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Sundance Institute Film Forward Travels to San Diego – March 2014

Park City, UT — Sundance Institute and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities announced today that Film Forward: Advancing Cultural Dialogue will host free screenings of eight films with moderated discussions, panels and artist roundtables in San Diego, California. For a full schedule of events in California visit sundance.org/filmforward and to view content from past trips visit sundance.

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Sundance Institute Launches Fourth Year of Film Forward in Mississippi

Park City, UT — Sundance Institute and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities announced today that Film Forward: Advancing Cultural Dialogue will host free screenings of eight films with moderated discussions, panels and artist roundtables in Jackson and Cleveland, Mississippi.
For a full schedule of events in Mississippi visit sundance.org/filmforward and to view content from past trips visit sundance.

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Students at the Festival Find Inspiration, Share Insights

As part of the Sundance Film Festival’s national student outreach, full-time undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled at a college or university are granted special access to films, panels, and events as part of the Film School Pass. Below, discover experiences documented by three students at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. 
Through the Student LensBy Crystal Ortbahn 
On my first full day at the Festival, I met a volunteer who led me to the Filmmaker Lodge, knowing there would be food and coffee – always a plus for the weary traveler.

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New Frontier Flash Lab: Cultivating Story Innovators in Miami

Sundance Institute, in collaboration with the Miami Filmmaker’s Collective, is launching the inaugural New Frontier Flash Lab in Miami (FL) next month.
Through our deep investment in projects that are evolving the field of storytelling, New Frontier has gained valuable knowledge about story innovation. Just like the innovators at the dawn of the film age, New Frontier artists, creative technologists, advisors, and audiences are creating language, forms, and methodologies that will become the standard for future storytellers.

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2014 Sundance Film Festival Live Awards Updates

Hi everyone, and welcome to the live blog for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony. We’re Eric Hynes, Jeremy Kinser, and Nate von Zumwalt, and we’ll be your eyes and ears for tonight’s festivities.
As it has for the past several years, the Awards Ceremony takes place a few miles north of Park City at the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse at Kimball Junction.

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Day 9: The Sleepwalker, We Come as Friends, and the Sundance Class of ’94

The Sleepwalker and We Come as FriendsBy Eric Hynes 
 You may have heard otherwise, but the Festival was still going strong on Friday, the unseasonably mild 9th day of the Festival. Yes, there were fewer pedestrians on Main Street. And yes, Twitter chatter was down among members of the press, many of whom left town on Wednesday and Thursday along with the bulk of their Industry brethren.

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Day 8: Song One, Rich Hill, and more

Song One
For her follow-up to her Oscar win for Les Miserables, Anne Hathaway returns to the screen in another musical film—though this romantic drama is decidedly less bombastic. Director Kate Barker-Froyland’s low-key first feature Song One is as delicate as musicals come.
In her most unassuming performance to date, Hathaway headlines as Franny, an anthropologist who is estranged from her family and living in Morocco.

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Mark Rosenberg Wins 2014 Sundance Institute/NHK Award

Park City, UT — Sundance Institute and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have announced Mark Rosenberg, director of the upcoming film, Ad Inexplorata, as winner of the 2014 Sundance Institute/NHK Award. The award was presented at a private ceremony at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
Created in 1996 to celebrate 100 years of cinema, the annual award recognizes and supports a visionary filmmaker on his or her next film.

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Sundance Institute Selects Miami For First-Ever New Frontier Flash Lab

The program offers emerging artists access to Sundance Institute’s renowned creative artist development programs.
Saturday, February 15th, 2013 Public Forum 4-6pm
New World Center SunTrust Pavilion 500 17th Street Miami Beach, FL 33139
Sundance Institute and Miami Filmmakers Collective are collaborating to bring New Frontier programming to Miami’s creative community to cultivate and encourage story innovation at the convergence of art and technology. This is the first-ever Sundance Institute New Frontier Flash Lab in a location outside of its annual fall program in the mountains of Utah.

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