PROGRAM: The Non Didactic Universe© 2025

DATE: Wednesday March 12th, 2025
VENUE: Altitude Meetings/ Studio Meeting Point in Malmö
ADDRESS: Nordenskiöldsgatan 24
TIME: 09:00-16:00 including coffee breaks + networking lunch 13:00-14:00

A NEW DAWN FOR YOUTH DOCUMENTARIES : THE NON DIDACTIC UNIVERSE©

Pioneering Real Stories and Non-Scripted Content for Todays’ Savvy Young Minds

The Non Didactic Universe© is a curated program integrated into the industry sessions and pitching forum at m:brane 2025.

09:00-13:00 PITCHINGS OF 10 x “NEW DAWN FOR YOUTH DOCUMENTARIES” PROJECTS FROM 10 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
11:00-11:20 KEYNOTE BY HELEN LANGWICK
13:00-14:00 Networking lunch
14:00-15:25 PANEL: DIVING INTO THE UNKNOWN AND UNSEEN: SCIENCE FOR THE SENSES

Over the past 10 years, the outcome of of m:brane’s initiative REALYOUNG© has successfully led to documentaries for kids and youth now has a place on the international agenda, and further reach audiences across the world.
As we enter a new decade, we are staying true to our roots and those who contributed to the development by participating in REALYOUNG© with their documentary projects. Simultaneously we embrace the evolution of new technologies to blend with and reimagine non-scripted screen content for smart young audiences. Our focus remains on uncovering the most artistically innovative projects with striking stories and intentional, boundary-pushing aesthetics.

Through the 2025 program it becomes clear, that we now also blend science communication in a wider perspective into our approach. And we continue to integrate responses from participating young people. This take unite m:brane’s initiatives—REALYOUNG© and m:brane Learning© under the umbrella of The Non Didactic Universe© redefining Non-Scripted Stories for Savvy Young Minds.

The program on March 12th reflect exactly that. Welcome!

Program subject to changes.

m:brane introduces 13 new projects in development, that aim to attract new partners and co-producers to strengthen the potential and possiblities for each project:

Three classic format projects out of our REALYOUNG@ workshop scheme:

Leaping Hearts (DK) – Format: Web/tv-series, Genre: Documentary, Country: Denmark
Target Audience: 5-8
Period. (SE) – Format: Web/Tv-series, Genre: Documentary, Country: Sweden, Target Audience:
9-13
The Sound of Freedom (DK) – Format: Web/tv-series, Genre: Documentary, Target Audience:
16-35, Country: Denmark

Six projects are selected in the category The Non Didactic Universe – XR/Immersive formats:

Genesis Mars (DE) – Format: VR, Genre: Drama/Action/Science,  Country: Germany, Target Audience: 10-18
In-between Worlds/ AUTOMAT (DE) –  Format: Multiplatform, Genre: Animation, Country. Germany, Target Audience: 9+
Mylings (DE) – Format: Interactive, Genre: Horror, Country: Germany, Target Audience: 13+
The Last Bee (CA/DE/IL/AT) – Format: VR, Genre: Animation, Country: Canada, Germany, Israel & Austria, Target Audience: 8-24
The World of Wonders – Discover how it all works (SE/FR) – Format: Web/Tv-series. Genre: Animation/ Science, Target Audience: 6-12, Country: Sweden/ France
Trolls vs Elves (PL/UK) – Format:Interactive, Genre: Documentary, Country: Poland, United Kingdom, Target Audience: 16+

Four projects are selected in the non-pitch category REALYOUNG@ development:

Displaced Childhood (LT/IT/SI) – Forum: Multiplatform, Genre: Documentary, Country: Lithuania, Italy, Slovenia,  Target Audience: 10-18
Generation: Nika (CZ) – Format: Web/tv.series: Genre: Documentary, Country: Czech Republic, Target Audience: 15+
Monsterbaby (DK) – Format Web/tv-series, Genre: Drama/Documentary, Country: Denmark, Target Audience: 4-10
Nikola (PL) – Format: Short , Genre: Documentary, Country: Poland, Target Audience: 14-18

 

Speaker Helen Langwick , Head of Programming and Engagement, The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, UK

“Spaces, Places, People, Stories and Screens: The magic of Science Media in Museums”.

As part of the program for « New Dawn for Youth Documentaries: The Non-Didactic Universe© », we are thrilled to welcome the charismatic Helen Langwick. Her inspirational talk will serve as a valuable contribution, offering a unique perspective from the museum world.

Her unconventional approach will shed light on her personal journey and ambitions to bring knowledge, awareness and science closer to people in creative and engaging ways. Drawing from her time at the National Science and Media Museum and her exciting new venture with the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, she will present innovative examples of how science content, audiovisual arts and public spaces can come together to captivate and inspire large audiences.

Passionate storyteller, fascinated by the wonders of the world and favouring collaborative processes, Helen will share her multidisciplinary mode with professional teams and the most enjoyable part of her work – to see an idea come to realisation.

Welcome by Creative Director Annette Brejner and moderator Gitte Hansen, CH.

This inspirational session showcases bold filmmakers and producers offering new ways of bringing science content to a large audience – beyond the traditional TV screen.

While building a creative symbiosis between arts, science, knowledge and entertainment, they bring innovative means to the service of an ever more sensitive and sensorial experience. Often immersive, sometimes expressed through classical forms, their essence lies in evoking emotion and profound connection. Each creation invites viewers to touch, feel,  hear and see anew—whether through vivid screens, captivating exhibitions, or enveloping immersions. With every moment, they reveal the delicate interplay between our bodies, our minds, and the surrounding world, uncovering beauty and complexity that often go unnoticed. They find their place at festivals, in museums, universities, schools or a diversity of screens. Doing so, a big part of them invents a new way of producing, frequently favouring an Open Science System, close collaboration with researchers and building an ecosystem where Science and Arts can meet in smart, but non-didactic ways on screen and with the public – in spaces where curiosity and wonder meet, transcending age and perspective.

Speaker: Renaud Pourpre

PhD in microbiology and epigenetics, science communicator

Renaud Pourpre‘s creative adventure around CELL WORLDS is a game-changing way of augmenting reality by non virtual artistic means. He and the team around him have created a truly unique way of communicating science that can reach out to various, especially young audiences.

Cell Worlds invites us on a poetic journey into an unknown microscopic world: the human. It takes microscopy images where they have never gone, beyond scientists’ laboratories and hard drives, closer to the general public. Here, everything is real, and above all alive. Each image represents real cells : from the electrifying neuron to the fragile embryo, passing through the melancholic blood flows of the brain – The discovery of a world of shimmering colors and incredible diversity.

It is a scientific, educational and artistic world first, featuring the microscopic living being in proportions never before attempted. It is also one of the largest showcases of scientific research, bringing together nearly 25 research teams from institutes around the world. (France, United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Japan, Australia, Austria) .

Through wonder, this journey arouses our scientific curiosity. Beyond simple entertainment, Cell Worlds invites us to reconnect with the microscopic living world, our own universe of cells, today too unknown, too little contemplated and sometimes too mystified. 

All this is part of a larger ambition of linking science and arts, laboratories and audiences, offering free access and soliciting curiosity and interest by an approach of Open Science,  with films, live concerts, immersion and more…

Speaker: Costanza Julia Bani

Assistant Professor of Film and Media Production at Stockholm University of the Arts

  • Darkness Matters wants to re-embrace the starry nights, we can hardly see anymore, the Cosmos behind, the idea of infiniteness, and the symphonies of orchestras hidden in the ecosystems we can hardly hear anymore – two under-represented micro-stories of our times.
  • As an artist, filmmaker and documentary producer, Costanza is interested in the mediated reception and experience of darkness. She puts an equal weight on how to communicate her content towards an audience, to debunk the ordinary fear of darkness and have a societal impact, when it comes to re-appropriation.
  • By researching archive material, image recordings and other available data she creates imaginative reconstructions of our nights and our relationship to the universe behind the sky we can see with our naked eye. Starting from fireflies in olive groves, alpine forests and the Milky Way, the exposition becomes a visual experience around darknesses and light pollution that has been transforming our nocturnal habitat since the introduction of artificial light. The result is a collage of still and moving images to be experienced as ar(t)cheological artifacts made accessible « again » through her interpretation combining auditory-sensory connections.
  • The result is a compelling example of science and research transformed into a work that directly engages our senses. In this way, it can resonate with a young audience, bypassing the need for purely intellectual processing and speaking to them on a sensory level.

Speaker: Matias K. Seidler, partner/ KHORA

Manifest brings into consciousness Europe’s collective memory of the transatlantic slave trade, highlighting lesser-known cultural and linguistic heritage. The final project engages wider including younger audiences by reimagining this history through diverse artistic expressions, fostering dialogue and making the subject relevant today.
13 projects from 13 countries represent multidisciplinary creative strands from cinema to music, poetry, film and digital art. By organizing an « Artistic Journey » through residences in Budapest, Lisbon and Copenhagen, artists and creators are required and encouraged to utilise new media technologies and foster personal development.

Matias Seidler will explore the project’s innovative collaboration between artists and scientists, its humanistic and historical insights and its broad artistic approach in a close dialogue with international partners.

Khora is a concept derived from Plato, defined as a place between the real and non-real that wavers between what we can sense and what is yet to be. In 2015, we pioneered the production of high-end immersive content in the Nordics to widen access to XR. We have introduced +150.000 people to XR and hosted +5000 workshops. Our portfolio contains 600 XR experiences across arts, culture, education, health, games and simulated training. Our team of 30 XR experts keeps pushing the boundaries of immersive media. We care about spatial storytelling because it provides educational and meaningful experiences that can bring us closer to our shared home and each other.

Speaker: William Trossell

Co-founder and director at ScanLAB Projects, SE

FRAMERATE is a game changing  technology device, developed over years, allowing a new dimension in documentary making, photography and immersive experiences: It gives notably a new feeling about the world and how it is evolving – by seeing time unfolding. 
 
William Trossell is the co-founder and one of the Directors of ScanLAB Projects, a creative studio in the UK, exploring the use of large scale 3D scanning in architecture and the creative industries. He will showcase the technological, scientific, logistical, personal and philosophical input that has gone into this innovative work which has come to alter the perception of the impact of human behavior and the immense force of Nature – unfolding on an array of screens with hypnotic imagery and audio shifts through the space.
 
Created from thousands of daily 3D time-laps scans of landscapes over a long time, it offers a new experience of change on a scale impossible to see with the lens of traditional cameras. This is an invitation to observe, think and feel in another time scale. These spacial records of the Earth are not just an artwork. The data collected and presented by FRAMERATE is ground-breaking scientific research, containing empirical, measurable, occasionally whimsical facts.
 
Eventually, the work aims to enable unfamiliar emotions and to contribute to clarity of thought – an unusually subtle appeal to treat our environment with care and to shape its future with hope.

Panel discussion and round off led by moderator Gitte Hansen, CH.