2010 Sloan Grantees

Paul Atkins

Director

Brett Wagner

Screenwriter

Grace Atkins

Producer

Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki

Director of Photography

Nicolas Gonda – Producer

Terrence Malick – Executive Producer

The Devil’s Teeth

On a forbidding island off the coast of San Francisco, a journalist finds purpose when she joins two scientists in their struggle to protect the world's most misunderstood predator: the great white shark.  Based on a true story.

In Development

 

 

Jenny Deller

Screenwriter / Director

Kristin Fairweather

Producer

Jennifer Dubin

Executive Producer

Cora Olson

Executive Producer

Cast: Perla Haney-Jardine, Lili Taylor, Amy Madigan, Bill Sadler

Future Weather

When she's abandoned by her eccentric single mom, a 13-yr-old loner grows fixated on environmental disaster, forcing her and her grandmother to confront each other and the things they can't control.

In Development

 

 

Daniel Ragussis

Screenwriter/ Director

Bogdan Tomassini-Büchner

Producer

Cast: Christian Berkel (Fritz Haber), Juliane Köhler (Clara Haber)

Haber

The true story of how the father of modern agriculture became the father of chemical warfare.

In Development

 

 

Tim Firth

Screenwriter

Dan Futterman

Screenwriter

Nick Barton

Producer

Suzanne Mackie

Producer

 

Map of the Universe

An astronomer is poised to make scientific history in his quest to find an outer solar planet – until his findings are disputed by a prodigiously talented, eccentric teenaged star spotter.

In Development

 

 

Christopher Eigeman

Screenwriter/

Director

Dana Brunetti

Producer

Cast Includes: Jesse Eisenberg and Kate Bosworth

Midnight Sun

The story of Los Alamos and the creation and testing of the atom bomb, as seen through the eyes of two young scientists drafted into service, and their wives.

In Development. Produced by Dana Brunetti with his and Kevin Spacey's company, Trigger Street Productions.

 

 

Diane Bell

Screenwriter/ Director

Chris Byrne

Producer

Matthew Medlin

Producer

Zak Mulligan

Director of Photography

 

Ken Morris – Producer

Cast: Michael Piccirilli, Gaynor Howe, Frank Hoyt Taylor

Obselidia

On his quest to catalogue critically endangered occupations, a librarian joins forces with a silent film projectionist, and together they journey to Death Valley to interview a maverick scientist who is predicting the eminent end of the world.

Completed, Planning for Distribution