Projects - Sloan Science & Film

Joshua Tree Jonathan Messer, 23:22

JOSHUA TREE is about a loving but frayed mother-daughter relationship, a burgeoning friendship between a lonely girl and her new neighbor, and a widowed environmental scientist. It is a meditation on how the heavens have inspired both scientific inquiry and imagination.

CREDITS

Directed by Jonathan Messer. Written by Chris Raymond. Produced by Petra Erikssen. Edited by Byron Smith. Photographed by Kevin Krupitzer. Production design by Kristy Thomley. Music by Sean Morris. Principal cast: Taylor Dayne, Madison Eginton, Rebecca Klinger.

SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS

Biology

AWARDS

2001, American Film Institute: 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.