Alfred P. Sloan Awards

Still from AFRONAUTS, Frances Bodomo, Grad Film 2013-14

Still from AFRONAUTS, Frances Bodomo, Grad Film 2013-14

Sloan Foundation Awards

$10,000 Writing Award
feature-length scripts and tv pilots.

$30,000 Production Award
to produce short films.

$150,000 Feature Film Award
to produce a first feature film.

 

The goal of the Sloan Film Awards is to encourage filmmakers to portray science & technology stories with originality and insight and to depict scientists, engineers and mathematicians in a more realistic and entertaining fashion.

Examples of films that fulfill the Sloan mission:

Hidden Figures

A Beautiful Mind

Agora

Contact

Dopamine

Enigma

Experimenter

Flash of Genius

Kinsey

Lorenzo's Oil

Madness and Genius

Pi

Primer

Robot & Frank

The Imitation Game

The Theory of Everything

 

The Sloan Writing & Production Awards for current students.

The Sloan Feature Film Award for students and alumni.

For more info contact: Dara Feivelson at dara.feivelson@nyu.edu or 212-998-1762