The Tribeca Film Institute announced the TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund Recipients this week. Five film projects are to receive financial and creative support from the TFI Sloan Filmmaker fund, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. A total of $170,000 with development assistance and mentorship from film and science experts is distributed between the projects.
The TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund supports feature-length films that “tell compelling stories about science and technology or portray scientists, engineers and mathematicians as major characters.” This year’s projects were selected from a pool of 138 submissions, and the committee was made up of Marc Abraham (Director, Flash of Genius) Dr. Bonnie Bassler (Molecular Biologist, Princeton University), Sarah Green (Producer, The Tree of Life), Famke Janssen (Actress, X-Men), Dr. Eric Kandel (Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine), Dr. Robert Engle (Nobel Prize in Economics) and John Hart (Producer, Revolutionary Road).
The projects chosen are:
COCKEYED - $40,000
BANKER TO THE POOR - $40,000
THEY’RE PLAYING BASKETBALL - $15,000
EXPERIMENTER: THE STANLEY MILGRAM STORY - $35,00
SUGAR PILL - $40,000
Congratulations to the winners from The Smalls! The Smalls always love to hear news about organizations such as the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that does so much to help talented filmmakers with great stories to tell.
For more information on the projects, the winners or on the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s work with the Tribeca Film Institute, go to:
http://www.tribecafilminstitute.org/ or
http://www.sloan.org/.