LA Columbia U. duo get Sloan
$100k prize rewards sci/tech-focused features
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Prize -- worth $100,000 -- recognizes a feature-length project with a focus on science and technology. Award is the first of two that the Sloan Foundation has pledged to the school.
Del Monico and helmer Dottin will collaborate on the former's screenplay "Indelible," about an African-American scientist trying to find a cure for a disease that killed her husband and threatens her son.
"We hope that screenwriters and directors will see that science and technology offer them a potential goldmine: wonderful, diverse characters and great stories that have gone largely untold," said Doron Weber, Sloan Foundation program director.
Pair are 2003 film graduates of Columbia's School of the Arts. Dottin was recognized as the best African-American filmmaker by the DGA for his thesis short "A-Alike." Del Monico had previously picked up Sloan screenwriting honors for the same script, making it possible for her revise it to its current state.
Shooting will begin next summer in Harlem.
