What is Science in the Cinema? Science in the Cinema is a film festival held each summer at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md. One evening a week for six weeks, a film with a medical science theme is screened. Following each film, a guest speaker with expertise in the film's subject area leads a discussion with the audience about the science depicted.

	Speaker: John Parascandola, Ph.D., U.S. Public Health Service Historian
	Speaker: Alan I. Leshner, Ph.D., Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse
	Speaker: James F. Battey, M.D., Ph.D., Director, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
	Speaker: Judith L. Rapoport, M.D., Chief, Child Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health
	Speaker: Paul R. McHugh, M.D., Director, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Hospital
	Speaker: Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Director, National Human Genome Research Institute