Sloan Science and Film

Award-Winning Short Films

Newly posted to our collection of Sloan award-winning shorts: Joseph Mauceri’s Through the Air to Calais (pictured). Also recently added: Seth Dalton’s Melody of Clock and Arrow and a trailer for Randall Dottin’s Indelible.

Sleep Dealer in theaters now

Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer, winner of the Sloan prize at Sundance in 2008, is now playing in New York and Los Angeles. In the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan lauds it as "adventurous, ambitious, and ingeniously futuristic"; A.O. Scott in the New York Times calls it "an unusually thoughtful science fiction film." For Sloan Science and Film, Sam Adams talks to Rivera and co-writer David Riker.

Sloan Sundance Prize Goes to Adam

Max Mayer’s Adam, a love story between a man with Asperger’s Syndrome (Hugh Dancy) and a woman who moves into his building (Rose Byrne), won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. The film was selected "for its credible and moving portrayal of an engineer with Asperger’s Syndrome whose passion for science helps him in his struggle to achieve a meaningful relationship."

Sloan Film Summit

The AFI Sloan Film Summit 2008 took place in Hollywood from November 5 to 8. Events included panel discussions, screenings of Sloan Award-winning short films, and staged readings of Sloan Award-winning screenplays. Read John Anderson’s report.

Culture Shock: An Interview with Lynn Hershman Leeson

Writer and director Leeson, winner of a Sloan award for Teknolust (2002), discusses her new feature, a drama-documentary hybrid that chronicles the ongoing case of Steve Kurtz, an art professor and activist who became a bioterrorism suspect.