Sloan Science and Film
Congratulations to the Grad Film MFA candidates who received 2024 Sloan Awards. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awards grants to moving image projects at various stages of development that tackle science and technology themes and characters.
Noam Argov
Verse by Noam Argov - NYU 2024 Tisch School of the Arts Production Award
Noam Argov is a filmmaker, National Geographic Explorer, and recent alumna of Tisch Grad Film. Across both directing and producing, her work has screened at SXSW, Palm Springs, and Locarno, and she recently produced a Student BAFTA-nominated film executive produced by Spike Lee. In 2024 her feature script Princess, was the top pick for NYU’s Table-Read Initiative. Before making narrative films, she directed documentaries worldwide with National Geographic and major outdoor brands.
Logline: When the avatar of seventeen year-old Adam is sexually violated in a Virtual Reality game, he must confront the real world fallout with his gamer girlfriend.
Jorge Corona
Pascual's Wager by Jorge Corona - NYU 2024 Tisch School of the Arts First Feature Award
From private Catholic school A-hog to undocumented immigrant to digital media producer to union organizer, Jorge Corona has been witness to a wide array of social theaters. He uses those experiences and humor to explore our complicated humanity in his work as a writer-director-producer-performer.
He studied improv comedy at UCB, and Radio-TV-Film at UT Austin. He has made videos for places like Vogue, the Gizmodo Media Group, Fusion, New York Magazine, the sports blog Deadspin, and more. He also improvs all over the NYC indie comedy scene.
Born in Mexico and raised in Texas, he currently enjoys life with his wife and child in the greener parts of New York City while developing films, documentaries, a television series, and his thesis at NYU's Graduate Film program.
You can follow his sporadic posts on instagram @coronagram and find more of his work at www.anorocpictures.com
Logline: Under immense pressure to marry so her undocumented mother can live a normal life in the U.S., very Catholic 30-year-old baseball data scientist Sarahí dives into statistics to outline what decisions she should take for her own ideal future performance. Extrapolating the data science she uses professionally for a below-minor-league baseball team in Staten Island, her growing obsession with controlling her life outcomes through empirical methods strains her relationships with her loved ones—and even her faith—as she struggles to live in the present.
Read more about the recipients at Sloan Science and Film.