[Art_beyond_sight_theory_and_research] Film Independent Invites Applications for New Sloan Producers Grant

[Everett Gavel]

Hello,

Are there any scriptwriters or film producers here?
This is an easy opportunity to incorporate some truths
of blindness into a script fitting their requirements
for winning this grant.  They say, "The grant is funded
by the Sloan Foundation, which seeks to create and
develop new scripts and films about science and
technology."  Though it could too easily be cliche if
you don't watch your script, how easy could it be to
come up with some story line involving science and/or
technology, and blindness?  If you've ever dreamt of
selling a script or producing a movie, jump on this
opportunity.  Details are below.  And hey, you never
know what you can do or get, until you try.

To Your Success!
Everett
www.everettgavel.com



Film Independent Invites Applications for New Sloan
Producers Grant

Deadline: August 28, 2007

Film Independent ( http://www.filmindependent.org/ ), a
nonprofit
 membership organization that champions independent
film, has
 received a two-year grant from the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation
 ( http://www.sloan.org/ ) to establish a new Sloan
Producers
 Grant as part of the organization's Producers Lab. The
first
 recipient, to be selected this fall, will receive
admission to
 Film Independent's 2007 Producers Lab, a $25,000
development
 grant, and year-round support from Film Independent.

The grant is funded by the Sloan Foundation, which
seeks to
 create and develop new scripts and films about science
and tech-
 nology and to see them into commercial production with
national
 and international distribution. It has screenplay
development
 programs with the Tribeca, Sundance, and Hamptons film
festivals,
 as well as other select independent partners and film
schools.

To apply for the Sloan Producers Grant, applicant must
apply to
 the 2007 Producers Lab and indicate in their letter
that they
 wish to be considered for the Sloan Grant. To be
eligible for
 the Sloan grant, the applicant must be attached as
producer to
 the script with which they are applying and the
screenplay
 should have a scientific, mathematical, and/or
technological
 theme and storyline or have a leading character who is
a scien-
 tist, engineer, or mathematician.

For complete program information and eligibility
requirements,
 visit the Film Independent Web site.

RFP Link:
http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10008097/filmindependent

For additional RFPs in Arts and Culture, visit:
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_arts.jhtml