Film Independent has awarded Nicholas Bruckman its Fourth annual Sloan Producers Grant for his feature film project “Valley of Saints.”
Bruckman will receive a $25,000 postproduction grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which seeks to create and develop new scripts and films about science and technology, and to see them into commercial production with national and international distribution.
The grant will be awarded at Film Independent’s Fellows Party at the Sundance Film Festival.
Written and directed by Musa Syeed and produced by Bruckman, “Valley of Saints” “tells the story of a young Kashmiri boatman who tries to flee his war-torn, environmentally devastated homeland. When his escape crosses paths with a mysterious female scientist, their tenuous romance forces him to choose whether to abandon his fragile community or stay and rebuild,” according to a Film Independent release.
Bruckman is a New-York based producer and filmmaker. His feature debut, “La Americana,...
Bruckman will receive a $25,000 postproduction grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which seeks to create and develop new scripts and films about science and technology, and to see them into commercial production with national and international distribution.
The grant will be awarded at Film Independent’s Fellows Party at the Sundance Film Festival.
Written and directed by Musa Syeed and produced by Bruckman, “Valley of Saints” “tells the story of a young Kashmiri boatman who tries to flee his war-torn, environmentally devastated homeland. When his escape crosses paths with a mysterious female scientist, their tenuous romance forces him to choose whether to abandon his fragile community or stay and rebuild,” according to a Film Independent release.
Bruckman is a New-York based producer and filmmaker. His feature debut, “La Americana,...
- 1/19/2011
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