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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.

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.

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.

Sundance.org is dispatching its writers to daily screenings and events to capture the 10 days of festivities during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Check back each morning for roundups from the previous day’s events.

Sundance.org is dispatching its writers to daily screenings and events to capture the 10 days of festivities during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Check back each morning for roundups from the previous day’s events.

Park City, UT — Sundance Institute this evening announced the jury prizes and honorable mentions in short filmmaking at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. The awards were presented at a ceremony in Park City, Utah.
This year’s Short Film program is comprised of 66 short films selected from a record 8,161 submissions.

PARK CITY, UT — Sundance Institute and Mahindra today announced the winners of the 2014 Sundance Institute | Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award, in recognition and support of emerging independent filmmakers from around the world. The winning directors and projects are Hong Khaou, MONSOON from Vietnam/UK; Tobias Lindholm, A WAR from Denmark; Ashlee Page, ARCHIVE from Australia; and Neeraj Ghaywan, FLY AWAY SOLO from India.
The awards were presented at a private ceremony at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, currently underway in Park City, Utah.

Beginning today, SEPIDEH, an official selection of the 2014 World Documentary Competition section of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, is available to purchase exclusively on iTunes: www.itunes.com/sepideh.

Sundance.org is dispatching its writers to daily screenings and events to capture the 10 days of festivities during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Check back each morning for roundups from the previous day’s events.

Park City, UT — Sundance Institute today announced I Origins as the winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, as well as the recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Lab Fellowship, which is presented through the Institute’s Feature Film Program.

Park City, UT — Sundance Institute, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, today announced a new project that will harness the power of independent film to create a global conversation about extreme hunger and poverty. The Sundance Institute Short Film Challenge will spur the production of documentary and narrative films – through a global open call for three-to-eight-minute submissions – that will celebrate imaginative solutions real people are creating to overcome the challenges of extreme hunger and poverty. The project supports Sundance Institute’s mission to empower independent storytellers and connect their work to communities around the world.

How do we quantify the power of story? In this rapid-click era of social media “likes,” video on demand, and unprecedented access to story, the ability to measure impact is more problematic than ever. On Day 3 of the Sundance Film Festival, four panelists with keen–albeit disparate–relationships with story sat on the Power of Story: Weights and Measures panel to begin parsing these questions. 
Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps; Louie Psihoyos, director of The Cove; Jess Search, CEO of BRITDOC; and Paul J.