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- Alejandro Ramírez Magaña is Chief Executive Officer of Cinépolis, the largest film exhibition company in Latin America, with presence in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Central America, India and the United States. He served as Mexico's Deputy Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and as Technical Secretary of the Social Cabinet of the Government of Mexico. He has worked for the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme in the areas of poverty and human development. He co-authored "Poverty, Human Development and Indigenous People in Latin America", is Chairman of the Morelia International Film Festival and co-founded "Ambulante", a documentary film festival in Mexico. He holds a BA in Economics from Harvard University, an MSc in Development Economics from the University of Oxford and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Amanda Kelso is passionate about technology and storytelling, and how together they can shape communities. She has spent the last 25 years serving as a creative communications and brand leader for global tech companies as well as lending her skills to non-profit organizations and startups. Amanda's tenure includes helping to foster and oversee the stewardship of Instagram's community of more than one billion people, serving as the Managing Director of Google Creative Lab, and providing creative digital leadership at Goodby Silverstein & Partners and West Ventures. While the majority of her career has been working in a creative capacity in the technology sector, early in her career she worked on television productions including Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Amanda holds a BA in Film from Columbia College at Columbia University and is an incoming DCI Fellow at Stanford University.
As an advocate for independent storytellers, in addition to being a trustee of the Sundance Institute, Amanda is also a member of the Producers Guild of America's New Media Council, and a judge for the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Work she has produced has been recognized by Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, SXSW, D&AD, Clios, One Show, The Jim Henson Technology Honor, and Communication Arts. Amanda recently co-published a public meditations project encouraging people to take time out of their busy days to meditate.- Actress
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Amy Redford is currently in post-production on Angela Robinson's Professor Marston and the Wonder Woman. She is an actress, director, and producer that brings a unique perspective to the creative process after decades of experience on both sides of the camera. Her directing and producing credits include a series of videos of Sony Music's release of Jeff Buckley's album You and I; I am a wolf you are the Moon with Craig Wedren for Wet Hot American Summer; a short film called DeLiVeRy withEthan Suplee and Lukas Haas; the show Aperture for HGTV; and, a branded short for Bloomingdales called Tea for Three. Her directorial debut was The Guitar, starring Saffron Burrows, which premiered at The Sundance Film Festival. Her other upcoming projects include the features: 60'6", Claude and the Birthday Cake, which she's co-writing with Jude Falaise about growing up in Haiti in 1963, and Cowboys and Indians about the collision of cultured from the American west and Indian Americans. Amy is also co-creating two series called Royal Hotel with Deirdre Lewis, and Bedlam with David Connolly and Hannah Davis. Her acting credits include national and international films, TV and theatre. Amy did her postgraduate work at LAMDA, studied at ACT, The Actors Center, Circle Rep, and earned her BA from SFSU and University of Colorado, Boulder. Amy is on the Board of the Sundance Institute and heavily involved with the Sundance Resort, Utah. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three daughters.- Additional Crew
Ann is Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Adobe, a position she has held for over a decade. Under her leadership, the Adobe brand has become synonymous with creativity, digital marketing and the design and development of transformative digital experiences. In addition to its consistent focus on creativity, Adobe's marketing organization pioneered the shift to digital - deploying advanced digital marketing technology, establishing an insight-driven culture, and setting a template for marketing's impact on business. Prior to Adobe, Ann spent 20 years building the iconic Intel Inside brand as VP of Marketing. Forbes has recognized her as one of the top CMOs in the world, Ad Age has named her one of The Creativity 50 and she was inducted into the American Marketing Association's Hall of Fame in 2019. Ann received her B.A. in Political Science and Journalism from Lehigh University. She currently serves on the board of Mattel and is an active participant in the Sundance Catalyst program. Believing everyone has a story to tell, Ann is a strong advocate for empowering diverse creators, including women, youth and other under-represented groups.- Executive
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Betsy Wallace is the Managing Director, overseeing all aspects of finance and legal and business development for Sundance Institute. Betsy brings over 35 years of financial and leadership experience, domestic and international, to the Institute.
During Betsy's career, she has been chief financial officer and chief accounting officer of both public and private for-profit companies, including PetSmart, DSW, REC Solar (where she was also CEO), TravelClick, and American Skiing Company. While living overseas in Singapore for close to a decade, Betsy was the CFO for Citigroup's business development group for its greater Asia business, and prior to that she was the CFO of Hubbell International Inc. Betsy began her career with Deloitte & Touche CPAs.
Betsy graduated from the USC Marshall School of Business graduate program with an emphasis in finance and has her undergraduate degree in psychology from UCLA. Betsy has been involved on several nonprofit boards including Leadership California, PrimeTime Singapore, and Habitat for Humanity: Summit and Wasatch Counties. She and her husband live in Park City, Utah.- Producer
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Carrie Lozano joined Sundance as the Director of the Documentary Film Program in 2020 where she works to elevate and support nonfiction filmmakers worldwide at all stages of creating and distributing new cinematic work. Lozano is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, and a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. She joins the Institute from the International Documentary Association's Enterprise Documentary Fund; where she co-founded and oversaw the program, which supported dozens of filmmakers over the last four years, with an emphasis on journalistic rigor, diversity and inclusion.
Prior to the IDA, Lozano led the Bay Area Video Coalition's National MediaMaker Fellowship and was an executive and senior producer at Al Jazeera America. Films that she has directed or produced have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival; her most recent film is 2016's The Ballad of Fred Hersch. Lozano serves on the boards of the nonprofit production companies Kartemquin Films, Swell Cinema and The Free History Project.- Caterina Fake is an American entrepreneur and social media innovator. Ms. Fake was cofounder of Flickr, the seminal social photo sharing site; and Hunch, which created the 'taste graph of the internet'. They were acquired by Yahoo and eBay respectively. She is founder and CEO of Findery, a mobile app about places for social and local sharing. For eight years she served as Director and Chairman of the Board of Etsy, the marketplace of unique goods. She was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people, and received the Aenne Burda Award for Creative Leadership. Ms. Fake is a Founder Partner at Founder Collective, advises startups and new businesses, and has served on the Boards of Directors of many non-profits and startups, including Creative Commons and Creative Live, as well as on the Advisory Board of the UC Berkeley School of Information. She attended Smith College, and graduated from Vassar College in 1991. She is the cofounder of Sesat School, and serves on the advisory board of Rarecancer. Ms. Fake has received Honorary Doctorates from the Rhode Island School of Design (2009) and The New School (2013).
- Cindy Harrell Horn is an advocate for education, public health, and the environment. She has worked with the UCLA School of Public Health in California and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico in their new effort to combat emerging infectious diseases. She has also helped secure bipartisan funding and support for the UCLA/LANL High Speed, High Volume Laboratory Network.
Horn is a cofounder and member of the Board of the Environmental Media Association (EMA), a nonprofit organization created to inspire and coordinate an entertainment industry response to global environmental crises. Horn was a founding trustee of Heal the Bay and The Archer School for Girls. She has also served as a board member for The Coalition for Clean Air, Tree People, The Natural Step, the Center for Environmental Education, the UCLA School of Public Health, and is a member of the Painting Conservatory Council for the J. Paul Getty Museum. In 1991 she was appointed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, William Reilly, to serve on the National Education Advisory Council and was awarded the State of California Legislative Woman of the Year. Horn has been honored by American Oceans Campaign, Heal the Bay, The Archer School for Girls, EMA, and the UCLA School of Public Health. Horn and her husband Alan reside in Los Angeles. - Writer
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Since 2005 he has been in Kelly Clarkson's band. He plays the guitar and violin as well as a back up vocalist. In 2007 he was named the new lead guitarist in Clarkson's band. He plays many different instruments, he is a producer, vocalist, audio engineer, and a digital editor and is wanted by the top people in the entertainment industry. He is very talented and very valued by people in the music industry! He also worked for Shania Twain, Elton John, Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, The Corrs, Reba, and many more artists!- Director
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Having graduated from the Universidad del Cine in Argentina, Daniel Barosa lives in Los Angeles after spending ten years directing and producing documentaries, music videos, and branded content in Brazil. His latest short, Boi de Conchas, premiered in Sundance 2024. With the help of the Eave workshop and the Havana Film Festival original screenplay competition, he developed the feature fiction film, Boni Bonita, which was awarded a post-production fund by Vision Sud Est. After screenings and awards in festivals such as Mar del Plata and Slamdance, the film was released theatrically in Argentina and Brazil. Daniel also directed the television documentary GRU-PDX, which Sundance TV purchased, and the award-winning short A Tenista, which screened in over 40 festivals worldwide, including Rotterdam, BFI London, and Seattle. Daniel has participated in several workshops throughout his career, such as Produire au Sud and Morelia Lab.- Producer
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Prior to having children, Donna Gruneich's work focused on the financial industry. She worked for North Carolina National Bank from 1985 through 1987, trading for the Trust Division. In 1987, she relocated to New York City and worked for Oppenheimer and Company as a Convertible Bond Sales/Trader.
Donna is passionate about education and the arts. She is the past Chairman of the Board at Park City Academy and is a founding trustee of the Park City Day School Board. The bulk of her work on both boards has centered on long-term sustainability, finance and governance. She is a past board member of the Park City Institute, and she is the past Chairman of the Sundance Institute's Utah Advisory Board.
Donna and her husband, Kevin, are members of Impact Partners which brings together philanthropists and filmmakers so that, together, they can create great films that entertain audiences, enrich lives, and ignite lasting social change. Through Impact Partners, Donna has been involved with films such as Children of Invention, No Impact Man, Secrecy, Meet The Patels and the Oscar-winning films, The Cove and Freeheld. Donna and Kevin are also part of Gamechanger Films which aims to shift the gender disparity in the film marketplace by tapping into the enormous yet undervalued talent pool of women directors and providing the financing necessary to bring their work to audiences worldwide. Independently of these groups they Co-Executive Produced the Oscar nominated documentary Cartel Land and Executive Produced The Bad Kids.
After having a second home in Park City for over eight years, the Gruneichs moved to Park City from Connecticut permanently in 2005. They have three children-Allison, Alex and Anna-the two girls attend school on the East Coast and Alex on the West Coast.- Director
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Ebs Burnough is a filmmaker, writer, producer, and marketing and communications executive.
He is the former White House Deputy Social Secretary and Senior Advisor to First Lady Michelle Obama in brand strategy and strategic communications. With nearly two decades of strategic leadership in politics, public policy, the private sector and the arts.
Burnough serves as the Managing Director of Hatch House Media, a production company focusing on film, television and theatre.
Additionally, he serves as the President and founder of Ebs Burnough Solutions International (EBSI); a firm dedicated to providing clients with an interdisciplinary approach to marketing, communications and event production.
In 2019, Burnough made his directorial debut with the documentary THE CAPOTE TAPES. The film explores the impact of iconic writer Truman Capote's explosive unfinished novel "Answered Prayers,"using never before heard audio archive and interviews with Capote's friends and enemies. THE CAPOTE TAPES received its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2019. Greenwich Entertainment will release THE CAPOTE TAPES in the U.S. in the summer of 2021.
Prior to founding EBSI, Burnough served as Director of Communications for AERIN, a global lifestyle brand founded by cosmetics entrepreneur Aerin Lauder.
Before AERIN, Burnough served as Deputy White House Social Secretary where he developed and executed hundreds of events on behalf of President and Mrs. Obama, including the G-20 Global Summit, numerous White House State Dinners, as well as producing "Broadway at the White House" televised on PBS.
Prior to joining the Obama Administration in the White House, Burnough served as Political Director to Mrs. Obama on the 2008 Presidential Campaign. He also served as the Director of Politics and Legislation managing Maryland and the District of Columbia for SEIU Local 1199.
Burnough is a graduate of Northwestern University and serves as Vice-Chair of the board of the Sundance Institute, as well as on the board of Steppenwolf Theatre Company.- Writer
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Florian Zeller is a French writer and director. He is, according to the Times, "the most exciting playwright of our time." He has written more than 10 plays, which have been staged in more than 45 countries. His black-comedy play "The Father" is one of the outstanding hits of recent years. It has won several awards in Paris, London, and New York. "The Father" is his first film as a director.- Producer
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As producing director of the Sundance Institute, Gina manages year-round programming and engagement among the industry and artist communities, and partners with artist program leaders to integrate their artistic visions with its practical elements. She previously served as VP of film and strategic programming at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and was director of industry engagement and special programs at the Jacob Burns Film Center.- Jeanne Donovan Fisher is a producer, investor, and philanthropist living in New York City. Fisher is president of True Love Productions, a theater and film production company in New York that she formed in 2001. Prior to the producing venture, Fisher's professional background was in strategic communications. From 1992 until 1998, she was a managing director and founding partner of Citigate SVC, a public relations consulting firm in New York. Before joining SVC, she was vice president and director of corporate communications at Morgan Stanley. She served as the company's primary spokesperson, oversaw its communications on a worldwide basis, and was responsible for Morgan Stanley's public relations, media relations, advertising, and editorial services functions.
Fisher is an active philanthropist who serves on the boards of Sundance Institute, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Environmental Defense Fund, the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard (chair), and the American Fund for the Tate Modern. She also supports numerous other nonprofit institutions, particularly in the areas of arts and education.
Fisher was born in Boston and grew up in Hudson, Ohio. Her interests include theater, film, 20th century art and design, fiction, golf, and champagne. She is the wife of the late Richard B. Fisher, former chairman and chief executive of Morgan Stanley. - Producer
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Jessie Nelson wrote, directed and produced Corrina Corrina and I Am Sam, starring Sean Penn. She co-created and executive produced Sara Bareilles' Little Voice for Bad Robot and Apple TV. Among her other directing credits are Curb Your Enthusiasm and Love, The Coopers. Her writing credits also include Step Mom and The Story of Us. Nelson wrote the Broadway musical Waitress with music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles, which went on to the West End in London. Nelson directed Alice By Heart, which she co-wrote with Steven Sater with music by Duncan Sheik at the National Theater Connections Program in London and at MCC in NYC. She began her career as an actress at the Public Theater, working with the experimental theater, Mabou Mines, and acting with the New York Shakespeare Festival. Nelson is executive producing Nikesh Shukula's Brown Baby and Glennon Doyle's Untamed for television. She wrote the children's book Labracadabra.- John Cooper has been a member of the Sundance Film Festival programming staff since 1989 and assumed the role of Festival Director in April of 2009 after serving as the Sundance Film Festival's Director of Programming since 2003. In January 2020, Cooper stepped into the role of Emeritus Director.
His early work in theater, ranging from performance to design, took him to New York City. By chance, he volunteered at the Institute's Summer Labs in 1989 and fell in love with the process and energy of Sundance. He returned to California to become part of the Festival programming team, which at that time consisted of two people. In the Festival's early years, Cooper created the short film program and quickly transitioned into programming documentaries and feature films.
In recent years, he took the lead in developing the Institute's online presence, which has garnered two Webby Awards. As Festival Director, he oversaw creative direction of the Festival and had final decision on all films and events. Other work includes guest curator or juror at major film festivals around the world. From 1995-1998 Cooper served as Programming Director of Outfest, a Los Angeles festival held annually in July, and until 2002 served on the Outfest Board of Directors. - Junaid is a theatre actor, director, dramaturge, and a founding member of Beirut-based Zoukak Theatre Company (2006). And a member of the Sundance board of trustees since Oct 2019. He has directed several theatre plays with Zoukak and other artists including, "Ish Ibka..." (2007), "Lucena / Obedience Training" (2013), "Heavens" (2014), "The Jokers" (2017), and "36 Abbas street, Haifa" (2017). As a dramaturge, Junaid worked on several theatre and dance performances, including "Mahalli" (2012), "Fatmeh" (2014), "Leila's Death" (2015), "May he rise..." (2017) and "NIGHT" (2019), and performed in more than 20 productions in the past fourteen years, touring in multiple cities and festivals around the world. Since 2016, he is a fellow artist of the Sundance Theatre Program where he took part in various Theatre Labs, both as a director and as a Dramaturge in the United States of America and in the MENA region.
Establishing Zoukak has provided Junaid a broad experience in art direction, curating cultural events and festivals, in addition to the knowledge in the management of non-governmental and cultural associations on the national, regional and international contexts. He was a member of several initiatives focusing on cultural policies and other social and cultural issues in Lebanon including, censorship, public space, cultural heritage, and history.
Junaid is a trainer on the use of theatre in various educational, social, and psychosocial contexts. With Zoukak, Junaid trains teachers, educators and leaders of activity centers, in addition to leading psychosocial interventions in different regions across Lebanon that target various communities and age groups; including drama-therapy workshops in different mediation techniques, in addition to the facilitation and creation of collective theatre performances with communities. He has conducted theatre classes in several schools; and in centers for children with special needs.
For its artistic and social engagement, Zoukak received the Ibsen Scholarship award (2012), the Anna Lindh Foundation's Euro-med Dialogue Award for social resilience and creativity (2014), the Honorary Citizenship of the City of Palermo (2017), the Praemium Imperial Award for Young Artists from the Japan Arts Association (2017), the Chirac Foundation Award of Culture for Peace (2017) and the Ellen Stewart International Award (2018).
Junaid holds a BA in Theatre from the Lebanese University, Institute of Fine Arts, in addition to a BA in Philosophy from the Faculty of Human Sciences at the Lebanese University. At present, he is pursuing his Masters at the Saint Joseph University in Beirut. - Executive
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Keri Putnam is the Chief Executive Officer of the non-profit Sundance Institute whose mission is to discover and develop independent artists and introduce audiences to their new work. Putnam oversees the Institute's annual Sundance Film Festival, as well as its year-round programs to creatively, financially and strategically support storytelling artists around the world through signature residential labs, workshops, direct granting, strategic and educational resources, and ongoing mentorship. Since joining the Sundance Institute in 2010, Putnam has launched international Festivals and Labs in countries including China, India, the UK and Morocco, initiated new programs to support artists working in episodic content, new media, and short-forms, launched an expanded creative producing initiative to support finance, marketing and distribution of independent work, and built several new initiatives to foster outreach and diversity in independent film, including the Women at Sundance program.
Prior to joining Sundance, Putnam was President of Production at Miramax films, a division of the Walt Disney Company, where she oversaw Acquisitions, Development, Production, Post-Production and Production Finance and made or acquired films including The Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will be Blood, Ben Affleck's directorial debut Gone Baby Gone, Stephen Frears' The Queen, Greg Mottola's Adventureland and Julian Schnabel's Diving Bell and the Butterfly . During her 4-year tenure at the company, Miramax films were recognized with 34 Academy Award nominations and 7 wins.
Putnam spent the first 15 years of her career at HBO, starting as an assistant in original programming and ending as EVP of movies and mini-series overseeing the creative team in this area. She supervised production of 48 films and mini-series, which collectively were nominated or won over 50 Emmy Awards, as well as numerous Peabody Awards, Golden Globes and other honors. She was also a key leadership team member in building and launching a theatrical division called Picturehouse in partnership with New Line Cinema that made and released several acclaimed films including Maria Full of Grace, American Splendor, and Gus van Sant's Cannes Palme D'or winner Elephant.- Kimberlé Crenshaw is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum, and the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School. She is the Promise Institute Professor at UCLA Law School and the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor at Columbia Law School. She is popularly known for her development of "intersectionality," "Critical Race Theory," and the #SayHerName Campaign, and is the host of the podcast Intersectionality Matters!, a columnist for The New Republic, and the moderator of the widely impactful webinar series Under The Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that the Twin Pandemics Lay Bare. She is one of the most cited scholars in the history of the law, and was named Ms. magazine's "No. 1 Most Inspiring Feminist," honored as one of the ten most important thinkers in the world by Prospect Magazine, and included in Ebony's "Power 100" issue.
Her groundbreaking work on "intersectionality" has traveled globally and was influential in shaping the South African Equality Clause. She has been a Visiting Professor at the Sorbonne and University of Paris; Centennial Professor at The London School of Economics; Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University; and taught at universities in South Africa, Brazil, and Italy. She received her J.D. from Harvard, L.L.M. from University of Wisconsin, and B.A. from Cornell University, and sits on the boards of Sundance, VDay, and the Algorithmic Justice League. - As Chief of Staff, Kristen serves in partnership with the CEO to lead strategic planning and budgeting, organizational development, and capacity building for the Sundance Institute.
Prior to joining Sundance Institute in early 2019, Kristen was at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, where for eight years she served as a strategist and leader of initiatives encompassing brand and culture change, strategic planning, board governance, internal communications, patient experience and employee engagement. Among her many roles, Kristen helped create the Office of The President for former President Cecile Richards and served as Senior Director for the Executive Vice President & Chief Brand Officer during one of the most challenging periods in the organization's history. During her tenure, Kristen lead the design and implementation of a nationwide employee engagement and brand campaign that united organizational culture across Planned Parenthood's 56 affiliates as well as a redesign of patient waiting rooms that won the 2016 Fast Company Innovation Award for Health. Kristen also co-produced the award-winning VR experience Across the Line that premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. It was was through this project that she was formally introduced to Sundance Institute.
Prior to Planned Parenthood Kristen worked on Capitol Hill as a Director of Scheduling, and previously as a congressional campaign Field Director. She received her Bachelor of Arts with a focus on Leadership Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Richmond. - Actress
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Lisa Kron is a writer and performer whose work has been widely produced in New York, regionally, and internationally. She wrote the book and lyrics for musical Fun Home, with music by composer Jeanine Tesori, which won five 2015 Tony awards including Best Musical and was finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Lisa's other plays include In The Wake, Well, and the Obie Award winning 2.5 Minute Ride. As an actor she received a Tony award nomination for her performance in Well and a Lortel Award for her turn as Mrs. Mi-Tzu and Mrs. Yang in the Foundry Theater's acclaimed production of Good Person of Szechuan. She is the recipient of Guggenheim, Sundance and MacDowell fellowships, a Doris Duke Performing Artists Award, a Cal Arts/Alpert Award, a Helen Merrill Award, and grants from the Creative Capital and NYFA. Lisa is also founding member of the OBIE- and Bessie-Award-winning collaborative theater company The Five Lesbian Brothers. She serves on the board of the MacDowell Colony and the Council of the Dramatists Guild of America.- Producer
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Lyn Davis Lear is an Emmy nominated filmmaker, celebrated environmentalist, and political activist. Shining a light on society's most urgent issues drives Lyn's creative and activist endeavors. She has produced, executive produced and advised documentary films on topics ranging from climate change, investigative journalism to new frontiers in modern medicine and Technology.
Her films include the Emmy® and BAFTA-nominated films The Great Hack, The Fight, HBO's The Vow, Fantastic Fungi: The Magic Beneath Us, and Where's My Roy Cohn? She had three films premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival: Bring Your Own Brigade, Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It, and Rebel Hearts.
In 2014, Lyn produced What's Possible, the opening film for the UN Climate Summit with UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon that reached 127 million people worldwide. The film was a collaboration with director Louie Schwartzberg, writer Scott Burns, actor Morgan Freeman and composer Hans Zimmer. Lyn also produced a sequel, A World of Solutions.
Lyn has been a Trustee of the Board of Directors of the Sundance Institute for ten years. She also serves on the Board of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Norman Lear Center's Hollywood, Health & Society at USC, and The National Academy of Medicine's Healthy Longevity Advisory Council.
To fulfill the UCLA Grand Challenge plan for Los Angeles to be fully sustainable by 2050, Lyn serves on the Board of the LA Sustainability Leadership Council. She previously served on the President's Council of CERES and was a founder and advisor for Project Drawdown.
Lyn and her husband, Norman Lear, received the 2017 Hollywood Icon Award at the Women's Guild Cedars-Sinai 60th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee Gala. In 2016, Lyn and Norman received the Amicus Award from the International Documentary Association (IDA), and Lyn was honored alongside Vice President Al Gore by UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. In 2008, she received the Global Green Millennium Award for Entertainment Industry Environmental Leadership.
In 2000, Lyn and Norman purchased an original Dunlap copy of the Declaration of Independence. The Lears created the Declaration of Independence Road Trip which brought the document to every state in the nation, followed by Declare Yourself which registered over one million voters.
In 1989, Lyn and Norman, along with Alan and Cindy Horn founded the Environmental Media Association. EMA's founding mission was to educate the entertainment industry on environmental issues and award films with environmental messaging that impacted the public.
Lyn holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and a license in Marriage and Family Therapy. She is the mother to three children and resides in Los Angeles with her husband.- Additional Crew
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LYNETTE WALLWORTH is an Emmy and AACTA award winning Australian artist/filmmaker who frequently pushes the boundaries with new technologies. Her most recent works have been Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality immersive documentaries.
Wallworth's work has been shown at Sundance New Frontiers since 2009 when her installation Evolution of Fearlessness was invited by Shari Frilot. She has been a regular presenter at New Frontiers since that time. Wallworth received Sundance Institute New Frontiers inaugural Virtual Reality residency which partnered her with Jaunt VR and a residency at the Technicolor Experience Center.
Wallworth's work has shown at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the American Museum of Natural History, New York, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, the Smithsonian, Royal Observatory Greenwich for the London Cultural Olympiad; Auckland Triennial; Adelaide Biennial; Brighton Festival and the Vienna Festival among many others as well as film festivals including-Sundance Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, London Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, San Francisco Film Festival, Glasgow Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Adelaide Film Festival, Margaret Mead Film Festival. Her works have been presented at the UN General Congress New York, in the UN Vienna, at the Australian Parliament and at the Washington State Department.
Wallworth's works include the interactive video installation Evolution of Fearlessness; the award winning full-dome feature Coral, with it's accompanying augmented reality work; the AACTA award winning documentary Tender, the Emmy award winning virtual reality narrative Collisions which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and the 2016 World Economic Forum, Davos and her most recent XR work 'Awavena' which premiered at Sundance Film Festival and was in competition at the Venice Film Festival 2018.
Wallworth has been awarded an International Fellowship from the Arts Council England, a New Media Arts Fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts, the inaugural Australian Film, Television and Radio School Creative Fellowship, the Joan and Kim Williams Documentary Fellowship and a Skoll Stories of Change/Sundance Impact Fellowship. She has been awarded a UNESCO City of Film Award, the Byron Kennedy Award for Innovation and Excellence presented by George Miller, and in 2016 she was named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the year's 100 Leading Global Thinkers. She has been a frequent advisor at Sundance Labs. She is a Cultural Leader at the World Economic Forum and is a member of the World Economic Forums' Global Future Council on Virtual and Augmented Reality.- Executive
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Michelle Satter is the founding director of the Sundance Institute's Feature Film Program, which was the inaugural program of the Institute. As the Feature Film Program director, she has provided year-round and in-depth support to groundbreaking and award-winning filmmakers from the U.S. and around the world. She also spearheaded the Institute's international work in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East as well as the Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award celebrating 100 years of cinematic history.
In 1989, Satter coproduced the Academy Award-nominated documentary Waldo Salt: A Screenwriters Journey. She is currently one of the producers on the film adaptation of Isabel Allende's international bestseller Eva Luna. Prior to Sundance Institute, Satter lived in Boston and was director of public relations/marketing at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art and a partner and program director of ArtiCulture, Inc., where she produced hundreds of performing arts events throughout the Boston area. She has served on the Boards of the Independent Feature Project, MAISHA, and Equinoxe. Most recently, Satter was recognized with the Women in Film Business Leadership Award and the ACLU Bill of Rights Award.- Producer
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Born of the Cheyenne and Mescalero Apache peoples, Runningwater was reared on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico. He has overseen the Native Lab of the Institute which has launched projects such as Four Sheets to the Wind, Sikumi, Miss Navajo, Shímásání, and Drunktown's Finest. Runningwater has also established filmmaker Labs in New Zealand and Australia, which have spawned such projects as The Strength Of Water (New Zealand), Samson And Delilah (Australia), and Bran Nue Dae (Australia).
Before joining Sundance Institute, Runningwater served as executive director of the Fund of the Four Directions, the private philanthropy organization of a Rockefeller family member. He served as program associate in the Ford Foundation's Media, Arts, and Culture Program, where he built and managed domestic and global funding initiatives. Runningwater currently serves as a patron to the imagineNative Indigenous Film Festival in Toronto.
Currently based in Los Angeles, he is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma with degrees in Journalism and Native American Studies, and he received his Master of Public Affairs degree from the University of Texas at Austin's Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.- Nadine began her career as a television journalist, becoming a national reporter for the Dan Rather CBS Evening News. Prior to that, she hosted her own Toronto talk show, Take 30, and reported for The Journal, the flgship news-magazine show for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In the early nineties, Ms. Schiff was hired as VP of Michael Douglas' Sony-based Stonebridge Entertainment and produced films such as Made in America, Flatliners, The Wedding Dress and Live From Baghdad. For seven years, Ms. Schiff served on the Board of the Women's Conference headed by Maria Shriver and currently serves on the Board of The HELP Group. Nadine Schiff has a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology and an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. She is married to Fred Rosen, former Chairman of Ticketmaster Inc. and has one son.
- "BRIDGET IN MANHATTAN": SELECTED FOR THE SUNDANCE COLLAB: FROM OUTLINE TO FIRST DRAFT PILOT
On BRIDGET IN MANHATTAN "...I love this period piece and the writer does such an incredible job in the action lines to bring us right inside of this world. "
Education: Sundance Collab Writer's Group. Queens University Belfast: B.A . Honours Degree - Actor
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Born and raised in Dublin, Orén Kinlan, is an Irish actor. He is soon to be seen in his first major role in a feature film in John Carney's Flora and Son, which is set to Premiere at Sundance Film Festival in January 2023. Orén was recently featured in The Irish Times "50 People to watch in 2023: Ireland's brightest young talent"- Producer
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Pat Mitchell is a lifelong advocate for women and girls. At every step of her career, Mitchell has broken new ground for women, leveraging the power of media as a journalist, an Emmy award-winning and Oscar-nominated producer to tell women's stories and increase the representation of women onscreen and off. Transitioning to an executive role, she became the president of CNN Productions, and the first woman president and CEO of PBS and the Paley Center for Media. Today, her commitment to connect and strengthen a global community of women leaders continues as a conference curator, advisor and mentor.
In partnership with TED, Mitchell launched TEDWomen in 2010 and is its editorial director, curator and host. She is also a speaker and curator for the annual Women Working for the World forum in Bogota, Colombia, the Her Village conference in Beijing, and co-chairs the US board of Women of the World (WOW). She partners with the Rockefeller Foundation to curate, convene and host Connected Women Leaders (CWL) forums, focused on collective problem solving among women leaders in government and civil society.
In 2014, the Women's Media Center honored Mitchell with its first-annual Lifetime Achievement Award, now named in her honor to commend other women whose media careers advance the representation of women. Recognized by Hollywood Reporter as one of the most powerful women in media, Fast Company's "League of Extraordinary Women" and Huffington Post's list of "Powerful Women Over 50," Mitchell also received the Sandra Day O'Connor Award for Leadership. She was a contributor to Enlightened Power: How Women Are Transforming the Practice of Leadership, and wrote the introduction to the book and museum exhibition, 130 Women of Impact in 30 Countries. In 2016, she received a Congressional appointment to The American Museum of Women's History Advisory Council, and in 2019 was named to the Gender Equality Top 100 list of women leaders by Apolitical.
Mitchell is active with many nonprofit organizations, serving as the chair of the boards of the Sundance Institute and the Women's Media Center. She is a founding member of the VDAY movement and on the boards of the Skoll Foundation and the Acumen Fund. She is also an advisor to Participant Media and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mitchell is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia and holds a master's degree in English literature and several honorary doctorate degrees. She is the author of Becoming a Dangerous Woman: Embracing Risk to Change the World. She and her husband, Scott Seydel, live in Atlanta and have six children and 13 grandchildren.- Additional Crew
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Peshawn Bread is a screenwriter, poet, and cinematographer from the Penneducah (sugar eater) and Yappaducah (root eater) bands of the Comanche tribe. Her writing capitalizes Indigenous women, sexuality and humorous experiences.
In the winter of 2015, she was introduced and welcomed as one of Sundance Institute's Full Circle Fellows. She was a 2015-16 recipient of the 4th World-Indigenous Media Lab Fellowship supported by SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival) in partnership with Longhouse Media, Sundance Institute and ITVS. Peshawn also participated in a Screenwriter's "Designed Obstacles" workshop led by Joan Tewksbury (Thieves Like Us, Nashville). Throughout the years she has worked on many sets, including Drunktown's Finest (2014) and Mud (Hashtl'ishnii) (2017).
Recently, she had the honor of receiving Sundance's Native Filmmakers Lab Fellowship where she had the opportunity to workshop her script "The Daily Life of Mistress Red" a mockumentary short film about a Native Dominatrix for hire who whips apologies out of white supremacists. The Daily life of Mistress Red is currently in post production.- Phaedra Marshall joined the Sundance Institute family as Chief Product and Technology Officer in 2021, bringing more than 19 years of experience leading technology and digital product teams, developing software, and overseeing systems analysis, software implementation, quality assurance, and project management to the role. Phaedra is responsible for the vision and road map in technological development, operating in collaboration with executive leadership and overseeing strategy, advancement, maintenance, and operation for all internal systems. She also supports the technology needs of the in-person annual Sundance Festival and artist labs. Phaedra came to Sundance from Critical Mass, where she worked since 2014, most recently holding the role of Senior Vice President, Technology.
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Randy McKinnon is an American Director, Writer and Producer. Born January 9th, 1989 in Jacksonville, Florida, Randy was a former college football star at Syracuse University before moving to Los Angeles to pursue filmmaking. He most recently is the creator, writer and executive producer of Wild Rabbit at Hulu. Randy also has projects in development with Sony, Netflix, Paramount, Disney +, A24, UCP, Annapurna, Apple + and Miramax. He is a graduate of the American Film Institute (2017), where he earned his MFA in Screenwriting.- Bob Frankenberg is the owner of NetVentures, a management consulting firm focused on the high tech industry. Prior to its sale in 2004, Frankenberg chaired Kinzan, a leading provider of Internet services platforms. From April 1994 to August 1996, Frankenberg was the chairman/CEO of Novell, the world's largest networking software company. Prior to Novell, Frankenberg was the corporate vice president and group general manager of Hewlett-Packard's Personal Information Products Group, responsible for HP's personal computer, server, networking, office software, calculator, and consumer product lines.
Frankenberg serves as a member of the board of directors of public companies National Semiconductor and Nuance Communications, as well as startup companies Veracity Networks, Digital Bridge, and Sylvan Source. He has served on the Utah Advisory board of the Sundance Institute since 1994 before becoming a Sundance Institute Trustee. He is chairman of the Westminster College Board of Trustees. He is a former member of the San Jose State University Advisory, Stanford Business School Alumni, America Online (AOL), Daw Technologies, Electroglas, Encanto Networks, Extended Systems, Kinzan, PowerQuest, Starlight Networks, Wall Data, and Placer Rehabilitation Industries boards.
Frankenberg is a 1974 Phi Kappa Phi/Tau Beta Pi, summa cum laude computer engineering graduate of San Jose State University. He is a SEP graduate of Stanford's Graduate School of Business. He was recently inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1965 to 1969. He and Linda, his wife of 40 years, live in Alpine, Utah. - Producer
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Sean Bailey is President of Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production and oversees all aspects of live-action development, film production and physical production for Walt Disney Pictures. Upcoming titles include Tim Burton's Frankenweenie; Oz The Great and Powerful, directed by Sam Raimi and starring James Franco, Rachel Weisz, Mila Kunis and Michelle Williams; and The Lone Ranger, starring Johnny Depp, directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Prior to joining The Walt Disney Studios in 2010, Bailey produced Disney's TRON: Legacy, directed by Joseph Kosinski, starring Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde, developing it in tandem with other media ranging from the Grammy-nominated, RIAA Gold-certified soundtrack by Daft Punk to a multi-platform video game and an upcoming Disney XD television series.
In 2008, he founded Idealogy, Inc., with a focus on the evolution and future of creative content, developing high-quality stories that can live across media. Bailey worked as a writer-producer under an exclusive deal with ABC Studios from 2004 to 2008, during which time he continued in his capacity as chairman and board member of LivePlanet, the production company he co-founded in 2000 with Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Chris Moore. While at LivePlanet, he executive-produced the innovative LivePlanet/HBO/Miramax series Project Greenlight, nominated for three Emmy Awards, and co-created the LivePlanet/ABC series Push, Nevada with Affleck.
A 20-year industry veteran, Bailey has created, packaged and developed film, television and new media concepts for Walt Disney Pictures, Miramax, 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, DreamWorks, New Line Cinema, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros., all major television networks, MSN and Yahoo. His feature film producing credits include Miramax's Gone, Baby, Gone, directed by Ben Affleck and starring Casey Affleck, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman and Amy Ryan; Matchstick Men, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Nicolas Cage; The Core; and Best Laid Plans. His screenplay Solace, co-written by Ted Griffin, is in preproduction at New Line Cinema. Bailey's first job as a producer in the entertainment industry was developing the game show Debt for Buena Vista Television, which aired on Lifetime from 1996-1998.- Executive
Tabitha Jackson - award-winning commissioning editor, director, producer and writer - who believes passionately in the arts as a public good, is the Director of the Sundance Film Festival. With more than 25 years of experience in the field of arts and nonfiction film, she has previously served as the Director of the Documentary Film Program at the Sundance Institute, as well as head of Arts and Performance at Channel 4 Television in London before joining the Sundance team.
In 2013, Jackson was appointed Director of the Documentary Film Program at Sundance Institute with a mission to champion the power of artful nonfiction cinema in the culture and to support a more expansive set of makers and forms. In supporting such work, she and her team encouraged the diverse exchange of ideas by artists as a critical pathway to developing an open society. Also while in the role, she launched and led a new pillar of work at the Institute - Impact, Engagement and Advocacy - with the goal of reasserting the role of the independent artist as a dynamic progressive cultural force.
Prior to joining the Sundance Institute, Jackson worked at Channel 4 to support independent and alternative voices and find fresh and innovative ways of storytelling. She executive produced a number of projects for the UK's Film 4 including Bart Layton's The Imposter, Mark Cousins' The Story of Film, Clio Barnard's The Arbor, Sophie Fiennes' The Pervert's Guide to Ideology, and Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollards' 20,000 Days on Earth. Jackson was drawn to these filmmakers, along with many others, because of their use of innovative cinematic storytelling to challenge accepted orthodoxies, and, as a result, revealing a little more of the human condition.- Producer
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Uzodinma Iweala is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, and medical doctor. He is the CEO of The Africa Center in New York, promoting a new narrative about Africa and its diaspora through a focus on culture, policy and business. Uzodinma is the Co-Founder of Ventures Africa Magazine, a publication that covers business, policy, culture and innovation spaces in Africa. He is a member of the Presidents Youth Advisory Group (PYAG) for Jobs for Youth Africa (JfYA) at the African Development Bank (AfDB). He has written three books: Beasts of No Nation (2005), a novel also adapted into a major motion picture; Our Kind of People (2012), a non-fiction account of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria; and Speak No Evil (2018), a novel about a queer first generation Nigerian teenager set in Washington, D.C.- Bill Plapinger is Senior Counsel (and previously was a partner for almost three decades) at the global law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, and has dedicated most of his time since 2012 to the not-for-profit sector, primarily education, as well as conservation and the arts.
Plapinger's practice at Sullivan & Cromwell focused on corporate finance and M&A in a wide variety of industries in more than 30 countries, with particular emphasis on large, complex, financial transactions, many of which were the first, largest or most significant of their kind. He was resident in the firm's London office for more than 25 years, before and after which he was resident in its New York office. He had both firm-wide and regional management responsibilities, including as managing partner of the London office, the firm's largest branch office, coordinator of the firm's four European offices, and a member of the firm's Managing Partners Committee. Plapinger has been named repeatedly by more than a dozen U.S. and international publications as, variously, one of the world's leading IPO, equity and debt capital markets, privatization and M&A lawyers.
He has extensive experience in not-for-profit education, where he is a member of the national board of directors of The Posse Foundation (and chairs its Governance Committee and is a member of the Executive Committee), a member of the board of directors of Global Citizen Year, and a director of The Fulbright U.S.-U.K. Foundation. He was the chair of the board of trustees of Vassar College for 12 years (and prior to that was a trustee for another 10 years), was a Commissioner on the U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Commission (having been appointed by the U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain to two three-year terms), and was a member of the board of trustees of the American School in London for 16 years (and subsequently, the board of directors of the American School in London Foundation). He was also a member of the board of directors of the Conference of Board Chairs of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges, and the President's Commission of Wheaton College (Norton, MA). He has spent the last several years working with partners on an innovative market-based venture to provide affordable financing to African students at the world's leading universities.
In the conservation sector, he is a member of the board of directors of Sheriff's Meadow Foundation, the largest private land trust on Martha's Vineyard, MA, and in the arts sector, he is a member of the board of trustees of the Sundance Institute, and was a co-founder and member of the board of directors of the American Friends of the British Museum.
Plapinger was a Fellow in 2013, and a Senior Fellow in 2014, in the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University, a joint program of five graduate schools dedicated to preparing experienced leaders to address national and global social problems.
He grew up in Washington, D.C., where he attended public schools, and is a graduate of Vassar College, earned his J.D. from New York University School of Law, and also attended Westfield College, University of London. He and his wife of almost 40 years, Cassie Murray, split their time between Martha's Vineyard and New York City, and have three grown children-two in the entertainment industry and one in management consulting.