Movies: The Alfred P Sloan Foundation Production Grant

  • 2020
    Coded Bias

    Coded Bias (2020)

    Coded Bias

    6.92020HD

    Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in th...

    Coded Bias
  • 2019
    To Dust

    To Dust (2019)

    To Dust

    62019HD

    Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York and distraught at the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert, a local commu...

    To Dust
  • 2020
    The Ball Method

    The Ball Method (2020)

    The Ball Method

    02020HD

    Alice Ball, a 23 year-old African American Chemist living in 1915 Hawaii fights against racial and gender barriers to find an effective treatment for leprosy before Kalani, a 10-year-old patient is exiled into the leper colony of Molokai....

    The Ball Method
  • 2021
    Let There Be Light

    Let There Be Light (2021)

    Let There Be Light

    42021HD

    A portrait of African-American inventor, engineer, poet, artist, and American Civil War veteran, Lewis H. Latimer told through the experiences of his wife, Mary....

    Let There Be Light
  • 2016
    Clarity

    Clarity (2016)

    Clarity

    52016HD

    A story of obsession, power, and discovery centering around a maverick neuroscientist, her doting pupil, and an alluring machine that could revolutionize brain science....

    Clarity
  • 2006
    The Path to Nuclear Fission: The Story of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn

    The Path to Nuclear Fission: The Story of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn (2006)

    The Path to Nuclear Fission: The Story of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn

    02006HD

    A story about the life and turbulent times of Lisa Meitner and Otto Hahn, two exceptional scientists whose remarkable collaboration culminated in the discovery of nuclear fission, the division of the atom that changed the future. The show traces the ...

    The Path to Nuclear Fission: The Story of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn
  • 1969
    Untitled John C. Lilly documentary

    Untitled John C. Lilly documentary (1969)

    Untitled John C. Lilly documentary

    01969HD

    John C. Lilly is the inventor of the isolation tank, as well as pioneer of studies in dolphin intelligence and support of psychedelics as a positive means for expanding consciousness. The storytelling will be supported by interviews with Lilly’s cont...

    Untitled John C. Lilly documentary