2019-11-06T13:25:42-08:00 2018-12-31 132696850 Gruber Palumberi Raffaele Fried CPAs PC 7 Penn Plaza Suite 310 New York NY 10001 990 2018-01-01 800215101 IMAGINE SCIENCE FILMS CORP IMAG 7185966404 19 MORRIS AVENUE Brooklyn NY 11205 ALEXIS GAMBIS Executive Director 7185966404 2019-11-06 true ROBERT L MANGER CPA P01593286 2125860800 2018 2020-03-31 21:24:44Z ALEXIS GAMBIS 19 MORRIS AVENUE Brooklyn NY 11205 344984 false false X http://www.imaginesciencefilms.org X 2008 NY TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN ART AND SCIENCE THROUGH FILM 5 4 3 37 0 120543 116849 128138 228121 23 14 0 248704 344984 23000 21578 0 146379 149824 0 26854 152264 89149 321643 260551 -72939 84433 48890 58908 74968 553 -26078 58355 THE MISSION IS TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN ART AND SCIENCE THROUGH FILM, THEREBY TRANSFORMING THE WAY SCIENCE IS COMMUNICATED TO THE PUBLIC AND ENCOURAGING COLLABORATION ACROSS DISCIPLINES. false false 175521 21578 228121 The largest undertaking of the year was the 11th Imagine Science Film Festival, which took place October 12 19, 2018 and consisted of 14 events including short and feature film screenings, VR and tech demos, performances, educational workshops, conversations with directors, talks, and a comprehensive series of panel discussions with filmmakers, artists, scientists, and journalists accompanying 7 of our short film programs. This year's film program included 84 short films and 3 features in total. Collaborating venues included 6 prestigious institutions across New York including the American Museum of Natural History, the Rubin Museum, the New School, Caveat, Bowery Poetry Club, and the New York Hall of Science. Programming for the latter was specially targeted to younger audiences and families, part of our ongoing commitment to educational programming, while our feature film presentations with the Rubin Museum and the American Museum of Natural History interlocked with current exhibition and the Margaret Mead Film Festival. New School faculty engaged as moderators for many panel discussions, while students were encouraged to interview festival guests and filmmaker as part of a Sci-Art class tailored to the festival. This festival also saw the second year of our expanded Symbiosis Competition. Supported by the Simons Foundation, this initiative brought together top filmmakers from around the world to collaborate directly with scientists for a week during the festival, producing 6 new short works spanning many subjects genres. This years winning film, Leah Shore and Tracey Fanaras Extremophiles, has since gone on to show in 4 other festivals, including the Lighthouse International Film Festival, where it won the Social Impact Short Award Winner. Though Extremophiles was her first film to deal with scientific themes, director Leah Shore, inspired by her experience, hopes to expand the film into a series of short films dealing with environmental issues. In the meantime, past Symbiosis and ISF-produced films, Peter Burrs Nematodes and Miryam Charles A Fortress, showed in 2018 in The Rotterdam International Film Festival and the Edinburgh International Film Festival.Other projects around the world filled out the year. In March, we presented the 4th year of Imagine Science Abu Dhabi, a 3-day festival in the United Arab Emirates including films, panels, a sci-art show, a filmmaking workshop for local Middle School students, class visits by artists and filmmakers, and integration into class curriculums. We also presented guest programs at the Science Talk Conference in Portland, Oregon, the International Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula, Montana, and The Lismore Quad, in Lismore Australia with the University of New South Wales.Throughout, monthly Imagine Science -curated film programs continued to go out through Labocine.com, a web platform for science filmmaking and art, vastly extending our audience all over the world. 175521 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false false true false false false false false false true false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 5 0 false 3 true false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false false false false false false X 5 4 false false false false false false false true false false false true true true true false false true true false NY X THE ORGANIZATION 7185966404 19 MORRIS AVENUE BROOKLYN NY 11205 WENDY ETTINGER Vice President 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 THOMAS CAMPBELL JACKSON President 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 DR STUART FIRESTEIN Board member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 JOHN TINTORI Board member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 ALEXIS GAMBIS Exec. 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IS REQUIRED BY ACCOUNTING STANDARDS TO RECOGNIZE OR DERECOGNIZE ITS TAX POSITION BASED ON A "MORE LIKELY THAN NOT" THRESHOLD. THIS APPLIES TO POSITIONS TAKEN OR EXPECTED TO BE TAKEN IN A TAX RETURN. THE ADOPTION OF THIS GUIDANCE DID NOT HAVE ANY IMPACT ON ISF'S FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, AS MANAGEMENT BELIEVES THAT THERE ARE NO UNCERTAIN TAX POSITIONS WITHIN ITS FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. ISF CURRENTLY HAS PROCEDURES IN PLACE TO REVIEW MATTERS THAT MAY BE CONSIDERED TAX POSITIONS INCLUDING ENSURING THE MAINTENANCE OF ITS TAX-EXEMPT STATUS; DETERMINING AND MEETING ITS FILING AND TAX OBLIGATIONS IN THE VARIOUS JURISDICTIONS WHRE IT HAS FILING OBLIGATIONS.ISF'S FORM 990, RETURN OF ORGANIZATION EXEMPT FROM INCOME TAX, FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2015, 2016 AND 2017 ARE SUBJECT TO EXAMINATION BY THE IRS, GENERALLY FOR THREE YEARS AFTER BEING FILED. 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Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS DETERMINES THE COMPENSATION OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND OTHER EMPLOYEES IN A CLOSED MEETING WITHOUT THE PRESENCE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OR THE OTHER EMPLOYEES. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available THE ORGANIZATION MAKES ITS FORM 990 AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC UPON REQUEST. PART VI, SECTION B, LINES 13 AND 14 ALTHOUGH THE ORGANIZATION DID NOT HAVE WHISTLEBLOWER AND RECORDS RETENTION AND DESTRUCTION POLICIES IN 2018, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS PLANS TO DISCUSS THESE POLICIES AND THEIR ADOPTATION IN THE NEAR FUTURE.