Museum of the Moving Image Enhances 'Sloan
Science Cinematheque'
Ron Howard and Brian Grazer Dialogue; Science
and Film Articles; and Ten New Award-Winning
Films Added to Website
www.movingimage.us/science
In
March 2006,
the Museum of the Moving Image
announced that
the Sloan Science Cinémathèque,
a broadband film website created with support
from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, will be
enhanced and updated with new material. The
innovative website, which the Museum launched in
August 2005, uses streaming video, multimedia
articles, and interactive features to increase
the public understanding of science and film.
By showcasing student films that received grants
from the Sloan Film Program,
Sloan Science
Cinémathèque offers realistic and
entertaining stories about science and
technology that often challenge existing
stereotypes of scientists and engineers.
Enhancements to the
site will include:
-
New Films
- Ten new award-winning science-themed
student films including the delightful
animated short
Paprika,
the moving dramatic film
The Monster
and The Peanut, the Sundance Film
Festival selection
Gray Matter,
and other films made at leading American
film schools.
-
Video
Dialogue
- A thirty-minute video with director Ron
Howard and producer Brian Grazer about the
depiction of science in
Apollo 13
and
A Beautiful
Mind.
-
New Articles
- Three new articles including an insider's
look at the role of science on the TV series
CSI;
an article about Hollywood's classic science
biopics; and a report from the recent Sloan
Film Summit.
-
Sloan Award
Directory
- An interactive directory with detailed
information about nearly 200 films and
screenplays that have won support from the
Sloan Foundation,
since the inception of the
Film Program in 1997.
"The website
recognizes the growing influence of the Sloan
Foundation," said Rochelle Slovin, director of
the Museum of the Moving Image. "Under the
leadership of program director Doron Weber, the
Sloan Foundation has not only increased the
public awareness of science and film, it has
directly encouraged the production of many
important films, and has shown that science can
be an engaging and lively theme for established
and emerging filmmakers."
"The Sloan Film
Program supports the work of the most promising
young filmmakers in the country who are pushing
the frontiers of cinema and
Sloan Science
Cinémathèque offers the public a rare
glimpse into the early work of our future
Stanley Kubricks, Martin Scorceses and Darren
Aronofskys," said Doron Weber, Program Director
of The Sloan Film Program. "The Museum has
created an elegant, state-of-the-art website
that is a wonderful online forum for the Sloan
Foundation's efforts to encourage the latest
generation of film and television makers to use
science to create dramatic and entertaining
visual stories."
The Sloan Film
Program supports the creation of realistic and
entertaining stories about science and
technology, many of which challenge existing
stereotypes about scientists and engineers. The
Foundation gives grants to students at six of
the nation's leading film schools: American Film
Institute; Carnegie Mellon University; Columbia
University School of the Arts, New York
University Tisch School of the Arts; UCLA School
of Theater, Film, & Television; and the
University of Southern California School of
Cinema-Television. The Sloan Foundation also
gives awards to completed films and scripts in
development at the Hamptons International Film
Festival, the Sundance Institute, and the
Tribeca Film Institute.
Sloan Science Cinémathèque
is made
possible with generous support from the Alfred
P. Sloan Foundation. Video hosting and delivery
is provided by Mirror Image. Flash Media Server
software is provided by Adobe.
