The Sundance Institute has announced this year’s grantees for the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund, with a total of 1,396,500 in unrestricted grant support bestowed upon 35 projects.
“As we celebrate the Dfp’s 20th anniversary, it’s an exceptional achievement that Sundance has been able to provide documentary filmmakers robust and sustained financial support, from development through post-production, for two decades,” said Carrie Lozano, director of the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program. “Thanks to our incredible funders, supporters, staff, and external reviewers, the Documentary Fund has been able to realize its top priorities during a tumultuous time: supporting underrepresented stories, directors and producers; providing much needed resources to urgent international projects; and elevating human rights and social, civic and environmental justice, all while foregrounding bold and artistic approaches. I am constantly amazed by the breadth and depth of our grantees.”
This year’s grant recipients have roots in 31 countries, with...
“As we celebrate the Dfp’s 20th anniversary, it’s an exceptional achievement that Sundance has been able to provide documentary filmmakers robust and sustained financial support, from development through post-production, for two decades,” said Carrie Lozano, director of the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program. “Thanks to our incredible funders, supporters, staff, and external reviewers, the Documentary Fund has been able to realize its top priorities during a tumultuous time: supporting underrepresented stories, directors and producers; providing much needed resources to urgent international projects; and elevating human rights and social, civic and environmental justice, all while foregrounding bold and artistic approaches. I am constantly amazed by the breadth and depth of our grantees.”
This year’s grant recipients have roots in 31 countries, with...
- 10/6/2022
- by Michaela Zee
- Variety Film + TV
Previously supported projects have included American Factory, Collective, Fire Of Love, The Mole Agent.
Projects from Armenia, Chile, Uganda and Palestine are among grantees of the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund, which in the 20th anniversary year of the Documentary Film Program (Dfp) has made 1.4m available in unrestricted grant support to 35 projects.
Of the recipients, five are in development, 15 in production, 10 in post, and the filmmakers behind five are actively pursuing support for audience engagement and social impact campaigns.
Some 57 of the current cycle’s submissions hail from outside the US. Among the 14 US films receiving support, all are directed...
Projects from Armenia, Chile, Uganda and Palestine are among grantees of the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund, which in the 20th anniversary year of the Documentary Film Program (Dfp) has made 1.4m available in unrestricted grant support to 35 projects.
Of the recipients, five are in development, 15 in production, 10 in post, and the filmmakers behind five are actively pursuing support for audience engagement and social impact campaigns.
Some 57 of the current cycle’s submissions hail from outside the US. Among the 14 US films receiving support, all are directed...
- 10/4/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Circle Women Doc Accelerator, a training program for women documentary filmmakers conceived with a focus on Southern and Eastern Europe, has selected the four projects that will take part in its showcase as part of the Cannes Docs program of the Cannes Film Market, Variety can reveal.
Hailing from the program’s backyard in the Balkans to as far afield as Brazil and Taiwan, the selection reflects the growing ambition of a program now in its fourth year.
“Although Circle started off as a regional initiative for Southeast European filmmakers, it quickly expanded to the whole world,” said the program’s director Biljana Tutorov and project manager Antigoni Papantoni. “This year’s selection is proof of the international scale that Circle has achieved.”
“Cent’Anni” is directed by Slovenian filmmaker Maja Doroteja Prelog and produced by Rok Biček, Alessandro Leone, and Massimo Casula. A personal confession about the impact of illness on a relationship,...
Hailing from the program’s backyard in the Balkans to as far afield as Brazil and Taiwan, the selection reflects the growing ambition of a program now in its fourth year.
“Although Circle started off as a regional initiative for Southeast European filmmakers, it quickly expanded to the whole world,” said the program’s director Biljana Tutorov and project manager Antigoni Papantoni. “This year’s selection is proof of the international scale that Circle has achieved.”
“Cent’Anni” is directed by Slovenian filmmaker Maja Doroteja Prelog and produced by Rok Biček, Alessandro Leone, and Massimo Casula. A personal confession about the impact of illness on a relationship,...
- 6/16/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
The Filipino-Taiwanese documentary is directed by Venice Atienza.
Toronto-based sales outlet Syndicado Film Sales has boarded Last Days At Sea, Venice Atienza’s documentary which has its world premiere in Generation Kplus at this week’s online Berlinale.
The film was developed in Indonesia’s If/Then Sea Story Development Lab in 2018, going on to win the IDFA award at the Docs By The Sea lab in the same country that year.
It has also featured in the Rough Cut Lab in Visions Du Réel where it won the subtitling award; the IDFA Project Space; and the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum work-in-progress section.
Toronto-based sales outlet Syndicado Film Sales has boarded Last Days At Sea, Venice Atienza’s documentary which has its world premiere in Generation Kplus at this week’s online Berlinale.
The film was developed in Indonesia’s If/Then Sea Story Development Lab in 2018, going on to win the IDFA award at the Docs By The Sea lab in the same country that year.
It has also featured in the Rough Cut Lab in Visions Du Réel where it won the subtitling award; the IDFA Project Space; and the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum work-in-progress section.
- 3/4/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The Filipino documentary filmmaker was born in 1989. In her work, she is particularly interested in examining how transformations in life can be effected by mundane everyday actions. An alumna of the European Doc Nomads programme, she co-founded Svemirko Film Productions with Taiwanese director and producer Fan Wu in order to create a platform for author-driven documentary films. Last Days at Sea is her first feature-length film.
On the occasion of “Last Days at Sea” screening at Berlinale, we speak with her about shooting her first feature, the concept of the documentary, Reyboy and Karihatag, Jollibee fries and the memories of sea slugs.
My first question is a bit silly. When I was watching the film, I was actually really hungry. So, what stuck in my mind is if these Jollibee fries Reyboy likes so much are any good?
(laughs) It actually is. Jollibee is the Filipino version of McDonalds, I would say.
On the occasion of “Last Days at Sea” screening at Berlinale, we speak with her about shooting her first feature, the concept of the documentary, Reyboy and Karihatag, Jollibee fries and the memories of sea slugs.
My first question is a bit silly. When I was watching the film, I was actually really hungry. So, what stuck in my mind is if these Jollibee fries Reyboy likes so much are any good?
(laughs) It actually is. Jollibee is the Filipino version of McDonalds, I would say.
- 3/3/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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