Projects - Sloan Science & Film

The King's Pawn Darren Anderson, Jonah Bleicher, 17:06

THE KING’S PAWN follows a former chess prodigy who challenges the world-champion with a super computer he spent his life designing. With so much media attention and such high stakes surrounding the event, is it possible that someone from the computer’s side might have interfered with the match’s outcome?

CREDITS

Directed by Jonah Bleicher. Written by Darren Anderson and Jonah Bleicher. Produced by Rob Cristiano and Josh Cohen. Photographed by Zachary Halberd. Principal cast: Collin Ware (as Martin Bloom), Jakob von Eichel (Christoph Wolff), Shanga Parker (Vik), Julian Murdoch (Young Christoph Wolff), Logan Riley Bruner (Young Martin Bloom).

SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS

Technology

AWARDS

2012, Columbia University School of the Arts: 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.