Robert Redford President and Founder

ANNUAL REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2016 OUR STORY 5

ARTIST SUPPORT 11

PUBLIC PROGRAMS 35

FEATURED COLLABORATIONS & 42 INSTITUTIONAL HEALTH

SUPPORTED ARTISTS 50

© 2016 SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | PHOTO BY JONATHAN HICKERSON SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 2 “ There will always be new terrain to explore as long as there are artists willing to take risks, who tell their stories without compromise. And Sundance will be here - to provide support and a creative community in which a new idea or distinctive view is championed.”

ROBERT REDFORD PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER

Sundance Institute has always believed that a safe environment, free The health, vitality, and diversity of the Institute’s year-round It is my pleasure to share with you the Sundance Institute Annual Report — from distraction and market pressures, gives artists the freedom programs continues to be a testament to both the independent filled with insight into the nature and impact of our work, and highlighting to fail. The world has changed significantly since we started over artists developing original and daring stories, as well as the many standout projects and moments from the past year. Sundance Institute is three decades ago, but the simplicity of that idea – of nature’s partners and supporters who make our work with them possible. dedicated to supporting the creation of independent stories for the screen company providing the space for artists to take risks, experiment It’s through your generosity that we’re able to help artists develop and stage. We are proud to champion artists whose work delights and and push the boundaries of their work – remains true, and yields their creative visions, and present their work to audiences around entertains, challenges preconceived views, elicits compassion, pushes remarkable creativity. Each year we are thankful for the generosity the world. As we look toward 2017 and healing a nation divided, creative boundaries, and offers new perspectives. In the past 12 months, of a community that has given their time and resources along the it’s more important than ever that our dedication to independent we supported more than 1,000 artists through 26 Labs, direct grants way. Their reward is no more than knowing they have helped an artist artists deepens and that their unique perspectives continue to of more than $3 million, fellowships, mentorships, and the Sundance find their voice who in turn may show us a new way of looking at the shed light on our culture and expand our understanding of one Film Festival, which celebrated and launched new work from around the world. We constantly challenge ourselves to remain open to change, another, as well as the world we live in. With Bob Redford, Keri world. I want to thank our founder Robert Redford, our wonderful Board and I’m proud that Sundance Institute continues to explore new Putnam, and the rest of the Board and Institute leadership, I look of Trustees, and our immensely talented staff for their rigor, passion, and ways of developing independent artists, and connecting their work to forward to a new year ripe with opportunity to bring together creativity, which make Sundance Institute the dynamic, responsive, and audiences across the world. Their stories have the power to illuminate independent storytellers and adventurous audiences. constantly evolving organization it is. We are all filled with admiration for the and transform our culture. extraordinary talent of the artists we support, and deep gratitude for those who support us. Your generosity as a member of our community makes our work possible. We are so grateful to you for supporting independent artists whose stories shift perspectives and transform culture.

ROBERT REDFORD PAT MITCHELL KERI PUTNAM

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 4 OUR STORY TODAY

In 1981, Robert Redford founded Sundance The Institute supports storytellers across Institute to foster independence and provide a variety of mediums, including artists in film, a safe harbor for risk-taking new voices in theatre, film music, new media, and episodic American film. In the organization's inaugural storytelling. Many of today’s most daring and year, 15 emerging filmmakers were invited to iconic artists are counted among the more than Sundance Resort in the mountains of Utah to 11,000 Institute alumni. Led by the annual develop their original independent projects Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute also with mentorship from leading writers, hosts a slate of public programs to share fresh directors, and actors. voices and inspire new ideas throughout the year.

Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization We believe that a story driven by an dedicated to the discovery and development individual, authentic voice can awaken new of independent artists and audiences. ideas that have the power to delight and Through its programs, the Institute seeks to entertain, push creative boundaries, spark discover, support, and inspire independent new levels of empathy and understanding, film and theatre artists from the United States and even lead to social change. We support and around the world, and to introduce independent storytellers and advance the audiences to their new work. impact of their work in the world.

1. Discover and support the most exciting independent storytelling artists throughout the world

2. Introduce and connect audiences to the best new independent work

3. Grow and inspire our community

4. Maintain financial discipline, organizational excellence, and a culture that reflects our values

© 2016 SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | PHOTO BY BRANDON CRUZ SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 7 OUR WORK LABS & RETREATS Highly selective, residential Labs focused on the art and SUNDANCE NEXT FEST craft of storytelling. Our Labs A summer ﬁlm and music festival provide a home for our Fellows celebrating the renegade spirit of to create independent work independent artists in downtown L.A. with mentorship from leading artists in the ﬁeld.

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Through a rigorous Intense sessions Connections with selection process, a Fellows and challenge Fellows to small group of Advisors share experiment with Fellows and artists are invited to their work with their projects in Advisors continue develop speciﬁc each other in unexpected ways. long after the Lab projects at the Labs. one-on-one sessions By taking risks, ends, and fuel Accomplished artists and presentations Fellows discover the further volunteer to serve as with the full Lab new dimensions of development of

COMMUNIT Y projects and careers. INVITATIO N ONE-ON-ON E Creative Advisors. community. EXPERIMENTATIO N their work.

Nearly 5,000 Fellows, Advisors, Throughout the Throughout the Lab, Each artist leaves artists apply and Staff convene at Lab, Creative Fellows share work the Lab with clarity to attend Lab site, often the Advisors with the Lab of voice, a deeper Institute Labs. Sundance Resort in observe Fellows community. Fellows awareness of CONVEN E FEEDBAC K Utah, where they at work and offer EXCHANG E and Advisors openly the project as a LAB EFFEC T APPLICATION work together in a feedback. share lessons whole, and a natural setting away learned, contributing community of from the distractions to the creative alumni and of daily life. development of advisors that will shape the artist's the community as project and career. a whole. THE SUNDANCE INSTITUTE LAB MODEL IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE ARTISTS WITH AN ENVIRONMENT AND A COMMUNITY IN WHICH TO EXPLORE AND DEVELOP UNIQUE, ORIGINAL WORK. WHILE EACH IS FOCUSED ON A SPECIFIC TYPE OF STORYTELLING, THE LABS ALL PROVIDE PARTICIPATING ARTISTS WITH AN EXPERIENCE THAT FACILITATES THE EXPERIMENTATION AND DISCOVERY ESSENTIAL TO THE CREATIVE PROCESS.

THE FEATURE FILM PROGRAM (FFP) has the art of storytelling that also includes the For the first time in 16 years, Sundance Institute supported and championed many of the Rough Cut Screening series and the Sally returned to Cuba for a vibrant exchange leading independent filmmakers of the past Menke Memorial Editing Fellowship. program. In a collaboration with two leading arts 35 years whose distinctive films have engaged organizations in Cuba, the Festival Internacional audiences worldwide. Under Michelle Satter’s In 2016, the Feature Film Program also de Cine Nuevo Latinoamericano and La Escuela continued leadership, the FFP’s network introduced the FilmTwo Initiative to support Internacional de Cine y TV (EICTV), the Feature of Labs, year-round mentoring, and artist a diverse group of independent filmmakers Film Program presented a Screenwriting Panel granting continues to provide a one-of-a- as they develop and complete their second with Scott Z. Burns, Erin Cressida Wilson, kind community of support for filmmakers. feature film—often the greatest challenge to a Sebastian Silva, and Ethan Hawke, as well as sustainable career as a filmmaker, especially for master classes with Christine Vachon on Creative This year's slate of Labs kicked off with the women and filmmakers of color. With generous Producing, Carla Gutierrez on Documentary January Screenwriters Lab, followed by the support from Founding Partner NBCUniversal, Editing, and Peter Golub on Composing For Film. June Screenwriters and Directors Labs, and 13 inaugural Fellows participated in a Next year, the Institute will return to Havana to the Creative Producing Lab. In addition, Screenwriters Intensive in March and received build this multi-year initiative that will create 2016 marked the second year of the Editing customized creative and tactical support. sustained, expansive support for Cuban artists. Intensive, a weeklong program during the Further broadening the FFP’s support of diverse Directors Lab supporting two filmmaking/ artists, a new Sundance Institute Feature Film editing teams working on their picture edit. Program Latino Fellowship was created with The Editing Intensive is part of a growing the Time Warner Foundation to support one recognition of the crucial role of editors in U.S.-based Latino writer or writer/director.

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 13 PROJECT SPOTLIGHT ANNA ROSE HOLMER The Fits TONI IS AN 11-YEAR-OLD TOMBOY dutifully training INSTITUTE SUPPORT as a boxer at a rec center in Cincinnati’s West End. 2015 Editing Intensive Lab When she catches a glimpse of the dance team that 2016 FilmTwo Fellowship also practices there, she suddenly becomes transfixed. 2016 Sundance Film Festival, NEXT Drawn to this powerful whirlwind of girls, Toni joins FESTIVALS AND AWARDS INCLUDE the group, absorbing routines, mastering drills, and American Film Festival in Wroclaw even piercing her own ears to fit in. When a mysterious Cleveland International Film Festival, Winner outbreak of violent shaking and fainting “fits” plagues New Direction Competition the team, Toni’s desire for acceptance becomes Deauville Film Festival, Winner Critics Award twisted. Inspired by real stories of mass hysteria, Anna Edinburgh International Film Festival Rose Holmer’s narrative directorial debut, The Fits, is Karlovy Vary International Film Festival a dreamy psychological coming-of-age story. With a Milwaukee Film Festival, Hertzfeld Competition Award vivid physical landscape fueled by flashy choreography, Montclair Film Festival, Winner Future/Now blasting percussive acoustics, and meditations on Nashville Film Festival, Honorable Mention, the body and identity, Holmer offers a fascinating New Directors Competition portrait of adolescence helmed by the breakout New Directors/New Films performance of Toni, played by Royalty Hightower. Rooftop Films Summer Series San Francisco International Film Festival Before The Fits premiered at the 72nd Venice Seattle International Film Festival International Film Festival as part of the Venice Biennale Venice International Film Festival Cinema College showcase, Holmer participated in the inaugural Sundance Institute Feature Film Program 2016 NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW Editing Intensive and received additional grant support Winner, Breakthrough Performance (Royalty from Sundance Institute. The Fits had its U.S. premiere in Hightower) Top Ten Independent Films the 2016 Sundance Film Festival’s NEXT section before garnering buzz on the festival circuit around the world. 2016 GOTHAM AWARDS Nomination, Bingham Ray Breakthrough In the summer of 2015, Cinereach supported The Director Award Fits through a $25,000 grant, provided through Nomination, Breakthrough Actor Award (Royalty “A dreamy, dread-inducing portrait of a fiscal sponsor Women Make Movies, to supplement Hightower) young woman in full self-discovery mode, film finishing and marketing costs, including VFX, 2016 THEWIFTS FOUNDATION VISIONARY with woozy dollops of magical realism and music, and behind-the-scenes coverage. Holmer AWARDS spoke to Michelle Satter about how a film that Winner, Best Director Award next-level spiritual transcendence.” explores bodies in motion found its footing. 2017 INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS — DAVID EHRLICH AND DAVID FEAR, ROLLING STONE Nomination, Best First Feature Nomination, Someone to Watch Award

COURTESY OF THE FITS | PHOTO BY PAUL YEE SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 14 PROJECT SPOTLIGHT ANNA ROSE HOLMER The Fits Satter: Going back to the beginnings of The Fits, what was your Almost every decision that we made in terms of look and feel personal connection to this story? What did you want to express was about bringing the audience close to the body of Toni. It about that very specific emotional transition between girlhood really was such a tight exercise in POV. I wanted it to be very and young womanhood? controlled and very claustrophobic so that there’s almost this inherent tension in every frame as the quiet storm is brewing Holmer: There were a few things that were important for me in Toni. personally to put on screen. One was a portrait of a girl. I think that often when you see young female protagonists on screen Satter: You were invited to our inaugural Editing Intensive, it’s a look at them as young women and then facing a full which took place during the 2015 June Directors Lab. What was sexual awakening. I felt like there was an aspect of girlhood that experience like and how did that process contribute to the that hadn’t been explored, which is really about self-awakening final edit of your film? and exploring your identity in the context of a group. The other thing is that I really wanted to put an introverted protagonist Holmer: Heading into post-production, we had a very on screen that was driving the action. I think that one of the accelerated timeline. We had a 12-week edit because of our things that I really relate to in Toni’s character is that she’s turnaround for the Venice Film Festival. The Lab actually fell self-isolating. There’s no one kicking her out of the room and at this perfect time for us because we were struggling to have telling her she’s no good, but that fear and that anxiety is within time away from the cut. A lot of filmmakers have different time herself. She is both the protagonist and antagonist of the film. constraints, and it’s challenging to get distance from your film. First and foremost, that time at Sundance was so informative for us because it allowed new voices into the editing room who “There’s no one kicking her out were people we looked up to creatively. of the room and telling her she’s no good, but that fear and that Also, it allowed us to kind-of take a breath when it didn’t feel anxiety is within herself.” like we could take a breath. I remember, Michelle, that you said something like, “You should also be having a good time. Take a hike, take a moment.” It’s very challenging if you’re by Satter: The film integrates different approaches to both yourself, isolated in your apartment in New York to have those genre and storytelling. How did you want the audience to moments in the process. experience this film? Sometimes you have to remember that the audience Holmer: Coming from a background in cinematography, experience is a singular experience—it’s individual. So, hearing there were almost times where I was storyboarding ahead of this range of reactions to our film was actually really healthy pagewriting. The visual components of the film were very strong because I think it’s at the point when you can start to defend to me—the experience of sitting and feeling an emotion. Our your cut—when you can say, “I hear your note, but that’s not my script was pretty light on dialogue from construction because intention and here is my reason why.” When those things begin we really saw it as a dance film—we wanted to infuse all of the to happen, you know that your film is coming together. narrative elements through bodies in motion. I wanted it to be a © 2016 SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | PHOTO BY JONATHAN HICKERSON very visceral experience for the audience. SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 15 ARTIST SUPPORT TABITHA JACKSON PROGRAM DIRECTOR DOCUMENTARY FILM PROGRAM

THE DOCUMENTARY FILM PROGRAM (DFP) workshops and special events throughout the Documentary Summit. Supported by a grant as activist with Tabitha Jackson and Sonita supports non-fiction filmmakers worldwide in year, including a weeklong residency co-hosted from Open Society Foundations, this four- Alizadeh, a rapper and activist featured in Sonita, the production of cinematic documentaries on by New York University Tisch School of the Arts day Lab and Summit develops the work of an award-winning documentary from the 2016 contemporary themes. Led by Tabitha Jackson, and attendance at the Based on a True Story independent documentary filmmakers in China Sundance Film Festival. the DFP believes that art changes the way Conference at The University of Missouri. and fosters cultural exchange. Since 2010, the we reach people. Focusing on those values DFP has worked with CNEX, a Beijing-based of Art, Reach, and Change, the DFP supports The year-round support of filmmakers amounts non-profit, to support fifty-one projects—93% of filmmakers year-round through a granting fund, to a commitment to documentary as an which have been completed, are in production, the Labs, a Fellows program, and strategic increasingly important global art form and a or post production. mentoring from development to distribution. critical cultural practice in the 21st century. In an overall effort to provide more timely The Documentary Film Program also returned to In 2016, the Documentary Film Program support to artists and to respond to the creative the 2016 Skoll World Forum in Oxford, England. completed its pilot year of the Art of Nonfiction range of nonfiction filmmaking, the DFP Fund With a greater focus on storytelling, the Institute Initiative to elevate the art and craft of cinematic shifted from a fixed to a rolling open call for deepened its participation in this global forum nonfiction storytelling. In collaboration with applications, resulting in 614 submissions from by hosting two forum sessions and one-to-one Cinereach, the Initiative supported four 85 countries in 2015. storytelling sessions with Sundance-supported filmmakers at various stages of creating artists and Skoll-awarded social entrepreneurs. new work. Designed to encourage creative Strengthening its partnerships in the global Additionally, the Stories of Change-supported thinking and risk-taking practice, the Fellows documentary community, the DFP traveled to VR project Collisions was a centerpiece media received cash grants of $25,000, guidance Beijing in May for the Sundance | CNEX (China project at the Forum. The Closing Ceremony from mentors and advisors, and took part in Next) Documentary Story and Edit Lab and featured a conversation on the role of the artist

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 16 PROJECT SPOTLIGHT KIRSTEN JOHNSON Cameraperson FOR OVER 25 YEARS KIRSTEN JOHNSON INSTITUTE SUPPORT HAS BEEN A CINEMATOGRAPHER shooting 2011 Sundance Documentary Film Grant documentaries around the globe—including the 2012 Sundance Documentary Film Grant Sundance-supported films Citizenfour, Derrida, 2013 Music and Sound Design Lab at Skywalker Fahrenheit 9/11, Happy Valley, and The Oath, Sound | DFP among many others. In the remarkably illuminating 2013 June Documentary Edit and Story Lab Cameraperson, Johnson exposes her role behind the 2015 Sundance Documentary Grant camera as she weaves footage from her past work 2016 Sundance Film Festival with clips from her personal life. Part memoir, part documentary, part ethical inquiry on the complications FESTIVALS AND AWARDS INCLUDE of how stories are made, Cameraperson offers a Camden International Film Festival, Winner Harrell portrait-of-an-artist in shots and fragments. Award for Best Documentary Feature This visually exquisite nonfiction work premiered Doxa Documentary Festival, Winner Feature in the 2016 Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier Documentary Award program. Johnson developed her hybrid project at HotDocs International Film Festival both the Documentary Edit and Story Lab and the New Directors/New Films Music and Sound Design Lab at Skywalker Sound, San Francisco International Film Festival, Winner and she received ongoing financial and creative Golden Gate Award Best Documentary Feature support from the Documentary Film Program. Before Sheffield International Documentary Festival, Johnson released Cameraperson to great critical Winner Grand Jury Award success this year, she shared with filmmaker Laura SXSW Film Festival Poitras the 2010 Sundance Film Festival Excellence in Cinematography Award for The Oath. She also co- directed Deadline, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Reflecting on her career-spanning “A remarkable document about the creative connections with Sundance, Johnson talked to Tabitha Jackson about what it means to see the world process…It may even tap into a richer vein: through a camera. what it’s like to live on planet earth.”

— JORDAN HOFFMAN, THE GUARDIAN

COURTESY OF CAMERAPERSON | PHOTO BY GINI RETICKER SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 17 PROJECT SPOTLIGHT KIRSTEN JOHNSON Cameraperson Jackson: The form of Cameraperson is part of its power – self constituted, and the recognition that it is constituted it’s not just what you are saying, it’s how you are saying it. in relation to others. To go from the really literal questions How would you describe the film in terms of form? of “how does an eye see?,” it becomes a question of perception—how do we see each other, how do we see Johnson: It took me a long time to recognize that the images ourselves? Those are all questions that happen in relation to that I had filmed revealed things about my experience and being seen by other people. the experience of others. As part of being a cameraperson for over 25 years, I knew that filming people revealed Jackson: Can you describe how Sundance was something about them. It always felt imperfect or partial part of the process? or fragmented. I often thought about the things that were being left on the cutting room floor, or being left out of Johnson: Sundance has been integral to the creation of stories that we were trying to tell. I thought I was capable of me as a maker of things from so early on. I wrote a letter keeping myself out of the images. So, I’d be quiet when we to Robert Redford, and I was so shocked at how much his were filming. I wouldn’t catch my image in the reflection. contribution to creating the Institute has been a part of the I thought I was absent in the image. But through making formation of my life as an artist. this film I realized how incredibly present me and the choices I have made are in the material. We got to the place where I realized I didn’t need to use words to talk about “I thought I was absent in the my experience as a cameraperson—I needed to create a image. But through making this structural context in which the images could speak and I film I realized how incredibly would not have to speak with words. present me and the choices I have made are in the material.” Jackson: This notion of the filmmaker is present, or the artist is present—there seems to be something in the air around that in terms of the form and nonfiction Along the way I’ve been invited to the Screenwriters Lab filmmaking. There appear to be more people who and the Directors Lab and so there’s always been an recognize that these films are developed through affirmation of me as a person trying to figure out how to somebody’s eyes and perceptions and biases. make what I want to make in relation to being part of a Do you feel that? community of people who I respect. I have shot many films that have gone to the Sundance Film Festival and have been Johnson: No question. I think because there are so many supported by the Documentary Fund, and I feel like I’ve different constructions of images right now, and they’re been an active member of a community that asks, “What coming from so many radically different points of view, are these films that we are all trying to make, and what do we’re all newly attuned to the way in which images are they do in the world?” made. This then leads to, “Who is the maker?” I think we’re all really thinking around these questions of how is the COURTESY OF CAMERAPERSON | PHOTO BY LINDSEY ADDARIO

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 18 ARTIST SUPPORT PHILIP HIMBERG ARTISTIC DIRECTOR THEATRE PROGRAM

LED BY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PHILIP HIMBERG East Africa over the past 15 years. With a mix convened in the south of France, offering six and Producing Director Christopher Hibma, the of American playwrights and artists from the theatre directors a creative community to work Sundance Institute Theatre Program advances Middle East and North Africa working in Arabic, on their upcoming projects. the work of risk-taking theatre-makers at every the Lab welcomed 65 artists and staff, including career stage. The Theatre Program hosts a range 10 Lab Fellows for three weeks of intensive Throughout 2016, many Theatre Program- of creative Labs and Retreats throughout the year development of original work. supported projects saw critical success on the to engage artists and their audiences, to develop stage, including: Fun Home, which closed its new work for the stage, and to respond to the As the Theatre Program expanded its extraordinary Broadway run and is now touring changing needs of the field. international reach, it also introduced a new nationally; A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & opportunity for U.S.-based artists. The Theatre- Murder, which continued its national tour; and For over three decades, the Theatre Program Makers Residency took place over the summer Caught, which completed its New York premiere. has hosted its centerpiece Theatre Lab at at the Sundance Resort and provided seven the Sundance Resort in Utah—inviting many artists a 10-day residency. This was the first- international participants to the U.S. In an effort time that a Theatre Program Lab community to broaden opportunities for cross-cultural directly collaborated with Fellows from the discovery, artistic reflection, and creative Screenwriters and Documentary Edit Labs, experimentation, the 2016 Theatre Lab moved which were also underway at the same time to Morocco for a joint American and Middle at the Sundance Resort. Also this summer, East/North African (MENA) Theatre Lab. The the fourth annual Sundance Institute | LUMA pilot MENA Lab built on the Program’s work in Foundation Theatre Directors Retreat in Arles

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 19 PROJECT SPOTLIGHT JUNAID SARIEDDINE Them AFTER GRADUATING FROM THE THEATRE INSTITUTE SUPPORT DEPARTMENT of the Lebanese University in Beirut, 2016 Theatre Lab in MENA Lebanon, Junaid Sarieddine was interested in how 2017 Theatre Lab at MASS MoCA (invited) contextualizing historic events could impact the creation of art. He worked on several installation performances pursuing this idea before teaming up with a group of artists to establish the Zoukak Theatre Collective and Cultural Association in 2006—which was also the same year that over a million Lebanese were displaced during heightened conflicts with Israel. Witnessing the marginalization of fractions of society, Zoukak has spent the last decade working collectively to create theatre by diverse individuals while connecting theatre to political, social, educational, and other current issues.

Seeking new ways to enhance these artistic investigations, Sarieddine attended the pilot Theatre Lab in the MENA region this past April to direct Them, a play in development by Syrian playwright Anna Akkash. Based in Damascus and witnessing firsthand the hardships of the war in Syria, Akkash’s timely elegiac play, Them, follows the story of five women grieving the men they lost in this ongoing conflict. Sarieddine recently spoke to Philip Himberg from Beirut about how such a deeply intimate portrait could come alive through the dynamic process of collaboration.

© 2016 SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | PHOTO BY LAHCEN MELLAL SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 20 PROJECT SPOTLIGHT JUNAID SARIEDDINE Them Himberg: You’re a storyteller. Why did you choose theatre Himberg: When you came to the Theatre Lab in Morocco, as your avenue for telling stories? you didn’t come with the group that you typically create with, yet you did work very collaboratively. What was your Sarieddine: My very first impetus into theatre as a child experience at the Lab—during the creative process in the came from my curiosity to know what is going on backstage. room? And what was your experience with the Sundance While actors were on stage I was always wondering what family in the communal sense? was going on in that area backstage. This was my childish drive—to be behind what is going on and a part of the Sarieddine: It’s true I’m used to working with a collective. At creation of how to make things happen. When I decided to the Lab, the first thing was to really open to the possibility do theatre after school, it all came from the feeling of doing of building a shared experience but also be led by a vision something alternative that is not in the mainstream of the of work. It’s very similar to our work in [Zoukak] because we professions of Lebanon. Simply, I found theatre a space of work as a group but we have a leader—a director. What I freedom—a freedom from all conventions— used from our techniques from the group was the space of social and political. giving the participants—the actors and writers—the space for political input on a topic that was very complicated and When I think why I still do theatre, it’s because I believe sensitive. Regardless of all the obstacles on the political it is the only alternative space—of what politics should level, we can still create this on other levels. Putting our be about, of what ethics should be, of what kind of problems next to each other adds a richness and an values we are dealing with against mainstream media intensity that can be projected to the audience. that are controlled by politics. This direct relationship with the audience onstage is that space of sincerity and “Putting our problems next to responsibility—where you can be fragile as a person but each other adds a richness and an also powerful through your fragility and transparent. intensity that can be projected to the audience.” Himberg: How do you straddle all of the roles you play— you’re a writer, a director, a dramaturg, a maker—are you an actor as well? The most interesting thing for me is how in every group there is a problem that they are dealing with—at first on an Sarieddine: Yes, I’m an actor. I love acting, and it’s the most artistic level and on the other level more of the political and joyful thing because I can really embody what I think and cultural. Every group is coming from different contexts with what I live, and I can transmit this pleasure of doing things different problematics. These are reflected in the texts— through acting. And I’m a dramaturg and director on the like issues relating to black and white, or issues related to same stage because for me they are very close to each gender, or political issues regarding dictatorships. On the other. But also I belong to a theatre company where we theatre level it’s how we approach these issues—like what question group work on every project. Our group changes theatre language should we use? From a realistic way or our positions every time, and this is essential because it not realistic? And why? These questions were reflected in a provides the possibility of creating with a new method. great way at the Lab. © 2016 SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | PHOTO BY LAHCEN MELLAL

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 21 ARTIST SUPPORT N. BIRD RUNNINGWATER PROGRAM DIRECTOR NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS PROGRAM

SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN they move their projects through production, Native short documentaries by Sundance Film and Indigenous Program, three generations of post-production, and distribution. Festival alumni that explored Native identity and Indigenous filmmakers have been supported cultural evolution in a rapidly changing world. In through grants, Labs, mentorships, public From May 14 to 16, five talented aspiring August, The Future of Native Storytelling Panel programs, and the platform of the Sundance Native Hawaiian filmmakers were selected and Reception at the SWAIA Indian Market, Film Festival. In nurturing these Indigenous from an open call for short film screenplay supported by the Native Arts and Cultures artists, the Native Program has built a pipeline submissions to take part in a story-focused Foundation, was held in Santa Fe, New Mexico of targeted support for filmmakers at various Native Shorts Lab at the Honolulu Museum and highlighted the next generation of Native stages of their projects and careers. Since 2001, of Art. In conjunction with the Lab, The storytellers as they celebrated the future of N. Bird Runningwater (Cheyenne and Mescalero Native Shorts Lab Screening and Reception Native cinematic experiences. Apache) has overseen the Program’s year-round in Honolulu, Hawai’i presented a selection of work, which centers on the Native Filmmaker short films followed by discussions on the art Lab Fellowship, a fellowship aimed to support the of short filmmaking. development and pre-production preparation of short films by two selected filmmakers. As part of this ongoing effort to develop Native filmmakers through outreach to The 2016 Native Filmmakers Lab took place in Native communities, the Program hosted two June in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Lab Fellows worked other special events. In July in Saint Paul, closely with a group of esteemed Creative Advisors Minnesota, the Knight Foundation-Native Shorts and continue to receive year-round support as Documentary Screening featured a selection of

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 22 PROJECT SPOTLIGHT RAZELLE BENALLY I Am Thy Weapon Filmmaker Razelle Benally’s I Am Thy Weapon INSTITUTE SUPPORT follows the story of a young Diné (Navajo) woman 2012 Native Lab Fellowship who returns home to the place where her sister was 2015 Native Lab Fellowship murdered while graffiting a wall. While she deals with her anger and battles with the modern-day adversities FESTIVALS AND AWARDS INCLUDE of reservation life, she finds peace with her sister’s imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival passing through her art. This poignant short film has Native Cinema Showcase, Best Narrative begun to play at festivals around the world, including Short imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, the world's Southwestern Association for Indian largest presenter of Indigenous screen content. Even prior to making I Am Thy Weapon, Benally, who is Arts’ Santa Fe Indian Market, Oglala Lakota and Diné (Navajo), has been interested Best Narrative Short in the stories of her culture.

Benally first found herself behind the camera in high school when she began documenting activists in South Dakota who were trying to protect sacred sites. She then went on to do videography for the renowned skateboard company Apache Skateboards, and her time with the company shaped her self-developed style of editing and directing. She most notably gained acclaim for her short documentary The Humble and the six-minute experimental piece Love Is a Losing Game. In 2012, Benally participated in the Sundance Institute Native Lab with her project, I Am Thy Weapon. In 2015, she returned to Sundance with I Am Thy Weapon to take part in the revamped Native Filmmakers Lab, where she received targeted production and grant support to complete the development of the short film. Benally spoke to Bird Runningwater about bringing this project through the pipeline of Sundance support and the importance of staying present as an artist while in the trenches of filmmaking.

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 23 PROJECT SPOTLIGHT RAZELLE BENALLY I Am Thy Weapon

Runningwater: How did your desire to tell stories begin? a filmmaker, I’m yearning for that connection. I want to Why is this form of expression so important to you? connect with my audience, and I’m going to do that through filmmaking. So the biggest impact that Sundance has given Benally: I got really involved with my own culture and me is helping me find a connection. language and the traditions of my Oglala Lakota side, and it was through my culture and tradition that I realized I felt Runningwater: Last year you made 8 short films in 10 like I needed to do more. There were a lot of things going months. As you’re telling those stories and you really are on in my community that kind of forced me to become taking those stories on and into your own personal vision, conscious about how our ways are so strong, they're full can you describe how you follow the spirit of a film? of life—our ways can prosper, but at the same time our ways—they were dying. I felt like I needed to do something, Benally: I think a lot of it has to do with being conscious, and it was through filmmaking that I felt I was making a and aware, and staying present in who I am as an artist positive impact. and a human. I tend to go back to my core of who I am and where my values are. A lot of that has to do with my traditions, and a lot of it has to do with generosity, humility, “I felt like an actual artist, courage, and knowing that there is something greater an actual storyteller, and I felt than yourself always out there. With my stories I just put like a human. In this day and myself out there to connect. I really try to hone in on age, it’s so easy for us to remove something greater than myself, because it’s the story that ourselves from one another, and matters. I think sometimes as an artist and as a filmmaker the connection is lost.” it’s important to have an ego, but if you allow your ego to control the story then you’re just going to please yourself. You have to be humble, and you have to respond in an Runningwater: Our relationship goes back to you appropriate respectful way. Allowing the spirit of the story participating in the 2012 Native Lab with I Am Thy to have its own power—it’s more about letting it control me Weapon, and the film’s had a connection to the Institute than me controlling it. over its various iterations. What was the impact of the Native Program's support of the film?

Benally: I didn’t feel like a number, I didn’t feel like I just fit into the logistics of your program. I felt like an actual artist, an actual storyteller, and I felt like a human. You were able to connect with me on a human level, and when you’re able to do that with other people, you become more passionate. In this day and age, it’s so easy for us to remove ourselves from one another, and the connection is lost. For me as © 2016 SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | PHOTO BY BABAK DOWLATSHAHI

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 24 ARTIST SUPPORT PETER GOLUB ARTISTIC DIRECTOR FILM MUSIC PROGRAM

BRINGING MUSIC TO THE FOREFRONT of the of providing music and sound. At Skywalker Other alumni of the Film Music Program have also filmmaking process, composer Peter Golub Sound, the Lab Fellows had access to one of the seen notable successes this year: Mac Quayle won leads Sundance Institute’s Film Music Program largest, most versatile full-service audio post- the 2016 Emmy for Original Dramatic Score for Mr. to nurture the development of music in film. production facilities in the world and also had Robot and Kathryn Bostic, Heather McIntosh, and In January, the Film Music Program hosted its their original scores for new independent film Germaine Franco were invited into the Academy of popular series of concerts, events, and panels scenes performed live by a chamber orchestra. Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. at the Sundance Film Festival to raise the profile of music in film. In February, with support from Half of this year’s composing Fellows were the Knight Foundation, the Program presented women, extending Sundance Institute’s a free master class to composers, filmmakers, commitment to fostering female artists students, and other industry professionals with in a creative branch of filmmaking with the University of Miami Frost School of Music. an especially low percentage of women represented. Further supporting the work of In the summer of 2016, the fourth annual women composers, the Film Music Program Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design granted 2016 Music and Sound Design Lab Labs at Skywalker Sound took place at the Fellow Amie Doherty with a Time Warner Skywalker Ranch in northern California. With Fellowship, and Lab Fellow Morgan Kibby one Lab focusing on feature film and the other was featured as the main musical act for the on documentaries, Lab Fellows were paired Institute’s summer benefit, Night Before NEXT. with a director to collaborate on the process

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 25 PROJECT SPOTLIGHT JONGNIC BONTEMPS The Land Classically trained composer Jongnic Bontemps’ INSTITUTE SUPPORT scores incorporate ethnic instruments with organic and 2013 Music and Sound Design Lab synthetic textures to create unique musical worlds for at Skywalker Sound | Feature Film the films he’s composed for—some of which include Composer Fellow Daughter of Fortune, A Different Tree, Soaring on 2014 Time Warner Foundation Invisible Wings, and Saudade. Bontemps, who was a Fellowship | Film Music 2013 Composer Fellow at Sundance Institute’s Music 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and Sound Design Lab, first studied music at Yale, Composer for The Land Berklee, and the University of Southern California.

While at USC, he frequently collaborated with a filmmaker friend and fellow student, Steven Caple Jr. When Caple was ready to make his first feature film The Land, he turned to Bontemps for the score.

Premiering at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, The Land is a beautifully rendered story about a group of skateboarding pals who dream of skating their way out of poverty, but end up inadvertently falling into the downward spiral of a Cleveland drug ring. The atmospheric film is fueled by Bontemps’ elemental score, which he achieved by sampling skateboard sounds to use as percussions. The film also features an impressive soundtrack produced by NAS, and includes a song collaboration with Bontemps, NAS, and Erykah Badu, which the trio recently performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! following The Land’s release by IFC Films this summer. Bontemps talked to Peter Golub about the musical journey that led up to his work on The Land—a process that got up close and personal when he took on a film about friendship with a friend.

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 26 PROJECT SPOTLIGHT JONGNIC BONTEMPS The Land Golub: You were obviously a musician first, but what were and we’ve basically worked together ever since. He finally the steps that led you to film? had his first opportunity to do a feature, which was The Land. Because we had worked so well together on the past Bontemps: Well I studied music undergrad, and I couldn’t projects, we kind of had a shorthand and that trust—he figure out how to monetize my career or monetize my trusts me that I’m going to be able to get across that finish training so I ended up in software. After a decade-long stint line, and I trust him with his musical direction and what in software, I decided that I really wanted to get back into his vision is for the film. So really, coming from a platform music. But at that point I had acquired a wife and kids, so of trust, even though we might differ at times or argue, we I figured we couldn’t go back to eating ramen noodles, so both know that we’re just fighting for the best possible I had to figure out a career to be able to get back into my rendition of the film. first love, which is writing music. That’s when I came across writing music for film and TV. I looked at it as a way to fulfill Golub: You were a Fellow at the 2013 Music and Sound my passion and my gift that I want to give to the world, and Design Lab at Skywalker Sound and you recently came at the same time provide for my family. Along the same back to work with us as part of our staff. How did those journey I fell in love with the medium. I fell in love with the experiences impact your work? storytelling; I fell in love with collaborating with directors to really enhance their vision with music; and I also fell in Bontemps: There are a couple ways it impacted my career love with the composer community. It’s a place where I feel and the way I think about what I do. One is that I joke that extremely at home and extremely welcome. if you could die and go to sound heaven, you would go to Skywalker Ranch. You get immersed in this amazing Golub: In terms of the collaborations that you’ve had community of professionals that are wholly devoted to with filmmakers, how would you describe the ideal way of creating sound. That gives you access to a community and working together? makes you feel valued as part of that community. The fact that Sundance has this opportunity for us to go up there Bontemps: What’s been really great for me is when a and interact with all the professionals there—it had a huge director is open to a new voice. So many times when a impact on me. director is working on a film they either have a song or they were writing the screenplay to a particular piece of “What’s been really great for me is music or a playlist and they have these ideas of what the music is going to be already. It really is enjoyable when you when a director is open to a new voice.” can actually talk to the director and say, “Can we go in a different direction?” Obviously it’s a back and forth. The other thing that was great about it was getting introduced to all of the composers and really interacting Golub: You did the score for The Land. What was the with them away from the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles. process working on that film? One of my favorite memories is sitting fireside with Thomas Newman and talking about his family and the impact his Bontemps: That was a project with a longtime director and family has had on his life—you just don’t get that anywhere © 2016 SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | PHOTO BY BRANDON JOSEPH BAKER collaborator of mine, Steven Caple Jr., who I met at USC other than the Lab. Film School. I worked on his student project in school, SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 27 ARTIST SUPPORT NEW FRONTIER

SHARI FRILLOT KAMAL SINCLAIR CHIEF CURATOR NEW FRONTIER DIRECTOR NEW FRONTIER LABS

FOCUSED ON ARTISTS WORKING at VR storytelling was at the forefront of New Eminent Persons for the Test Ban Treaty at the convergence of film, art, media, live Frontier presentations at the Festival, as well the UN in Vienna have played a role in the performance, music, and technology, New as at the 2016 New Frontier Story Lab. Six debate over uranium mining on the Martu Frontier identifies, supports, and presents projects took part in the Lab that was held tribal land in Australia. the work of artists who are defining emerging at the Sundance Resort in May. For the first story media and platforms. The New Frontier time, the Lab included an industry day to Other milestones in 2016 included New Frontier exhibition at the Sundance Film Festival, led by deepen the conversations surrounding design, teaming up with the Institute’s Marketing Chief Curator Shari Frilot, showcases cutting- technology, and strategies for project viability Department to produce a panel at Social edge fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid multimedia and financial support. Media Week Los Angeles on the reincarnation installations, performances, and films, and the of virtual reality. Also, in a successful year of Program's Labs and Residencies, under the Additionally, the New Frontier Lab Programs granting, in which 12 projects received funding direction of Kamal Sinclair, provide a creative supported four projects through a VR from Rockefeller Foundation, Time Warner community for artists and technologists to push Residency program in collaboration with Foundation, Arcus Foundation, and Jaunt VR, a the boundaries of storytelling. Jaunt VR, including Lynette Wallworth’s pilot new partnership with the MacArthur Foundation project Collisions, which has since seen a and The New York Times supported two In January at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, powerful impact in the global political sphere. groundbreaking immersive journalism projects. New Frontier kicked off a year of celebrations Viewings of Collisions at forums such as the marking its 10th anniversary including special World Economic Forum in Beijing, the Skoll exhibitions at MoMA and the Walker Art Center. World Forum in Oxford, and the Group of

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 28 PROJECT SPOTLIGHT 10TH ANNIVERSARY

1. A revolution a decade in the making, New Frontier celebrated its 10th anniversary at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. The latest iteration of New Frontier was defined by 30 virtual reality projects, 11 installations, three feature films and one live performance that immersed audiences in expansive new media experiences. From swimming with whales to driving on the surface of Mars, these VR works 2. 3. provided an opportunity to become viscerally aware of the vital connections between our brains, our bodies, and our biospheres.

The 10th anniversary celebrations continued in New York City in April at MoMA with “Slithering Screens,” a five-night retrospective exhibition of original cinematic works that premiered in the Sundance Film Festival’s 4. 5. 6. New Frontier program over the past decade. The exhibit featured a simulcast presentation of Lynette Wallworth’s 2016 Festival VR project Collisions in the first-ever widely simulcast presentation of virtual reality in New York City, and it was the first time VR had come to MoMA. Special anniversary exhibitions were also held at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis as part of Northern Spark in June, and the Leonardo

7. 8. 9. Journal of Arts and Sciences published a 16-page

1. COURTESY OF DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS | PHOTO BY CHAYSE IRVIN // 2. © 2016 SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | PHOTO BY RYAN KOBANE // 3. COURTESY OF MYTH AND INFRASTRUCTURE // color spread commemorating 10 years of New Frontier. 4. COURTESY OF MIKE KELLEY // 5. © 2016 SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | PHOTO BY STEPHEN SPECKMAN // 6. COURTESY OF CLOUDS // 7. © 2016 SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | PHOTO BY JONATHAN HICKERSON // 8. COURTESY OF WAY TO GO | PHOTO BY VINCENT MORISSET // 9. COURTESY OF HUNGER IN LOS ANGELES SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 29 CREATIVE PRODUCING PROGRAM Recognizing the crucial role that independent producers play in at the Catalyst Forum, including five films that premiered at the finding, championing, and shaping original voices in filmmaking, 2016 Sundance Film Festival: The Bad Kids (U.S. Documentary the Creative Producing Program supports creative producers at Special Jury Award for Verité Filmmaking), Hooligan Sparrow, all stages of their designated projects and careers. Serving both Newtown, Audrie & Daisy, and Jacqueline Argentine. documentary and feature producers, the program provides strategic and tactical support to nurture the next generation of independent As a signature element of the Creative Producing Program, the producers and sustain the community of veteran producers working Artist Services Creative Funding and Distribution Initiative in independent film. empowers filmmakers with knowledge, resources, and deals to successfully navigate the changing marketplace. Through Artist Each year Creative Producing Fellowships are awarded to a Services, every Institute-supported film is eligible for a novel new group of narrative and documentary producers to provide distribution arrangement that allows preferred access to top education and tools for more effective marketing, financing, digital retailers such as Amazon, iTunes, and Netflix, Sundance distribution, and impact of their work. Focused on specific projects Now, and Vimeo. Premiere Digital handles all technical servicing, in development, the Fellowship offers support through Labs, grants, and filmmakers receive 100% of earned revenue. Since 2012, over and mentorships. The annual Creative Producing Summit invites 200 films have been supported by the initiative, including 2016 Fellows to gain tactical knowledge of the field, meet key industry Sundance Film Festival award-winner First Girl I Loved. executives, and develop strategies around pitching, producing, financing, and releasing their films. Each year at the Sundance Film Since 2011, Sundance through Artist Services has been a key Festival, a series of events and industry meetings allows Fellows to partner of creative funding leader Kickstarter. Institute artists are deepen their networks, actively move their projects forward, and eligible to receive an exclusive deal that helps campaigns succeed. gain valuable insights into the marketplace. Nearly $18M has been raised for Sundance-affiliated films on Kickstarter since the partnership launched. Opening new paths to production for the most promising new Educating the Institute’s community of artists and professionals independent films,Catalyst connects culturally-engaged investors with independent filmmakers and the Sundance community. on the changing film business through workshops, data tools, The annual invitation-only Catalyst Forum is held for three days case studies, and white papers is a critical component of Artist in September at the Sundance Resort and offers prospective Services' efforts. A groundbreaking Transparency Project with financiers the opportunity to meet the creative teams behind Cinereach is endeavoring to give independent filmmakers insights highly-anticipated feature and documentary film projects selected into distribution revenue and expenses across the independent by Sundance Institute’s Program Directors. Since launching in sector. Artist Services has also commissioned white papers on non- 2013, $7.5 million has been raised for film projects presented theatrical distribution, piracy and other trends in the market.

Women at Sundance is a multi-faceted program dedicated At the annual Women at Sundance Brunch, held at the to creating gender equality in American media by working to Sundance Film Festival, a community of 400 artists, discover, spotlight, and forge ways for women to succeed as industry, opinion makers, activists and supporters gather storytellers who shape our cultural landscape. to toast our fellows, celebrate the Festival films made by women, and continue the conversation about women-led Now in its fourth year, the Women at Sundance Fellowship film. At this year’s Brunch, hosted by Refinery29, Donna program provides yearlong support to six talented Langley and Elizabeth Banks took the stage together and women directors and producers working in either fiction producer Effie Brown gave a rousing keynote to challenge or nonfiction. Helping to advance their careers, this and inspire women storytellers. bespoke Fellowship provides an industry mentor, a year of professional coaching made possible by The Harnisch Also new at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, Women at Foundation, year-round Sundance staff support, as well Sundance convened a powerful leadership group for an as travel grants to attend key events. Most notably, intimate and inspiring dinner with 50 women filmmakers, Fellows are supported with a stipend to attend the annual talent, industry, donors, and Sundance staff. Sundance Film Festival, where they participate in one-on- one industry meetings to advance their projects, group Women at Sundance, together with our partner Women seminars with industry experts, sessions with professional In Film LA, held a summit in October 2015 that brought coaches, as well as screenings and events. together 40 influential Hollywood decision-makers for the first-time ever to grapple with the question of “What Every spring, a Financing and Strategy Intensive is can be done to create change?” The two-day meeting was convened to educate female filmmakers in all aspects devoted to brainstorming systemic solutions to increase of seeking, securing, and managing funding for their the presence of women on both sides of the camera. films. This year’s Intensive, held at Morgan Stanley’s Throughout the year, working groups convened and Headquarters in New York, was more interactive than dedicated staff was hired, building toward the launch of ever with the teams behind 40 women-directed projects an industry-wide effort with specific programs created to working to formulate stronger pitch presentations and affect systemic change in 2017. actionable, strategic steps to advance their projects. While “We have to continue to bolster each other and hold each other in New York for the Intensive, as part of a new partnership with Kering, the six Women at Sundance Fellows were up, because the work we do affects the way we see ourselves invited to Kering’s New York offices for talks and workshops and the way that we are seen. It's vital work.” on leadership and personal branding. — AVA DUVERNAY

© 2015 SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | PHOTO BY BRANDON CRUZ SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 31 DIVERSITY INITIATIVE The Diversity Initiative deepens Sundance Institute’s advancement of their work this year, including Erica longstanding commitment to supporting a wide range Watson (2015 Knight Fellow), who was chosen as a Sony of storytellers from all backgrounds, regions, gender, Directing Fellow and as a Ryan Murphy Directing Fellow, orientation, and cultures. In addition to working in and Ill Weaver (2016 Knight Fellow) who received funding partnership with the Institute’s artist programs to reach from the Ford Foundation JustFilms, for the Detroit new communities, encourage submissions to grant Narratives Project. funds and Labs, and share public programs with diverse audiences, the Diversity Initiative also manages several Other highlights from 2016 include a collaboration in April workshops and fellowship programs. between the Diversity Initiative, the New Frontier Story Lab, Google's diversity program, and YouTube's women's In 2016, the Diversity Initiative’s work included initiative to host a New Frontier VR Storytelling Day Screenwriters Intensives in collaboration with the Feature Lab and Maker Program at YouTube Space Los Angeles. Film Program, a two-day workshop based in Los Angeles, the Recognizing virtual reality as a quickly emerging form of Time Warner Fellowships supporting a diverse participant storytelling, Sundance selected six diverse participants to in each of the Institute’s artist programs, and the Knight take a deeper dive into the storytelling process with New Foundation Fellows Project, which brings Sundance Frontier and Google experts. workshops to communities across the U.S and supports a cohort of artists to attend the Sundance Film Festival. In June, the first phase of an extensive study commissioned by the Diversity Initiative with support from the W.K. At the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, the Diversity Initiative Kellogg Foundation was completed. The study evaluates the expanded the opportunities for diverse filmmakers to participation and impact of Sundance programs for people interact with industry leaders through panels, one-on- of color. These UCLA research findings will be used to one meetings with industry decision-makers, and at the develop thoughtful strategies both internally and externally second annual Meet the Artists dinner for filmmakers of throughout the upcoming year to assist Sundance Institute’s color at the Sundance Film Festival. Supported this year by long-term commitment to be a trusted destination for the Time Warner Foundation, the dinner grew to over 110 diverse artists with stories to tell. attendees – a 50% increase from 2015 – and connected “The Knight Fellowship asks us to actively consider diverse filmmakers with companies like Netflix, HBO, the complications and complexities of who we are, LucasFilm, and more. where we’re from, and how those identities play into The Knight Foundation Fellows program also grew as it our art making. I’m all about that.” entered its third year with a new group of four fellows. — 2016 KNIGHT FELLOW TAYARISHA POE Several previously supported Knight Fellows saw great

As the industry has seen an explosive growth of opportunities for writers developing episodic content for cable and online platforms, there are still few training grounds for independent and diverse artists who want to work in this new landscape. In response, the Sundance Institute Episodic Storytelling Initiative was formed to provide a year-round suite of Labs and support designed to foster a next generation of creators developing and producing episodic content. At the centerpiece of the Initiative, the Episodic Story Lab offers 10 writers an opportunity to develop long- form episodic content in a setting where they can hone their writing skills and learn how to navigate the changing industry. This year’s annual Episodic Story Lab paired Fellows with accomplished showrunners, producers, and television executives as they participated in individual and group creative meetings, writers’ rooms, case study screenings, and pitch sessions to further develop their pilot scripts.

Since the launch of the Episodic Story Lab in 2014, supported alumni have found great success in the field. Seven Fellows have sold projects following their participation in the Lab, including: Desiree Akhavan sold her Lab project Switch Hitter to Kudos in the U.K. and has received a six-episode order from Channel 4, Matt Berninger and Carin Besser sold their script for Mistaken For Strangers to HBO. Additionally, six Fellows have been newly staffed on shows, including: John Lopez (Strange Angel – AMC), Barry Jenkins (The Leftovers – HBO), and Cami Delavigne (Quantico – ABC). “You’ll learn so much about not only the art of Also this year, a new collaboration with YouTube kicked off to support a group of 10 making film and television, but how much you don’t creators developing scripted short-form episodic content for digital platforms. In know. It’ll reinvigorate your creativity, and if you’re April, a call for applications was open to the public to participate in the upcoming Sundance Institute | YouTube New Voices Lab, which will take place in November at lucky, you’ll come out as a part of a family.” YouTube Space Los Angeles. – ANNA AKANA ON PARTICIPATING IN THE YOUTUBE CREATORS INTENSIVE AT THE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

2016 marked the first full year of Sundance Ignite, a program designed to excite a new generation of young creatives and audience members around the power of storytelling. The program includes: the Ignite Ticket Package offering 18-24 year- olds special access to the Sundance Film Festival; Sundance Ignite On Tour, a traveling component to engage with students and emerging filmmakers on college campuses around the country; and the Ignite Fellows Program, which annually selects 15 promising young storytellers to participate in year-round mentorship and artist development experiences.

At January’s Sundance Film Festival, the Ignite Fellows began their year with a specially curated track of programs, mentorship meetings and panels, exclusive Film Talks with Festival filmmakers, as well as full participation in all Ignite Ticket Package events and benefits.

After the Festival, the Ignite Fellows participated in Shorts Master Classes, attended a Documentary Editing Workshop in New York City hosted by the Documentary Film Program, joined the Artist Services workshop in Philadelphia, traveled as content producers for Film Forward’s Atlanta and Omaha programs, and interned with the programming team during Sundance London.

All 15 Fellows attended NEXT FEST this year, taking part in specialized workshops, a VR studio tour, and other experiences to enhance their craft and careers. Most exciting, Sundance Institute collaborated with three Ignite Fellows—a director, graphic animator, and composer—on the creation of the NEXT FEST 2016 trailer.

Striving to build a pipeline for new artists to Sundance Institute, many of the Ignite Fellows have already deepened their connections to the Institute. Fellow Tara Clune has been hired by Sundance Institute’s Marketing Department to produce animated graphic ads, and Fellow Julia Kipnis is screening documentaries for the programming team.

JOHN COOPER FESTIVAL DIRECTOR The Sundance Film Festival brings together the most original storytellers with the most adventurous audiences for its annual program of dramatic and documentary films, shorts, installations, performances, panel discussions, and dynamic music events. Since 1985, hundreds of films launched at the Festival have gained critical recognition, received commercial distribution, and reached worldwide audiences eager for new voices and fresh perspectives. Under the direction of John Cooper, each year the Festival pursues new ways to inspire and embolden artists and audiences alike through celebrating original and authentic storytelling.

The 2016 Sundance Film Festival presented a lineup of 123 feature-length and 72 short films to more than 46,600 independent film-loving attendees. Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation and Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami’s Sonita won both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award for their respective sections, marking the third time in Festival history two films have done this in the same year. Parker’s directorial debut set a Sundance sales record when it was purchased by Fox Searchlight for $17.5 million. The high sale signaled a change in the independent film market as streaming services like Netflix and Amazon are raising the demand for acquiring high quality content.

Leading the ways in which independent cinema is using innovation and new mediums, the Festival expanded its showcase of episodic storytelling and web-based art. The Festival also celebrated the 10th anniversary of New Frontier with a vast offering of virtual reality experiences. A special New Frontier retrospective was installed at Festival Base Camp, a new Festival venue presented by Canada Goose that became a thriving hub for musical performances, panel discussions, art, and live streams in the heart of Park City’s Old Town.

In Manchester by the Sea, Lee Chandler is a gloomy recluse seemingly withering away as a Boston janitor when he receives news that he’s lost his only brother. Saddled with this new grief, Lee struggles to acclimate to the unanticipated role as guardian of his fatherless 16-year-old nephew, Patrick. To compound and complicate matters, he’s forced to return to the small fishing community where confronting the severed relationship with his wife, Randi, is unavoidable.

Casey Affleck presents a masterful portrayal of Lee, a man whose life of solitude is somehow reignited by tragedy, while newcomer Lucas Hedges channels the ineffable agony of loss and the complexity of youth in his role as Patrick. Director Kenneth Lonergan returns with a masterful portrayal of life’s quietly raw moments, splices them with resilient humor, and sets them against the backdrop of small-town, quotidian life to form something of a cinematic chorale.

Manchester by the Sea screened in the Premieres section at the 2016 Sundance Film “Manchester by the Sea is a finely shaded portrait, Festival and was acquired for distribution by Amazon Studios. The film made its theatrical release in November. Lonergan previously wrote and directed You Can Count on Me, which a study in individual misery set in a place that is won the 2000 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize and Waldo Salt Screenwriting observed with care and affection.” Award, and Margaret, which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2012 Vienna Film International Festival. His screenwriting credits include Analyze This and Gangs of New York, the latter — A.O. SCOTT, THE NEW YORK TIMES earning nominations for the WGA and Academy Award.

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SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 38 PUBLIC PROGRAMS FESTIVAL EVENTS Sundance Sundance partnership with the British Stones Throw Records, Film Festival: Film Festival: Film Institute to discuss and Venice Arts. Elizabeth “Diversity as an Ethos” with Wood’s film White Girl was Hong Kong London Sundance alum Effie Brown followed by a conversation Building upon the debut of last Continuing the focus of (producer of Dear White between the filmmaker and year’s impactful cinematic and three previous editions, People); and a master class critically acclaimed director cultural exchange, Sundance Sundance Film Festival: on short filmmaking for Catherine Hardwicke, and returned to Hong Kong in London brought the best budding filmmakers. Babak Anvari’s horror flick the fall of 2015 to continue of the 2016 Sundance Film Under the Shadow included fostering the creativity of local Festival to audiences across a conversation between independent filmmakers and to the pond. This year’s festival Sundance Anvari and the genre-bending further inspire Hong Kong and took place at the redeveloped NEXT FEST director John Landis. China’s emerging independent Picturehouse Central, a new The weekend-long summer film culture. Partnering with cinema in the heart of the festival marked its fourth The Metroplex, the state-of- West End with 1,000 seats, appearance in L.A. celebrating the-art cinema in Kowloon seven screens, and three the renegade spirit of Bay in Hong Kong, the 10-day café bars. Presenting exciting independent artists. Held at screening series offered a new work by emerging and the historic Theatre at Ace strong slate of cutting-edge established independent Hotel, this year’s NEXT FEST independent films direct filmmakers, including 11 U.K. offered more opportunities from the 2015 Sundance and international feature for audiences to celebrate the Film Festival, including The film premieres, the line-up summer energy and spirit of Wolfpack, Cartel Land, Me also featured a short film film and music in Los Angeles. and Earl and the Dying Girl, program with 15 shorts and Six bold films fresh from the and The Witch. This year’s a strand dedicated to U.K. 2016 Sundance Film Festival edition offered a special panel shorts. Other special events made their L.A. premiere and discussion with a group of included: “Sundance Film also featured musical acts, live visiting filmmakers moderated Festival: Road to Stardom,” performances, comedic relief by Director of Programming a showcase of notable and conversations. Highlights Trevor Groth. Also new to the Sundance-discovered films; included a screening of program, a Film Music Day a panel with Oscar-winning Chad Hartigan’s Morris From Lab featured a full day of producer and industry America followed by a youth presentations and discussions veteran James Schamus, talent show hosted by the on the art of film music with whose feature directorial film’s star, comedian Craig composers Peter Golub, George debut Indignation screened Robinson, with participants Clinton, and Peter Kam. in the main film program; a from 826LA, Inner-City Arts,

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Artist Services Workshops Sundance Ignite on Tour Documentary Film Program Film Music Master Class New Frontier Day Lab Short Film Master Class Austin, TX La Mirada, CA Workshop and Master Class Coral Gables, FL Charlotte, NC Akron, OH Morelia, Mexico Syracuse, NY St. Paul, MN Charlotte, NC Oaxaca, Mexico In collaboration with the University Designed to share learning about Los Angeles, CA Philadelphia, PA Sundance Ignite on Tour travels Hosted at the IFP Minnesota Center for of Miami Frost School of Music, innovations in storytelling, the New Macon, GA with films and filmmakers to college Media, the Documentary Film Program the Film Music Program presented Frontier Day Lab was a collaboration Engaging in a dialogue between campuses, community centers, and (DFP) presented a special workshop a free one-day master class to between Sundance Institute, the A new educational series in 2016, independent filmmakers and field arts organizations for screenings, and master class for emerging empower and connect the next Southern Documentary Fund, Harvey B. the Short Film Master Class called leaders as well as sharing insights into discussions, Shorts Labs, workshops, filmmakers. The daylong events wave of emerging artists. The Gantt Center for African-American Arts to session directors, writers, actors, industry trends and new technologies, and case studies. connected participants with DFP in-depth conference brought + Culture, and McColl Center for Art producers, crew, and anyone Artist Services offered an intensive This year, Ignite visited Biola University alumni artists and included storytelling together leading innovators in the + Innovation. This free event explored interested in learning more about series of public workshops. and Syracuse University and featured a presentations, feedback sessions, and world of music and sound to offer field-defining projects, technological short filmmaking. film screening with a Q&A and a Short information about funding and artist participants a valuable inside look and cultural shifts, emerging creative Film Master Class. support opportunities. at a working career in film music. practices and tools, and conversations with New Frontier pioneers. Native Workshop at Ziibiwing Center Mt. Pleasant, MI Contemplating the Cut: Conversations with Documentary As part of the Native American and Film Editors Indigenous Program’s Full Circle New York City, NY Fellowship Program to support 18-24 year-old Native American The Documentary Film Program curated filmmakers, Sundance Institute and its annual series for film editors in the Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe collaboration with the Karen Schmeer Culture & Lifeways hosted Native Film Editing Fellowship. youth for a filmmaking workshop followed by community film screenings with directors.

ILLUMINATING OUR CULTURE THROUGH STORYTELLING Sundance Institute has worked closely with many visionary philanthropists and the world’s leading foundations, government agencies, and corporations to revolutionize the way stories are told and shared. We are proud to highlight just a few of the many individuals and organizations that have transformed our work, our artists, and our community.

© 2016 SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | PHOTO BY BRANDON CRUZ SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 43 FEATURED COLLABORATIONS Major Sponsor of Utah Community Programs. forum, which they have attended as creative producer of each piece has a Sundance Institute The partnership between Sundance Institute and investors for the past three years. Their son, Alex, affiliation – with four produced by a past or current GOED provides a valuable resource for the State of is also a Sundance fan and has participated in Women at Sundance Fellow, and one directed by a FOUNDATIONS Utah in its efforts to attract business to the State the Ignite program and joined Donna and Kevin to current Fellow. The films will run monthly through Established in 2013, the Sundance Institute and market the State and tourism internationally. observe the Producers Summit and the Directors Spring 2017 on the Refinery29 platform. | Arcus Foundation Fund has supported film Our shared goal is to create a long term and Lab. Donna and Kevin are proud to philanthropically projects focused on LGBT issues through growing partnership to support continued support the work they are so passionate about at YouTube/New Voices Lab - The New Voices direct grants and year-round support from the economic development in Utah. Sundance as members of the Sundance Circle Lab is part of Sundance Institute and YouTube’s Documentary Film Program and Artist Services. Visionary community. ongoing commitment to supporting independent Films supported to date include Before You Know INDIVIDUAL GIVING creators working in narrative forms. The Sundance It (PJ Raval), The New Black (Yoruba Richen), Out Doc Epstein and Tom Woodruffare loyal The Engelhard Foundation has provided Institute | YouTube New Voices Lab is designed to in the Night (Blair Doroshwalther) and First Girl I members of the Sundance Institute community. longstanding philanthropic support to the support a group of 10 creators, developing scripted Loved (Kerem Sanga). They attend the Festival each year through Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program short-form episodic content for digital platforms. Sundance Circle. Their experience getting to know (DFP). The DFP is committed to furthering the Fellows work with an exciting group of creators, W. K. Kellogg Foundation supports the Native the Sundance community – including filmmakers excellence of documentary filmmaking in the U.S. showrunners, and episodic producers to develop American and Indigenous Program’s Full Circle and volunteers – inspired them to deepen their and around the world. Focusing on the values of their stories in an environment that encourages Initiative, which focuses on developing Native investment in Sundance Institute to specifically Art, Reach, and Change, the DFP encourages risk-taking and innovation. and Indigenous youth filmmakers ages 18-24. help theses groups through funding from the J.A. high-quality storytelling and experimentation in Through workshops, Fellowships, and training & H.G. Woodruff Jr. Charitable Trust. Doc and Tom form; champions underrepresented voices; and, For the 7th year, Acura continues to support the opportunities for Tribal youth in New Mexico, dedicated their funding to appreciation activities through our outreach, engagement grants, and Sundance Institute mission through multiple areas Michigan, and at the Sundance Film Festival, and incentives for the nearly 2,000 volunteers who the Creative Producing Initiative, provides access of support, including Sundance NEXT FEST and Full Circle links talented young storytellers to make the Festival possible. Additionally, six first- to distribution and furthers the social and creative our annual fundraising summer benefit, Night education and career pipelines across fields time documentary filmmakers accepted into the impact of this work upon release. Before NEXT. Acura’s ongoing generosity and of independent filmmaking, using structural World Cinema Documentary Competition received commitment to our mission enables us to execute strategies where Native communities heal by stipends to attend the Sundance Film Festival, CORPORATIONS our year-round work with artists and to present telling their own stories. underwritten by the family Trust. Refinery29is one of the Institute’s important their stories in front of the over 55,000 people who supporters of Women at Sundance. In addition attend these two festivals. GOVERNMENT Donna and Kevin Gruneich play an important to their sponsorship of the Women at Sundance The State of Utah, through the Governor's Office leadership role at Sundance Institute. In 2016 Brunch and general operating support of Women of Economic Development (GOED), provided Donna completed her term as chair of the Utah at Sundance, Refinery29 has launched a new generous support in 2016 for Sundance Institute’s Advisory Board, where she developed and short film series called ShatterBox Anthology, year-round work and the Sundance Film Festival. championed the success of An Artist at the driven by female directors, writers, actors, and We were proud to honor Utah as Festival Host Table, Sundance Film Festival’s opening night animators. Refinery29 invited Sundance Institute State of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and gala celebration, and played a meaningful role in alumni to submit story treatments first and they as a Supporting Sponsor of the Sundance Film working with the development team to craft the went on to commission 11 micro-budget short- Festivals in London and Hong Kong, as well Sundance Circle program. Together Donna and form content projects by female filmmakers. Of the as at Sundance NEXT FEST in Los Angeles. Kevin are active participants in Sundance’s Catalyst final 11 projects selected, every single director or Additionally, GOED and the State of Utah are a

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NEW FRONTIER ALLIANCE OFFICIAL PROVIDERS & High West Distillery Reach Engine (Levels Beyond) Wyndham Vacation Rentals Annapurna Pictures and Vrse IN-KIND SUPPORTERS Hootsuite Red Butte Garden The Yarrow Hotel & Conference Center Fox Innovation Lab 90.9fm KRCL Identity Properties Resorts West Zeiss Google All Seasons Resort Lodging IFP (Independent Filmmaker Project) Riverhorse on Main Jaunt Angeniuex Image.net/WireImage/Getty Images Rosco Laboratories Sundance NEXT FEST 2016 Nokia Aniden In The Event Schneider Optics Oculus Anton-Bauer, Inc. Jupiter Bowl Sego Strategies PRINCIPAL SPONSORS ARRI K-TEK Shiftboard Acura 2016 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL Aspen Press & Packaging KCRW THE SHOP Adobe Audio-Technica Kenneth Cole Productions Shopify PRESENTING SPONSORS Avid Kessler Skullcandy MAJOR SPONSORS Hewlett Packard Enterprise Ballard Spahr LLP Kino Flo Skywalker Sound Kickstarter Acura Barco, Inc. KPCW SLUG Magazine SundanceTV Bill White Restaurant Group KXRK “X96” 96.3FM/Broadway Media SmallHD MEDIA SPONSOR Chase Sapphire Preferred® Box, Inc. LaCie Snow Flower Condominiums & Los Angeles Times Canada Goose Cactus & Tropicals Larger Than Life, Inc. Reservations CDS - An RR Donnelley Company Laser Exhibitor Service, Inc. Sony Electronics SUPPORTING SPONSORS LEADERSHIP SPONSORS Cinefamily Latham & Watkins LLP Sony Professional Media Beachside Films Adobe City Weekly Le Croissant Catering Sound Devices, LLC BitTorrent Airbnb Cuisine Unlimited Catering & LUMA Foundation Special Electronics Group Dolby Laboratories, Inc. DIRECTV Special Events M Moser Associates Steadicam FilmL.A., Inc. Tequila Don Julio™ Deer Valley Resort MASS MoCA Stewart Filmscreen Stella Artois® Samsung DeJoria Center Miderra Transportation Management Sundance Catalog sweetgreen YouTube Dolby Laboratories, Inc. MOTU Sundance Mountain Resort The Theatre at Ace Hotel Done To Your Taste Catering and Events MovieMaker Magazine Swire Coca-Cola Tequila Don Julio™ SUSTAINING SPONSORS Easyrig The Nation TIffen Trinchero Family Estates BROOKSIDE Chocolate Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC) Nicholas and Company Todd Oldham Studio Utah Film Commission Canon USA, Inc. Etix O.C. Tanner Company Trolley Square Dropbox Eventbase O.P. Rockwell Ucross Foundation GEICO Fill-Lite™ Paralinx Valley Behavioral Health The Hollywood Reporter Film Independent Park City Lodging, Inc. VARIETY Kickstarter The Film School at Santa Fe University of Park City Marriott Hotel Visit Salt Lake LUNA Bar/Clif Bar & Company Art and Design Park City Transportation The Vitec Group Omnicom FotoKem Polycom Wide Blue Sound Stella Artois® Four Daughters Vineyard & Winery Postano Wilshire / Rodeo / Sepulveda Screening UBER Gracenote Predict Rooms Green River Quiet PC World of Wonder Productions

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 48 INSTITUTIONAL HEALTH Board of Trustees Utah Director’s ROBERT REDFORD, President and Founder Advisory Advisory PAT MITCHELL, Chair of the Board JEANNE DONOVAN FISHER, Vice Chair of the Board Board Group LEADERSHIP GEOFFREY K. SANDS, Vice Chair of the Board

WITH ITS DEEPLY DEDICATED LEADERSHIP AND STAFF, INCLUDING THE BOARD Sean Bailey Utah Advisory Board (UAB) Chair Jason Blum Ryan Coogler Donna Gruneich Jason Hirschhorn OF TRUSTEES, UTAH ADVISORY BOARD, AND DIRECTOR’S ADVISORY GROUP, Kenneth Cole Andrew Jarecki SUNDANCE INSTITUTE IS GUIDED BY A GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS UNITED BY Fred Dust Advisory Board Members Chris Kelly THEIR BELIEF IN THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF STORY. Ava DuVernay Amy Rees Anderson *Blake Krikorian Philipp Engelhorn Susan Bramble Lauren Zalaznick Rob Epstein Andy Cier Caterina Fake Katie Eldridge Bob Frankenberg Susan Fredston-Hermann Cindy Harrell Horn Nancy Garrison Lisa Kron Shari Levitin Lyn Davis Lear Naja Lockwood Gigi Pritzker Claudia McMullin Alejandro Ramírez Magaña Coleen Reardon Amy Redford Julie Spielberg-Senet Thomas E. Rothman Rob Slettom Nadine Schiff-Rosen Jenny Wilson Jim Swartz Jacki Zehner Liesl Tommy *BLAKE KRIKORIAN, John Warnock Ex-Officio 1967-2016 As a founding member of the Jacki Zehner Diane Foster Director's Advisory Group, Blake gifted the Institute with his Wally Weisman (Chair Emeritus) Members Emeritus infectious energy and spirit. His Glenn Close (Emeritus) Margaret (Margo) Jacobs impact on the evolution of our Jake Eberts (Emeritus) Tina Lewis programs, and on each of us, Sally Field (Emeritus) Rory Murphy will be long felt. Steven Haft (Emeritus) George White (Emeritus)

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A. Rey Pamatmat Ana Katz Bahman Ghobadi Bryan Carberry Aaron Bleyaert Anders N. Berg Banker White Bryce Dallas Howard Aaron Brookner Andra Popescu Baptiste Gacoin Buja sans Tabou Aaron Meyers Andre Hyland Barnaby Steel Buket Coşkuner Aaron Schnobrich Andre Perez Barry Cole Burcu Melekoglu Adam Christian Clark Andrea Meditch Bart Goossens Caecilia Charbonnier Adam Griffin Andres Farias Bart Kevelham Callum Rice Adam Guettel Andres Meza-Valdes Bass Breish Calvin Lee Reeder Adam Hendricks Andres Parra Bassam Tariq Cami Delavigne FOCUS ON Adande Thorne Andrew Ahn Bassel Ghandour Carin Besser Adja Gildersleve Andrew Delpit Batul Mukhtiar Carl Guyenette Adriana Loeff Andrew Goldstein Béatrice Lartigue Carlos del Castillo Adrienne Maree Brown Andrew Gregory Ben Lear Carlos Rossi Agnieszka Smoczynska Andrew Houpt Ben Petrie Carol Burnett AJ Schnack Andrew Hudson Ben Vance Caroline Monnet Akilah Hughes Andrew James Benjamin Berman Carrie Hamilton Al Morrow Andrew Laurich Benjamin Dickinson Casey Brown Alaa Eddine Aljem Andrew Neel Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt Cassils THE ARTIST Alan Palomo Andrew Okpeaha MacLean Berke Bas Catherine Grieve Alasdair Harris Andrew Schneider Bernard MacMahon Catherine Mavrikakis IGNITE NEW VOICES: SUNDANCE INSTITUTE BELIEVES THAT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS, IF Alejandro Fernandez Andrew Thomas Huang Bernardo Britto Caveh Zahedi Alex Jablonski Anjali Nayar Beth Levison Cecilia Flores-Oebanda GIVEN THE RESOURCES AND A PLACE TO FOSTER SELF EXPRESSION AND A SENSE OF Alex McDowell Ann Eskridge Beth Murphy CeCilia Martinez Alex Rivera Ann Kim Big Freedia Cesar Cervantes COMMUNITY, HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR FAR-REACHING CREATIVE AND CULTURAL IMPACT. Alex Schwartz Anna Akana Bill Crossland Chad Cannon THESE ARE THE STORYTELLERS WE HAVE BEEN PROUD TO SUPPORT THROUGHOUT 2016. Alex Theurer Anna Akkash Bill Morgan Chad Hartigan Alexa Haas Anna Fitch Billy Luther Chanelle Aponte Pearson Alexander Burke Anna Rose Holmer Binesikwe Means Charles Ottaway Alexandra McDougald Anne Fontaine Bishnu Dev Halder Charlie Kaufman Alexandra Shiva Anne Nikitin Björk Guðmundsdóttir Chenglin Xie Alexis Grapsas Annie Silverstein Blake Pickens Chloé Zhao Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Anthony Onah Bob Hercules Chris Chuang Ali Vatansever Antonio Campos Bonni Cohen Chris Hegedus Alice Vial Antonio Piazza Boots Riley Chris Kelly Alicia Smith Apichatpong Weerasethakul Borbála Zétényi Chris McClanahan Alisa Lomax Arjan van Meerten Brad Lichtenstein Chris Milk Alistair Banks Griffin Arlan George Braden King Christian Lelong Allison Lee Arnaud Colinart Bradley Newman Christiana Mbakwe Allison McGourty Arnaud Desjardins Bradley Rust Gray Christianne Hedtke Allison Raskin Arne Sierens Brenda Bell Brown Christina King Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio Arne Toonen Brent Green Christina Webber Amanda Kramer Arthur Pratt Brentt Slabchuck Christopher Benson Amanda Livanou Asantewaa Prempeh Breon Jones Christopher Hampton Amanda Spain Ashlee Page Brett Gelman Christopher Kahunahana Amar Al-Bojrad Ashley Sabin Brett Haley Christopher McNabb Amaury La Burthe Asif Kapadia Brett Story Christopher Radcliff Amber Fares Assad Fouladkar Brett Weiner Ciara Leina'Ala Lacy Amie Doherty Audrey Rosenberg Brian Chasalow Ciro Guerra Amirah Tajdin Augusto Mendoza Brian Lazarte Claudia Abend Amit Madheshiya Aurora Villiard Brian Oakes Clay Tweel Amman Abbasi Averie Storck Bridey Elliott Clea DuVall Amritha Vaz Avril Speaks Bridget Carpenter Cori Stern Amy Fox Azeb Worku Sibane Bridgette A. Wimberly Cory Hinkle Amy Seimetz Babak Anvari Brit Fryer Court 31 LLC

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2016 50 INSTITUTIONAL HEALTH 2016 Supported Artists CONTINUED Craig Lucas Devin Weekley-Dean Emily Goldberg Geoff McLean James C. Strouse Jessica Devaney Julia Reichert Kyle Martin Craig Shilowich Diana Reyes Barrena Emma Fletcher Gerard McMurray James E. George Jessica Lawson Julian Jarrold Kyle Patrick Alvarez Cristina Ibarra Diana Son Endia Beal Geremy Jasper James Freydberg Jessie Kahnweiler Julian Sheppard L.A. Teodosio Crystal Moselle Diane Weipert Eric Chang Gillian Caldwell James Longley Jiehae Park Julie Zammarichi Lacey Schwartz Cynthia Newport Dianne Bellino Eric Hynes Gingger Shankar James Nestor Jim Cummings Julius Pryor Laith Majali Cynthia Wade Diego Luna Eric Mainade Giulia Caruso James Ponsoldt Jim Hosking Justin Begnaud Lana Wilson D A Pennebaker Dieudo Hamadi Eric Schultz Glenn Montgomery James Redford Jim Rash Justin Schein Lance Hammer D. A. Bullock Dominga Sotomayor Erik Gandini Grace Lee James Schamus Jim Strouse Kahlil Joseph Landon Van Soest Damani Baker Dominik Stockhausen Erin Sanger Grímur Hákonarson James Spinney Jimmy Maidens Kalup Linzy Lansana Mansaray Damon Davis Dominique Morisseau Ersinhan Ersin Guillaume P. Suon Jan Smutny Jimmy Mosqueda Kangmin Kim Larissa Rhodes Dan Cutforth Don Cheadle Esra Saydam Gus Reyes Jane Applegate Jiulang Wang Karan Tejpal Laura Conyedo Barral Danfung Dennis Don McKellar Esti Giordani Guy Van Nueten Jane Lipsitz JJ Garvine Karen Bernstein Laura Nix Daniel 'Cloud' Campos Donal Mosher Ethan Coen Hala Lofty Janicza Bravo Joan Stein Schimke Karen Konicek Laura Smith Daniel Arsham Doug Lussenhop Eugene Chung Hamza Boulaiz Jasmeet Singh Jodi Redmond Karen Vazquez Guadarrama Laura Vigilante Daniel Emmerson Douglas McGrath Eva Vives Hannah Utt Jasmine Rivera Joe Brewster Karim Amer Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre Daniel Fallshaw Douglas Tirola Eva Weber Hansol Jung Jason Benjamin Joe Greco Kat Cizek Lauren McBride Daniel Kaluuya Drew Christie Evan Gregory Hao Wu Jason Lew Joe Talbot Katarzyna Gondek Lauren Wolkstein Daniel Kwan Dubravka Turic Ezra Edelman Hassiba Belhadj Jason Michael Berman Joel Coen Kate McLarnon Lawrence Lerew Daniel McCabe Duke Erikson Fabien Togman Havana Marking Jason Reitman Joel Corelitz Kathryn Williams Leah Mahan Daniel Moshel Duke Johnson Fabio Grassadonia Heather Christian Jason Woliner Joey Ally Katy Scoggin Leah Natasha Thomas Daniel Schechter Duke Merriman Faren Humes Heather MacDonald Javid Soriano John Archer Katya Mihailova Leigh Silverman Daniel Scheinert Dyana Winkler Félix Lajeunesse Heidi Brandenburg Javier Coello Martínez John Carney Keith Fulton Leon Gast Daniel Sivan Dylan Reeve Felix Thompson Heidi Ewing Jay Brown John Howe Keith Goldfarb Lesley Jones Daniel Weidenfeld E. A. Donahue Felix van Groeningen Holly Nordlum Jean-Christophe Yacono John Hubbell Kelly Lamphear-Dash Leslie Cunningham Daniele Anastasion Easmanie Michel Femke Wolting Hope Litoff Jean-François Pouliot John Ingle Kelly Reichardt Leya Hale Daniella Kahane Eddie Alcazar Fenton Bailey Howard Gertler Jean-Pascal Beaudoin John Krasinski Kelly Williams Li Bob Danielle Varga Eddie Schmidt Feven Gebrezgi Huang Yao Jeff Baena John Lang Kendrick Lamar Liesl Tommy Danny Perez Eden Wurmfeld Fisher Stevens Ilinca Calugareanu Jeff Feuerzeig John Lopez Kenneth Droz Linc Gasking Darcy Brislin Efthymis Filippou Flannery Miller Ill Weaver Jeff Malmberg John Sayles Kenneth Lonergan Lindsay Poulton Darius Clark Monroe Efuru Flowers Flora Lichtman Illya Szilak Jeff Orlowski Johnny McAllister Kerem Sanga Lisa Kjerulff Darko Lungulov Ehab Tarabieh Flying Lotus ILMxLab Jeff Unay Jon Shenk Kevin Lee Burton Lisa Remington Dash Shaw Elaine McMilion Sheldon Frances Bodomo Imraan Ismail Jehane Noujaim Jonas Carpignano Kevin Macdonald Liz Garbus Dava Whisenant Eleanor Mortimer Francesca Panetta Ines Bortagaray Jen Tullock Jonathan Duffy Kevin Smith Loc Dao David Cromer Eli Despres Franchesca Ramsey Ira Sachs Jennifer Brea Jonathan Monaghan Khaldiya Jibawi Lodge Kerrigan David Farrier Elisa Haradon François Brisson Isaac Solotaroff Jennifer MacArthur Jordana Spiro Khaliah Neal Loïc Darses David France Elisa Levine François Lafontaine Ivan Depena Jennifer Phang Jorn Threlfall Khalik Allah Loic Suty David Gordon Green Elite Zexer Frankie Shaw Ivete Lucas Jenny Giering Joseph Haj Kibwe Tavares Lotfy Nathan David Hodgetts Eliza Hittman Freddie Sabimbona Iyabo Boyd Jeremy Gardner Josephine Decker Kiira Benzing Lotte Tabbers David Kaplan Eliza Lee Frederick Wiseman J.D. Dillard Jeremy Levine Josh Blaaberg Kim A. Snyder Lou Pepe David Lowery Elizabeth Ai Fyzal Boulifa J'Vion Armstrong Jeremy Mendes Josh Boles Kim Parker Louis Black David Redmon Elizabeth Castle Gabo Arora Ja'Tovia Gary Jeremy Olstyn Josh Fox Kim Roberts Lovisa Sirén David Teague Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Gabriel Miller Jack Caron Jeremy Saulnier Josh Gibert Kim Sherman Lucas Peterson Dawn Mikkelson Elizabeth Lodge Gabriela Arp Jack Dunphy Jeremy Wilhelm Josh Kriegman Kim Spurlock Lucas Reynolds Dawn Porter Elizabeth Wood Gabrielle Nadig Jack O'Shea Jermaine Stegall Josh Mond Kip Fagan Lucy Cohen Deanna Barillari Ellhum Shakerifar Gaby Dunn Jackson Gay Jeronimo Rodriguez Joshua Marston Kirill Mikhanovsky Lucy Thurber Deborah Asiimwe Elnura Osmonalieva Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer Jacqueline Castel Jerry Rothwell Joslyn Barnes Kirsten Childs Lucy Walker Deborah Riley Draper Ely Dagher Garrett Bradley Jacqueline Olive Jerusha Hess JT Mollner Kirsten Johnson Luis Manuel Garcia Deborah Stratman Elyse Steinberg Gaurav Bakshi Jacques Brautbar Jess Engel Judith Helfand Kitty Green Luke Gilford Devin Graham Emanuel Giraldo Betancur Gaurav Solanki Jacques Toulemonde Vidal Jesse Andrews Julia Bacha Kristi Jacobson Lyle Friedman Devin Reimer Emilie Joly Geeta Patel Jake Rowell Jesse Short Bull Julia Nottingham Kristina Goolsby Lyle Mitchell Corbine

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Lyndon Barrois Matthew Heineman Natan Sinigaglia Paula Hawn Ridley Scott Sara Jordenö Susan Just Twiggy Pucci Garçon Lynette Wallworth Matthew Ross Nate Parker Pauline Lebellenger Rima Najdi Sara Nodjoumi Susan Soon He Stanton Tyler Byrne Lyric R. Cabral Matthew Ruskin Nathan Golon Peggy Case Rita Coburn Whack Sarah Gregory Suvi Andrea Helminen Vanessa Djian Lysander Ashton Mauricio Zacharias Nathan Magoola Penny Lane Rob Auten Sari Gilman Swati Shetty Vatche Boulghourijian Lyz Jaakola Max Posner Navid Khonsari Pete Nicks Rob Burnett Saschka Unseld Sydney Britton Verónica Jessamyn López Sainz Mac Smullen May Abdalla Neeraj Narkar Peter Burr Rob Manning Sasha Alpert Sydney Freeland Veronika Janatkova Madeleine Sackler Maya Goded Nehir Tuna Peter Livolsi Rob Zombie Sasha Friedlander Sylvain Chagué Vicent Reyna Madison Harrison Meaza Worku Berehanu Neville Spiteri Peter Middleton Robert Bolesto Scott Macaulay Sylvain Joly Victor Guerrero Maggie Greenwald Meera Menon Nia DaCosta Peter Modestij Robert Cannan Sean Barry Tahir Jetter Victoria Chalk Mahdi Barsaoui Megan Babbitt Nicholas Weissman Peter Murimi Robert Deloria Sebastian Shorter Tai Parquet Victoria Jalal Mahdi Yahya Mehret Mandefro Nick DenBoer Peter Saraf Robert Eggers Sebastian Silva Taika Waititi Victoria Stewart Maïmouna Doucouré Mélanie Le Grand Nick Pesce Philiane Phang Robert Greene Shaandiin Tome Talia Zucker Vincent McCurley Maite Alberdi Melis Birder Nick Sung Philip Eberhart Robert O'Hara Shakti Bhagchandani Tamar Rogoff Violeta Ayala Malik Vitthal Melisa McGregor Nicolas Peufaillit Philipp Maas Robert Stromberg Shalini Kantayya Tanna Frederick Visa Suonpaa Mallory Schwartz Melissa James Gibson Nicole Auginash Pieter-Jan De Pue Robin McNicholas Shamir Tanya Hamilton Vivek Shah Manolo Cruz Michael Conelly Nicole Holofcener Pippa Bianco Robyn Gray Shane McSauby Tayarisha Poe Vrse.works Manuela Martelli Michael Gregory Nicole Kassell PJ Raval Rochelle Rose Shannon Hale Taylor Bennett-Begaye Vuslat Karan Mara Adina Michael Krikorian Nicole McDonald Popescu Andra Marina Roger Ross Williams Shawn Peters Taylor Hackford Werner Herzog Marc Johnson Michael Larnell Nicole Newnham Porpentine Charity Heartscape Roja Gashtili Shawn Snyder Ted Passon Whit Stillman Marcela Esquivel Jimenez Michael Milano Nicolette Krebitz Prashant Nair Rokhsareh Gahem Maghami Shaz Bennett Terence Nance Will Jaymes Marcos Louit Ramos Michael Palmieri Nijla Mu'min Preya McMahon Rose Troche Sheila Rojas Terri Sarris Willi White Marcus Guillory Michael R. Jackson Nikki Appino Priya Giri Desai Ross Adam Sheyla Pool Pástor Terry Kaleas William Allen Marcus Lindeen Michael Sweet Nikki Limo Qaushiq Mukherjee Roxanne Campbell Shimon Dotan Tesfaye Eshetu Habtu William Telford Marek Ranis Michal Marczak Nimrod Vardi Rachael Fung Rula Salameh Shirley Abraham The Guardian Winslow Turner Porter III Margaret Brown Michel Reilhac Nina Gantz Rachel Grady Russell Harbaugh Sian Heder Theng Thao Wu Jian Xing Maria Beltran Reyes Michele Stephenson Nneka Onuorah Rachel Israel Ry Russo-Young Simon Cartwright Theodora Skipitares Xavier Servas Maria Cuomo Cole Michelle Derosier Nonny de la Peña Rama Mari Ryan Shore Sky Hopinka Thom Stylinski Xing Beilie Maria Melnik Mickey Duzyj Normand Canac-Marquis Rameen Aminzadeh Ryan White Sky Neal Thorsten Schutte Xue-Ying Dong Marie Schlingmann Mickey Keating Omar Mullick Ramona Diaz Ryan Zacarias So Yong Kim Tiana LaPointe Yance Ford Marielle Heller Mike Day Ondrej Hudecek Randal Kleiser S. Leo Chiang Sofia Exarchou Tim Sutton Yang Sun Marilyn Ness Mike Roberts Orlando Bagwell Randy Barbato Sabaah Folayan Sol friedman Tim Travers Hawkins Yared Zeleke Marion Lecrivain Miles Joris-Peyrafitte Oron Adar Randy Holloway Sabrina B. Karine Spencer Susser Tim Wardle Yorgos Lanthimos Mark Brokaw Milica Zec Osman Zeki Raoul Peck Saela Davis SPIKE LEE Timothy Douglas Yoruba Richen Mark Farid Mimi Valdes Otto Bell Razan Ghalayini Safeena Husain Stacey Reiss Tina Brown Yu Gu Mark Levinson Mirjana Karanovic Paco de Onis Rebecca Cammisa Sahra Mosawi Stavroula Toska Tinisha Deannca Brugnone Yulin Kuang Mark Monroe Mishna Wolff Doner Paddy Breathnach Rebecca Daly Sam Bird Stéphane Rituit Tiya Tejpal Yung Jake Mark O'Halloran Monique Walton Palmer Hefferan Rebecca Green Sam Green Stephanie Soechtig Toby Coffey Yvette Alberdingk-Thijm Mark Pritchard Morgan Kibby Pam Colby Rebecca Miller Sam Marks Stephen Kijak Toby Harvard Zafir Kochanovsky Marlene Halverson Morgan Neville Pamela Romanowsky Rebecca Rose Perkins Samantha Buck Sterlin Harjo Todd Bryant Zia Anger Marta Cunningham Morris May Pankaj Johar Reinaldo Marcus Green Samantha Storr Stevan Filipovic Todd Furmanski Ziad Touma Martin Zandvliet Muhaned Heayl Paola Lazaro-Munoz Remi Grellety Samuel Azasu Steve Cosson Todd Solondz Ziya Demirel Marttise Hill Myrsini Aristidou Pascal Bonitzer Riah Stroud Sandhya Suri Steve Warne Tom McKeith Zoe Miranda GarcÃ¬a Mary Richardson Nabil Elderkin Patricia Gillespie Ricardo Figueredo Oliva Sandi DuBowski Steven Baigelman Toma Chagelishvili Zoe Salicrup Mathew Orzel Naman Ramachandran Patricia Ione Lloyd Rich Fox Sandi Tan Steven Caple Jr. Toni Kamau Zsuzsanna Kreif Matt Berninger Nan Zhang Patrick Bresnan Richard Bates; Jr. Sandra Salas Stina Thomas Hanlin Tony Meneses Matt Johnson Nancy Schwartzman Patrick Milling Smith Richard Johnson Sandy Smolan Sulayman Al Bassam Tracey Scott Wilson Matt Kazman Nandita Das Patrik Soderlund Richard Linklater Santiago Menghini Summer Shelton Tracie Holder Matt Kliegman Nanfu Wang Paul Raphaël Richard Tanne Saori Tsukada Sunflower Bean Tracy Fullerton Matt Ross Nat Faxon Paul Risacher Rick Famuyiwa Sara Colangelo Surafel Wondimu Abebe Trinidad Silva Matthew Bishanga Natalie Qasabian Paul Thomas Anderson Rick Spears Sara Dosa Susan Bedusa Tristan Jeffers

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