Dish Life The Film

Dish Life is a documentary short about stem cell scientists' emotional relationship to the cells they grow in the laboratory. As live beings, in vitro cells need constant care - nourishing food, a clean environment and enough space - to flourish. Scientists, in tireless efforts, have to assume the role of parents to keep the cells happy, while the cells at times may act like misbehaving children.

Dish Life was written and directed by Chloe Thomas and produced for the University of Cambridge by Karen Jent and Loriana Vitillo for the Cambridge Shorts Series. Since its premiere, the film has been in the official selection and won awards at numerous international film festivals. The film has also been featured by a number of news media outlets, including the New York Times and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Awards

Best Science Documentary     2017 Social Machinery Festival in Rizziconi, Italy & Toronto, Canada

National Runner-up               2017 Bristol Science Film Festival, UK

Bronze                                 2016 Raw Science Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA

Festival Selections

2016 Cambridge Film Festival, UK (Cambridge Shorts Premiere Event)

2017 Ethnografilm, Paris, France (official selection)

2017 Brooklyn Free Radicals BRIC, Brooklyn, USA (official selection)

2017 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, Australia (official selection)

2017 Scinema International Science Film Festival, Australia (official selection)

2017 Bozeman Doc Series, Montana State University, USA (official selection)

2017 Wolves Independent International Film Awards, Lithuania (official selection)

2017 Imagine Science Film Festival, NYC, USA (official selection)

2018 Tech Doc Fest, Seattle, USA (official selection)

2018 The Russian Film Festival, Moscow, Russia (official selection)

2018 Global Short Film Awards Cannes (semi-finalist)

Press

Feature article in The Void of Science: iTV Science Magazine (October 2, 2018): https://issuu.com/intothevoidscience/docs/into_the_void_science_issue_6_octob

Feature article on The Biomedical Scientist (April 24, 2018): http://thebiomedicalscientist.net/resources/how-collaborate

Reflections on interdisciplinary collaboration on ReproSoc.com (March 2, 2018): https://www.reprosoc.com/blog/2018/3/2/dish-lives

Cambridge University press release (November 21, 2016): http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/dish-life-a-cambridge-shorts-film

Cambridge News (November 24, 2016): http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/incoming/bouncy-children-portray-super-cells-12221285

Review on Bionews: http://www.bionews.org.uk/page_782838.asp (February 20, 2017)

Signals Blog: https://www.signalsblog.ca/right-turn-stem-cells-like-children-are-a-labour-of-love/ (March 17, 2017)

New York Times: Events for Children in NYC This Week (October 12, 2017): https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/arts/events-for-children-in-nyc-this-week.html

New York Times: 10 Things to Do in NYC Now (October 13, 2017): https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/arts/10-things-to-do-in-nyc-now-guggenheim-china.html

EurostemCell Feature (January 25, 2018)

https://www.eurostemcell.org/dish-life-cambridge-shorts-film

UK Regenerative Medicine Platform feature (February 21, 2018):

https://www.ukrmp.org.uk/hubs/pscp/publications-outputs/pscp-public-engagement-outreach-resources/dish-life-what-scientists-really-feel-about-the-stem-cells-they-look-after/

Broadcasting and film platforms

Cambridge TV feature: http://www.cambridge-tv.co.uk/dish-life/

ABC iView featured Dish Life for over 20 days, during the SCINEMA Festival and now host the film on their website: http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/dish-life/IV1729H001S00

Australia’s Science Channel https://www.australiascience.tv/?s=dish+life (September 4, 2017)

Labocine https://www.labocine.com/search/dish%20life