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Day 9: Jason Mantzoukas Leads the Unlikeliest of Buddy Comedies; Spike Lee Returns with ‘Pass Over’
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Filmmakers Awarded Inaugural Sundance Institute Open Borders Fellowship Presented by Netflix
Sundance Institute Selects Three Filmmakers for 2018 Sundance Institute Open Borders Fellowship Presented by Netflix, in
Recognition and Support of Emerging Independent Filmmakers Working in Narrative and Documentary Film
Park City, Utah — Sundance Institute, in a new collaboration with Netflix, today announced the recipients of the
inaugural Sundance Institute Open Borders Fellowship presented by Netflix. The Institute’s Feature Film and Documentary
Film programs worked in collaboration to select three of the most exciting emerging filmmakers, working in both narrative
and nonfiction forms. Designed to support distinctive new voices in world cinema, the fellowship includes a development grant, a trip to the 2018
Sundance Film Festival in Park City to receive the award and attend a curated slate of industry meetings, networking opportunities,
panels, and screenings.
Day 8: ‘We the Animals’ is a Magical Fever Dream Tracking a Volatile Childhood
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Andrea Riseborough Adds an Impassioned Voice to the Film Industry’s Sexism Problem
English actress Andrea Riseborough is having a moment. She’s featured in a whopping four films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, including the U.S.
Pedro Kos on the Art of Editing and Escaping the Creative Doldrums
Earlier this week, director and editor Pedro Kos presented the fourth annual keynote speech during Sundance Institute and the Karen Schmeer Fellowship’s Art of Editing Reception. Below we’ve published Kos’ remarks in full.Thank you.
Day 7: Will Forte and Joel McHale Shine in the National Lampoon Biopic ‘A Futile and Stupid Gesture’
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Director Tim Wardle on ‘Three Identical Strangers’: “The Single Best Documentary Story I Had Ever Come Across”
In 1980, a 19-year-old moves away from home to a small college in upstate New York. Upon arriving, strangers wave hello, approach him to chat, and treat him as if they already know him. The teenager soon realizes that someone who looks exactly like him attended that school the year before, and he discovers his identical brother, whom he was separated from at birth.
Shorts Awards Announced at 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Matria Wins Grand Jury Prize
Park City, Utah — Winners of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival jury prizes in short filmmaking were announced today
by Sundance Institute at a ceremony in Park City, Utah. The
Short Film Grand Jury Prize, awarded to one film in the program of 69 shorts selected from 8,740 submissions, went
to
Matria, written and directed by
Álvaro Gago. Full video of the ceremony is at
youtube.
Day 6: Robert Pattinson, a Downcast Preacher, and a Mini Horse Bring Deadpan to the Old West in ‘Damsel’
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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Presents Feature Film Prize to Search and Announces New Grants to Artists at 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Winners of Commissioning Grant, Episodic Storytelling Grant and Lab Fellowship Revealed
Search
Director-Screenwriter Aneesh Chaganty Honored
Park City, Utah — At a reception at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival today, the beneficiaries of $71,000 in grants
from Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation were revealed.
Doron Weber, Sloan Vice President of Programs and Director of the Public Understanding of Science and Technology program, presented the Feature
Film Prize to
Search and announced the new winners:
Cherien Dabis’s
What The Eyes Don’t See (Sundance Institute | Sloan Commissioning Grant), produced by Rosalie Swedlin for Anonymous Content and executive produced by Michael Sugar;
C.
Day 5: Chloë Grace Moretz Brings Quiet Humor to a Vivid Portrait of Conversion Therapy
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Sundance Institute Announces 2018 Recipient of Merata Mita Fellowship for Indigenous Artists
Fellowship Honors Artistic Contributions of Late Māori Filmmaker
PARK CITY, Utah — Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (Blackfoot/Sámi) from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is the 2018
recipient of the Sundance Institute Merata Mita Fellowship—an annual fellowship named in honor of the late Māori filmmaker
Merata Mita (1942-2010). The announcement was delivered today at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
For the third consecutive year, Sundance Institute has identified an Indigenous filmmaker from a global pool of nominees
to award a cash grant and provide a year-long continuum of support with activities including a trip to the Sundance Film
Festival, access to strategic and creative services offered by Sundance Institute artist programs, and mentorship opportunities.
Day 4: Ethan Hawke Debuts ‘Blaze,’ the Tale of a Forgotten Outlaw Country Singer
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An Interview with Stephen Maing, Director of ‘Crime + Punishment’
It’s not often that a documentary film achieves both newsworthy timeliness and long-term, long-form, longitudinal depth. But that’s exactly what Stephen Maing pulls off with Crime + Punishment, a project that’s been years in the making, following more than a dozen characters, comprising over a thousand hours of footage, and yet the issues at hand and its attendant legal proceedings, couldn’t be more active or immediate. Building off of several shorter films made earlier in the decade, Maing (whose previous feature, High Tech, Low Life premiered at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival) spent time with New York City police officers who had decided to go public with their frustrations over what they were being asked to do—effectively meet arrest quotas that target citizens of minority communities, even though such quotas have been deemed illegal.
Day 3: Carey Mulligan Embarks on a Frantic Search for Meaning in Paul Dano’s ‘Wildlife’
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