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Students at the Festival Find Inspiration, Share Insights
As part of the Sundance Film Festival’s national student outreach, full-time undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled at a college or university are granted special access to films, panels, and events as part of the Film School Pass. Below, discover experiences documented by three students at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
Through the Student LensBy Crystal Ortbahn
On my first full day at the Festival, I met a volunteer who led me to the Filmmaker Lodge, knowing there would be food and coffee – always a plus for the weary traveler.

New Frontier Flash Lab: Cultivating Story Innovators in Miami
Sundance Institute, in collaboration with the Miami Filmmaker’s Collective, is launching the inaugural New Frontier Flash Lab in Miami (FL) next month.
Through our deep investment in projects that are evolving the field of storytelling, New Frontier has gained valuable knowledge about story innovation. Just like the innovators at the dawn of the film age, New Frontier artists, creative technologists, advisors, and audiences are creating language, forms, and methodologies that will become the standard for future storytellers.

2014 Sundance Film Festival Live Awards Updates
Hi everyone, and welcome to the live blog for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony. We’re Eric Hynes, Jeremy Kinser, and Nate von Zumwalt, and we’ll be your eyes and ears for tonight’s festivities.
As it has for the past several years, the Awards Ceremony takes place a few miles north of Park City at the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse at Kimball Junction.

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Park City, UT — Sundance Institute this evening announced the Jury, Audience and other special awards of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the feature film Awards Ceremony, hosted by Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally, in Park City, Utah.
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Day 9: The Sleepwalker, We Come as Friends, and the Sundance Class of ’94
The Sleepwalker and We Come as FriendsBy Eric Hynes
You may have heard otherwise, but the Festival was still going strong on Friday, the unseasonably mild 9th day of the Festival. Yes, there were fewer pedestrians on Main Street. And yes, Twitter chatter was down among members of the press, many of whom left town on Wednesday and Thursday along with the bulk of their Industry brethren.

Sundance Day 8: Anne Hathaway Charms in ‘Song One,’ Rich Hill Probes Small-Town Missouri
Sundance.org is dispatching its writers to daily screenings and events to capture the 10 days of festivities during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Check back each morning for roundups from the previous day’s events.

Sundance Institute Selects Miami For First-Ever New Frontier Flash Lab
The program offers emerging artists access to Sundance Institute’s renowned creative artist development programs.
Saturday, February 15th, 2013 Public Forum 4-6pm
New World Center SunTrust Pavilion 500 17th Street Miami Beach, FL 33139
Sundance Institute and Miami Filmmakers Collective are collaborating to bring New Frontier programming to Miami’s creative community to cultivate and encourage story innovation at the convergence of art and technology. This is the first-ever Sundance Institute New Frontier Flash Lab in a location outside of its annual fall program in the mountains of Utah.

Mark Rosenberg Wins 2014 Sundance Institute/NHK Award
Park City, UT — Sundance Institute and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have announced Mark Rosenberg, director of the upcoming film, Ad Inexplorata, as winner of the 2014 Sundance Institute/NHK Award. The award was presented at a private ceremony at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
Created in 1996 to celebrate 100 years of cinema, the annual award recognizes and supports a visionary filmmaker on his or her next film.

Day 8: Song One, Rich Hill, and more
Song One
For her follow-up to her Oscar win for Les Miserables, Anne Hathaway returns to the screen in another musical film—though this romantic drama is decidedly less bombastic. Director Kate Barker-Froyland’s low-key first feature Song One is as delicate as musicals come.
In her most unassuming performance to date, Hathaway headlines as Franny, an anthropologist who is estranged from her family and living in Morocco.

Day 7: Alex Ross Perry’s Misanthropic Listen Up Philip, and the Incremental Making of 52 Tuesdays
Sundance.org is dispatching its writers to daily screenings and events to capture the 10 days of festivities during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Check back each morning for roundups from the previous day’s events.

Sundance Institute | Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award 2014 Recipients Announced
PARK CITY, UT — Sundance Institute and Mahindra today announced the winners of the 2014 Sundance Institute | Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award, in recognition and support of emerging independent filmmakers from around the world. The winning directors and projects are Hong Khaou, MONSOON from Vietnam/UK; Tobias Lindholm, A WAR from Denmark; Ashlee Page, ARCHIVE from Australia; and Neeraj Ghaywan, FLY AWAY SOLO from India.
The awards were presented at a private ceremony at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, currently underway in Park City, Utah.

2014 Sundance Film Festival Announces Short Film Awards
Park City, UT — Sundance Institute this evening announced the jury prizes and honorable mentions in short filmmaking at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. The awards were presented at a ceremony in Park City, Utah.
This year’s Short Film program is comprised of 66 short films selected from a record 8,161 submissions.

Day 6
Sundance.org is dispatching its writers to daily screenings and events to capture the 10 days of festivities during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Check back each morning for roundups from the previous day’s events.

Sundance Institute Announces Short Film Challenge and Invites Global Storytellers to Put a Human Fac
Park City, UT — Sundance Institute, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, today announced a new project that will harness the power of independent film to create a global conversation about extreme hunger and poverty. The Sundance Institute Short Film Challenge will spur the production of documentary and narrative films – through a global open call for three-to-eight-minute submissions – that will celebrate imaginative solutions real people are creating to overcome the challenges of extreme hunger and poverty. The project supports Sundance Institute’s mission to empower independent storytellers and connect their work to communities around the world.

Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize Awarded to I Origins at 2014 Sundance Film Festival
Park City, UT — Sundance Institute today announced I Origins as the winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, as well as the recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Lab Fellowship, which is presented through the Institute’s Feature Film Program.