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Alfred P. Sloan Award
The Alfred P. Sloan Prize is an award given each year, starting in 2003, to a film at the Sundance Film Festival. The prize is given to a feature film that focuses on science or technology as a theme, or depicts a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character. Each winner is presented with a $20,000 cash award provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Winning films See also * Alfred P. SloanSloan Science & Film for all award winners*List of Sundance Film Festival award winners This is a list of films that won awards at the American Sundance Film Festival. __NOTOC__ 1980s 1984 in film, 1984 *Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – ''Old Enough'' *Grand Jury Prize Documentary – ''Style Wars'' *Honorable Mention Documentary – ... References {{reflist Sundance Film Festival * Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with more than 46,660 attending in 2016. It takes place each January in Park City, Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah; and at the Sundance Resort (a ski resort near Provo, Utah), and acts as a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival consists of competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films, both feature films and short films, and a group of out-of-competition sections, including NEXT, New Frontier, Spotlight, Midnight, Sundance Kids, From the Collection, Premieres, and Documentary Premieres. History 1978: Utah/US Film Festival Sundance began in Salt Lake City in August 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival in an effort to attract more filmmakers to Utah. It was founded by Sterl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Sundance Film Festival
The 27th annual Sundance Film Festival took place from January 20, 2011 until January 30, 2011 in Park City, Utah, with screenings in Salt Lake City, Utah, Ogden, Utah, and Sundance, Utah. The festival opened with five screenings, one from each category in competition: ''Sing Your Song'', '' Pariah'', ''The Guard'', ''Project Nim'', and Shorts Program I. The New Frontier category opened with ''All That Is Solid Melts into Air''. The closing night film was '' The Son of No One''. There were 750 sponsors of the festival and 1,670 volunteers. Attendance was initially estimated at 60,000 people. Films 10,279 films were submitted. 3,812 feature films were submitted, including 1,943 from the US and 1,869 internationally. From these, 118 feature films were selected and include 95 world premieres. 6,467 short films were submitted, 81 short films were selected to be screened and 12 shorts are viewable on YouTube. The festival had films from 40 first-time filmmakers (25 in competition), re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Bell (director)
Diane Bell is a Scottish filmmaker who works and resides in Los Angeles. Early life and education Bell grew up in Japan, Australia and Germany. She graduated with a master's degree in mental philosophy from the University of Edinburgh. She practices Ashtanga vinyasa yoga, Ashtanga yoga, and taught yoga in Barcelona, Spain. Career Her first film as writer/director, Obselidia, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2010 in Dramatic Narrative Competition and won two awards, the Alfred P. Sloan Award and Excellence in Cinematography. It was singled out by Todd McCarthy in Variety (magazine), Variety as the only film in dramatic competition that "is so far off the grid of what is expected of an independent film that it can truly be said to rebel." It won Best Feature at the Ashland Independent Film Festival, was selected for Best of Fest at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and went on to be nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards 2011, the John Cassavetes Award and Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obselidia
''Obselidia'' is a 2010 American drama film written and directed by Diane Bell, starring Michael Piccirilli, Gaynor Howe and Frank Hoyt Taylor. The film won two awards at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival: the Excellence in Cinematography award and the Alfred P. Sloan Prize. Plot On his quest to catalogue soon obsolete occupations, George (Piccirilli) a librarian joins forces with a silent film projectionist (Howe), and together they journey to Death Valley to interview a maverick scientist (Hoyt Taylor) who is predicting the imminent end of the world. Cast * Michael Piccirilli – George * Gaynor Howe – Sophie * Frank Hoyt Taylor – Lewis *Chris Byrne – Mitch *Kim Beuche – Jennifer *Michael Blackman Beck – Paul *Linda Walton – Linda *Grant Mathis – Monk Reception The influential film critic Todd McCarthy wrote in ''Variety Variety may refer to: Arts and entertainment Entertainment formats * Variety (radio) * Variety show, in theater and television Films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Sundance Film Festival
The 26th annual Sundance Film Festival was held from January 21, 2010 until January 31, 2010 in Park City, Utah. Award winners *Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - '' Restrepo'' *Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - ''Winter's Bone'' *World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary - ''The Red Chapel'' *World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic - '' Animal Kingdom'' *Audience Award: U.S. Documentary, Presented by Honda - '' Waiting for Superman'' *Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic, Presented by Honda - ''Happythankyoumoreplease'' *World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - ''Wasteland'' *World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - '' Undertow'' *Best of NEXT Presented by YouTube - ''Homewrecker'' *U.S. Directing Award: Documentary - ''Smash His Camera'' *U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic - '' 3 Backyards'' *World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary - ''Space Tourists'' *World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic - ''Southern District'' *Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - ''Winter's Bone'' *World Cinema Screenwriting Award - ''Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Internet Movie Database
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a proven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Mayer (filmmaker)
Max Mayer is an American filmmaker. He is one of the founding members of New York Stage and Film. Well known for directing TV shows including ''The West Wing'' and ''Alias'', he wrote and directed the film '' Adam'' (2009), winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize. Filmography * ''Me and Veronica'' (1993, producer) * ''Better Living ''Better Living'' is a 1998 American film featured in the Hamptons International Film Festival. It stars Roy Scheider and Olympia Dukakis, and includes Edward Herrmann. Cast * Olympia Dukakis as Nora *Roy Scheider as Tom *Edward Herrmann as Jac ...'' (1998) * '' Adam'' (2009) * '' As Cool as I Am'' (2013) References External links * American film directors Living people American male screenwriters American television directors Year of birth missing (living people) Alfred P. Sloan Prize winners {{US-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam (2009 Film)
''Adam'' is a 2009 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Max Mayer and starring Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne. The film follows the relationship between a young man named Adam (Dancy) with Asperger syndrome, and Beth (Byrne). Mayer was inspired to write the film's script when he heard a radio interview with a man who had Asperger's. Filming took place in New York City in December 2005. The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize, and was released in the United States on July 29, 2009. The release date in Canada and the UK was 7 August 2009 in Australia, and everywhere else after Labor Day. Plot Adam Raki (Hugh Dancy) is a young man with Autism living alone in Manhattan after his father's recent death. He has a friend, Harlan Keyes (Frankie Faison), an old army friend of his father's, who is always there for him. Because of his condition, Adam has difficulty communicating and likes to escape into his love of spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Sundance Film Festival
The 2009 Sundance Film Festival was held during January 15, 2009 until January 25 in Park City, Utah. It was the 25th iteration of the Sundance Film Festival. Award winners *Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - ''We Live in Public'' *Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - '' Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire'' *Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Dramatic - '' The Maid (La Nana)'' *Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary - ''Rough Aunties'' *Audience Award: Documentary - '' The Cove'' *Audience Award: Dramatic - '' Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire'' *World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - ''Afghan Star'' *World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - ''An Education'' *Documentary Directing Award - Natalia Almada for ''El General'' *Dramatic Directing Award - Cary Joji Fukunaga for '' Sin Nombre'' *World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic - Oliver Hirschbiegel for ''Five Minutes of Heaven'' *World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary - Havana Marking for ''Afghan Star'' *Exce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Riker
David Riker is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his award-winning film '' The City (La Ciudad),'' a neo-realist film about the plight of Latin American immigrants living in New York City. Riker is also the writer and director of ''The Girl'' (2012), and the co-writer of the films ''Sleep Dealer'' (2008) and ''Dirty Wars'' (2013). Born in Boston, Riker moved to Brussels, Belgium, at the age of five, where he attended a French-speaking school. In 1973 his family moved to London, where he studied at The American School. biography of David Riker. Riker is a graduate of 's Graduate Film School where, in 1992, he made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Rivera
Alex Rivera (born 1973, in New York City) is an American film maker, best known for his films about labor, immigration, and politics. Early life Rivera was born in 1973 in New York City, New York. His father is a Peruvian immigrant and his mother is an American citizen. Growing up as a bicultural youth in New Jersey, he took an interest in the fields of film, digital media, and science fiction.Sleep Dealer. Dir. Alex Rivera. Perf. Luis Fernando Peña, Leonor Varela, Jacob Vargas. Likely Story and This is That Productions /Maya Entertainment, 2008 He is well known for his work '' Sleep Dealer'', which premiered in the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. He was awarded the Creative Capital Moving Image Award, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Career Rivera studied political science and media theory at Hampshire College, graduating in 1995. He is also a New York-based digital media artist and filmmaker. Due to his knowledge and backgro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
