The Coolidge Corner Theatre and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today named 35 independent, nonprofit organizations as the 2017 - 2018 recipients of Science on Screen® grants. Each organization will receive a grant of up to $8,500 to develop or sustain its own Science on Screen program. Since the inception of this national grant initiative in 2011, the Coolidge and the Sloan Foundation have awarded 164 grants to 72 independent cinemas across the country.
The 2017 - 2018 grantees are:
- Amherst Cinema (Amherst, MA)
- Art Film Foundation (Champaign, IL)
- Athena Cinema (Athens, OH)
- Austin Film Society (Austin, TX)
- Belcourt Theatre, Inc. (Nashville, TN)
- California Film Institute (San Rafael, CA)
- Cable Car Cinema (Providence, RI)
- Cameo Cinema (St. Helena, CA)
- Colonial Theatre (Phoenixville, PA)
- Aperture Cinema (Winston-Salem, NC)
- Egyptian Theatre Preservation Association (Coos Bay, OR)
- Enzian Theater (Maitland, FL)
- Film Scene (Iowa City, IA)
- Film Society of Minneapolis/St. Paul (Minneapolis, MN)
- Film Streams, Inc. (Omaha, NE)
- Gold Town Nickelodeon (Juneau, AK)
- The Gem (Bethel, ME)
- Gold Coast Arts Center (Great Neck, NY)
- Gorton Community Center (Lake Forest, IL)
- Doris Duke Theatre (Honolulu, HI)
- Indiana University Cinema (Bloomington, IN)
- The Loft Cinema (Tucson, AZ)
- Martha's Vineyard Film Society, Inc. (Vineyard Haven, MA)
- Midwest Theater (Scottsbluff, NE)
- Montclair Film (Montclair, NJ)
- Museum of the Moving Image (New York, NY)
- O Cinema (Miami, FL)
- Old Greenbelt Theatre (Greenbelt, MD)
- Philadelphia Film Society (Philadelphia PA)
- Pickford Film Center (Bellingham, WA)
- Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT)
- Salina Art Center (Salina, KS)
- Shotgun Cinema (New Orleans, LA)
- State Theatre (Modesto, CA)
- Tull Family Theater (Sewickley, PA)