Filmmaker Wins Sloan Foundation Award

Musa Syeed is the 2008-09 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Production Fund Award winner.   

The Sloan Foundation Award supports young filmmakers in creating feature-length narrative projects about science, technology, economics, and the quality of American life. The New-York based foundation, granted its first Feature Film Production Award to the Kanbar Institute filmmakers in 2002.

Syeed, a 2006 alumnus from The Kanbar Institute of Film & Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, won $100,000 cash prize toward the production of Providence, a feature-length film.

Providence is a tale about a poor Kashmiri boat driver and an American scientist who try to uncover the sources of pollution in Kashmir's main lake.

Over the past few years, Syeed has co-produced several films that have won multiple awards.

-- London Clark