Projects - Sloan Science & Film

House of Sand Andrucha Waddington, Trailer

A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.

CREDITS

Director: Andrucha Waddington
Writer: Elena Soarez

SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS

Astronomy

AWARDS

2006, Sundance Institute: Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize

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.