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The Athena Film Festival, which celebrates female leadership, has revealed the third annual winner of its Alfred P. Sloan development grant, aimed at highlighting the role of women in science.
Jennifer Vanderbes — whose script about Fda medical reviewer Frances Kelsey, The Gatekeeper, was on the Barnard College event’s Black List-inspired Athena List of unproduced screenplays about women leaders — will receive 20,000 to help advance her script to the next stage of development.
The Gatekeeper, a historical drama based on Vanderbes’ upcoming nonfiction book Wonder Drug, also supported by the Sloan Foundation, focuses on Kelsey’s battle in the early 1960s to keep the drug thalidomide off the American market.
“Support from the Athena Film Festival’s Sloan Foundation development grant will help bring to the screen this important Stem story about the largest drug scandal of the 20th century,” Vanderbes said in a statement.
The Athena Film Festival, which celebrates female leadership, has revealed the third annual winner of its Alfred P. Sloan development grant, aimed at highlighting the role of women in science.
Jennifer Vanderbes — whose script about Fda medical reviewer Frances Kelsey, The Gatekeeper, was on the Barnard College event’s Black List-inspired Athena List of unproduced screenplays about women leaders — will receive 20,000 to help advance her script to the next stage of development.
The Gatekeeper, a historical drama based on Vanderbes’ upcoming nonfiction book Wonder Drug, also supported by the Sloan Foundation, focuses on Kelsey’s battle in the early 1960s to keep the drug thalidomide off the American market.
“Support from the Athena Film Festival’s Sloan Foundation development grant will help bring to the screen this important Stem story about the largest drug scandal of the 20th century,” Vanderbes said in a statement.
- 11/18/2022
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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