The 2025-2026 recipients of the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting have been announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), as reported via Indiewire recently. Among the five projects selected, two have been previously recognized by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, making three of the year’s new Nicholl fellows New York-based Sloan grantees. Read more about these promising artists and the projects they are developing below.
SATOSHI by Sara Crow and David Rafailedes
Logline: After her family loses everything in the 2008 financial crisis, a teenaged anime-obsessed hacktivist realizes money isn’t fair…so she sets out to reinvent it with a new digital currency called Bitcoin.
Crow and Rafailedes have previously earned four Sloan grants for SATOSHI since 2023, through the foundation’s partnerships with New York University, Sundance Institute, SFFILM, and Film Independent.
ERUPTION by Katla Sólnes
Logline: In the highlands of 1970s Iceland, a geologist’s wife finds her marriage tested when a wily American student arrives, stirring tensions as volatile as the surrounding volcanic landscape.
Sólnes’s ERUPTION has earned support from Sloan thrice before. In 2024 it earned a screenwriting grant at Columbia University and would go on to earn Sólnes Sloan fellowships at Athena Film Festival later that year and at Sundance Institute the following. ERUPTION was also a finalist for the 2024 Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize.
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