Projects - Sloan Science & Film

The Catcher Was A Spy Ben Lewin, Jim Young, Trailer

Based on the best selling book by Nicholas Dawidoff, this is the true story of Moe Berg–Major League Baseball player, Ivy League graduate, attorney who spoke nine languages–and a top-secret spy for the OSS who helped the U.S. win the race against Germany to build the atomic bomb.

CREDITS

Directed by Ben Lewin
Written by Robert Rodat
Produced by Jim Young, Buddy Patrick, Tatiana Kelly, and Kevin Scott Frakes
Cinematography by Andrij Parekh
Edited by Mark Yoshikawa
Principal Cast: Paul Rudd, Jeff Daniels, Mark Strong, Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Paul Giamatti, Tom Wilkinson

SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS

Physics

AWARDS

2015, Tribeca Film Institute: Filmmaker Fund: 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.