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Sundance Institute Returns to Morocco With Film Forward: Advancing Cultural Dialogue From May 7 to 12, 2012

The U.S. Embassy in Morocco Collaborates with Sundance Institute to Present FILM FORWARD in Six Cities across Morocco

Sundance Institute Announces Film Forward: Advancing Cultural Dialogue Travels To Imperial Valley, California And Mexicali, Mexico April 30-May 4

Sundance Institute Returns From Presenting Film Forward: Advancing Cultural Dialogue In China

U.S. Embassy in Beijing and CNEX Collaborate with FILM FORWARD Initiative for Second Year Free Public Screenings of Six Films in Beijing and Kunming

Sundance Institute Announces Film Forward: Advancing Cultural Dialogue Travels To India March 15-22

Mumbai Mantra Media Ltd, The American Center in New Delhi, Taj Enlighten Film Society and Whistling Woods Collaborate with Sundance Institute to Bring FILM FORWARD to Mumbai, New Delhi, Aligarh, Noida and Gurgaon

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES FIRST 2012 STOP FOR FILM FORWARD: ADVANCING CULTURAL DIALOGUE IS ARIZONA, FEBRUARY 27 – MARCH 1

The Loft Cinema in Tucson Collaborates with FILM FORWARD Initiative for Second Year

Sundance Institute Announces Renewal of Film Forward: Advancing Cultural Dialogue

Films for Second Year are: Another Earth, Beginners, Bran Nue Dae, Buck, Grbavica, The Green Wave, On the Ice, Senna, Somewhere Between, and Unfinished Spaces, which will travel within the United States to Central Valley, California, Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, and Tucson, Arizona and Internationally to China, Colombia, India, and Morocco in addition to a Special Presentation at UNESCO in Paris, France

Institute Continues Collaboration with the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Institute of Museum and Library Services in the Public/Private Cultural Exchange Initiative

Sundance Institute Announces Film Forward: Advancing Cultural Dialogue to be Presented in Morocco September 27-30

Filmmakers Cherien Dabis (Amreeka) and Emmy Award Winner Stanley Nelson (Freedom Riders) Featured Participants for Screenings and Workshops
Co-Hosted by the U.S. Embassy in Rabat

Film Forward: Advancing Cultural Dialogue to be Presented in Kenya July 15-25

Co-Hosted by FilmAid
Outdoor Screenings to be Held in Kibera, Mathare, and Kakuma and Dadaab Refugee Camps
Filmmakers Jennifer Arnold (A Small Act) and Taika Waititi (Boy) Among Those to Participate in Workshops, Panel and Screenings in Nairobi, Kakuma and Mombasa

Sundance Institute and Puerto Rico Film Society (La Sociedad de Cine de Puerto Rico/SCPR) to Present Free Film Screenings June 21-25

Panels on State of Independent Film with Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming Trevor Groth, Filmmakers Lixin Fan and Debra Granik, Moderated by Carmen Oquendo-Villar

Sundance Institute to Bring 10 Free Film Screenings to Tucson, Presented in Collaboration with the Loft Cinema and Tucson Pima Arts Council, June 5-9

Special Private Military Screening to be Held at Davis-Monthan U.S. Air Force Base
Filmmaker Q&A with Sundance Film Festival Favorites A Small Act and Winter’s Bone

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