Humans in the Loop receives Film Independent’s Sloan Distribution Grant, enters Oscar race

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 centre in India. Humans in the Loop examines the ethics and inequities of machine learning while foregrounding empathy, lived experience, and cultural knowledge.
Humans in the Loop is about the human heartbeat inside technology, and this grant recognises the people whose labour and stories often remain unseen, said writer and director Sahay in a statement. (PTI)