TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund at TFF 2010
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund will provide up to $140,000 towards innovative and compelling filmmaking that explores scientific, mathematical, and technological themes and storylines, or a leading character who is a scientist, engineer, innovator or mathematician in fresh ways.
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The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a founding and signature sponsor of the Tribeca Film Festival since 2002, makes grants in science, technology, economic performance and the quality of American life. The Sloan Foundation is proud to join with Tribeca in sponsoring screenings, panels and readings at the Festival and in developing and producing narrative films. Sloan’s partnership with Tribeca forms part of a national program to stimulate leading artists in film, television, and theater to create more realistic and compelling stories about science and technology and to challenge existing stereotypes about scientists, engineers and mathematicians in the popular imagination.
This year, the Foundation is presenting three events at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.
Works-In-Progress
April 22
(By invitation only. Contact us at tfisloanfund@tribecafilminstitute.org)
The TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund presents a showcase of excerpts from select grantee projects. Finishing or distribution stage projects will be screened, while development selections will be performed by a star cast following a coffee reception at the Crosby Street Hotel.
TFI Awards Ceremony
April 23
(By invitation only)
The TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund will award up to $140,000 in grants to the 2010 selected projects at an awards presentation and cocktail reception to be held at Union Square Ballroom.
Retrospective Screening and
Panel Discussion: Memento
April 24, 3:00 pm
Memento, presented by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: a screening of Christopher Nolan's striking thriller in celebration of the film’s 10th anniversary, followed by a discussion with actors Guy Pearce and Joe Pantoliano, writer Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Suzanne Corkin, Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience at MIT and Dr. William Hirst, Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research. Moderated by NPR’s Robert Krulwich.
(Tickets available soon)
Last year, the TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund awarded a total of $170,000 to five projects: Banker to the Poor, a biopic about Nobel Prize winning economist Muhammad Yunus, They're Playing Basketball?, the true story of a college basketball team who became unlikely champions after adopting a mathematical strategy, Cockeyed, a darkly comic autobiographical account of slowly going blind, Experimenter, a stylish biopic about Stanley Milgram, and Sugar Pill, a tragicomedy exploring the world of human guinea pigging.
Past projects that have received funding for screenplay development through the TFI/Sloan Partnership include outstanding screenplays about Rosalind Franklin, Hedy Lamarr, Richard Feynman, the Wright Brothers, the boy who attempted to build a nuclear reactor in his backyard, and many others.
Learn more about all our programs: Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Filmmaker Fund.
About the Tribeca Film Institute
The Tribeca Film Institute is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization serving audiences and artists year-round. While TFI’s mission remains grounded in the heart of its New York City founding, its reach and influence in the film community has expanded to capture international acclaim and participation. Since its inception in 2001, TFI has become an industry-recognized institution. Administering a dozen major programs annually, TFI reaches 10,000 people through its year-round programming in New York City as well as its featured initiatives at the Tribeca Film Festival.
