One of this year’s top awards contenders is a film about Alan Turing, a World War II codebreaker who helped invent the first computer. Another is about Nobel-winning scientist Stephen Hawking looking for a unified theory to explain the entire universe. A third uses relativity and complex theories of alternate dimensions to fuel an outer-space adventure.
So with “The Imitation Game,” “The Theory of Everything” and “Interstellar” all hitting theaters in the next few weeks, the Sloan Foundation has picked an appropriate time for its 2014 Sloan Film Summit, one component of which sports the title “Science and the Art of Storytelling.”