About 200 people attended the screening at the Royal College of Surgeons of England Hunterian Museum.
One of the film's producers, Dr Paul Trotman, in an email from Britain, said the film had been "extraordinarily well received" by an audience which contained many medics and people with an interest in body donations or teaching anatomy.
Several of those present had been keen to promote the film further, either through more broadcasts, science festivals or DVD distribution.
Dr Trotman said he was keeping his "fingers crossed".
"It's so hard to get noticed here, as there is so much going on and so many people trying to get attention".
There was also much hype.
"Everybody seems to be promoting something".
Dr Trotman said a few of the bigger and older medical schools in the United Kingdom still did dissection, but the University of Otago was "right at the front with the amount and the quality of what the students get to do".
In Britain there were not enough bequests of bodies to offer a similar programme.
The Otago Medical School programme received its first official bequest in 1943.
Before this, the school relied on a supply of unclaimed bodies of the poor or mentally ill.
Today, each year 100 registrations for body bequests and about 40 cadavers are received from the Dunedin, Christchurch, Nelson and surrounding areas.
Donated to Science first screened on TV3 in New Zealand in late 2009 to an audience of more than 720,000, a response described as totally overwhelming by the broadcaster at the time.
The documentary follows students working with the cadavers and also includes interviews with donors in which they describe their reasons for donation.
