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Sundance Institute names Alfred P. Sloan prize winner

By Susan Kingwriter 
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‘Another Earth,’ directed by Mike Cahill and written by Cahill and Brit Marling, is the recipient of the 2011 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

The Sundance Institute announced the news Friday afternoon.

The winners will receive a $20,000 cash award. The prize is presented to an outstanding feature film that has a theme focusing on science and technology or has a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character.

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‘Another Earth’ is a sci-fi romance starring William Mapother and Brit Marling.

For more information, go to Sundance.org/festival.

-- Susan King

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Susan King

Susan King is a former entertainment writer at the Los Angeles Times who specialized in Classic Hollywood stories. She also wrote about independent, foreign and studio movies and occasionally TV and theater stories. Born in East Orange, N.J., she received her master’s degree in film history and criticism at USC. She worked for 10 years at the L.A. Herald Examiner and came to work at The Times in January 1990. She left in 2016.

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