Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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