The Top Pirelli Prize and best entry in Multimedia Education has been awarded to the American David Grubin Productions and Thirteen/WNET, which, in cooperation with Docstar have realized an effective multimedia presentation on the human brain; the work, The Secret Life of The Brain, hosted on the PBS Internet server is a virtual journey inside the human brain, where its' functioning and evolution is explained throughout the various stages of life, by means of videos, animations and detailed scientific data.
Jury's Motivations
For the broad range and high level of scientific information drawn from studies of the human brain. The work is an exemplary fusion of clarity of content and the extensive use of multimediality and animated simulations.
Author: David Grubin Productions, Thirteen/WNET and Docstar, USA