Barry Barish, 2017 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics, will attend the 12th New Media Film Festival on June 2 & 3.

He, and Don Mclean, a singer-songwriter, Brian Cox, a physicist and former musician, John Strasberg, an actor and director, Michelle Rodriguez, an actress, Josh Tickell, a film director, are just a few of the Creators & Innovators lined up in programming and up for $45,000 in awards. Judges for the festival are from HBO, PBS, BBC, Grammys, etc.