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Los Angeles, CA — Fifty Hollywood leaders and influencers, including studio heads, agency partners, senior network executives, talent and guild representatives brought together by Women In Film and Sundance Institute today announce the launch of ReFrame, a formal action plan to further gender parity in the media industry.

Building on last year’s two-day convening of this group, ReFrame’s unique strategy is its peer-to-peer approach, in which ReFrame Ambassador teams engage senior industry decision-makers.

As part of their commitment to developing and nurturing the next generation of creative voices, Sundance Institute and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation annually select four Knight Fellows to attend the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Kickstarter celebrated some major milestones at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. It was the seventh year that Kickstarter-funded films have screened at the Festival, with two of our alumni winning major awards. Indiewire’s online gallery presented a nostalgic timeline of Kickstarter’s journey with the Festival and the Institute, and showcased the breadth of films and diverse creators who have run bold engagement campaigns that put them on the road to Sundance success and beyond.

Sundance Institute stands in solidarity with artists in our global community. Freedom of expression and freedom of movement are inextricably linked. Banning Muslims from particular countries is not simply a U.

Hi everyone, and welcome to the live blog for the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony. For the fifth consecutive year, we’re Eric Hynes, Jeremy Kinser, and Nate von Zumwalt, and we’ll be your eyes and ears for tonight’s festivities. We’re stationed to the right of the stage, astride the sea of folding chairs that await ticketholders.

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.

If you’re convinced you already know everything about Gigi Gorgeous, think again. With her latest documentary, This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous, award-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple (Harlan County U.S.

I don’t feel at home in this world anymore.
Credit: Allyson Riggs

Chasing Coral
Credit: The Ocean Agency/XL Catlin Seaview Survey/Aaron Spence

Crown Heights
Credit: Ben Kutchins

Park City, Utah — After 10 days, 119 feature films and three feet of snow, an evening of humor and humanity marked the 2017 Sundance Film Festival’s Awards Ceremony, with host Jessica Williams emceeing and jurors presenting 27 prizes for feature filmmaking in Park City, Utah. Honorees, named in total below, range from sharp comedies to provocative and timely documentaries and represent new achievements in global independent storytelling.

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.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.

When J.D. Salinger published his novel The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, the author gave voice to a generation of disillusioned young people that hadn’t been as powerfully represented in literature.

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.