Grants

Carnegie Mellon University

To encourage top film students to write screenplays about science and technology

  • Amount $195,000
  • City Pittsburgh, PA
  • Investigator Robert Handel
  • Year 2013
  • Program Public Understanding
  • Sub-program Film

This grant provides two years of continued support for a series of initiatives at the Carnegie Mellon School of Dramatic Writing to encourage its film students to write high quality, accurate screenplays about science and technology or feature scientists, engineers, or mathematicians as major characters. Funded activities include a yearly symposium for film students introducing them to internationally recognized scientists; two semesters of training in screenwriting; guest-faculty workshops by accomplished mentor screenwriters; a program pairing students with scientific advisors to ensure the accuracy of scripts’ scientific content; the presentation of two awards for the best student science-themed script; and a variety of professional development activities, including industry showcases of student work in both Los Angeles and New York.

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