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Sundance Institute and Women In Film Los Angeles Study Continues to Examine

Park City, UT — Today at a gathering of filmmakers, producers and members of the film distribution industry, at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, Keri Putnam, Executive Director, Sundance Institute, and Cathy Schulman, President, Women In Film Los Angeles, announced significant growth of a collaborative initiative designed to achieve gender parity and sustainable careers for women working in filmed entertainment.
Recent expansions of the initiative, which launched two years ago, include a deepened mentorship program, new financing intensives, an expanded network of allied organizations and new and updated research, the results of which were also released today. The study was commissioned by Sundance Institute and Women In Film Los Angeles and was conducted by Stacy L.

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New Frontier at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival: “The Primordial Pool”

Oh, the humanity. Over the years, New Frontier at Sundance, the Festival’s annual showcase for vanguard works of new, immersive and interactive media, has demonstrated not only how the line between our own bodies and the technologies we employ has blurred, but also how the latter, via multiplying screens and cell phones and transmedia, continues to redefine how we think of the former. But a funny thing happened on the way to this year’s “Primordial Pool”: Humanity reasserted itself.

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Sundance Institute Receives $5 Million Grant from Open Society Foundations:

Park City, UT — Innovative documentary films addressing some of the most important issues facing the world today received a boost with a $5 million grant to the Sundance Institute. Christopher Stone, president of the Open Society Foundations, announced the dollar-for-dollar matching grant at the Sundance Film Festival.
“My foundations have long supported arts and culture–especially film–as a means to build and strengthen open societies around the world,” said George Soros,
Founder and Chairman of the Open Society Foundations.

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Artists and Backers Convene for An Artist at the Table

Last night as part of a vibrant opening night at the Festival, artists and patrons gathered at the Stein Eriksen Lodge in Deer Valley, Utah, for An Artist at the Table to underscore the vital support of Sundance Institute and its filmmakers. The annual event represents a salient reminder that the non-profit Sundance Institute is empowered by its supporters, who make possible the Institute’s yearlong support for filmmakers and their stories. More than 30 Institute-supported artists attended the gathering, which also included the world premiere screening of Whiplash and a post-screening dinner hosted by Mark Ruffalo, with celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis running the kitchen.

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Congratulations to 7 Sundance-Supported Films and Alumni On Their Oscar Nominations

Sundance Institute is thrilled to congratulate 7 Sundance-supported films and alumni on their Oscar nominations this morning, led by four films in the Best Documentary Feature category including Directing Award winner Cutie and the Boxer and World Cinema Audience Award winner The Square. Check out all of the Sundance-supported nominees below. 
Best documentary feature
Cutie and the Boxer, Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher
Dirty Wars, Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill
The Square, Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer
20 Feet from Stardom, Nominees to be determined
Adapted screenplay
Before Midnight, Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
Best animated feature film of the year
Ernest & Celestine, Benjamin Renner and Didier Brunner
Best animated short film
Feral, Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden.

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Your Guide to 2014 Festival Panels and Conversations

Part of the Sundance Film Festival’s vitality is the culture of conversation we cultivate around the films in the program, with filmmakers, documentary subjects, actors, and artists. It’s through those interactions that the films really come off the screen and audiences can engage with the people who make it. 
The program is broken up into different strands, and while some information appears in print, for the most up-to-date picture of what’s happening, check out the online guide.

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How to Fest: Off the Mountain

It goes without saying: Even in an age governed by VOD and digital platforms, there is an inimitable quality to viewing film in its traditional setting. That is (if you forgot), the theater. So goes the Sundance Film Festival experience, which is equally challenging to recreate.

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Music Takes Center Stage at 2014 Sundance Film Festival

Park City, UT — Sundance Institute today highlighted the roster of music performances to take place at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, including talent from Low Down – featuring Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea, composer Ohad Talmor and and a reading by Elle Fanning – who will perform at the ‘A Celebration of Music in Film’ event on January 19, 8:00 p.m. MT, at Sundance House Presented by HP at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.

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