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Day Six: Shorts Awards, Cutie and the Boxer, and In a World…
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2013 Sundance Film Festival Announces Jury Awards in Short Filmmaking
Park City, UT— Sundance Institute this evening announced the jury prizes and honorable mentions in short filmmaking at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The awards were presented at a ceremony in Park City, Utah.
This year’s Short Film program is comprised of 65 short films selected from a record 8,102 submissions.
Day Five: Shane Carruth’s Inscrutable Upstream Color, Narco Cultura Probes Mexican Drug Cartels
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Sundance Google+ Hangout: Direct-to-Fan Church
Today’s Google+ Hangout featured Topspin Media Senior Vice President of Marketing Bob Moczydlowsky, filmmaker and founder of The Webby Awards Tiffany Shlain, and Sundance’s Chris Horton and Joseph Beyer. It was educational and entertaining discussion on the evolution and explosion of Direct-to-Fan Distribution (D2F). The D2F model allows artists to create interest in their work directly with fans, develop relationships with their fans, and sell directly to them through various platforms.
Day Four: Backup Singers in the Spotlight, Delpy and Hawke Return with Before Midnight
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Sundance Institute and Women In Film Los Angeles Study Examines Gender Disparity in Independent Fil
Study Conducted by Stacy L. Smith, Ph.D.
Sundance 2013 Day Three: ‘Fruitvale’ Recounts BART Police Shooting, Doremus’s ‘Breathe In’ Premieres
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Sundance Google+ Hangout: New Frontier of Storytelling – Transmedia Disruptors
Sundance hosted its first Google+ Hangout that was broadcasted live earlier today featuring four of the New Frontier artists. It was the first hangout in a series of eight Google+ Hangouts happening live at 2 pm throughout the festival.
The hangout guests today were Jigar Mehta, Yung Jake, Gregory Bayne, and Brigitte Dale.
Day Two: Dave Grohl Debuts Sound City, Dirty Wars Shocks Audiences
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Day One Sundance Film Festival Roundup
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 round-ups from the previous day’s events.
In Memoriam: George Gund, 1937–2013
We are saddened by the loss of long-time Sundance Institute trustee George Gund III. George was a life-long devoted champion of American independent film, and a stalwart supporter of Sundance Institute, San Francisco Film Society, and the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Though he was a long-time resident of San Francisco, George was a native of Cleveland, where he was a founder of the Cleveland Cinematique, and a board member of the Cleveland Film Festival.
A Celebration of Music in Film Presents Talent from Twenty Feet from
Park City, UT — Sundance Institute today announced that singers Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Tata Vega and Judith Hill and multi-platinum recording artist The Fray will perform at the annual ‘A Celebration of Music in Film’ event on January 20, 8:00 p.m. MT, at Sundance House Presented by HP at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
Sundance Institute and Alfred P. Sloan Mark 10th Anniversary of Collaboration
Park City, UT — Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today announced the members of the Sloan Jury at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, who will also participate in the Science in Film Forum Panel at the Festival. The members of the 2013 Sloan Jury are: Paula Apsell (Senior Executive Producer, Nova and Nova ScienceNow, Director, WGBH Science Unit), Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Fountain, Pi), Scott Burns (writer, Contagion, Pu-239, The Informant and producer, An Inconvenient Truth), Dr.
Sundance Institute Artist Services Program Expands Self-Distribution Opportunities
Artist Services Announces Collaboration with REELHOUSE, VHX, VIMEO and TUGG, Offering Filmmakers Additional Platforms and Tools
Los Angeles, CA — Keri Putnam, Executive Director of Sundance Institute, today announced that the Institute’s Artist Services program – which provides Institute artists with exclusive opportunities for creative self-distribution, marketing and financing solutions for their work – has expanded to include selected films supported by one foundation and five nonprofit organizations. Additionally, these organizations will join with Sundance Institute in continuing to shape the program and the services it offers.
The Bertha Foundation, BRITDOC, Cinereach, Film Independent, the Independent Filmmaker Project and the San Francisco Film Society will each select films that they have supported to receive access to best-in-class digital distribution arrangements that have been negotiated by Sundance Institute Artist Services.