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Posted Nov 7, 2011, by Richard Ray Perez
Kickstart Cesar's Last Fast
Richard Ray Perez is a documentary filmmaker and director of Cesar's Last Fast, a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Grant…
Posted Aug 18, 2011, by Sundance Institute
In One Word… The Indie Producers Challenge
As the spiritual closing of the Creative Producing Summit, Sundance Film Festival Director John Cooper wrapped up the weekend…
Posted Aug 16, 2011, by Jason Asenap
Kickstart Rugged Guy
Jason Asenap is a Comanche/Muskogee Creek writer and filmmaker originally from Walters, Oklahoma, but now residing in…
Posted Aug 16, 2011, by Madeleine Olnek
Kickstart Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
Madeleine Olnek is a New York-based filmmaker, director, and playwright whose debut feature, Codependent Lesbian Space Alien…
Posted Jul 27, 2011, by Peter Sillen
Kickstart I Am Secretly An Important Man
Peter Sillen is a New York-based documentary filmmaker whose documentary shorts Speed Racer and Branson: Musicland USA screened…
Posted Jul 19, 2011, by Mark Kitchell
How Not To Do Kickstarter
Mark Kitchell is best known for “Berkeley in the Sixties,” one of the defining documentaries about the protest movements that…
Posted Jul 13, 2011, by Tin Dirdamal
Kickstart Death in Arizona
Tin Dirdamal is a Mexican filmmaker and Sundance Institute alum whose documentary DeNADIE took home the World Cinema Audience…
Posted Jun 30, 2011, by Michael Almereyda
The Ogre’s Stomach, Still Growling
Michael Almereyda is a filmmaker and Sundance Institute alum who has participated as a director, screenwriter, and Creative…
Posted Jun 23, 2011, by Nina Menkes
Kickstart Dissolution
I'm not sure, but I think I’m one of very few women on this planet who writes, directs, shoots, and edits her own films.…
Posted Jun 23, 2011, by Alex Smith
Kickstart Winter in the Blood
Greetings from Montana! My twin brother Andrew and I have had a wonderful 25-year relationship with Sundance Institute. We’ve…



