In partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, this fellowship supports selected writers working on feature-length and episodic scripts that focus on women in STEM who will or have participated in the Athena Film Festival Writers Lab.
Through the fellowship, writers are paired with mentors who will provide both creative support and STEM support over a period of 6-months.
2024 & 2025 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellows
Beaverton by Emma Parker (episodic)
In 2047, adopted siblings Circe, Orion, and Electra, must assuage unrest in their climate-positive town after an elderly citizen is injured by a moose.
Eruption by Katla Sólnes (screenplay)
Set in the highlands of Iceland in 1972, a geologist’s wife finds her marriage tested when a wily American student arrives, stirring tensions as volatile as the volcanic landscape.
Exodus by Leslie Borchert (episodic)
When a Mars Colony shuttle crashes in the Atlantic Ocean under suspicious circumstances, a shrewd engineer must evade authorities to unravel a conspiracy that threatens her family’s life on the Red Planet.
Inventrix, The: Margaret Knight Biopic by Michael Ann Dobbs (screenplay)
The Inventrix is based on true story of Margret Knight’s successful 1870 patent interference trial. In flashbacks we learn of her impoverished childhood as a mill worker and her invention of automatic flat-bottomed paper bag making machine.
RARE EARTH by Nadine Pequeneza (screenplay)
An American biology professor and a Maya land defender form an unlikely alliance to topple a giant mining corporation after a lawsuit for rape and murder fails to deliver justice.
The Aquanauts by Rachel Caccese (episodic)
In the summer of 1970, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sends the first all-female team of marine biologists on a two-week underwater mission. The women must battle the dangers below while overcoming obstacles on the surface. Inspired by real events
Previous Fellows
Talk Black by Destiny Macon
Ada & The Machine by Irina Rodriguez
A Bridge Between Us by Gina Hackett
Mileva by Emilija Gasic and Nicola Lanthier-Rogers
La Forza by Justine Beed
The Home Front by Rosalind Grush
Public Health by Myra Aquino
Push It! by Mirella Christou
Bound by Ice by Nancy Kates
Scarce by Mrittika ‘Mou’ Sarin
Phantom by Jennifer Noonan
Ray of Life by Kate Sheffield
Standard Error by Bárbara Soares
Activated by Cara Greene Epstein
All Through the Night by Mary Elder
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