NEW DELHI: Aranya Sahay's feature "Humans in the Loop" has been awarded the Film Independent Sloan Distribution Grant, as the film officially qualified for the Academy Awards consideration.

The Sloan Distribution Grant, given by Film Independent and the Alfred P Sloan Foundation, supports narrative features that engage meaningfully with science or technology themes or characters, helping to reach wider audiences through strategic release support.

Following its US theatrical release and meeting other eligibility criteria, the film has officially qualified to be a contender for the 98th Academy Awards, where it will compete to be in the Best Original Screenplay category, according to a press release.

The film tells the story of an indigenous woman working at a rural data-annotation centr

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