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Founded in 1934, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic, not-for-profit grant making institution based in New York City. Sloan's program in Public Understanding of Science, Technology & Economics supports various media to commission, develop, produce, and distribute new work mainstreaming science and technology to reach a wide, non-specialized audience. Watch award-winning Sloan short films here.

Basmati Blues

Basmati Blues

A scientist creates genetically modified rice and is sent India to sell it to rural farmers.

Another Earth

Another Earth

On the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar System, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.

Ammonite

Ammonite

Acclaimed paleontologist Mary Anning works alone selling common fossils to tourists to support her ailing mother, but a chance job offer changes her life when a visitor hires her to care for his wife.

Agora

Agora

In Roman Egypt toward the end of the fourth century AD, a slave turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of finding freedom while also falling in love with his master, the great female astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria.

After Yang

After Yang

In a near future, a family reckons with questions of love, connection, and loss after their A.I. helper unexpectedly breaks down.

    Adventures of a Mathematician

    Adventures of a Mathematician

    Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam helps create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer.

    Adam

    Adam

    Adam, a lonely man with Asperger syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor Beth.

    A Birder's Guide to Everything

    A Birder's Guide to Everything

    Teenaged birding fanatic David Portnoy takes an epic road trip with his best friends to solidify their place in birding history.

    2030

    2030

    In a near future Vietnam where global warming and rising seawater levels have forced cultivation to be done on floating farms, a strong-willed woman has to make a critical decision about her ex-lover, a suspect of her husband's murder.