Projects - Sloan Science & Film

Under Darkness Caroline Friend, 20:19

Based on a true story in World War II Poland, a young Jewish woman struggles to survive after her family is murdered. Refusing to give up, she joins the Soviet resistance, and realizes that through photography she can remember the past while documenting for the future.

Official Selection / Premiere - Telluride Film Festival, 2019
Sundance Film Festival - Horizon Award Winner, 2019
Student Academy Awards® - Finalist, 2019
Director’s Guild of America Student Film Awards - Jury Award for Woman Filmmaker, 2019
Television Academy College Awards - Best Drama Nominee, 2020

CREDITS

Written and Directed by Caroline Friend
Produced by Merissa Jane Lee, Michael Orion Downing, and Caroline Friend
Co-Produced by Nick Benjamin
Cinematography by Brian M Tang
Edited by Michael Ritter
Production Design by Tyler Moore
Music by Duy Tran
Principal Cast: Kally Khourshid, Edgar Erenhart, Daniel Dasent, Eugene Alper

SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS

Chemistry

AWARDS

2016, USC School of Cinematic 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.