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The Athena Film Festival at Barnard College (AFF) has introduced Jennifer Vanderbes because the third winner of the annual Alfred P. Sloan Athena List Development Grant for her Athena List-winning script \u201cThe Gatekeeper.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Gatekeeper\u201d is a historic drama primarily based on the story of Frances Kelsey, an FDA medical reviewer who fought a significant pharmaceutical agency to maintain the drug thalidomide off the American market within the early Sixties. The script relies on \u201cWonder Drug,\u201d Vanderbes\u2019 personal non-fiction guide, which was additionally supported by the Sloan Foundation. The guide can be printed by Random House in June 2023.<\/p>\n
Vanderbes will obtain $20,000 to assist advance her script to the subsequent stage of growth. The fest will host a reception and dwell script-reading December 7 at Barnard College in New York City.<\/p>\n
\u201cSupport from the Athena Film Festival\u2019s Sloan Foundation Development Grant will help bring to the screen this important STEM story about the largest drug scandal of the 20th century,\u201d mentioned Vanderbes. \u201cFrances Kelsey was a unicorn of her day \u2013 a woman who held both a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and an M.D. She spent years battling government bureaucracy and corporate interests to keep thalidomide off the American market, and her scientific brilliance, moral integrity, and personal pluck make her a fabulous heroine, ripe for the screen, as the centerpiece of an epic battle against Big Pharma.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finalists for the 2022 Alfred P. Sloan Athena List Development grant included \u201cRay of Life\u201d by Kate Sheffield and \u201cTidal Disruption\u201d by Kiran Deol.<\/p>\n
AFF\u2019s partnership with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation goals to bolster the pipeline of girls filmmakers working to focus on the significance of girls within the sciences.<\/p>\n
Doron Weber, Vice President and Program Director on the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, commented,\u00a0\u201cWe are thrilled to partner with the Athena Film Festival to announce the third annual winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Development grant, part of our nationwide program to support films depicting scientific themes or characters and to highlight the contributions of women and underrepresented groups. We are proud to support Jennifer Vanderbes and her script \u2018The Gatekeeper,\u2019 based on a book previously supported by our Book Program that tells the story of another pioneering \u2018hidden figure\u2019 in STEM and the obstacles and prejudice she had to overcome to safeguard human health.\u201d<\/p>\n
Melissa Silverstein, Artistic Director and Co-Founder of the AFF \u2014 and Women and Hollywood\u2019s Founder and Publisher \u2014 added, \u201cOur ongoing relationship with the Sloan Foundation has brought so many rich, important and mostly unknown STEM stories of women leaders to life. These women have had a significant impact in our world. The story of Frances Kelsey is one of those stories, and we are so thrilled to be a part of getting this story the attention it deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n
The thirteenth annual Athena Film Festival will happen March 2-5, 2023 on Barnard\u2019s campus in New York City.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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