Now in its ninth year, the series has expanded film and scientific literacy with the popular program. The Little was selected one of just 20 independent, nonprofit cinemas across the country to receive the grant. It includes an award of $7,000 for start-up costs associated with launching the program. Sloan Foundation invited members of the Art House Convergence to apply for the grant, which provides support for nonprofit art house cinemas to create their own “ Science on Screen” programs. Early this year, the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation and the Alfred P. program chair of motion picture science in the School of Film and Animation, applied for together with officials at the Little. The series is made possible through a grant that David Long, associate professor in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences and B.S. The program is $5 for students and seniors, $8 general admission. The showing will be followed by a discussion co-led by Callie Babbitt, assistant professor in RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, and Greg Babbitt, professor of biology and computational genomics in the College of Science. 14, at the Little Theatre, 240 East Ave., with a screening of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, a 1984 fantasy film written and directed by internationally acclaimed animator Hayao Miyazaki. Rochester Institute of Technology and the Little Theatre will kick off a three-part series exploring the connection between science and film next week with the screening of a Japanese animated post-apocalyptic fantasy film followed by a lecture on sustainability and symbiosis. 14 with a lecture on sustainability and symbiosis following the screening of an animated Japanese post-apocalyptic fantasy film. RIT and the Little Theatre kick off a three-part series exploring the connection between science and film Nov.
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