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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Presents Feature Film Prize to ​The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,​ Announces New Grants to Artists FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contacts: January 29, 2019 Jason Berger 435.658.3456 [email protected] For the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Nick Seaver 301.280.5727 [email protected] Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Presents Feature Film Prize to The Boy Who ​ Harnessed the Wind, Announces New Grants to Artists at 2019 Sundance ​ Film Festival Winners of Commissioning Grant, Episodic Storytelling Grant and Lab Fellowship Revealed Director-Screenwriter-Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor Honored Park City, Utah — At a reception at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival today, the beneficiaries of $70,000 in ​ grants from Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation were revealed. Doron Weber, Sloan Vice ​ ​ President of Programs and Director of the Public Understanding of Science and Technology program, presented the Feature Film Prize to The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind and announced the new winners: Skye Emerson for ​ ​ ​ ​ Challenger and Gillian Weeks for The New Miracle (Sundance Institute | Sloan Commissioning Grant); Anthony ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Onah for Goliath (Sundance Institute | Sloan Lab Fellowship); and Neilkanth Dave and Zachary Parris for ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ DELTA-V (Sundance Institute | Sloan Episodic Storytelling Grant). Chiwetel Ejiofor’s The Boy Who Harnessed ​ ​ ​ ​ the Wind was formally presented with a $20,000 check for winning the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film ​ Prize, as previously announced. The awards were presented at an evening cocktail reception at High West Distillery. These activities are part of the Sundance Institute Science-In-Film Initiative, which is made possible by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. “The stories we tell as a culture reveal what we value, help us make sense of the world, and allow us imagine our future more boldly,” said Keri Putnam, Executive Director of Sundance Institute. “When we as a people see ​ ​ relatable characters on screen participating in engaging jobs, we see new possibilities for ourselves. This is especially important for young people who are traditionally absent from these fields. I believe media can help change that, and Sloan’s support of these artists is at the vanguard of that effort.” “We are thrilled to partner with Sundance for our sixteenth year in a row and to honor such inspirational, science-themed films as The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind while helping to develop new independent films such ​ ​ 2 as The Sound of Silence, both making their world premieres here. And we are equally thrilled with our exciting ​ ​ pipeline of new scripts selected for development with Sundance this year including Challenger, The New Miracle, ​ Goliath and Delta-V, which tell diverse, human stories about the challenges and triumphs of scientists and ​ ​ ​ engineers pushing against the frontiers of knowledge,” said Doron Weber, Vice President of Programs and ​ ​ Director of the program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. “The success of recent films such as Hidden Figures, Searching and First Man show that science and technology ​ ​ ​ ​ offer many great, untold stories and fascinating characters for the boldest and most innovative filmmakers today.” The sixteen-year partnership between the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Sundance Institute forms part of the Sloan Foundation’s nationwide Film Program, which includes support for six film schools and five screenwriting development partners and has resulted in over 20 completed feature films. In addition to Hidden Figures, ​ ​ originally supported by a Sloan book grant, the film program has long championed stories about women in science from Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story to stories about Rosalind Franklin, Marie Curie, Lise Meitner and ​ ​ Jane Goodall. The program has also supported many works about the role of technology in daily life, including the impact of machine learning, robotics and artificial intelligence. Beyond the Sloan-supported feature film, The ​ Sound of Silence, which premiered this year at Sundance, Sloan has supported films such as To Dust, The ​ ​ Catcher Was a Spy, The Man Who Knew Infinity, The Imitation Game, Experimenter and Operator, along with ​ ​ ​ several new projects, including episodic television, in development. The program has also given early recognition ​ to stand-out films such as First Man, Searching, last year’s recipient of the Feature Film Prize, and The Martian. ​ ​ ​ ​ The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize ​ The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind has been awarded the 2019 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize and received ​ a $20,000 cash award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation at today’s reception. The Prize is selected by a jury of film and science professionals and presented to an outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character. The 2019 Sloan Feature Film Prize Jury was named on January 17, 2019 and includes Dr. Mandë Holford, ​ ​ ​ ​ associate professor in chemistry at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of CUNY; theoretical astrophysicist Dr. Katie Mack; screenwriter and producer Sev Ohanian; Lydia Dean Pilcher, founder of Cine Mosaic; and actor Corey Stoll. ​ The jury stated, “For its inspirational and culturally nuanced true-life tale of the transformational power of science and the inventive spirit to improve everyday lives everywhere, and for its moving depiction of intra-family dynamics and a pivotal father-son relationship, the 2019 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize at the Sundance Film Festival goes to Chiwetel Ejiofor’s directorial debut The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.” ​ ​ The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind / United Kingdom (Director and Screenwriter: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Producers: ​ Andrea Calderwood, Gail Egan) — Against all the odds, a 13-year-old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine. Based on the true story of William Kamkwamba. Cast: Chiwetel ​ Ejiofor, Maxwell Simba, Lily Banda, Noma Dumezweni, Aïssa Maïga, Joseph Marcell. Chiwetel Ejiofor is a BAFTA-winning actor whose recent credits include Steve McQueen’s Academy ​ Award–winning 12 Years a Slave, Garth Davis’ Mary Magdalene and Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Ejiofor’s forthcoming projects include the CGI reimagining of The Lion King and the Disney sequel ​ ​ 3 Maleficent 2. His much-anticipated directorial debut, an adaptation of the book The Boy Who Harnessed ​ ​ the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer, is expected for March 2019. ​ Sundance Institute / Sloan Commissioning Grant Skye Emerson and Gillian Weeks will each receive a $12,500 cash award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation at this year’s Sundance Film Festival for Challenger and The New Miracle. Previous winners include Alex Rivera’s ​ ​ ​ ​ La Vida Robot and Robert Edwards’s American Prometheus. ​ ​ ​ Challenger (U.S.A.) / Skye Emerson (screenwriter) — When guarded, yet brilliant astrophysicist Sally Ride ​ ​ ​ ​ joined the first astronaut class to include women, her fight to get to space seemed her greatest challenge, but Sally's mission to find the truth about the Challenger explosion, and her own identity, would soon threaten her foundation, and her future with NASA. Skye Emerson is an accomplished screenwriter and filmmaker, recently receiving her Master of Fine Arts ​​​ at UCLA's School of Theater, Film & Television. She is passionate about all things art and storytelling, emphasizing in her work strong female protagonists, as well as members of the world minority. She's an advocate for the oppressed, a voice for the voiceless and believes that film has the power to change minds and lives. Skye's lived multiple lives, including as a Project Manager, Sports App Developer and Volunteer Dog Walker. She shares her time between her homes in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, which means that her wardrobe is in constant flux between snow boots and stilettos. Skye loves to read suspense novels and watch true crime TV, both of which have contributed to her growing insomnia and fear of basements. Feel free to reach out any time, especially at night, as she's usually awake. Awake and afraid. The New Miracle (U.S.A) / Gillian Weeks (Screenwriter) — Bob Edwards, a brilliant underdog from Yorkshire, ​ ​ ​ ​ England, sets out to create the world’s first “test-tube baby” in 1978, defying the moral and medical establishment and leading to the birth of in vitro fertilization - and 8 million people (so far). Gillian Weeks has turned to narrative film and television after a decade in the documentary world. In ​ ​​ 2018, she received the Sloan Filmmaker Fund Grant from the Tribeca Film Institute for The New Miracle. ​ ​ In addition, she has multiple features and series in various stages of development, including an original drama series with ABC Signature Studios and Erica Messer Productions. Another, based on her experience trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, is in development with Park Pictures. Previously, Gillian oversaw series development for Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions. Gillian graduated with a BA in Political Economy from Williams College and Oxford University. Sundance Institute / Sloan Lab Fellowship 4 Anthony Onah will receive a $15,000 cash award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation at this year’s Sundance Film Festival for Goliath. Previous winners include Logan Kibens’s Operator, Michael Almereyda’s Experimenter ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ and Marjorie Prime and Rob Meyer’s A Birder's Guide to Everything. ​ ​ ​ ​ Goliath (U.S.A.) / Anthony Onah (Director, Screenwriter) — The true story of a brilliant, outsider ​ ​ ​ scientist—raised poor and black—who must prove the harmful effects of a popular weed killer before a chemical giant destroys him. Anthony Onah is a Nigerian American filmmaker who grew up in the Philippines, England, Nigeria, Togo ​​​ and the U.S. His debut feature, The Price, premiered at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival in the Narrative ​ ​ Feature Competition, and was released in theaters in November 2017. Onah graduated from Harvard, where he studied biochemistry and neuroscience, then earned an MFA in film directing from UCLA.
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