This grant provides three years of continuing support for a program at the University of Southern California (USC) School of Cinematic Arts to award production, screenwriting, and animation awards to student filmmakers who explore scientific and technological themes and characters. USC will make two production awards, two screenwriting awards, and one animation award annually to student filmmakers each year for a total of 15 awards over three years. The screenwriting award is offered to exceptional feature-length or episodic television scripts that accurately depict scientific stories or themes. The production award provides funds to produce a short film that centers science and technology themes or characters. The animation award supports the development and production of animated short films with science and technology themes. Grant funding also includes support for annual “Sloan Evenings,” which involve screenings of completed student Sloan films followed by discussions with scientists and filmmakers, and annual science seminars, which brings in scientists to talk to students about recent scientific studies, findings, controversies, discoveries, and other events that may inform and inspire filmmakers to further explore science as a theme in their filmmaking.