"Diving Bell" gets Sloan award
The Hamptons International Film Festival announced that Julian Schnabel's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" has won Alfred P. Sloan Award. The cash prize of $25K is awarded annually to films "that explore science and technology themes in fresh, innovative ways and depicts scientists and engineers in a realistic and compelling fashion."
"Diving Bell" is based on the book by Jean-Dominique Bauby, the former Elle France editor who learned to communicate through his left eye after a paralyzing stroke. The film was adapted by Ronald Harwood and has raked in critical lauds at every fest it's played since Telluride.
Also, the fest announced that it would host a reading of Caitlin McCarthy's "Wonder Drug." The story centers on how the harmful drug DES affects the lives of three people.
The reading will be directed by Tom Gilroy ("Spring Forward"), who served as McCarthy's mentor during the Hamptons International Screenwriters' Lab. McCarthy and her scientific mentor, P. Harry Jellinc, will participate in a discussion afterwards.
The Hamptons fest will run October 17-21, 2007.
"Diving Bell" is based on the book by Jean-Dominique Bauby, the former Elle France editor who learned to communicate through his left eye after a paralyzing stroke. The film was adapted by Ronald Harwood and has raked in critical lauds at every fest it's played since Telluride.
Also, the fest announced that it would host a reading of Caitlin McCarthy's "Wonder Drug." The story centers on how the harmful drug DES affects the lives of three people.
The reading will be directed by Tom Gilroy ("Spring Forward"), who served as McCarthy's mentor during the Hamptons International Screenwriters' Lab. McCarthy and her scientific mentor, P. Harry Jellinc, will participate in a discussion afterwards.
The Hamptons fest will run October 17-21, 2007.
Michael Jones is the film festival editor at Variety.com. 
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