Aranya Sahay’s feature “ Humans in the Loop ” has received the Film Independent Sloan Distribution Grant as the film officially qualifies for Academy Awards consideration.

The grant, administered by Film Independent and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, supports narrative features that engage meaningfully with science or technology themes, providing strategic release support to help films reach wider audiences. The Sloan Film program has backed more than 850 screenplays, short films and features over the past two decades, including “The Imitation Game,” “Hidden Figures,” “The Man Who Knew Infinity” and “Oppenheimer.” The award makes Sahay and producer Mathivanan Rajendran Film Independent Fellows.

“Humans in the Loop” follows an Indigenous woman working at a rural data-annotation cen

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