Coolidge Corner Theatre and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Name 35 New Science on Screen Grantees

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:

This Week

  • Showcasing the best in documentary short films from around the world!

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  • A bold, iconoclastic take on one of the world’s most compelling stories, from filmmaker From Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Jessie Buckley & Christian Bale.

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  • A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.

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  • Among the most important documentaries ever made, The Thin Blue Line, by Errol Morris, erases the border between art and activism.

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  • Showcasing the best in live action short films from around the world!

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  • Pre-film seminar by Dr. Shilpa Parnami of Boston University. 

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  • In this five-week class, explore women's voices at the intersection of direction and cinematography.

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  • With her take on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor, Claire Denis firmly established herself as a great visual tone poet of our time.

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  • Winner of the Audience Award: U.S. Documentary at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

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  • See it before, or after, watching Boorman and the Devil at BUFF! 

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  • Peter Jackson brings J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings from page to screen in this epic, Academy-Award winning trilogy.

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  • The new film from acclaimed director Christian Petzold (Phoenix, Transit). 

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