Alfred P. Sloan Foundation at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has been a founding and signature sponsor of the Tribeca Film Festival since 2002. Sloan’s partnership with Tribeca forms part of a national program to stimulate the creation of realistic and compelling stories about science and technology and to challenge existing stereotypes about scientists, engineers and mathematicians in the popular imagination. In addition to showcasing the intersection of science and film at the festival, the Foundation supports the development, production and distribution of narrative features that dramatize science and technology stories through the TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation sponsored three events during the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival.
ANNIVERSARY SCREENING & PANEL
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation presented a tenth anniversary screening of Universal Pictures' Academy Award®-winning film A Beautiful Mind from director Ron Howard, about the life of Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. The screening was followed by a conversation that included director Ron Howard, producer Brian Grazer, screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, the film's math consultant, Dave Bayer, author Sylvia Nasar, whose book inspired the film, and theoretical physicist and mathematician Brian Greene. NPR’s Ira Flatow served as the moderator.
TFI AWARDS CEREMONY
At the TFI Awards Ceremony, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundaton celebrated the projects selected to receive $140,000 in grants from the 2011 TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund. The TFI Awards Ceremony and luncheon were held at Riverpark.
SLOAN WORKS-IN-PROGRESS
The TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund also presented the Sloan Works-in-Progress, featuring select scenes from select grantee projects. Development selections were performed by a star cast following a coffee reception at the Helen Mills Theater.
