Projects - Sloan Science & Film

Lucy In The Sky Jen Rudin

Fourteen-year-old Lucy Katz living with autism adjusting to mainstream high school is suddenly faced with cataclysmic change when she and her identical twin sister become the subject of a genetic research study that could forever change Lucy. But is Lucy entitled to her own life or will she lose her identity and become just a medical experiment?

CREDITS

Written by Jen Rudin
Directed by Bertha Bay-Sa Pan
Produced by Lyman Creason
Music by Jason Binnick
Cinematography by Rick Carmona
Casting by Jen Rudin
Principal Cast: Zoe Colletti, Whoopi Goldberg, Isabella Russo, Catherine Curtin, Danny Burstein, Kelly Hu, Quinn McColgan, Lexi Gwynn, Adrian Raio, Madison Zamor

SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS

Biology

AWARDS

2016, NYU Tisch School of the Arts: Screenwriting Grant

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.