Film Independent

With support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Film Independent awards screenwriting and production grants to filmmakers. Visit the Film Independent website.

SLOAN-AWARDED FILMS

2026

Personality Hire  

2025

Baddies  

Humans in the Loop  

Killling Jar  

Satoshi  

2024

May Savidge Moves Her House  

The Feather Detective  

The Gold Bug Variations  

2023

Overcast  

Radical  

Silo  

Smoke Country  

2022

After Yang  

Cloak & Data  

The Plutonians  

The Science of the Slam Dunk (fka Flat)  

2021

Mary Mallon  

Moving Bangladesh  

Upstreamers  

2020

Adventures of a Mathematician  

Asia A  

LIFTOFF  

The Mushroomers  

2019

Kalpana  

Malpelo  

Welcome to the Scene  

2018

Bell  

Seven Eternities  

The Burning Season  

To Dust  

2017

Adventures of a Mathematician  

Age of Reptiles  

Radiant  

The House of Tomorrow  

2016

Afronauts  

Operator  

The Gold Bug Variations  

2015

Dark Forest  

Experimenter  

The Dust  

2014

Operator  

The Buried Life  

2013

Flood  

Frank’s World: And Tales of the Fearless Brothers O.  

2012

Unmanned  

2011

El Diablo Rojo  

Midnight Sun  

2010

Future Weather  

Valley of Saints  

2009

Future Weather  

2008

The Man Who Knew Infinity  

2007

Basmati Blues