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2025 Directors Lab fellow Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs (@kdeveryjacobs) explores her Mohawk Identity in the film “High Steel” that she is developing with the support of this summer’s Lab. 🌆
To ensure future fellows have access to this formative space, we invite you to make a gift and join us in championing independent voices by helping keep the Labs alive. Support: store.sundance.org/Support/Donati…
Fellows in the Documentary Producers Lab: Loi Ameera Almeron (@loialmeron), Wendy P. Espinal, Crystal Isaac (@crystal_issac), Elijah Stevens, and Nicole Tsien (@nicoletsien).
To ensure future fellows have access to this formative space, we invite you to make a gift and join us in championing independent voices by helping keep the Labs alive. Support: store.sundance.org/Support/Donati…
To ensure future fellows have access to this formative space, we invite you to make a gift and join us in championing independent voices by helping keep the Labs alive. Support: store.sundance.org/Support/Donati…
Join artist Nava Mau (@navamau) and Moi Santos (@moi_cis), founder of the Trans Possibilities Intensive at Sundance Institute, for a conversation on the power of trans-led storytelling. Wednesday, July 30, 2025 10–11 AM PT Register for free: sndnc.org/3UtZdce
That’s a wrap on the 2025 Sundance Film Festival: Local Lens screening series! 🎬 Thank you to the incredible artists who joined us and to everyone who came out to celebrate fearless storytelling and independent voices.
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!
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
Fellows in the Feature Film Producers Lab: Ryan Bobkin, April S. Chang and Vicki Syal, Karen Madar, Steven Snyder, and Daniel Tantalean.
Before co-creating "Reservation Dogs," Sterlin Harjo was a young filmmaker searching for his voice. At the 2004 Sundance Institute Directors Lab, he found a community that believed in him—and it changed everything. Read more: bit.ly/462b60i
Not all independence comes with fireworks. Sometimes it’s a filmmaker following their gut and telling a story only they can tell. 13 Sundance Institute-supported films made the The New York Times’ 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century list, proving independent film doesn’t follow…
Writer-director Celine Song (@helloellephanta) made sure every sound in “Materialists” hit with meaning. Go behind the scenes in Telling Story Through Sound and Music, a conversation with Celine and the team presented by @Dolby Creator Lab. Watch: bit.ly/3Ibj8db
Brilliant Zoom call happening NOW with @joltfilm CEO Tara Hein-Phillips & CAN'T LOOK AWAY filmmakers @perripeltz & @mattodocs discussing 'Harnessing Data for Audience Discovery' for indie film 🎬 Thank you so much to @sundanceorg
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Presidential campaigns, Satanic rituals, courtroom showdowns, romantic disasters, and Arctic survival. This July, Sundance Institute-supported films offer stories that challenge, captivate, and inspire. Four documentaries and two fiction features are reaching wider audiences.…
“It’s the safest place you can possibly enter into.” "Big Fish" and "Frankenweenie" screenwriter John August on 25 years of creative advising at the Sundance Institute Labs and why exploration matters more than polish. Read more: bit.ly/3ZXn1sn
Don’t miss Jolt CEO Tara Hein-Phillips + CAN'T LOOK AWAY filmmakers @perripeltz and @mattodocs in a candid convo with @sundanceorg's #SundanceCollab on using tech for good in indie film. 📆 July 3 🔗 FREE RSVP: t2d.tv/1irj #watchonjolt #cantlookawaydoc #indiefilm