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9 Indigenous-Made Films to Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival
Want to see the list of films by Indigenous directors that premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival? Check this blog post.Rooted in the recognition of the rich storytelling cultures and inherent sovereignty of Native American nations, Sundance Institute has held a commitment to Native artists since its founding. Mandated by our Founder Robert Redford, the Institute has nurtured and supported Native filmmakers going back to a time when almost none existed.
2017 Sundance Film Festival Adds Two More Films
Newness
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TRUMPED: Inside The Greatest Political Upset of All Time
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Park City, UT — Sundance Institute augments the 2017 Sundance Film Festival program with two new independent films, announced today: Newness, from director Drake Doremus, and TRUMPED: Inside The Greatest Political Upset of All Time, from directors Banks Tarver, Ted Bourne and Mary Robertson. The Festival takes place in Park City, Salt Lake City and at Sundance Mountain Resort January 19-29. For more info and screening times for these films and all other program elements, visit sundance.
2016 Theatre Program Highlights
Dear Friends,When I arrived at Sundance Institute in 1996, I was surprised that many American artists seemed woefully disconnected from theatre-making outside our country’s borders. I set out to change that. After all, if we artists do not model a borderless life, who will? I knew I had to shift our lens, our perspective.
2017 Sundance Film Festival Celebrates Day One With An Artist At The Table Benefit For Sundance Institute
Park City, UT – Sundance Institute revealed the program elements for the 2017 Sundance Film Festival’s annual Day One celebration, An Artist at the Table, to be held on Thursday, January 19.The seated dinner will feature entertainment from Kenny Loggins, a multi-course gourmet meal from the James Beard Foundation’s Celebrity Chef Tour and a celebrated Sundance Institute artist at each table.
An Artist at the Table provides a unique opportunity for attendees to engage with Sundance Institute artists while contributing to the Institute’s mission of championing the bold vision of those creating independent film and theatre.
Filmmaker Jerry Rothwell on Imagining a Better World—and How to Build It
We take the color white for granted—the brilliant white of Styrofoam cups, sunscreen, skimmed milk, and the lines on tennis courts. To produce it, manufacturers use titanium dioxide as a pigment, found in its most common natural form in a mineral called rutile. Around a third of the world’s rutile is in Sierra Leone, which sits on 259 million metric tons of the stuff (currently valued at around $1000 per ton).
Sundance Institute 2017 Screenwriters Lab Nurtures Global Creativity
Los Angeles, CA — Fifteen emerging screenwriters will come together at Sundance Institute’s 2017 Screenwriters Lab, an immersive writers’ workshop announced today and taking place at the Sundance Resort in Utah January 13-18, 2017.
Drawn from around the world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Chile, and Iran, selected screenwriters will have the opportunity to work intensively on their feature film scripts with the support of established writers in an environment that embraces creative risk-taking and the art and craft of cinematic storytelling. Under the leadership of Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program Founding Director Michelle Satter and Labs Director Ilyse McKimmie, the fellows will work with a distinguished group of Creative Advisors at the Lab.
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! 2017 Sundance Film Festival Adds Four Films
Long Strange Trip
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Reservoir Dogs
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Bending The Arc
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Desert Hearts
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Park City, UT — Rounding out an already robust slate of new independent work, Sundance Institute adds two Documentary Premieres and two archive From The Collection films to the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Screenings take place in Park City, Salt Lake City and at Sundance Mountain Resort January 19-29.
Documentary Premieres Bending the Arc and Long Strange Trip join archive films Desert Hearts and Reservoir Dogs, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1986 and 1992, respectively.
An Inconvenient Sequel, Followup to An Inconvenient Truth to World Premiere at 2017 Sundance Film Festival as Day One Screening
Park City, UT — An Inconvenient Sequel, the followup to watershed environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth, will make its world premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival as a Day One screening, part of The New Climate, a program dedicated to conversations and films about environmental change and conservation.
A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of popular culture comes An Inconvenient Sequel, a riveting look at both the escalation of the crisis and how close we are to a real solution. Directed by Sundance Film Festival alumni Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk.
“Through You”: How a New VR Project Dances with Intimacy
I didn’t do film school. I was a dancer and started making raw stop-motion shorts when touring with David Byrne. After 150 shows, I came to realize that dance enabled people to understand the music.
Sundance Institute Announces Shorts For 2017 Sundance Film Festival
Come Swim
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Night Shift
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The Robbery
Credit: Lowell Meyer
Park City, UT — Sixty-eight short films, announced today, will complement the lineup of longer fare at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. The short film slate aligns thematically with other Festival categories, including Midnight and The New Climate, the Festival’s new programming strand highlighting climate change and the environment. The Festival hosts screenings in Park City, Salt Lake City and at Sundance Mountain Resort January 19-29.
Premieres, Midnight, Kids, And More: Latest Additions To 2017 Sundance Film Festival Lineup
Killing Ground
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The Polka King
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My Life as a Zucchini
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Park City, UT — The final pieces of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival feature film program fall into place today, as Sundance Institute announces the lineup for Premieres, Documentary Premieres, Midnight, Spotlight, Kids and Special Events. The Festival hosts screenings in Park City, Salt Lake City and at Sundance Mountain Resort January 19-29. Three projects announced today are part of The New Climate, the Festival’s new environmental program: Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman (Documentary Premieres), Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry (Spotlight) and RISE (Special Events).
New Frontier Showcases Storytelling’s Future at 2017 Sundance Film Festival
ASTEROIDS!
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Heroes
Credit: Jamie Caliri
Journey to the Center of the Natural Machine
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Park City, UT — Now in its second decade of breaking new ground at the forefront of art and technology, Sundance Institute has curated an in-depth vision of storytelling’s future for the 2017 edition of New Frontier at the Sundance Film Festival, January 19-29 in Park City. The full slate — including storyworlds in Augmented Reality headsets, projection-mapped acrobatics, a VR beauty salon producing neuroscience data via the internet of things and a host of socialized, interactive and immersively haptic VR story experiences — stands as a testament to New Frontier’s expertise in identifying, developing and amplifying the most relevant and high-impact modes of tech-enabled narrative.
Inside the Mind of a Programmer: Breaking Down the 2017 Festival Lineup
In times that are anything but ordinary, the filmmakers who infuse our world with perspective through storytelling continue to elevate their craft. That notion is as clear as ever in the slate of films announced in Competition and NEXT for the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. If we are a nation – or a world – weighed down by an undulating fear of isolation, these are the stories that encourage us to understand how we got that way and how to come together again.
2017 Sundance Film Festival: Competition And Next Lineup Announced
Casting JonBenet
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The Workers Cup
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Patti Cake$
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Park City, UT — Sundance Institute convenes a full slate of provocative and agenda-setting independent films at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, beginning with today’s announcement of the 66 films selected for U.S. Competition, World Competition and NEXT, as well as a slate of environmentally focused programming under the Festival’s The New Climate program.
A Place for Global Theatre Artists and Storytellers to Convene and Develop New Work
Los Angeles, CA — Four stories of family, gender, female empowerment and migration comprise the projects supported by Sundance Institute’s Theatre Program at its two-week Lab at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), taking place December 4-18. Dedicated to the creation and development of new musical theatre work, the Lab’s projects are cast individually, rehearsed daily and benefit from concentrated, uninterrupted time and resources.Theater makers representing a range of cultures come together to nurture and develop their projects, which draw inspiration from culturally specific storytelling techniques (Club Diamond) and modern geopolitics (36 Abbas Street, Haifa) as well as from films (Teeth, based on the 2007 independent horror film; Ma Vie En Rose, from the creators of Spring Awakening and based on the 1997 film).