Public Understanding of Science and Technology
Film
Film Festivals
The Foundation seeks to increase visibility for new feature films that probe science and technology with insight and depict scientists and engineers in fresh, entertaining or provocative ways. Sloan has three main film festival partners.
Recent Festival Winners are:
Film Independent
Sloan Producer’s Grant Unmanned by Casey Fenton
Sloan Fast Track Grant Unmanned by Casey Cooper Johnson, Peter W. Singer, and Casey Fenton
Hamptons International Film Festival
Sloan Feature Film Prize Future Weather by Jenny Deller
Screenplay Award The Buck Decision by Laura Oaksmith
Screenplay Award Magnetic by Carolyn Kras
Sundance Institute
Sloan Feature Film Prize Computer Chess by Andrew Bujalski
Sloan Feature Film Prize Robot & Frank by Jake Schreier and Christopher Ford
Sloan Feature Film Prize Valley of Saints by Musa Syeed
Sloan Commissioning Grant Hawking by Young Il Kim
Sloan Fellowship Prodigal Summer by Nicole Kassell and Barbara Kingsolver
Tribeca Film Institute
Sloan Filmmaker Fund Newton's Laws of Emotion by Eugene Ramos
Sloan Filmmaker Fund 2030 by Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo
Sloan Filmmaker Fund Oldest Man Alive by Antonio Tibaldi
Sloan Filmmaker Fund Doctor by Musa Syeed
Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize Waking Hours by Barnett Brettler
Program Director:
Doron Weber Bio
Headlines
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Code-Writing Pioneers, It's Your Turn New York Times