Festival Talk: SFFILM Sloan Science in Cinema Prize: Talking About Twisters
Description
In partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, SFFILM is thrilled to award the Sloan Science in Cinema Prize to last summer’s blockbuster Twisters. Join director Lee Isaac Chung, along with scientific experts and effects wizards from the film, as they discuss whether a tornado can actually be “tamed,” the world of tornado chasers, and how they embraced science to depict the awesome power of nature through cinematic craft and create the vastly entertaining world of Twisters. This talk is free and open to the public, RSVP required.
The Sloan Science in Cinema Prize celebrates the compelling depiction of scientific themes or characters in a narrative feature film. The program celebrates and highlights cinema that brings together science and the art of storytelling, showing how these two seemingly disparate areas can combine to enhance the power of one another. The selections are meant to immerse a broad public audience in the challenges and rewards of scientific discovery, as well as to engage members of the scientific community.
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Lee Isaac Chung grew up in rural Arkansas, the son of Korean immigrants. His first feature, Munyurangabo (2007), the first film made in Rwanda’s Kinyarwanda language, won AFI Fest’s Grand Jury Award and Chung received a Film Independent Spirit Awards Someone to Watch nomination. He received Best Director and Original Screenplay Oscar® nominations for Minari (2020), which also counts the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Dramatic and Audience Awards among its many accolades. His latest film, Twisters, was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Action/Adventure Film.
