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Exploring Ways To Help In Haiti

From texting and twittering to flying there yourself, here are some of the many ways that we can all make a difference right now!


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A Warm Congratulations to all of our DFP grantees nominated for the IDA Doc Awards.

The Sundance Documentary Film Program would like to congratulate Ngawang Choephel (Tibet In Song) and Natalia Almada (El General), for their nominations at this year’s International Documentary Association Doc Awards.


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DFP grantee receives Macarthur “genius”grant

Congratulations to James Longley (Iraq in Fragments) for the recent award of $500,000 over five years in recognition of filmmaking and contribution to the documentary field.


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Interview with directors of Mrs. Goundo’s Daughter

Mrs. Goundo’s Daughter screened in the Sundance Institute Screening Series in Park City, Utah on September 10. Filmmakers Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater sat down for an interview ahead of their screening.


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Iran: Open Letter to the Sundance Community from Robert Redford

July 20, 2009
This weekend, Iranian-born artist Shirin Neshat, a Sundance Institute Artist Trustee, sat at our annual Board Retreat and described in terrifying detail a situation we all know about, but perhaps not in enough detail. Among many others recently arrested in Iran’s post-election demonstrations are Iranian artists, journalists, filmmakers and human rights leaders, including [...]


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Sundance Documentary Film Program nurtures courageous, independent artists worldwide who surface true stories of human rights, social justice, freedom of expression, civil liberties, and other pressing issues for global audiences. At the core of the Sundance Documentary Program is the Sundance Documentary Fund, which offers a continuum of support through the life of a project, from research to production and post-production, through to distribution and audience engagement. More>>

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Stories of Change Convening at SFF Twenty Ten

The Sundance Institute Documentary Program will host a unique gathering of four of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs in Park City, January 26-29, 2010. STORIES OF CHANGE: SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN FOCUS THROUGH DOCUMENTARY, is a three-year initiative of the Sundance Documentary Film Program in partnership with the Skoll Foundation, to explore the art of nonfiction [...]

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A Warm Congratulations to all of our DFP grantees nominated for an Oscar!

From a pool of 89 feature-length documentaries eligible for Oscar consideration this year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ documentary screening committee narrowed the decision to a final 15. The Sundance Documentary Film Program would like to congratulate Rebecca Cammisa (Which Way Home) and Mai Iskander (Garbage Dreams), for officially making the 2009 [...]

24Nov2009 | kfeeley | No comments | More
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Bombhunters

An unsettling look at people who hunt bombs for a living.

17Nov2009 | Skye Fitzgerald | No comments | More
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9 Star Hotel

Slipping through the predawn darkness over highways, through traffic and across the border, Palestinian construction workers go to work clandestinely in Israel every day. Raw, handheld photography follows workers who build their own border shanty community to enter Israel more easily, with no choice but to risk their lives simply to earn a living.

17Nov2009 | Ido Haar | No comments | More
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Beijing Taxi

BEIJING TAXI is a feature length documentary that vividly portrays the ancient capital of China going through a profound
transformational arch. Through a humanistic lens, the intimate lives of three taxi drivers thread through the morphing city of Beijing confronted with modern issues and changing values.

13Nov2009 | Miao Wang | No comments | More
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The Visitors

The Visitors is a documentary about passengers of a charter bus that leaves New York City every weekend for various prisons located in Upstate New York. Reflecting the struggles of a unique culture living at the intersection of confinement and the free world, the story follows the coordinator of the bus -Denise- whose husband is coming home soon after 17 years of imprisonment.

10Nov2009 | Melis Birder | No comments | More
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Port of Memory

In what is left of the city of Jaffa, a man about to lose his house contemplates his fate. Meanwhile two women remain tied to their homes. In a nearby cafe an old captain sits motionless the whole day through, while another man moves restlessly like a fish in an aquarium.

10Nov2009 | Kamal Aljafari | No comments | More
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