Tell us which science stories make you want to see the movie.

The world of science is packed with good old-fashioned stories of romance, back-stabbing, triumph and failure. Hollywood, and the less powerful low-budget film-makers, have tackled a good number of these already. We’ve seen Richard Feynman’s life on the silver screen, the story of DNA, and an endless stream of flicks about natural disasters, to varying degrees of plausibility. At news@nature.com, we have even heard that Charged: The Life of Nikola Tesla is now in production. But there’s so much more film fodder out there.

We’d like to see the race for space put on film. That’s the modern, independent, commercial race; not the race that put Americans on the moon, but the one that put a guy and his pack of M&Ms in a spaceship to the backdrop of an all-night rave in the Mojave desert. And has anyone documented the tale of Craig Ventor and his quest to sequence genomes (his own, that is, followed by that of his pet poodle)?

There’s even an incentive in it for you budding film-makers: there is now a Walter P. Kistler Science Documentary Film Award designed to honour makers of science-based documentary films with a cash prize of US$10,000. And you can get a grant to make your film from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. So go to it. Or just have a discussion about it…

Find a whole special about science at the movies here.