Michelle Satter
@SundanceSatter
#Sundance Founding Senior Director, @Sundanceorg Artist Programs
Enjoying a great experience with our partners from Hidden Empire Sports Collective at the NBA Summer League in Vegas watching games, films made by very talented athletes and attending educational workshops!


Great to be together with our super talented Fellows and enormously generous Advisors at our very special @sundanceorg PRODUCERS LAB! So many great conversations about supporting development, budgeting, financing, production, post-production & marketing/distribution!

We’re very excited to support eleven indie producers joining our Producers Lab taking place over the next two weeks at the UCross Foundation in Wyoming!
Announcing the eleven independent producers selected for the 2025 Sundance Institute Producers Lab! The Lab will take place at Ucross Foundation in Wyoming from July 14–19 for fiction producers and July 19–24 for nonfiction producers. Learn more: sndnc.org/4loklN1
Beautiful evening honoring our son Michael Latt’s Legacy through the Sola Foundation’s Art in Action: The Michael Latt Artivist Accelerator Program. Amazing to see the work of 13 artists selected for the 12 week internship focusing on creativity, activism & entrepreneurship!


So much fun watching F1: The Movie at the IMAX Theatre in an evening hosted by the great Miky Lee, Vice Chairman of CJ Group. The photo includes Miky, @janetyang1 and @davidjlatt!

We had a fantastic Episodic Program Summer Social hosted by our great supporter Sarah Timberman with so many of our Alum, Creative Advisors and Industry Mentors that was organized by our wonderful @sundanceorg colleague Jandiz Cardoso, Director of our Episodic Program.

We just completed our June Screenwriters Lab today and it was a truly meaningful and change making group of Fellows and beyond generous group of Creative Advisors coming together as an exceptional community of visionary artists with essential stories to tell.

We’re excited that our @sundanceorg X @Adobe Fellowship Program IGNITE LAB starts up on Monday with 10 super talented emerging storytellers!
🎬 Announcing the fellows selected for the Sundance Institute Ignite x @Adobe Fellowship. These 10 emerging storytellers will attend the Ignite Lab at @MASS_MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts from June 23–27. Read more: bit.ly/463W6i8
Great to be in Boulder with my colleague Eugene Hernandez, @eug, our head of @sundancefest and public programming, at a wonderful gathering of supporters and friends!

It’s hard to believe that this is the last day of our @sundanceorg Directors Lab but feel so great about all that was learned by our amazing group of writer/directors. It was a truly special experience for all of us! Check out our Fellows!

Such a great group of 2nd week creative advisors @sundanceorg Directors Lab: @RickFamuyiwa, Gyula Gazdag, Ed Harris, Joi McMillon, @jomofray, Christine Lahti, Nicole Holofcener & @JasonReitman!

We’re beyond fortunate to have such an incredibly talented group of Actors and Crew in a beautiful collaboration with our Fellows @sundanceorg Directors Lab!


It’s Group Photo Day @sundanceorg Directors Lab bringing our community together to celebrate our joyful, inspiring and meaningful experience supporting groundbreaking independent voices!

Lunch meetings @sundanceorg Directors Lab: Co-Writers/Directors/Actors Kasey Elise Walker & Andrea Ellsworth (Project:THE DISPUTE) with Creative Advisor DP Amy Vincent and Shooting DP Gemma Doll-Grossman.

Our first week of amazingly generous creative advisors just arrived @sundanceorg Directors Lab along with our actors. Wonderful to welcome Kasi Lemmons and Karyn Kusama!

It’s great seeing herds of elk in beautiful Estes Park, Colorado where we’re holding our @sundanceorg Directors Lab. Redford always cared deeply about the intersection of art and nature!

Introducing our @sundanceorg super talented Directors Lab Fellow: Leo Aguirre, Lana Wilson, Chloe Sarbin, Alexandra Qin, Diffan Norman, Cheangkea leng, Kawennahere Devery Jacobs, Kasey Elise Walker & Andrea Ellsworth!

Enjoy these photos of our @sundanceorg Lab Fellows and our group that includes key staff and crew! We just started up the Directors Lab yesterday and we’re off and running, bringing creativity and community together in a very special way!


Another great filmmaker supported by our @sundanceorg Screenwriters and Directors Lab having an unforgettable moment @Festival_Cannes. Diego Cespedes from Chile won the top Un Certain Regard Prize for his film THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO!
Congrats to filmmaker Diego Céspedes! His Sundance Institute-supported film “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo” has won the main Un Certain Regard prize this evening at #Cannes2025. 👏