The prestigious award, presented by the City Council of A Coruña, recognizes the dissemination work of the European project TOMATTO, which investigates physical processes on extremely short timescales. The film, directed by Luis Gómez-Juanes, narrates a scientific journey between Milan and Madrid, showcasing experimental facilities, computational tools, and the collaborative work required to study electron dynamics.
Filming took place at key locations including the Atosecond Laboratory of Politecnico di Milano, the Faculty of Chemical Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid, the Supercomputing Center of the Autonomous University of Madrid, and the facilities of IMDEA Nanociencia.
The jury praised the documentary for making an enormously complex physical phenomenon accessible and exciting, while also highlighting the human side of scientific research. The Bronze Prismas will be presented to Luis Gómez-Juanes (director), Paloma Banderas Bielicka (director of photography), and Elena Alonso Redondo (producer) on November 14th at the City Council of A Coruña.
The documentary will have its world premiere at the Science and Technology Film Festival in Krakow (Poland), where it will compete for the Best Short Documentary award among over 1,000 submitted films.
The TOMATTO project, funded by an ERC Synergy grant, focuses on the attosecond scale to capture the ultrafast dynamics of electrons in charge transfer processes in materials and solar energy conversion devices. It also received support from the Community of Madrid through an R&D Synergy Project.
