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Tribeca Film Institute Taps ‘Imitation Game’ Among Winners Of TFI Sloan Science Grant
By PATRICK HIPES, Managing Editor | Wednesday April 9, 2014 @ 10:36am PDT
Tags: Imitation Game, Tribeca Film Festival, Tribeca Film Institute
TribecaInstituteThe Tribeca Film Institute has unveiled its grant winners for this year’s TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund, which supports filmmakers with cash and guidance on their films that focus on science, math and technology. It’s always a cool bunch of projects in a genre that is surely underserved, and with this year’s batch of winners getting $150,000 the fund has now awarded more than $1 million in its 12-year history. This year’s three winners include Imitation Game, based on the life of cumbBritish mathematician and logician Alan Turing, played by Benedict Cumberbatch; the Weinstein Company acquired it for $7M at EFM this year, the highest price ever for a U.S. rights deal there. (With that kind of cash in the mix I guess the Sloan grant is more of a tip-of-the-hat kind of thing.) Recent TFI Sloan projects include 2030, the climate change pic from Vietnam that opened the Panorama section this year in Berlin; the Sundance pic and Indie Spirit Award nominee Computer Chess; and Focus’ A Birder’s Guide To Everything starring Ben Kingsley and Kodi Smit-McPhee. This year’s recipients, chosen by a jury that included John Slattery, Meg Ryan, Dark Knight scribe Jonathan Nolan, will be honored at the Tribeca fest that kicks off April 17. Part of the Alfred P Sloan Foundation-sponsored events this year include a 10-year retrospective screening and panel for Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind on April 21. Here are this year’s winners:
· Imitation Game – The life of British mathematician and logician, Alan Turing, who cracked the German “Enigma” Code to change the direction of WWII and is heralded as the pioneer of modern day computing. Benedict Cumberbatch stars with Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, and Matthew Goode. Director Morten Tyldum was nominated for a 2013 BAFTA award for Norway’s all-time top grossing film, Headhunters, based on Jo Nesbø’s novel. His first full-length feature, in 2003, was Buddy, winner of Best Film at Norway’s Amanda Awards. Screenwriter Graham Moore is the New York Times bestselling author of The Sherlockian, a mystery novel, which has been published in 16 countries and translated into 13 languages. His script for The Imitation Game topped the 2012 Black List, Hollywood’s list of best unproduced screenplays of the year and was the highest scoring script in the Black List’s decade-long history.
http://www.deadline.com/2014/04/tribeca-film-institute-taps-imitation- game-among-winners-of-tfi-sloan-filmmaker-grant/
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