The Ratu River Expedition
The Ratu River Expedition is a 25-minute film featuring the research on Nepal earthquakes by the Structural Geology group at the Earth Observatory of Singapore. The film was written and directed by Isaac Kerlow, and it shows how the scientific team uses a variety of techniques and technologies to collect data on the field for later analysis. This includes a massive truck called the EnviroVibe which vibrates the ground between 10 to 300 pulses per second, sending sound waves up to 2 kilometres deep. The sound waves reflecting off the rock layers are used to visualize the faults and underground structure.
Watch the film here:
The Ratu River Expedition - NEPALI Subtitles from EOS on Vimeo.
The film premiered at the 2016 Jaipur International Film Festival in NW India, about 1,000 km from Kathmandu. It also received a Sierra Nevada Award at the 2016 Mountain Film Festival in Mammoth, California, a Remi Award at the Houston International Film and Video Festival, in Houston, Texas, and a Nominee’s Prize at the China International Conference of Science and Education Producers, in Shenzhen. The film received over 79,000 Likes on the project’s Facebook page during the one-week online preview of the Nepali version.
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Awards

Official Selection, Academia Film Olomouc

Remi Winner

Sierra Nevada Award
EOS Team:
2016 Screening Schedule
September
China International Conference of Science and Education Producers, (Nominee’s Prize), Shenzhen, China
TrueDoc Documentary Festival, Kiev, Ukraine
May
International Film Festival for Environment, Health, and Culture (Award of Excellence), Jakarta, Indonesia
Science Centre Singapore, Singapore
April
WorldFest-Houston International Film and Video Festival (Remi Award), Houston, Texas
Rochester International Film Festival (Certificate of Merit), Rochester, New York
Academia Film Olomouc, AFO – International Festival of Science Documentary Films, Olomouc, Czech Republic
EGU GeoCinema, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2016, Vienna, Austria
February
Mountain Film Festival (Sierra Nevada Award), Mammoth, California
January
Jaipur International Film Festival, Jaipur, India
Roma Cinema Doc Festival, Roma