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Lee receives Sundance Film Festival award

Jennifer 8. Lee, A.B. ’99 (applied math) is producer for 'The Harvard Computers'

Jennifer 8. Lee

Jennifer 8. Lee, A.B. ’99 (applied math) and Graham Sack, A.B. '03 (physics) received the 2021 Sloan Episodic Fellowship at the Sundance Film Festival for “The Harvard Computers.” Lee is a producer for the show, which was written by Sack.

“The Harvard Computers” is inspired by the true story of a group of pioneering women who braved gender and class discrimination to become America’s first female astronomers.

The award, presented by the Sundance Institute and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science-in-Film Initiative, supports emerging filmmakers whose work explores scientific themes and characters and their place in our culture.

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