| Tribeca & Sloan Announce Winner of Student Grand Jury Prize For Screenwriting |
| Tuesday, 10 April 2012 00:51 | |||
 The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) today announced the recipient of the 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Student Grand Jury Prize for Screenwriting. Penny Stock by Grainger David of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts was selected as the "best-of-the-best" screenplay from the winning scripts at six leading film schools participating in Sloan's decade-long National Film Program. The $50,000 grant was created last year by the Sloan Foundation to recognize exceptional feature screenplays that dramatize science and technology themes and/or that portray scientists, engineers, or mathematicians in prominent character roles. Grainger David from Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina will receive a $30,000 cash prize, as well as an additional $20,000 to be used in direct support of the project. The award includes year-round support from TFI, including mentorship and guidance from scientific and film industry professionals, networking opportunities, and industry exposure. Penny Stock was selected by an awards committee comprised of actress Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club, High Art); director John Badham (Saturday Night Fever, WarGames); actress Rachael Leigh Cook (She's All That); scientist and bioweaponeer Sergei Popov, and neurobiologist Ricardo Gil da Costa (Fringe). Additional input came from the Sloan Foundation and its four partners in screenplay development: the Tribeca Film Institute, Film Independent, the Hamptons International Film Festival and Sundance Institute. Grainger David's screenplay was chosen from nominees that had previously won Sloan prizes at the Foundation's six affiliated film school programs: UCLA (School of Theatre, Film and Television), NYU (Tisch School of the Arts), USC (School of Cinematic Arts), Carnegie Mellon (School of Drama), AFI (America's Conservatory for Filmmakers), and Columbia (School of the Arts). Penny Stock is a feature screenplay about a community college geology professor, who risks everything on a bold new theory in the race to discover an epic diamond pipe in the Northwest Territories. Becoming a mining prospector was never in the professor's plans – or his family's – but he feels that he is on the cusp of discovering something great, and he's willing to risk everything to prove it. For more Times Square articles like Tribeca & Sloan Announce Winner of Student Grand Jury Prize For Screenwriting, please visit the Film Festivals Section of TimesSquare.com
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