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Max Mayer's Sundance romance "Adam" is the recipient of this year's Alfred P Sloan Prize and $20,000 cash award honouring "an outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character."
Fox Searchlight acquired worldwide rights earlier in the week to the story of an engineer with Asperger's Syndrome and the broken-hearted woman who moves into his apartment building. Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne star (pictured).
The winning film was selected by a committee of film and science professionals based on the quality of the film's presentation of science and technology themes and/or characters.
The Alfred P Sloan Prize is a major component of the Sundance Science-in-Film Initiative, which is made possible by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The initiative supports the development and exhibition of films that explore science and technology themes or that depict scientists, engineers and mathematicians in engaging and innovative ways.
Previous Alfred P Sloan Prize Winners include Alex Rivera for Sundance 2008 entry "Sleep Dealer," Shi-Zheng Chen for 2007's "Dark Matter," Andrucha Waddington for "The House Of Sand" in 2006, Werner Herzog for 2005's "Grizzly Man" and Shane Carruth's 2004 thriller "Primer. "
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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