The SF Film Festival (SFIFF) Director of Programming talks Science in Film Sloan Screenings at SFIFF: The Man Who Knew Infinity and Operator.
Science on Film
Unlocking the Cage on chimpanzee rights
Do intelligent non-humans like chimpanzees, elephants, and dolphins deserve human-like rights? According to Steven Wise, the animal rights lawyer at the centre of Chris Hegedus’ and D.A. Pennebaker’s documentary Unlocking the Cage, it’s overdue.
Why you’ve never heard of the Sloan Prize
I’d like to think of the Sundance Film Festival’s Alfred P. Sloan Prize as a beacon of hope for science in film. But it’s an award that no one is promoting, bestowed for reasons no one can divine, based on a process that no one will talk about
Resilience reveals a new public health crisis
Redford has crafted a densely packed film intended to educate the public about Adverse Childhood Effects, or the very real existence of Toxic Stress.
NUTS! and foreveryone.net: The visionary and the charlatan
The Sundance documentaries foreveryone.net and NUTS! each chronicle the scientific achievements and self-mythologizing of two very different men.
Sloan Prize contenders: Science at Sundance 2016
We take a look at the films in contention for the Alfred P. Sloan Prize, the jurors, and make some predictions.