The Tribeca Film Institute today announced the four projects that will receive financial and creative support from the TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund. A total of $140,000 in funds will be awarded and recognized at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival (April 17-28).
The winning films are: Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo’s “2030,” Eugene Ramos’ “Newton’s Laws of Emotion,” Antonio Tibaldi’s “Oldest Man Alive” and Musa Syeed’s “The Doctor.” The projects all integrate science and technology-oriented themes and characters into their storylines.
Jury members included actors Clark Middleton (“Kill Bill:
Vol. II,” “Sin City”), Ron Livingston (“Office Space,” “Band of Brothers”), Dean
Winters (“Oz,” “30 Rock,” “Rescue Me”), Helen Fisher, PhD, biological
anthropologist; and John Quackenbusch, Harvard professor of computational
biology and bioinformatics.
Here are the official synopses for the winning projects:
2030
In a near future Vietnam where seawater has buried a large
part of the land and cultivation has to be done on floating farms, a
strong-willed woman has to make a critical decision about her ex-lover, a
geneticist who could be her husband’s murderer.
Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo (Screenwriter, Director), Bao Nguyen (Producer)Newton’s Laws of Emotion
As a young Isaac Newton pursues the affections of a
headstrong princess, he seeks to uncover the principles of love using his new
system of mathematics. However, his equations start to break down when her
former lover enters the scene. Eugene
Ramos (Screenwriter), Andeep Singh (producer)Oldest Man Alive
A suicidal 88-year-old inventor finds a reason to live in
the young Romanian woman who saves him from drowning. But when she moves into
his Manhattan townhouse, it upsets his son and daughter-in-law, who have waited
decades to inherit the multi-million dollar dwelling. Antonio Tibaldi (Screenwriter, Director),
Ryan Brown (Screenwriter)The Doctor
Salim, a disgraced young doctor from India, will do anything
to get back into medicine. But when he takes a job at an illegal clinic in New
York, he finds more danger than redemption.
Musa Syeed (Screenwriter, Director), Nicholas Bruckman (Producer)
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