The Michael Latt Legacy Fund, which launched earlier this year to honor and continue the social justice advocacy work of Michael Latt, has announced a series of grants, scholarships and educational programming to support nonprofit organizations and artists whose work leverages storytelling as a vehicle…

EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Institute this morning named the eight artists selected as Fellows for the 2024 Edition of their Episodic Lab. They are Miriam Agwai (Midnight Point), Osiris Pichardo Grullón (Majao y Mambo), Fatima Liaqat and Kyle Kubo (You’re Invading My Space), Missy Malek (Plain Sight), Paul…

EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Institute and Sandbox Films have named the documentary projects and teams that will be receiving support this year through the Sundance Institute | Sandbox Fund. The Sandbox fund provides grants to projects in any stage from development to post-production, affording filmmakers…

EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Institute, Doris Duke Foundation and Islamic Scholarship Fund have announced the second crop of recipients for its Building Bridges Fellowship, as part of the larger $1 million grant to expand and uplift Muslim storytelling and voices in the entertainment industry, announced in…

Sundance Institute has announced the storytellers selected for the 2024 Latine Fellowship and Collab Scholarship, which is in its third year. Supporting 10 early career artists, the program aims to expand Latine representation in independent media by offering professional and creative development…

On Monday, the Sundance Institute unveiled a few key bits of information surrounding the next Sundance Film Festival, which is slated to take place as usual in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah from January 23 – February 2. In a letter to the film community, Director, Sundance Film Festival and…

EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Institute on Wednesday announced the eight women set for the 2024 Sundance Women to Watch x Adobe Fellowship, a year-long program designed to support and sustain the creative practice of women artists, prioritizing filmmakers from historically underrepresented…

EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Institute has named the 10 producers selected to participate in its annual Producers Lab, taking place for the first time at Ucross Foundation in Wyoming this month. The 2024 cohort includes five fiction film producers and five nonfiction film producers. Fellows in the…

Sundance Institute announced today the fellows selected for the 2024 Directors, Screenwriters, and Native Labs. The Native Lab in New Mexico will support four fellows and two artists in residence, and the Directors Lab in Colorado will support the development of eight projects with nine fellows, with an…

The Sundance Institute is partnering with Choose Chicago and the Chicago Film Office on Sundance Institute x Chicago, a new event to kick off in the Windy City this summer. Viewed as an opportunity to highlight Chicago’s cultural scene and bolster its status as a filmmaking hub, while sharing…

The Sundance Institute announced on Friday that Joana Vicente will be stepping down as CEO, with Amanda Kelso to lead the organization as Acting CEO. No specific reason for Vicente’s departure was given, nor a next destination. But Kelso starts in her new role in April, with Vicente to continue to…

The Sundance Institute on Thursday named the eight storytellers selected for the 2024 edition of its Momentum Fellowship, a full-year program supporting the professional development of mid-career artists. The list includes Aitch Alberto, Raven Jackson, Savanah Leaf, Sing J. Lee, Laura Moss, A.V. Rockwell…