The Sffilm Festival – or San Francisco International Film Festival – runs this Thursday, April 17. While Full range Has already been revealed on Wednesday, the festival shared its Slate of the Sloan Science in Cinema Initiative, an annual tradition at the event.
Programming is presented in partnership between Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and SFFILM and contains Cypried Vias Volkan -Thriller “Magma”, recipient of Sloan Science on Screen Award with a cash price of $ 5,000 and Cristina Costantini’s documentary “Result“Which is Sloan Science on Screen Selection.” Sally ”previously premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2025.
A free-to-off-audience festival call will include director Lee Isaac Chung who accepts the Sloan Science in the Cinema Prize for last year’s “Twisters,“Followed by a conversation on stage about the integration of science and film tools to portray extreme weather. There was a forging of controversy in July 2024 on how “Twisters” never mentions climate change in dialogue.
“I just don’t feel like movies are meant to be message -oriented,” Chung said. “I think what we do is show reality in what is happening on the ground. We are not away from saying that things change.”
Lee Isaac Chung (“Minari”, “The Mandalorian”) will be united on stage by Kevin Kelleher, Head of Global Systems Laboratory, who spent 26 years at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and served as a technical consultant on both “Twist” (1996) and “and”Twin“(2024); Tapio Schneider, professor of environmental science and technology at the Caltech Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences;” Twisters “Superving Sound Editor and Sound Designer Al Nelson (” Jurassic World “,” Top Gun: Maverick “) and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) Visual Effects Supervisor Florian Witzel (” “Avengers,” Avengers “Avengra”.
“We are pleased to assign this year’s Sloan Science in Cinema Prize to Lee Isaac Chung’s hit movie” Twists “and this year’s Sloan Science on Screen Award to Cyprien Vial’s thought -provoking film” Magma, “said Doron Weber, Deputy President and Program Manager at Alfred P. Sloan Found. credible researchers as large protagonists and are based on the latest scientific research. They join a nationwide program that has supported over 850 science and film projects with 20 partners and, in addition to supporting screenwriters at SFFILM, has honored excellent films such as ‘Oppenheimer’, and ‘, and’, and ‘, and’, and ‘,’ have not received Fig. ”
SFFILM SLOAN Science in the Cinema Initiative also includes two extensive screenwriters. SFFILM SLOAN Science in Cinema Fellowship and SFFILM SLOAN Stories of Science Development Fund provide additional opportunities for SFFilm to offer more resources for filmmakers throughout the stages of development and for production.
