The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television has announced the winners of the 2025 Sloan Screenwriting Grants. Each new grantee has won $15,000 each to develop their science-themed script, one of which is a feature film and one of which is a TV series. UCLA is one of the six film schools with whom the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has an ongoing partnership, meaning one of these scripts will be eligible for the 2025 Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize. Read more about these exciting new works below.

ISOTOPES by Anika Hundal
ISOTOPES is a one-hour drama series with mother-and-daughter pair Marie and Irène Curie at its heart. Though much attention has been paid to the scientific work of these two women individually, and alongside their husbands — both couples eventually winning Nobel Prizes in Chemistry — little has focused on their relationship with each other.

THE INVISIBLE CITY by Matthew Evans
In 1850s Victorian London, a maverick physician and his young mentee struggle against church, state, and superstition to save the people of Soho from the cholera epidemic. Inspired by the true story of John Snow.

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