Beautiful Young Minds

Beautiful Young Minds was a documentary first shown at the BRITDOC Festival on 26 July 2007^[1][2] and first broadcast on BBC 2 on 14 October 2007.^[3] The documentary follows the selection process and training for the U.K. team to compete in the 2006 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), as well as the actual event in Slovenia. Many of the young mathematicians featured in the film had a form of autism, which the documentary links to mathematical ability. The team goes on to win numerous medals at the IMO, including four silver and one bronze. It was directed by Morgan Matthews, edited by Joby Gee and featured music by Sam Hooper. It was also screened at the Bath Film Festival in October 2007. The documentary inspired the 2014 film X+Y, which was also directed by Morgan Matthews, based on IMO participant Daniel Lightwing.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9]}

Beautiful Young Minds
Genre	Television documentary
Directed by	Morgan Matthews
Composer	Sam Hooper
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Richard Klein Edmund Coulthard Grant McKee
Producer	David Brindley
Production locations	United Kingdom Slovenia
Editor	Joby Gee
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	90 minutes
Production company	Blast! Films
Original release
Network	BBC Two
Release	14 October 2007 (2007-10-14)

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Result
2007	Prix Europa	Television Documentary	Nominated
2008	British Academy Television Awards	Best Single Documentary	Nominated
	RTS Craft & Design Award	Best Tape and Film Editing: Documentary/Factual	Nominated
	RTS Television Award	Best Observational Documentary	Nominated