Projects - Sloan Science & Film

Frontier House

The series follows three modern-day families that agreed to live as homesteaders did in the state of Montana on the American frontier in 1883. At the end of the series, each family was judged by a panel of experts and historians on their likelihood of survival for each group.

CREDITS

Directed and Produced by Nicolas Brown and Maro Chermayeff
Produced by Simon Shaw
Edited by Andrew Ford and Kelly Korzan
Photographed by William Edwards
Music by Edward Bilous

SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS

Anthropology

AWARDS

2002, Television: WNET 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.