The triennial Sloan Movie Summit from nonprofit arts group Movie Impartial is again for 2025. IndieWire can announce that the science and technology-focused movie program will embrace screenings of indie hits “Magma” and “Love Me” amongst its highlights.
Movie Impartial hosts the competition in partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Basis’s Movie Program below its broader effort within the Public Understanding of Science and Know-how; that is the eighth Sloan Movie Summit after its inaugural yr in 1999. This yr’s summit will happen Could 9 by way of Could 11 on the Garland Lodge in Los Angeles, and have a keynote handle from astronomer Amy Mainzer.
“We’re delighted to companion with Movie Impartial to host this distinctive summit held solely as soon as each three years to have fun the Sloan Basis’s pioneering and prolific Movie Program,” Doron Weber, Vice President and Program Director on the Alfred P. Sloan Basis, mentioned. “With a community of a dozen movie faculties, six screenplay improvement companions and 4 movie festivals, Sloan has created a sturdy developmental pipeline for supporting authentic work that engages with science and expertise themes and characters. This system has resulted in over 850 science-themed movie initiatives from a few of the most revolutionary and thrilling filmmakers within the U.S. and internationally, together with over 30 accomplished characteristic movies. Exhibiting that science can entertain in addition to enlighten, the Basis has not solely supported excellent impartial movies, but in addition blockbusters akin to ‘Twisters,’ ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Don’t Look Up,’ and ‘Hidden Figures.’ We look ahead to showcasing extra nice movies and gifted filmmakers at this yr’s summit.”
The Sloan Movie Summit will kick off on Friday, Could 9 at 4:30 p.m. with a gap reception adopted by the Highlight Screening of Cyprien Vial’s volcano drama “Magma.” The screening will probably be adopted by a Q&A with seismology professor John Vidale on the impacts and hazards of earthquakes, Earth construction, and volcanos.
The Summit will proceed on Saturday, Could 10 with a full day of keynote speeches, panels, script readings, and networking classes with business professionals for Sloan-supported filmmakers and organizations. UCLA planetary science professor and principal investigator of NASA’s NEO Surveyor mission Amy Mainzer will ship the keynote speech; Mainzer beforehand was the science advisor for Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up.”
Sunday, Could 11 could have a showcase of Sloan-winning quick movies, panels, and a screening of the Closing Night time movie, “Love Me” starring Kristen Stewart and Steven Yuen.
Panels all through the competition will embrace “Actuality Augmented: AI, Machine Studying and the Way forward for Cinematic Expression,” “The Consultants’ Reduce: Scientific Accuracy in Storytelling,” and “Past Screens: How Podcasts and Social Media are Democratizing Science Storytelling.”
“The significance of science and expertise and the ability of storytelling to focus on how artwork and science intersect is extra related now than ever,” Brenda Robinson, Movie Impartial’s Appearing President, mentioned. “We’re thrilled to proceed our long-standing partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Basis, whose outstanding work supporting the media arts and sciences is one thing that we regard as each inspiring and important to our understanding of the world round us. We look ahead to persevering with our collaboration for a few years to return.”
In 2022 over the last Sloan Movie Summit, Kogonada’s “After Yang” screened. The characteristic was awarded the Sloan prize $50,000 distribution grant at Sundance 2022. Previous supported filmmakers embrace Damien Chazelle and Aneesh Chaganty.