and other special events.
Running time varies

Dr. Allevable’s Unbelievable Laboratory

Dr. Allevable and Regenerobot invite you into their laboratory as they investigate the new and exciting field of regenerative medicine! The human body is vulnerable to injuries—bone breaks, skin burns, and heart attacks , and regenerative medicine can help us heal faster by enhancing the ways that the body heals itself.

 

Produced by Regenerative Medicine Partnership in Education
Approximate running time: 23 minutes
Suitable for ages 5 and up, families, and school groups.

Dream to Fly (2D/3D)

Have you ever dreamt you were flying? Have you ever thought how wonderful would it be to fly free as a bird?

Discover the mystery of flight with Leonardo da Vinci, Montgolfier brothers, Wright brothers and other inventors. Experience the adventure with powerful images and music, an immense and challenging dream, for which mankind has strived since the beginning of history.

“Dream to Fly” describes the most important milestones on our route to conquering the skies—both in terms of technological breakthroughs, as well as our perceptions on flying itself.

Produced by The Heavens of Copernicus Planetarium
Narrated by Danuta Stenka with original soundtrack by Michal Lorenc
Running time: 35 minutes
Available in 2D & 3D
Suitable for family audience and school groups

Dynamic Earth

The award-winning Dynamic Earth explores the inner workings of Earth’s climate system.

With visualizations based on satellite monitoring data and advanced supercomputer simulations, this cutting-edge production follows a trail of energy that flows from the Sun into the interlocking systems that shape our climate: the atmosphere, oceans, and the biosphere.

Audiences will ride along on swirling ocean and wind currents, dive into the heart of a monster hurricane, come face-to-face with sharks and gigantic whales, and fly into roiling volcanoes.

Narrated by Liam Neeson.

 

Producers: Spitz Creative Media, the Advanced Visualization Lab at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (University of Illinois), NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio, and Thomas Lucas Productions, Inc., in association with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and NASA Earth Science. 
Appx. running time: 24 minutes
For general audiences.
*** Educator’s Guide Available ***

The Earth and Me

The past few years we have come to realize that Human activity has a detrimental effect on the Earth’s systems (climate, ecosystems, biodiversity). Its impact can be seen not only on nature itself, but also in the food we eat, the drugs we use, even on our health.

This show, without being alarmist, treats each of these complex topics by presenting scientific facts, in order for the audience to reflect on individual responsibility and action. We act as if our planet belongs only to us, probably without even realizing it. Perhaps it is time to reconsider the way we live.

 

Produced by Eugenides Foundation and The Animonautes
Running time: 26 minutes.

Earth, Moon & Sun™

Coyote has a razor sharp wit, but he’s a little confused about what he sees in the sky.

Join this amusing character (adapted from American Indian oral traditions) in a fast-paced and fun fulldome show that explores lunar phases, eclipses and other puzzles.

Engaging and immersive, Earth, Moon & Sun™ also examines how humans learn through space exploration.

 

Produced by Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
Running time: 26 minutes
Audiences age 5-11.

Earthquake: Evidence of a Relentless Planet

Take a breathtaking tour of our ever-active planet. Fly to sites of historic earthquakes and envision a future made safer from seismic events. A high-speed tour of the past 200 million years, narrated by Benjamin Bratt, will unearth the science behind our ever-changing planet.

 

Produced by California Acedemy of Science
Narrated by Benjamin Bratt
Appx. running time: 23 minutes
For general audiences

Earth’s Wild Ride

Humans have colonized the moon. Looking down on Earth during a solar eclipse, a grandfather tells his two grandchildren, born on the Moon, about Earth. Stories about water, clouds, and ice—things they have never experienced on the Moon—with a historical perspective involving dinosaurs, mammoths, volcanoes, and the forming of great canyons.

Set on the surface of the Moon in the year 2081, a grandfather and granddaughter watch a solar eclipse from scenic cliffs overlooking their moon colony. Conversation leads to contrasts between the moon, the only home the granddaughter knows, and the Earth, where the grandfather has spent most of his life.

 

Produced for the Houston Museum of Natural History/Rice University Immersive Earth Project
by Carolyn Sumners and Home Run Pictures

Approximate running time 20 minutes
Suitable for family audiences and school groups.

The Earth Wins

THE EARTH WINS is a tribute to the many wonders of Mother Earth, shot entirely from the air on 4 continents, 7 years in the making. The film explores the delicate balance between man and Mother Earth, our inter-dependence and the impact of man s actions upon the Earth and her inhabitants.

Acclaimed Aerial Director, Jerry Grayson, Oscar nominated Cinematographer Skip Margetts and award winning Cinematographers Warwick Field and Michael Parker bring this powerful and provocative cinematic experience to the giant screen. THE EARTH WINS places the audience in an elevated position and it is from the air we gain a philosophical perspective of humanity, asking ourselves environmental, ethical and cultural questions.

THE EARTH WINS creates moments of true reflection combining stunning aerial imagery with powerful lyrics and a soundtrack from international artists; THE WHO, COLDPLAY, NEW ORDER, THE TEMPER TRAP, THE ART OF FUSION, YOTHU YINDI and composer Sean Van Doornum.

Amongst these immense global issues, there is an overarching sense of hope and purpose that drives the film. Ultimately, we are lead to understand our individual responsibility as citizens of the planet. Produced by Helifilms Australia.

Produced by Helifilms Australia
Transformed from Giant Screen film
Transform coverage is truncated from fulldome
Approximate running time: 32 minutes

Egypt: Secret of the Mummies (2D/3D)

What is it about mummies? These preserved human time capsules from ancient Egypt fascinate and intrigue us, but why? Is it because they blur the line between the living and the dead? Or is it because they provide such a powerfully visual window to our ancient past? Whatever the reason, there is little doubt that mummies are some of the world s most spellbinding subjects.

Narrated by actor Christopher Lee (The Lord Of The Rings, Star Wars, and the original 1959 film The Mummy), Egypt: Secrets of the Mummies explores the mysterious world of ancient Egypt through the fabric of its ancient mummies.

The Egyptians mummy making culture was not the first, the last, or even the longest. But to many, it was the greatest.Egypt: Secrets of the Mummies is a walk back thousands of years to the wonders of ancient Egypt, a real-life Indiana Jones adventure complete with thieves and hidden treasure, and a modern day scientific journey to extract clues about our past. The film covers topics of grand proportions, making it ideal for the high-impact experience of fulldome theaters.

 

Produced by Giant Screen Films and Gravity Pictures
Transformed from Giant Screen film by Sky-Skan

Running time: 40 minutes
Available in 2D & 3D
Transform coverage is truncated from fulldome