Associate ProfessorMartin Potter

President and Board Member: Engage Media - www.engagemedia.org

The film festival “PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT” was conceived by the organizers as a platform for thinking about the relationship between humanity and nature. The festival aims to raise environmental awareness through cinematography. As part of the festival, business events will be organized at which the most pressing environmen

The Earth Above planetarium film won the Science at the Fringe Award, Adelaide Fringe 2025, presented by Inspiring SA

The Earth Above won Best Interactive at the Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival (USA) 2024 https://svafilmandmediafestival.org/awards

Special Commendation Award from the RAM film festival 2024 Rovereto Archeologia Memorie (world heritage). The commendation was assigned by a jury of experts. The panel noted (translated from Italian): "The film makes First Nations Australians the leading voices and their holistic vision of the transformative process that has been underway for millennia in Australia. The films most valuable contribution is the proposal of an alternative model, which allows one to shift perspective and engage with an holistic understanding of an ecosystem of interactions between science, nature, society and people. From a technical point of view it is very successful and uses fulldome technology but without overdoing it. The film leaves as the main memory the importance of the story and only subsequently the role of technology. A wise use of new technologies that, in fact, makes the technology itself “disappear” in the eyes of the observer, to leave the focus on the message."

Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology (PFCAT) was founded in 2002 with the mission to find visionary films that often have been overlooked. Formerly known as The International Festival of Cinema & Technology (IFCT), the festival rebranded in 2022 to reflect its new home in Portland.

Dome Fest West is an annual film festival at the Fiske Planetarium in Boulder Colorado celebrating Fulldome films and immersive media. Ther festival is a platform for creativity and progress, inspiring and uniting artists, technologists, and industry leaders in shaping the future of immersive experiences.

Based at the iconic Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, Reno, Nevada, USA - the Sci-On festival seeks to recognize, reward and showcase outstanding science and science-fiction films and filmmakers.

Based at the iconic Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center in Reno, Nevada, USA - the Sci-On festival seeks to recognize, reward and showcase outstanding science and science-fiction films and filmmakers.

The AIDC Awards were established in 2021 to recognise outstanding completed works of new Australian documentary and factual content across six categories. The Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) is the premier event for nonfiction screen content in the Southern Hemisphere. AIDC is an innovative and industry-leading event, welcoming industry players from across the globe to drive collaboration, development, and production and to inspire innovation and ignite social change. AIDC organises a marketplace for documentary and factual product, provides a space for networking to encourage collaboration between practitioners, showcases the work of Australian and international producers, and creates a forum to discuss content, craft, technology, and future directions.

The Dome Under Festival runs in the Melbourne Planetarium at Scienceworks.

In 2022, at the sixth annual Australian Enterprise Awards, my company, the Big Stories Co. was awarded Best Documentary Filmmakers - APAC.

New York International Film Awards, Best Ethnographic Film, 2021

Flinders University Vice-Chancellors Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence, 2015

The Australian Centre for Social Innovation Bold Ideas, Better Lives Challenge (Aged Care, Digital Lifestyles)

Ian Potter Trust Fellow, 2013

Britdoc, Puma Creative Catalyst Award, 2013 (The White Building)

Japan Prize for Innovation in Digital Media, 2013 (Big Stories, Small Towns)

SxSWi Community Champion, 2012 (Big Stories, Small Towns)

Asialink Dunlop Fellow, 2012

SA Screen Awards 2012, Innovation in Digital Media (Big Stories, Small Towns)

TED City 2.0 Prize (Stereopublic: crowdsourcing the quiet), 2012

Australian Post-Graduate Award, 3-year PhD Award, 2009-12.

South Australian Web Awards for Innovation, (Stereopublic: crowdsourcing the quiet), 2013

Independent Arts Foundation Awards for Innovation, (Stereopublic: crowdsourcing the quiet), 2013