News
Sundance Institute has announced the participants selected for the 2023 Momentum Fellowship, a program “designed to support and provide coaching to mid-career artists with a focus on career...
The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) and the Sundance Institute have teamed up to launch a new fellowship and scholarship for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) artists, in order to provide...
The Sundance Institute has launched a new program, the Latine Fellowship and Collab Scholarship, with the aim of bolstering Latinx representation in indie filmmaking, according to a press...
Sundance Institute has announced the eight artists chosen for the third inaugural Women at Sundance | Adobe Fellowship. Elizabeth Ai (“A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader...
Sundance Institute has selected eight artists for the second annual Women at Sundance Adobe Fellowship. Variety confirms that Deborah Esquenazi (“Southwest of Salem”), McKenzie Chinn...
Sundance Institute has selected six artists for its inaugural Trans Possibilities Intensive. Ava Davis, StormMiguel Florez, River Gallo, Carol Grant, Mitchell (MiSha) Owens, and Savannah Ward are...
Sundance Institute and Laugh Out Loud, Kevin Hart’s production company and digital network, are teaming up to launch Women Write Now, a screenwriting fellowship dedicated to championing the...
Festivals
Sundance is bringing on its first new Festival Director in 11 years — and she’s the first woman and person of color to take on the role. A press release has announced that, following a...
Sundance Institute has chosen eight underrepresented filmmakers for its second Momentum Fellowship, and four women filmmakers for its inaugural Launch Grant Fund, a press release has announced. The...
Sundance is continuing to up its inclusion game ahead of its 2019 festival. As previously reported, the fest has agreed to make its submissions data transparent and is working to ensure a more...
Features, Films, News, Women Directors
Under media pressure and the threat of possible government intervention, Hollywood seems to finally be taking its female-protagonist and woman-director problems more seriously. Forty-four industry...
Films, News, Women Directors
There are dozens of grants, workshops, blogs, archives, film festivals, resource lists and mentoring programs out there for female filmmakers, but finding the ones relevant to you can be a...
News, Research, Women Directors
The big Hollywood studios are all in Las Vegas this week, showing off their upcoming summer films to the theatre owners at CinemaCon. Clearly, gender is on their mind, since John Fithian, the head...
The Sundance Institute awarded 29 documentaries grants from their Documentary Film Program and Fund. Combined all the films will receive over $550,000 in grants. Here are the women directed...
The Sundance Institute announced the 13 projects chosen for their prestigious June Director and Screenwriter Labs which take place from May 27-June 27. The program has fellows work with...
The Sundance Institute has picked 12 projects to participate in their January Screenwriters Lab. The workshop provides writers the opportunity to find financing and other resources for their films....
Documentary, Features, News, Women Directors
Last week was Independent Film Week here in NYC. There are a wide variety of events, panels and of course parties. I was able to attend the Chicken and Egg Pictures event (which was beyond packed)...
News, Women Directors
The Sundance Institute recently announced their 27 recipients for development, production and audience engagement grants. Of the 27 grant recipients, 15 of the projects are led by women or include...
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