Sundance Institute announces 2024 Documentary Fund grant recipients
Moroccan-American filmmaker Rita Baghdadi's project is among the Sundance Institute 2024 Documentary Fund grantees.
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Moroccan-American filmmaker Rita Baghdadi's project is among the Sundance Institute 2024 Documentary Fund grantees.
Vicente will remain an advisor to Sundance through the end of June.
The inaugural cohort of ten filmmakers will receive unrestricted funding, collaborative mentorship with established filmmakers and industry executives.
The shorts for 2024 were curated from 12,098 submissions, the highest number on record for the festival.
The full festival slate comprises 82 feature films representing 24 countries, selected from over 4,400 feature-film submissions.
The Documentary Edit and Story Lab fellowship is designed to encourage experimentation and risk-taking, for the fellows to develop, interrogate and collaborate in post-production.
The 2022 instalment will see the eight fellows workshop their pilot and participate in story meetings, case study screenings, panels and writers’ rooms.
The fund will offer grants for independent artists seeking to explore the intrinsic link between science and culture through innovative nonfiction storytelling.
Projects from Jordan, Armenia, Chile, Uganda and Palestine are among grantees of the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund.
The film and media industry veteran will join the institute as its fourth official festival director after spending 12 years at Film at Lincoln Center.
The inaugural cohort will include 11 Latino and 12 Asian American creators.
The Latine Fellowship will provide six emerging Latinx artists with a year-long, multi-disciplinary fellowship experience beginning in August.
This year’s programme will include panels, roundtables, one-on-one meetings and a keynote address by interdisciplinary artist and activist Glenn Kaino.
A year-round artist development programme, the Ignite x Adobe Fellowship supports emerging artists ages 18-25.
Writer-actor Henry Alexander Kelly—also a 2021 Uprise Grantee—will serve as an artist development consultant for this year’s cohort.
The eight recipients working in narrative, episodic, and documentary will receive support throughout the year, from funding to mentorship.
Jackson joined the festival in 2013 as director of the documentary film programme.
The application window is open till March 9 for the 2022-23 programme.
The year-round programme aims to support women artists in creating bold new work in film and media.
In her new role, Vicente will oversee all areas of the Institute, including the annual Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
Effective September 28, Duncan will report to Festival Director Tabitha Jackson and work closely with Programming Director Kim Yutani.
Under the new role, Lozano will elevate and support nonfiction filmmakers worldwide at all stages of creating and distributing new cinematic work.
