Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Launched in 1996, Sloan’s Film program has awarded grants to over 620 film projects from some of the nation’s most innovative filmmakers, and has created a film development pipeline of multiple program partners though which Sloan nurtures and develops individual projects. Over the past 15 years the Foundation has partnered with six of the top film schools in the country and established annual awards in screenwriting and film production, along with an annual best-of-the best Student Grand Jury Prize. The Foundation also supports screenplay development programs at the Sundance Film Institute, the Tribeca Film Institute, the Black List, SFFILM, the Athena Film Festival, and Film Independent’s Producer’s Lab and Fast Track program. To gain distribution for Sloan films, the Foundation has expanded Coolidge Corner Theater’s Science on Screen effort into a nationwide program that has awarded 201 grants to 82 independent cinemas, each of which shows at least one Sloan-supported film a year.