Promising film-makers whose projects relate to science and technology stand to receive $170,000 in funding from the Tribeca Film Institute through the return this year of the TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund.

Announcing a further grant initiative, Institute staff said four young
film-makers would each be eligible for a $1,500 scholarship through
the Youth Achievement Awards.

In related events the Institute flagged up the ongoing youth outreach
programmes and announced a special gala screening of work by
youngsters entitled Our City, My Story.

The TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund was created last year in collaboration
with the Sloan Foundation and will provide film-makers with grants and
exposure to financiers and producers through a series of public
readings of their finished screenplays with noted actors during the
festival, which runs from April 22-May 3. Featured projects include
Greg Harrison's Radioactive Boy Scout and Alex Lyras and Michael
Dorian's Alva.

This year in celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Charles
Darwin and the 150th anniversary of Darwin's breakthrough work On The Origin of Species, the TFI Sloan Film Program will present a
retrospective screening of Stanley Kramer's 1960 classic Inherit the
Wind on April 25.

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