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The non-profit org Film Independent recently announced the recipient of the 2007 Sloan Producers Grant, as well as the participants of their annual Producers Lab.

Grant, awarded to Monique Caulfield for producing the feature "Basmati Blues," is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and encourages the production of science and technology-themed scripts and films.

Caulfield will receive a $25,000 development grant, and admission to the aforementioned 2007 Producers Lab.

Eleven other applicants are also participating in the Lab, a seven-week program that supports and improves their individual production projects. Participants include grant-winner Caulfield, Mike Miller, Suzi Yoonessi, Jennifer Westin, Susan Glatzer, Gretchen Somerfeld, David Baxter, Jason Weiss, Morgan Stiff, Gert Basson, Julien Favre and Minh Nguyen-Vo.

The 2007 Lab will be taught by producer Ram Bergman, and feature several more guest speakers, including writer-director Stephanie Allain, and producer Scott Prendergast.