Filmmakers Sara Crow, David Rafailedes and Lara Palmqvist are the San Francisco International Film Festival’s 2024 Sloan Science in Cinema Fellows.
In partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, these three creatives will be awarded $35,000 each and receive advisory feedback from scientists who are matched to their film’s topic to support the development of their narrative screenplays. Since 2015, the Sloan Science in Cinema Initiative has been driven to bring science and the art of storytelling together.
The fellowship review committee said in a statement: “After a highly competitive cycle that saw more impressive applications than in years past, we are thrilled to have selected two outstanding projects that explore the intersection of science, technology, and socially urgent themes through bold and artful storytelling.”
Crow and Rafailedes’s script “Satoshi” tells the “potentially true story of a teenage anime-obsessed hacktivist who, after losing her scholarship to Stanford, returns home to Arizona to become the mysterious inventor of a new digital currency called Bitcoin.”
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Both Crow and Rafailedes are 2024 Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Lab Fellows. Crow received the $100,000 NYU/Sloan Feature Film Prize for “Satoshi.”
The description for Palmqvist’s script “The Garden” reads: “In a world of advanced climate change and deep class divides, a passionate plant breeder tries to secure his family’s future by developing genetically enhanced seeds while working for a controlling socialite who wants to create her own Garden of Eden on a Kentucky estate.”
Palmqvist was the 2023 winner of the Sloan Student Discovery Prize, the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction and a semi-finalist for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship.
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