IMAGINAL DISC Productions is a film and video production company which specializes in the making of films around, with and about science/scientists. The objective is to break the stereotypes of the “scientists”, initiate scientists to the process of science film-making and show the creative aspect of woman and men scientists at the bench. Imaginal Disc produces documentary, short and science-fiction films, as long as scientific topic is grounded on accuracy and is presented in an imaginative and narrative-driven way.

An imaginal disc is one of the parts of a holometabolous insect larva that will become a portion of the outside of the adult insect during the pupal transformation. Contained within the body of the larva, there are pairs of discs that will form, for instance, the wings or legs or antennae or other structures in the adult.

The eye imaginal disc of the Drosophila. A left eye-antenna disc at maturity. In size and shape the eye part resembles a wing pouch, and the antenna part looks like a half-size leg disc. Dots are photoreceptor clusters. The disc’s hind half is cup-shaped (concave-side down) with two flaps (dashed lines on underside). Abbreviations: A1-A3 (antennal segments 1-3), Ar (arista), MF (morphogenetic furrow, black bar; arrow shows direction of movement).