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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.

Matria Wins Grand Jury Prize

Park City, Utah — Winners of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival jury prizes in short filmmaking were announced today
by Sundance Institute at a ceremony in Park City, Utah. The
Short Film Grand Jury Prize, awarded to one film in the program of 69 shorts selected from 8,740 submissions, went
to
Matria, written and directed by
Álvaro Gago. Full video of the ceremony is at
youtube.

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.

Winners of Commissioning Grant, Episodic Storytelling Grant and Lab Fellowship Revealed

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Director-Screenwriter Aneesh Chaganty Honored

Park City, Utah — At a reception at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival today, the beneficiaries of $71,000 in grants
from Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation were revealed.
Doron Weber, Sloan Vice President of Programs and Director of the Public Understanding of Science and Technology program, presented the Feature
Film Prize to
Search and announced the new winners:
Cherien Dabis’s
What The Eyes Don’t See (Sundance Institute | Sloan Commissioning Grant), produced by Rosalie Swedlin for Anonymous Content and executive produced by Michael Sugar;
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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.

Fellowship Honors Artistic Contributions of Late Māori Filmmaker

PARK CITY, Utah — Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (Blackfoot/Sámi) from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is the 2018
recipient of the Sundance Institute Merata Mita Fellowship—an annual fellowship named in honor of the late Māori filmmaker
Merata Mita (1942-2010). The announcement was delivered today at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
For the third consecutive year, Sundance Institute has identified an Indigenous filmmaker from a global pool of nominees
to award a cash grant and provide a year-long continuum of support with activities including a trip to the Sundance Film
Festival, access to strategic and creative services offered by Sundance Institute artist programs, and mentorship opportunities.

What’s the purpose of a film festival if the narrative ends when the reel runs out? Offscreen at the Sundance Film Festival was created to extend the life of the stories on screen, to ignite conversation, and to encourage debate. This year, with an Offscreen program as robust as ever, we’re highlighting the panels and presentations that will be keeping the pilot flame lit on conversations throughout the Festival.Ways of SeeingTuesday, January 23, 2:00–3:30 p.

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.

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.

It should come as no surprise that transparency and accountability surfaced as vital themes on day one at the Sundance Film Festival. From Oscar snubs and questions surrounding diversity—ahem, or the lack thereof—to attacks on freedom of expression, the Festival’s Day One Press Conference has functioned in recent years as a moment to survey the state of affairs in independent film, and more importantly, our world at large. This year, as a seemingly endless stream of appalling sexual misconduct cases are brought to light alongside the #MeToo movement, Sundance Institute President and Founder Robert Redford did not mince words when addressing the widespread problem.