The Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, presented to outstanding feature
films focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character, was presented to Computer Chess, directed and written by Andrew Bujalski.
The Prize, which carries a $ 20,000 cash award by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is 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.
Not exact matches
The Central New York hub will be part of the state university system's College of Nanoscale
Science and Engineering,
focusing on innovations in the
film industry and other sectors, such as medical devices and energy.
I will be an executive producer
on the
film, basically
focused on bringing good
science into it.
The
science presented in the
film is well - explained and even though the
focus of the
film is
on medical breakthroughs accomplished using stem cells, the scientists interviewed do not try to over-hype current stem cell applications.
Every year since 2003, the Sundance
Film Festival awards the Alfred P. Sloan Prize to a «feature
film that
focuses on science or technology as a theme, or depicts a scientist, engineer, or mathematician -LSB-...]
Four days ago, Michael Almereyda's «Marjorie Prime» received the $ 20,000 Alfred P. Sloan Feature
Film Prize, presented annually to a
film that
focuses on science or technology as a theme.
Climate change and the subsequent rising sea levels are the culprit, but the
film focuses on the devastating effect it is having and will have
on the Kiribati citizens rather than the
science behind why it's happening.
To preface my feelings
on the
film, before we even jump into the plot synopsis and critique, I have to admit that
films focusing on high
science concepts and emerging technology have always been fascinating to me, especially when it involves the human mind.
The festival
focuses on genre
films such as horror,
science fiction, fantasy, action, Asian, and cult.
WB's Maximum Movie Mode (last seen
on Watchmen) allows director McG to give us a personal tour of the
film, including picture - in - picture demonstrations, storyboard comparisons, a Terminator Mythology Timeline, and eleven
Focus Points also accessible directly from the menu: «Digital Destruction,» «Enlisting the Air Force» («Molten Metal and the
Science of Simulation,» «Building the Gas Station,» «Creating the VLA Attack,» «Exploding Serena's Lab in Miniature,» «Hydrobots,» «An Icon Returns,» «Terminator Factory,» «Stan Winston Shop,» and «Napalm Blast.»
The Hollywood Heroes Tributes ™, Celebrating Multi-Genre Entertainment recognize multi-genre entertainment
focusing on Celebrity activism in all forms of entertainment, including action / adventure and
science fiction / fantasy in
film, television, as well as music and sports.
Paul McGuigan's
film, which has a script by Max Landis,
focuses on the interplay between the main two, and the debate about whether Frankenstein is pushing the boundaries of
science and giving people hope or literally creating monsters.
Recognizing multi-genre entertainment and
focusing on action / adventure and
science fiction / fantasy related
film, television, and popular arts.
Schools and organizations around the world are hosting screenings of a short
film called The
Science of Character, which explores the research behind character development and encourages us to
focus on our character strengths for greater personal and community well - being.
A SOW
focusing on some key scenes from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, including activities where students reimagine part of the
film as a
science fiction.
Finalists were invited to screen their
films — all of which
focused on the power of technology in the classroom — at the White House, in the company of President Obama, actor and associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement Kal Penn, Bill Nye the
Science Guy, and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
I tried to get
film dozens of days, taught * two * full month long inquiry
science units (easily 4xs the hours of teaching my cohort peers were doing) with tons of academic language support and data analysis, student - driven socio - cultural strategies galore, NGSS - aligned and
focusing on lesser - done practices like computational thinking.
Critical Response Francis McKee Wednesday 2 March 2016 Francis McKee (Director of the (External) Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow) reflects
on how some of Grace Weir's most recent
films continue to place the wonder of
science in
focus, and recaptures the magic and history of cinema and its synchronicity with evolving theories of time, quantum physics and the big bang.
Critical Response Francis McKee Wednesday 2 March 2016 Francis McKee (Director of the Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow) reflects
on how some of Grace Weir's most recent
films continue to place the wonder of
science in
focus, and recaptures the magic and history of cinema and its synchronicity with evolving theories of time, quantum physics and the big bang.
I've not read this book yet but am a great fan of Naomi Klein and her «Shock Doctrine» which was (both in book and
film) a huge eye opener for me and I've used some of the material for my online social
science classes which
focus on event and movements of the 1960's.
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