Projects - Sloan Science & Film

Kitty Hawk Tim Kirkman

The story of the Wright Brothers, the original aviation pioneers, that chronicles their journey and struggles towards the first manned flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

CREDITS

Director/Writer: Tim Kirkman
Producers: Joshua Astrachan, Lucy Barzun Donnelly, and Gill Holland

SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS

Engineering

AWARDS

2008, Tribeca Film Institute: Filmmaker Fund: Production Award

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Short Films
Feature Films

A science focused teaching framework for short and feature films, all of which have received awards from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for their depictions of scientific themes or characters.