‘Marjorie Prime’ Wins Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Film Prize – Sundance

Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation revealed the winners of $60,000 worth of grants today, and Michael Almereyda’s Marjorie Prime won the Feature Film Prize. Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Lois Smith and Tim Robbins star in the film set in a near-future time of artificial intelligence. Marjorie is 86 and has a handsome new companion who looks like her deceased husband and is programmed to feed the story of her life back to her. Jamie Dawson and Howard Gertler’s Untitled Smallpox Eradication Project took the Sloan Commissioning Grant, and Darcy Brislin and Dyana Winkler’s Bell received the Sloan Lab Fellowship. Read More…