Tesla

Michael Almereyda, Director 

Sloan Grant(s) Received:
2017, Sloan Science in Cinema Filmmaker Fellowship, SFFILM
2019, Production Grant, Sundance Institute

Project Type: Feature 

Genre: Drama 

Length: 102 minutes 

Field of Science: Electrical Engineering, Physics 

Stage: Completed 

Synopsis 

A freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, J.P. Morgan, and Morgan’s daughter Anne, charting Tesla’s breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light and his attempts to harness wireless energy.