Personal Stories from Bangladesh, Congo (DRC), Haiti, India, Lesotho and United States Illustrate Progress Toward Improving Health, Reducing Poverty, and Ensuring Access to Education
Films Centered on United Nations’ Millennium Goals for Improving Conditions in Worlds’ Poorest Countries to Premiere September 20 in Conjunction with TEDxChange Convened by Melinda French Gates
LOS ANGELES, CA — Sundance Institute today announced a special collaborative project with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation designed to harness the power of film to create communities and inspire action on issues related to global health, poverty and education. Six short documentary films commissioned by the Institute’s Documentary Film Program from award-winning filmmakers Glenn Baker, Teboho Edkins, Mark Monroe, Maren Grainger-Monsen, MD, Nicole Newnham, Jonathan Stack, Ricki Stern, and Annie Sundberg, will become part of a multi-platform communications initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which plans to share the films online and at speeches and public events around the world.
For nearly three decades, Sundance Institute has promoted independent storytelling to inform and inspire across political, social, religious and cultural differences.