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Meet the Filmmakers Behind this Year’s Sundance Film Festival Indigenous Film Tour
By Stephanie Ornelas “Indigenous joy is what makes us wake up in the morning. What’s the purpose of living if you can’t experience joy?” –

The 2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour Is Coming to a Theater Near You
Award winner “When You Left Me On That Boulevard” is one of seven shorts featured on the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour. A

Check Out These Sundance-Supported Films at the 2023 Tribeca Festival
Sundance-supported “A Revolution on Canvas (Untitled Nicky Nodjoumi)” will have its world premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Festival. (Photo courtesy of Tribeca Festival) One of

Time Travel, Australian Outlaws, and a Purple Recliner Populate These Sundance Films With June Birthdays
Jenny Slate (also known as the voice of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On) plays Donna in “Obvious Child.” (Photo by Chris Teague) By Vanessa

Give Me the Backstory: Get to Know Tom CJ Brown, the Filmmaker Behind “Christopher at Sea”
One of the most exciting things about the Sundance Film Festival is having a front-row seat for the bright future of independent filmmaking. While we

Release Rundown: Romantic “Past Lives” and Creepy “Run Rabbit Run” Open to Wider Audiences in June
Childhood friends in Korea, Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo) meet again two decades later in America, in Past Lives. By Vanessa Zimmer
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Meet the Filmmakers Behind this Year’s Sundance Film Festival Indigenous Film Tour
By Stephanie Ornelas “Indigenous joy is what makes us wake up in the morning. What’s the purpose of living if you can’t experience joy?” –

The 2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour Is Coming to a Theater Near You
Award winner “When You Left Me On That Boulevard” is one of seven shorts featured on the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour. A

Check Out These Sundance-Supported Films at the 2023 Tribeca Festival
Sundance-supported “A Revolution on Canvas (Untitled Nicky Nodjoumi)” will have its world premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Festival. (Photo courtesy of Tribeca Festival) One of
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Meet the Filmmakers Behind this Year’s Sundance Film Festival Indigenous Film Tour
By Stephanie Ornelas “Indigenous joy is what makes us wake up in the morning. What’s the purpose of living if you can’t experience joy?” –

The 2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour Is Coming to a Theater Near You
Award winner “When You Left Me On That Boulevard” is one of seven shorts featured on the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour. A

Check Out These Sundance-Supported Films at the 2023 Tribeca Festival
Sundance-supported “A Revolution on Canvas (Untitled Nicky Nodjoumi)” will have its world premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Festival. (Photo courtesy of Tribeca Festival) One of
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Meet the Filmmakers Behind this Year’s Sundance Film Festival Indigenous Film Tour
By Stephanie Ornelas “Indigenous joy is what makes us wake up in the morning. What’s the purpose of living if you can’t experience joy?” –

The 2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour Is Coming to a Theater Near You
Award winner “When You Left Me On That Boulevard” is one of seven shorts featured on the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour. A

Check Out These Sundance-Supported Films at the 2023 Tribeca Festival
Sundance-supported “A Revolution on Canvas (Untitled Nicky Nodjoumi)” will have its world premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Festival. (Photo courtesy of Tribeca Festival) One of
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Meet the Filmmakers Behind this Year’s Sundance Film Festival Indigenous Film Tour
By Stephanie Ornelas “Indigenous joy is what makes us wake up in the morning. What’s the purpose of living if you can’t experience joy?” –

Give Me the Backstory: Get to Know Tom CJ Brown, the Filmmaker Behind “Christopher at Sea”
One of the most exciting things about the Sundance Film Festival is having a front-row seat for the bright future of independent filmmaking. While we

About So Yun Um and her “Liquor Store Dreams”
So Yun Um and her father, Hae Sup Um, pose in their Los Angeles liquor store. (Photo courtesy So Yun Um) By Vanessa Zimmer Just
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Check Out These Sundance-Supported Films at the 2023 Tribeca Festival
Sundance-supported “A Revolution on Canvas (Untitled Nicky Nodjoumi)” will have its world premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Festival. (Photo courtesy of Tribeca Festival) One of

How Sundance Institute Labs Pave the Way for Influential Artists
[Above: Nia DaCosta and Tessa Thompson at Sundance Institute’s 2015 Directors Lab for “Little Woods”] By Stephanie Ornelas For over 40 years, the Sundance Institute

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Meet the Filmmakers Behind this Year’s Sundance Film Festival Indigenous Film Tour
By Stephanie Ornelas “Indigenous joy is what makes us wake up in the morning. What’s the purpose of living if you can’t experience joy?” –

The 2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour Is Coming to a Theater Near You
Award winner “When You Left Me On That Boulevard” is one of seven shorts featured on the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour. A

Release Rundown: Romantic “Past Lives” and Creepy “Run Rabbit Run” Open to Wider Audiences in June
Childhood friends in Korea, Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo) meet again two decades later in America, in Past Lives. By Vanessa Zimmer
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From the Archives: The 3 Things It Takes to Be an Independent Producer
As the spiritual closing of Sundance Institute’s Creative Producing Summit, Sundance Film Festival director John Cooper wrapped up the weekend with the “One Word Challenge.”Cooper’s challenge to his three keynote guests was simple: “It is 2011, and the most important thing a producer needs to survive is …” Panelists were given this one-word task by email before arriving in Utah and told to bring their best thinking to the audience of creative fellows and advisors. The experiment is both simple and profound, and audience members were invited to play along with cards of their own.

‘I Knew People Wanted to See It’: The ‘In Reality’ Team on Why and How They Self-Distributed
In part one of this interview, In Reality writer/director/star Ann Lupo and producer Holly Meehl shared how they got their anti-romantic comedy feature off the ground. In this second and final part, we explore how they navigated self-distribution.
Were you building an audience along the way? How did you keep people engaged?
AL: During post-production I took on a side project editing a short for Casey Neistat called “Filmmaking is a Sport,” and it completely changed my perspective on YouTube.

From Short Film to Unexpected Feature: How ‘In Reality’ Came to Life
Liz Manashil is a filmmaker and former manager of Sundance Institute’s Creative Distribution Initiative.
A few months ago, before I had a baby, I encountered the anti-romantic comedy feature film In Reality, which I immediately fell for. As I told the filmmakers later, it was the movie I needed when I was in my early 20s.
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Meet the Filmmakers Behind this Year’s Sundance Film Festival Indigenous Film Tour
By Stephanie Ornelas “Indigenous joy is what makes us wake up in the morning. What’s the purpose of living if you can’t experience joy?” –

The 2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour Is Coming to a Theater Near You
Award winner “When You Left Me On That Boulevard” is one of seven shorts featured on the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour. A

Check Out These Sundance-Supported Films at the 2023 Tribeca Festival
Sundance-supported “A Revolution on Canvas (Untitled Nicky Nodjoumi)” will have its world premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Festival. (Photo courtesy of Tribeca Festival) One of

Time Travel, Australian Outlaws, and a Purple Recliner Populate These Sundance Films With June Birthdays
Jenny Slate (also known as the voice of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On) plays Donna in “Obvious Child.” (Photo by Chris Teague) By Vanessa