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The SF Film Festival (SFIFF) Director of Programming Rachel Rosen discusses the Science in Film Sloan Screenings at SFIFF: The Man Who Knew Infinity and Operator.
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Legendary documentarians Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker reflect on the making of their film Unlocking The Cage about the fight for human-like rights for intelligent non-human animals. This is an excerpt from the ebook In Their Own Words: Documentary Masters Vol. 1. To read the full interview, purchase a copy of the ebook here.
[Read more…] about Unlocking the Cage on chimpanzee rightsI’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.
[Read more…] about Why you’ve never heard of the Sloan PrizeRedford has crafted a densely packed film intended to educate the public about Adverse Childhood Effects, or the very real existence of Toxic Stress.
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Sundance documentaries NUTS! and foreveryone.net chronicle the scientific achievements and self-mythologizing of two very different men.
[Read more…] about NUTS! and foreveryone.net: The visionary and the charlatanWe take a look at the films in contention for the Alfred P. Sloan Prize, the jurors, and make some predictions.
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