Special Screening of AGORA with Rachel Weisz
The Hamptons International Film Festival,
The Museum of Modern Art and Newmarket Films
Present a special screening of
AGORA
A conversation to follow the screening with Rachel Weisz and Alan Alda
The Hamptons International Film Festival as part of a partnership with the Museum of Modern Art presents Alejandro Amenábar’s historical drama AGORA on Wednesday, May 26th with a conversation to follow led by Alan Alda and Rachel Weisz.
AGORA stars Rachel Weisz and chronicles the life of philosopher and scientist Hypatia of Alexandra. AGORA was this year’s Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize winner at the HIFF.
The Sloan Foundation has partnered with HIFF for over ten years to award the Feature Film Prize. The award is presented to a feature-length narrative film that explores science and technology themes in fresh, innovative ways, and depicts scientists and engineers in a realistic and compelling fashion. The Hamptons International Film Festival was the first film festival to partner with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and this prestigious prize has been an annual highlight of the festival, having been presented in the past to films such as KINSEY (2004), THE FOUNTAIN (2006), THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY (2007) and FLASH OF GENIUS (2008).
“We are so excited to present our Sloan Feature Prize winning film AGORA to our audiences, as well as to the devoted cinephiles that make up MoMA’s Film Plus program. Alan Alda is the perfect person to handle the post-screening discussion with Rachel Weisz, as his passion for both science and film – and the points where they meet – is very well known,” says Director of Programming David Nugent.
HIFF greatly appreciates the continued support from their corporate sponsors which include American Airlines, Altour, Silvercup Studios, RoC, and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
ABOUT THE ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION
The New York based Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, founded in 1934, makes grants in science, technology, economics and the quality of American life. Sloan’s program in public understanding of science and technology, directed by Doron Weber, supports books, radio, film, television, theater and the Internet to reach a wide, non-specialized audience. Over the past ten years, Sloan has partnered with six of the top film schools in the country-AFI, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, NYU, UCLA and USC-and established annual awards in screenwriting and film production. Sloan is also a longtime supporter of new science plays at the Ensemble Studio Theater and Manhattan Theater Club, of the John Adams’ opera Doctor Atomic and of the World Science Festival. For more information, please visit www.sloan.org.
