ANNUAL REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2014 OUR STORY 05

ARTIST SUPPORT 11

PUBLIC PROGRAMS 27

FEATURED COLLABORATIONS 37

INSTITUTIONAL HEALTH 39

FOCUS ON THE ARTIST 41

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 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 a range of support and a creative community in which a new idea or distinctive view is championed.”

ROBERT REDFORD PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 3 KERI PUTNAM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Welcome to the first ever Sundance Institute Annual Report. Sundance Institute is dedicated to supporting the creation of independent stories that speak to our shared humanity. Stories that delight and entertain, challenge preconceived views, elicit compassion, push creative boundaries, and WELCOME ignite passion. The Institute’s 35-year mission is clear— discover, develop, and support artists in the creation of new PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER PAT MITCHELL CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD work and connect that work with audiences. Sundance Institute offers artists the opportunity and The health, vitality and expansiveness of the Institute’s It is my hope that this report provides you with a deeper environment to take risks, experiment, and fail without fear. year-round programs are a testament to both the insight into our work through stories about standout projects We see failure not as an end but as a step in the road. independent artists who are inspired to tell their unique and moments over the past year. I want to recognize the The original idea of taking storytellers away from the stories as well as the donors and supporters who make talented staff whose rigor, passion, and creativity contribute distractions of daily life and inviting them into a setting of our work possible. immeasurably to making Sundance Institute the dynamic, natural beauty and a place where they can develop their I want to recognize my predecessor who stepped down responsive, and constantly evolving organization it is. work continues to yield remarkable creativity. at the close of fiscal year 2014, long-time colleague and Artists are at the core of everything we do. It is their drive to We are grateful for the generosity of those who have good friend, Wally Weisman, for his leadership as Board create, to observe, to inform, and to push new boundaries, contributed their time and resources along the way. Chair over the past 25 years. His steady and focused that Sundance Institute celebrates - and that we work Their reward is no more than knowing they have helped an management has helped lead the organization to the everyday to protect. artist find their voice who in turn may show us a new way of dynamic and robust place we find ourselves in now. Over the past year Sundance Institute supported nearly looking at the world. We are delighted that he will stay with us in his new role 700 artists through residency Labs, grants and fellowships We constantly challenge ourselves to remain open to change as Chairman Emeritus. and the platform of the , and awarded and surprise. When we started this we did not know how As we look ahead to years to come, your creative and almost $3 million in grants. Your support, as a member of our long it would last. At the 35-year mark, I am proud that financial support is as important as ever. It allows us to community, whether as alum, member, donor, foundation, Sundance Institute continues to explore new ideas and new continue building our programs and seeking out new or sponsor, is critical to continuing our work to support ways of working. independent artists and voices that illuminate our culture independent artists, engage audiences, and advance stories With all of the rapid changes over the past three decades, and deepen our understanding of the world we live in. with the power to shift perspectives and transform culture. it turns out that a place, surrounded by nature, This is an exhilarating time for us, and working with uninterrupted, where artists can push themselves and their Bob Redford, Keri Putnam and the rest of the Board Thank you! work, away from distractions and market pressures, is just as and Institute leadership, we see a vibrant future for important now as it was when we started. independent storytellers and adventurous audiences.

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 4 TODAY the Institute supports storytellers working in film, theatre, film music, new media, episodic storytelling, and more. Many of today’s most creative and daring artists are counted among the more than 5,000 Institute alumni. Each year the Sundance Film Festival introduces groundbreaking new work and emerging talent to a global audience. And a host of public programs connect artists with audiences to share fresh voices and inspire new ideas OUR STORY throughout the year. Robert Redford founded the Institute in 1981 to foster independence, risk-taking, and new voices in American film. That year, ten emerging filmmakers were invited to Sundance Resort in the mountains of , where they worked with leading writers, directors, and actors to develop their original independent projects.

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 5 OUR OUR MISSION VISION

Sundance Institute is a nonprofit As the leading champion and curator organization dedicated to the of independent stories, Sundance discovery and development of Institute provides and preserves the independent artists and audiences. space for artists to create and thrive, Through its programs, the Institute inspiring audiences to join them seeks to discover, support, and inspire in igniting new ideas that have the and theatre artists power to transform culture. from the and around the world, and to introduce audiences to their new work.

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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

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 7 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL OUR WORK LABS & RETREATS The premier showcase for Directors the best independent films. Screenwriters Documentary Edit Creative Producing ADVOCACY & RESEARCH SUNDANCE NEXT FEST Film Music and Sound Design National Arts Policy Round Table New Frontier A four-day film GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS Field Diversity Research Theatre and music festival & AWARDS Transparency Project Theatre Directors Retreat in downtown L.A. Documentary Fund Theatre Playwrights Retreat DEEPEN OUR Creative Producing Native Film SHORTS TOUR UNDERSTANDING Native Lab Fellowship Traveling films to 59 cities Time Warner Fellowship across the country. Sloan Commissioning Grant and Fellowship DELIGHT Feature Film Fund & ENTERTAIN Women's Fellowship is shared with audiences aw ork and akenin /her w g new s his idea nite s w t ig ith rtis the CREATE e a po EMPATHY th DISTRIBUTION ON we hin DIGITAL PLATFORMS r to it tr y w EXTENDED SUPPORT PUSH CREATIVE an or Catalyst BOUNDARIES sf st SUNDANCE LONDON or e #ArtistServices m h FILM & MUSIC FESTIVAL c T New Frontier Residencies u . A three-day music lt re Women's Finance Intensive u u and film festival re lt Screenwriting Intensive . cu at The O2. T Theatre Post-Lab Support he rm FILM FORWARD s o Taking independent films LEAD TO to sf r n PUBLIC WORKSHOPS on the road, to eight SOCIAL CHANGE y a INTERNATIONAL LABS #ArtistServices Workshop locations around the Impact Initiative w tr CHALLENGE i & FELLOWSHIPS Composers Lab: LA t to world, in partnership Skoll Foundation Stories of Change OUR BELIEFS h CNEX/China New Frontier Day Lab with U.S. Federal Gates Short Film Challenge in er Greenhouse/Middle East Shorts Labs Cultural Agencies. BRITDOC/Good Pitch th w Rawi/Jordan e o p Mumbai Mantra Screenwriting Lab (India) a e rt h Theatre Lab on Zanzibar, Tanzania i t s t th ig i n w i s SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 8 te a s e h d i is / w h e e n r g w n o i r n k e k a a n d w i a s s s e h c a n r e e d d u w a i t h

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PROGRAM STATS OF THE YEAR -BY THE NUMBERS. STAGES AROUND THE WORLD. HERE IS ASNAPSHOT AND PLAYS THAT MADE THEIR WAY TO SCREENS AND FILMS 152 SUNDANCE-SUPPORTED THE EXPERIENCED EXCEEDED 100,000. AND PEOPLE OF MILLIONS PROGRAMS PUBLIC OUR FOR AUDIENCES ARTISTS. IN 2014, THE INSTITUTE SUPPORTED HUNDREDS OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS 106K 45K 70 AND WORKSHOPS FESTIVALS, SCREENINGS, PUBLIC EVENTSINCLUDING PUBLIC PROGRAM AUDIENCE FILM FESTIVAL AUDIENCE 2014 SUNDANCE

5,000+ ARTIST SUPPORT $2.9M 677 190 22 FROM 48COUNTRIES ARTISTS SUPPORTED DAYS OFRESIDENCYPERYEAR RESIDENCY LABS DIRECT GRANTSTOARTISTS SUNDANCE INSTITUTESUNDANCE SINCE 1981 ALUMNI ANNUAL REPORT 2014 9 GLOBAL REACH

ARTIST SUPPORT & PUBLIC PROGRAMS Argentina Bosnia & Herzegovina Chile China ORIGINS OF ARTISTS SERVED France India Algeria China Greece Jordan Palestine Taiwan Japan Argentina Denmark India Kenya Poland Tanzania Morocco Australia Egypt Indonesia Lebanon Rwanda Tunisia Serbia Belgium Ethiopia Iran Mexico South Africa Turkey Taiwan Brazil Finland Ireland Morocco South Korea Uganda Tanzania Bulgaria France Israel Netherlands Spain Ukraine Turkey Canada Georgia Italy New Zealand Sweden United Kingdom United Kingdom Chile Germany Japan Norway Syria United States United States

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“If Sundance Institute were not doing it, there’s a very good chance that these voices would not be heard, and that these artists would not have the means to develop their talent.”

KIMBERLY PEIRCE, BOYS DON’T CRY SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ALUM

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Active throughout the year and around the world, our programs in multiple disciplines offer four distinct types of support, providing artists with the resources to create and share their stories with the world.

Labs Grants Workshops Ongoing Resources Each year, Sundance Institute offers a series of highly Sundance Institute provides a wide range of grants To engage, inform and inspire a wide range of storytellers, Each of the Institute’s programs is designed to provide selective, residential Labs focused on the art and craft across all programs in support of the development the Institute’s public workshops provide expert advice and tailored, sustained resources to artists who receive support of storytelling in film, theatre, and new media. From the and production of independent work. Our documentary, critical insights into topics ranging from short filmmaking through Labs or grants. Activities such as #ArtistServices, U.S. to the Middle East to India and beyond, the Labs feature film, new media, film music, and theatre to crowd funding. Held throughout the year and around the the Catalyst Forum, and the Women Filmmakers Initiative challenge each artist to sharpen elements of story and programs provide up to $2.9 million in strategic country, our workshops are a trusted resource for artists provide vital support to artists in advancing their projects voice. These intensive programs provide a home for our financial support annually to independent storytellers working at any level, from novice to professional. and careers, with specific expertise in areas including Fellows to create independent work with mentorship from across all stages of development: production, post- finance, distribution, and career sustainability. leading artists in these fields. production, and strategic audience engagement, as well as targeted opportunities for artists with specific interests and backgrounds.

FEATURE FILM · · THEATRE · FILM MUSIC ·NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS FILM · NEW FRONTIER · CREATIVE PRODUCTING INITIATIVES · #ARTIST SERVICES · DIVERSITY AND WOMEN’S INITIATIVE

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 12 ARTIST SUPPORT THE LAB JOURNEY The Sundance Institute Lab model is designed to provide artists with an environment and a community in which to explore and develop unique, COMMUNITY original work. While each is focused on a specific type of storytelling, EXPERIMENTATION Connections with Fellows the Labs all provide participating artists with an experience that facilitates Intense sessions challenge and Advisors continue long after the Lab ends, the experimentation and discovery essential to the creative process. ONE-ON-ONE Fellows to experiment with Fellows and Advisors their projects in unexpected and fuel the further share their work with ways. By taking risks, development of projects LAB EFFECT and careers. each other in one-on-one Fellows discover new Each artist leaves the Lab PREPARATION sessions and dimensions of their work. with clarity of voice, Fellows prepare presentations with the a deeper awareness of by identifying key full Lab community. the project as a whole, challenges to explore and a community of during the Lab. alumni and advisors that APPLICATION Creative Advisors dive will shape the artist's into Fellows' projects. Nearly 5,000 artists project and career. apply to attend FEEDBACK Institute Labs. Throughout the Lab, Creative Advisors observe Fellows at work and offer feedback.

CONVENE Fellows, Advisors, EXCHANGE and Staff convene Throughout the Lab, at Lab site, often Fellows share work with the Sundance the Lab community. INVITATION Resort in Utah. Fellows and Advisors Through a rigorous openly share lessons selection process, a small learned, contributing to group of artists are invited the creative development to develop specific projects of the community as a at the Labs. Accomplished whole. artists volunteer to serve as Creative Advisors.

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Michelle Satter is the Q&A: MICHELLE SATTER What stands out about your work in recent years? RESIDENCY LABS Sundance Industry Meetings at Directors Lab Sundance Film Festival (SIMS) Founding Director of SATTER: Although there seem to be more opportunities January Screenwriters Lab Time Warner Fellowship Sundance Institute’s Feature for making films, it’s even harder to sustain a career as a What most excites you about working with your artists? June Screenwriters Lab Zygmunt & Audrey Wilf Foundation Award Film Program, the inaugural filmmaker, especially for women and artists of color. Sundance Creative Producing Lab SATTER: I love working with artists at the beginning of their has always made a commitment to diversity, but over the past Creative Producing Summit WORKSHOPS program of the Institute. careers and bringing all of our resources to bear on providing !F-Sundance Screenwriters Lab (Turkey) Screenwriters Intensives For nearly 35 years, the several years we have stepped up our outreach and work to a safe and creative space to develop their skills and encourage Rawi Middle East Screenwriters NHK Screenwriters Workshop ensure that diverse voices are being nurtured and supported Feature Film Program has their singular voice and vision. Through our Labs and year- Lab (Jordan) in our programs. Mumbia Mantra Screenwriting Lab (India) championed many of the round support, it’s very moving to see how the generosity PUBLIC PROGRAMMING Screenings world’s most exciting and of our mentors both creatively and tactically can be game GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS Screenplay Readings groundbreaking independent How is the Program evolving to extend support to these changing for emerging artists. Asian American Feature Film Fellowship filmmakers. The Program diverse artists? Lynn Auerbach Screenwriters Fellowship offers year-round support SATTER: We stay focused on the evolving landscape and Creative Producing Fellowship Can you describe working with an artist from the beginning to pioneering filmmakers, how Sundance can address changing needs. We’re even DCM Productions Fellowship of their career? Dolby Family Sound Fellowship from script development to more committed to finding ways to sustain filmmakers in a SATTER: After seeing Cary Fukunaga’s short film Victoria Feature Film Fund healthy ecosystem from development through financing and audience engagement. Para Chino screen at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, we HP Fellowship audience engagement. Knight Fellows Project recognized Cary as a filmmaker with remarkable talent. We Latino Screenwriters Project at CineFestival supported his astonishing first feature Sin Nombre through the Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award 2006 Screenwriters and Directors Labs. The film premiered to Maryland Film Fellowship enthusiastic audiences at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, Sally Menke Memorial Editing Fellowship NHK Award won awards for Directing and Excellence in Cinematography RT Features Fellowship and demonstrated Cary’s hunger to tell a human story with Foundation Women emotional truth and powerful visual style. This was also Filmmakers Grant evident in his work on the ground-breaking television series, Mark Silverman Honor - Creative Producing Fellowship True Detective, for which he won this year’s Emmy Award Alfred P. Sloan Commissioning Grant for Best Director. Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship Rosalie Swedlin and Robert Cort Fellowship

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FEATUREWADJDA FILM PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT

“A real discovery from the Middle Haifaa al-Mansour’s Wadjda follows the story of a feisty and determined 10-year-old East and a film that will be one of the girl rebelling against the social constraints of life as a young Saudi woman. most-seen Arab-language films of After making its award-winning world premiere at the in the year, Wadjda has the distinction August 2012, Sony Pictures Classics acquired the North American distribution of being the first feature film ever rights of Wadjda, and the film opened in September 2013 to critical acclaim, shot in Saudi Arabia. And perhaps including The National Board of Review honoring the film with the Freedom of Expression Award. Haifaa has inspired worldwide audiences through her brave, even more significantly, it is the first contemporary story that speaks compellingly of the rarely seen worlds she inhabits. feature written and directed by a Saudi Arabian woman, the talented Haifaa al-Mansour” SUNDANCE INSTITUTE FESTIVALS AND DEBORAH YOUNG, SUPPORT AWARDS INCLUDE 2009 Rawi Screenwriters Lab and , Official Entry, the 2014 Rawi Screenwriters Lab Best Foreign Language Film Grants for development, Saudi Arabia pre-production, post-production, BAFTA Awards, Nominated, and marketing and distribution Best Non-English Language Film from Sundance Institute with Independent Spirit Awards, support from the Doris Duke Nominated, Best First Feature Foundation for Islamic Art Venice Film Festival, Winner, Extensive post-production support, CinemAvvenire Cinema for Peace including support of the Award and Interfilm Award for musical score from the Film promoting Interreligious Dialogue Music Program and a grant to support its Festival release Dubai International Film Festival, Winner, Muhr Arab Awards for Best Actress and Best Feature Film Los Angeles Film Festival, Winner, Audience Award, Best International Feature Telluride Film Festival, Official Selection

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Sundance Institute’s Q&A: TABITHA JACKSON Academy Award nominated My Country, My Country, which RESIDENCY LABS & RETREATS Documentary Film follows unsung heroes of the Iraq War, to her June Documentary Edit and Story Lab July Documentary Edit and Story Lab Program is a cornerstone latest groundbreaking work of journalism, Citizen Four, Why is the Documentary Film Program so critical in Creative Producing Lab of the Institute’s long- the real life thriller of NSA surveillance and Edward Snowden. today’s world? Creative Producing Summit standing commitment to Over the years, Sundance has supported Poitras in many JACKSON: Like all good art, non-fiction filmmaking helps nonfiction storytelling. aspects of her practice and across the life of her career (twice GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS to reveal the world, helps us to understand the world, and Arcus Foundation Fund The Program was founded as a Documentary Edit and Story Lab Fellow and six times sometimes even helps us to change the world. At a time when Candescent Films Grants with a grant from the Open as a grantee), and, in turn, she has generously supported truly independent journalism continues to be threatened— CNN Films Fellowship Society Foundations in Sundance by mentoring our artists (four times as a Lab Fellows Track at the Sundance and when art is seen as a luxury not a necessity—the power 2002, and has funded Advisor and as a Festival Juror) and by inspiring so many Film Festival of independent creative documentary to bear witness, to Greenhouse Project (Middle East) and supported many of with her brave work. speak truth to power, and through art to create empathy in an Hilton Worldwide LightStay the last decade’s most increasingly fractured world is truly a necessity. Sustainability Award important and compelling How does being a part of the Sundance community Rockefeller Foundation Impact Fund films. Documentary is an make the Documentary Film Program unique within Stories of Change Strategic Impact Fund Sundance Documentary Fund increasingly important What most excites you about working with your artists? the field of documentary? Sundance Industry Meetings at Sundance JACKSON: The artists we support, and who often support us, global art form and a JACKSON: In a word, reach. Our connections reach across Film Festival (SIMS) critical cultural practice in have three things in common: generosity, passion, and a all Institute programs to the most exciting voices in theatre, TED Prize Filmmaker Award the 21st century, and the resilient sense of creative purpose. It never fails to amaze me music, fiction and to the bleeding edge of experimentation in Time Warner Fellowship Documentary Film Program how much they will sacrifice, how much debt they will go into New Frontier. They reach outwards nationally and WORKSHOPS and how many years of their lives they will devote to simply supports approximately 80 internationally to a creatively diverse, but connected DFP | CNEX Workshop and Summit in filmmakers a year under telling a story about the world to other people. It is a stunning community of independent storytellers and disseminate their Beijing (China) the direction of Tabitha act of generosity. work through pioneering programs like #ArtistServices, and DocChile Workshop (Chile) GoodPitch (in partnership with BRITDOC) Jackson, an award-winning finally, our connections reach back umbilically to Robert Stories of Change Convenings commissioning editor and Is there an example of an artist who embodies all of Redford and his founding vision. To be at the center of this producer of documentary these traits? extraordinary web of artist support, inspiration, and cross- PUBLIC PROGRAMMING and non-fiction work with JACKSON: is one of today’s most passionate fertilization is for me what makes the creative potential of our Stories of Change at the Skoll World Forum over 20 years experience documentarians telling our most urgent stories—from her program truly unique in the field. in the field.

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 16 ARTIST SUPPORT ROGER ROSS WILLIAMS DOCUMENTARY FILM PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT

Academy award-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams, the first African American SUNDANCE INSTITUTE to win an Oscar for directing and producing a film, continues to make history with SUPPORT his groundbreaking work. Williams, who grew up devoted to his hometown church, 2013 Sundance Film Festival felt shut out of this community as a gay man. In an attempt to make sense of and Sundance London Film religion’s power to transform or destroy lives, Williams’ most recent documentary, and Music Festival God Loves Uganda, led him to explore the evangelical campaign to change African 2012 New Frontier Story Lab culture with values imported from America’s Christian Right. Through Labs and 2012 July Documentary Edit grants, the Documentary Film Program supported Williams before God Loves Uganda and Story Lab and Doc Fellows premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and went on to screen at over 50 Program at the Festival festivals worldwide to critical acclaim. Through its international screening tour and 2011 and 2010 Sundance Doc Fund Development and Production Grants, the “No Hate in the Collection Plate” social action campaign to push congregations with support from the Cinereach to require accountability for the use of their funds, God Loves Uganda has served Project at Sundance Institute and the as a catalyst for dialogue and change, helping end the influence of American Ford Foundation evangelical extremism in Ugandan politics and government.

Williams’ documentary work with Sundance has also turned into a cross- collaboration with New Frontier. One of his latest projects, Traveling While Black, a look at the harrowing journeys that black Americans have taken over the last eight decades in the United States, has been developed at Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Story Lab, where he worked with Advisors who joined his team of collaborators. The project was transformed from a traditional documentary to a full transmedia art project, including an installation that will occupy a 4,000 square foot gallery in the opening exhibition of the Smithsonian’s new African American “Roger Ross Williams’ forceful Museum in 2015. Creating an ecosystem of stories to foster dialogue, shifts in perception, and a safe space for reflection, the project hopes to inspire empathy polemic succeeds to a among audiences. Williams’ deep connection to the Institute has come full circle startling degree… It’s strong, this year, fostering and encouraging other artists through his role on the Alumni head-shaking stuff.” Advisory Board of Sundance Institute. JUSTIN CHANG, Variety

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Under Artistic Director Q&A: PHILIP HIMBERG Are there any trends among theatre artists that you’ve RESIDENCY LABS & RETREATS Theatre Lab Philip Himberg’s witnessed in recent years? Theatre Lab at MASS MoCA leadership for the last 17 Q&A: What most excites you about working with HIMBERG: More young people—around the world—are Playwrights Retreat at Ucross Foundation years, Sundance Institute’s theatre artists? choosing to express their ‘humanity’ through the medium of Theatre Lab on Zanzibar (Tanzania) Theatre Program advances HIMBERG: When artists are able to fulfill their vision, they theatre, as playwrights, composers, directors, and designers. Sundance Institute | LUMA Foundation Theatre Directors Retreat in the work of risk-taking In a vastly over-technologically dependent society, many become empowered to participate in a global conversation Arles (France) artists producing new that can influence and catalyze change. Being close to a artists are choosing to come together in real time and space work for the stage. Each theatre artist as they wrestle with articulating and realizing to investigate issues with each other and audiences. The form GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS year, the Theatre Program their deepest impulses, is a gift. I seek to set up a spirit of that these new creations take are endlessly transforming and Theatre Post-Lab Support Time Warner Fellowship provides a continuum of include site specific work, audience-immersive work, rigorous inquiry that may enable a playwright, composer, or Tennessee Williams Award creative support to help other generative soul to dig deeper into the animating impulse deconstructions of classical texts, and plays experimenting build a meaningful and of their work. It is a dynamic and gratifying relationship. with new language and gesture. The more time we spend with PUBLIC PROGRAMMING engaging cultural dialogue our phones and gadgets, and the more content we download Work-in-Progress Performances Sundance Institute Theatre Club between theatre artists How does being a part of Sundance make the Theatre individually, the more we feel the tug to gather in the dark with and their audiences. Its Program unique within the world of theatre? friends and strangers to witness live events unfold in front of community of Fellows HIMBERG: Sundance Institute commands a kind of our eyes. includes both emerging admiration and curiosity that allows us access to the highest voices and award-winning level of working artists in our field. Sundance represents a playwrights, side by side community of artists—beyond solely the discipline of theatre— at Labs and Residencies which broadens our knowledge base, and makes us an developing their new work. esteemed resource in our field.

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FUNTHEATRE PROGRAM HOME SPOTLIGHT

Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron’s Fun Home, a daring musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s bestselling autographical graphic memoir Fun Home, is a brilliant coming-of-age story of a young lesbian. An authentically innovative piece of storytelling with characters and situations never seen before on stage, Fun Home “ Aum volorposam que aut re, sita debuted to a critically acclaimed run last fall at the Public Theater, which included quo iundit quia dolo omnimendis as several extensions into January 2014 and is set to hit Broadway in the spring of ad quiatis conem fugit, coritatias 2015. Sundance Institute’s Theatre Program has long shepherded various creative repel et et, site” NAME, Publication iterations and explorations from the creative team behind Fun Home. “ If many American musicals these

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE SUPPORT AWARDS INCLUDE days seem to turn their inhabitants into cartoons, this show, inspired Kron first came to the Theatre Lab New York Drama Critics’ Circle in 2003 with Well, in which she Award for Best Musical by a comic-strip-style book, has also acted. Her next project at the Obie Award for Musical Theater paradoxically created characters Theatre Lab in 2008, In the Wake, was the first text she created wholly Off Broadway Alliance Award for who are highly multidimensional.” Best New Musical for other actors. BEN BRANTLEY, Tesori participated in the Outer Critics Circle Awards for 2000 Playwrights Retreat at Outstanding New Ucross Foundation as a composer, Off-Broadway Musical then at the 2012 Theatre Lab at A finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer MASS MoCA as a Creative Advisor. Prize for Drama Fun Home was supported at the 2012 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab.

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Since 1999, Peter Golub Q&A: PETER GOLUB Are you seeing any recent trends among your artists? RESIDENCY LABS Music & Sound Design Labs at has directed Sundance GOLUB: As technology and gear have become more and Skywalker Sound (Documentary Institute’s Film Music more important as a tool for film composers, I am glad to What makes the Film Music Program such a special and Feature Film) Program. Under his see that many of our Fellows are strong performers on old- community for composers? leadership, the Program fashioned instruments. The level of playing is very high. GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS GOLUB: Though quite a few music departments at colleges, Time Warner Fellowship connects composers and We have had a high concentration of people from the jazz universities, and conservatories offer film music, this craft directors, giving them first- world, partly reflecting my own interest, but it’s another is usually a second-class citizen. Furthermore, I’m not PUBLIC PROGRAMMING hand experience of the example of the breaking down of traditional barriers between Composers Lab: LA–On Stage aware of any other program in which film music studies are collaborative process, the different areas within music as a whole. In fact, our Composers Lab: LA integrated with filmmakers and their world. At the center of Sundance London – Music On Stage with the goal of nurturing Program has been a big advocate of breaking down these our Program—both in fiction and documentary—is the work of Music in Film at the the development of talented barriers, as we strive to offer Fellowships to composers from we do directly with filmmakers, fostering the collaboration Sundance FIlm Festival new composers, and furthering a wide range of backgrounds. Sundance ASCAP Music Café and teaching the filmmakers as well as composers about the the craft of music in film. Music Showcase: BMI Snowball process. In addition, our recent work with sound designers, Presented by BMI How has working with Skywalker Sound changed your Labs? where they are an integral part of the process is unique. BMI Presents a Roundtable Discussion: It’s a significant expansion of the Film Music Finally, the Creative Advisors that we have are among the top GOLUB: Music and Film, The Creative Process Program’s existing Composers Labs to include sound design. in the field and offer our Fellows a remarkable opportunity to Acura Presents Festival Music Café Sundance Institute and Skywalker Sound teamed up in 2013 and KCRW have substantial individual interaction with these and 2014 to host two Labs for composers, one focusing on inspiring mentors. feature film, the other on documentaries. Composers and filmmakers gain first-hand experience of working with an What most excites you about the collaborative in-house Sound Designer that allows them the opportunity to creative process? explore the cross-currents between music and sound. GOLUB: While in the program our Fellows have the rare ability The move to Skywalker Sounds also offers orchestral to work and interact with filmmakers. After the Lab they’re part recording as part of the curriculum, providing a huge of a community that connects them to all kinds of interesting learning curve both for composers and filmmakers in the film artists. I love seeing and hearing what they come up with, music composing process. observing how they are challenged by difficult assignments and tight deadlines, and encouraged to be creative and try things that surprise me. SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 20 ARTIST SUPPORT COMPOSERS LAB: LA FILM MUSIC PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT

To expand its reach beyond the highly-selective Film Music and Sound Design Labs at Skywalker Sound, the Film Music Program offered its fourth one-day “ Aum volorposam que aut re, sita Lab in Los Angeles. Open to musicians and filmmakers at all levels and the quo iundit quia dolo omnimendis as general public, Composers Lab:LA offered access to leading film and television composers. Panel discussions and presentations provided insights into the art ad quiatis conem fugit, coritatias and business of composing. A special presentation by Harry Gregson Williams repel et et, site” NAME, Publication (Gone Baby Gone, The East, Shrek) was an invitation into his creative process and a celebration of the powerful role of music in storytelling.

HIGHLIGHTS SUPPORT In response to the growing opportunities and interest in original music Sundance Institute partnered with for television, a Composing For Television panel was added, featuring the newly built Wallis Annenberg Blake Neely (The Mentalist, The Last Samurai, Resurrection), Trevor Morris Center For The Performing Arts (The Tudors, The Hills Have Eyes, The Borgias), and Jeff Beal (House of as the host venue. Cards, Pollock, Ugly Betty). Sundance Institute expanded its Other speakers and panelists included Academy Award-nominated two-year partnership with BMI, composer Thomas Newman (Skyfall, American Beauty, Saving Mr. Banks), an inaugural funder of the Film composer John Frizzell (Ghost Ship, Legion, Cradle 2 Grave), and others, Music Program, to include support plus a panel on career issues led by BMI’s Doreen Ringer Ross. for the ComposersLab: LA. Comprising emerging composers from the L.A. area, local film music students and other music industry professionals, the Lab was attended by over 150 people—the largest audience to date.

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Sundance Institute’s Q&A: N. BIRD RUNNINGWATER Working from such a strong legacy of storytelling, what new RESIDENCY LABS commitment to supporting trends are you seeing emerge among your artists? Native Filmmakers Lab Native American artists is RUNNINGWATER: One of the things that I see happening is What most excites you about working with your artists? GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS woven throughout its long the inclusion of Native languages being utilized on screen, RUNNINGWATER: Native Americans come from an oral Full Circle Fellowship history, going back to Larry which necessitates the use of subtitles. For an American film Princess Grace JustFilm Documentary Award tradition and a storytelling history that really predates a lot LittleBird (Taos Pueblo) and to have subtitles today is making an interesting statement to Sundance Industry Meetings at of things—including the establishment of the U.S. and the Sundance Film Festival (SIMS) Chris SpottedEagle (Houmas show that there are Native languages that still exist in this day creation of film. One thing that excites me about the artists I Time Warner Fellowship Nation) who participated in and age in the United States. Another trend that I recognize work with is how we can uniquely combine an ancestral way of Time Warner Native Producers Initiative the first meetings founding the would have to be a clear delineation with Native filmmakers storytelling with film and try to figure out what that combination Institute. Since 2001, who come from particular religions and cultural practices PUBLIC PROGRAMMING can yield. So many of the filmmakers we work with come 20th Anniversary Native American and N. Bird Runningwater that take place in sacred places. A lot of filmmakers— from different tribes and communities and different places Indigenous Conversations and Screenings (Cheyenne and Mescalero from different places across the country—make a very and lands—I really believe that diversity of storytelling creates Community Screenings Apache) has overseen the specific choice to not take a camera into a sacred space. Native Shorts on FNX Television something unique and innovative in cinema. Native Program’s year-round It’s a common practice among different filmmakers who work, which strives to build sometimes haven’t even met, yet have this level of respect and Your films are screened across the world. What has been the and sustain Indigenous film understanding about their communities. international response to these Native American stories? circles by supporting artists RUNNINGWATER: International audiences are so inquisitive throughout the many cycles of about the contemporary lives of Native Americans and having their work. a glimpse into a contemporary Native world. It really sparks a level of interest and wanting to know more truths as opposed to stereotypes that have been created through the history of cinema.

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 22 ARTIST SUPPORT DRUNKTOWN’S FINEST NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT

Three young Native Americans—a rebellious father-to-be, a devout Christian woman, and a promiscuous transsexual—strive to escape the hardships of life on an Indian reservation. Sydney Freeland’s groundbreaking, female-helmed Drunktown’s Finest is “ Aum volorposam que aut re, sita an authentically told story that offers the often singularly rendered Navajo community quo iundit quia dolo omnimendis as a narrative that is deeply complex, layered, and diverse. The film made its world premiere ad quiatis conem fugit, coritatias at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2014 and its United Kingdom premiere at the Sundance London Film and Music Festival in April. Robert Redford is an executive repel et et, site” NAME, Publication producer on the film, which has been acquired for international distribution by AMC/Sundance Channel Global.

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE FESTIVALS AND SUPPORT AWARDS INCLUDE 2009 Native Filmmakers Lab L.A. Outfest, Winner, Audience Award for HBO Outstanding First 2010 January Screenwriters Lab, Narrative Feature and Grand Jury Directors Lab, June Screenwriters Prize for Outstanding American Lab, and Creative Producing Summit Narrative Feature Recipient of over $30,000 in Albuquerque Film & Media cumulative grants, with support Experience, Winner, Jury Prize from the Annenberg Foundation for Best of New Mexico Feature Film Fellowship, the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Over 50 festivals played, including “ …What gives the film a certain confidence Foundation, and the Time Warner the Sundance Film Festival, is its cultural specificity and the fresh Fellowship Program Ashland Independent Film Festival, Boston LGBT Festival, Santa Fe Extensive post-production support, clashes and contrasts it presents.” Film Festival, and Vision Maker including a preview at the second NICHOLAS RAPOLD, THE NEW YORK TIMES Film Festival annual Native Cinema Showcase and a screening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of the Native Program’s 20th anniversary yearlong celebration

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NEW FRONTIER NEW FRONTIER CASE STUDY: YOU ARE HERE

New Frontier at Sundance Institute is a dynamic initiative created to identify and foster independent artists working at the convergence of film, art, media, live performance, music, and technology. Since 2007, the New Frontier exhibition at the Sundance Film Festival has provided the highest level of curation in the emerging field, incorporating fiction, non-fiction, and hybrid storytelling to showcase transmedia storytelling, multi-media installations, performances, and films. Sundance Institute established the New Frontier Story Lab in 2011 to deepen its support of storytellers pioneering new ways of working across various media and engaging with technology, and in 2014 began the New Frontier Flash Lab and Artist Residency programs.

New Frontier has become a catalyst for innovation by helping artists and designers collaborate to refine story-enabling technology and allowing space for testing new business models. Palmer Luckey first came to New Frontier at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival as a 19-year-old USC student with a prototype of a virtual reality headset that he handcrafted for journalist Nonny de la Peña’s work, Hunger in Los Angeles. Their VR Pioneering two of the most exciting areas of exploration IMPACT SUNDANCE INSTITUTE Cinema app placed viewers inside a stadium-seated virtual theater and featured 3-D for the 21st Century artist—data-based storytelling “I hope that policymakers SUPPORT Festival shorts. He returned in 2014 with Oculus Rift, a much-refined device promising and visual communication—Sep Kamvar’s You Are use this as part of their In January 2014, New Frontier to change gaming and the way we experience cinematic content. Shortly after Palmer’s Here is an innovative study of place. Human beings are arsenal of tools that they use Artist Residency program launched 2014 Festival exhibit his company Oculus VR went on to be acquired by Facebook for generating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data a day, more in order to help to plan cities. its partnership with The Social My bigger hope is that it puts $2 billion. then all the data generated from the dawn of time to Computing Group at MIT’s Media these powerful tools in many Lab, led by New Frontier alum 2003. You Are Here seeks to find the meaning of all this more hands, so that people Sep Kamvar. don’t think of themselves data that has the potential to impact social change New Frontier Lab Fellows RESIDENCY LABS WORKSHOPS as a consumer of a city that in the evolution of urban planning through making Terence Nance, Casey Neistat, New Frontier Story Lab New Frontier Artist Residency somebody else has planned, Lisa Biagiotti, and Alix Lambert Program at MIT 100 maps for 100 cities, from the places of bicycle but they see themselves as worked in Cambridge with Kamvar GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS New Frontier Flash Lab & accidents to public transportation topography to food one of the creators of the and his team on You Are Here. Knight Fellows Pilot Project Public Forum maps. In 2014, Sundance Institute’s New Frontier in city. Cities that are created Artists supported by the Sundance Rockefeller Foundation partnership with MIT Media Lab charged its artists by people end up being more Impact Fund PUBLIC PROGRAMMING livable by people.” Institute | Rockefeller Foundation New Frontier at the Sundance with using these maps as an entry point to tell some of SEP KAMVAR Impact Fund Film Festival those stories of humanity. MIT Media Lab

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 24 ARTIST SUPPORT CREATIVE PRODUCING INITIATIVES #ARTISTSERVICES

CREATIVE PRODUCING LAB, FELLOWSHIP AND SUMMIT RESIDENCY LABS Designed to hone emerging producers’ creative instincts and evolve their Creative Producing Documentary communicating and problem-solving skills of their next project, the Feature Film and Feature Film Labs Creative Producing Summit Creative Producing Fellowship nurtures emerging producers. The Documentary Film Catalyst Forum Program offers producers in the later stages of post-production the chance to work closely with Advisors through the Creative Producing Lab. Documentary and Feature GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS producers come together at the annual Creative Producing Summit to develop critical Red Crown Producer’s Award producing skills, meet key members of the industry, and strategize around the production, financing, and release of their film.

FELLOWSHIP TRACK AT THE FESTIVAL A series of events and industry meetings allow producers to deepen their networks, actively move their projects forward, and gain valuable insights into the marketplace.

CATALYST INITIATIVE The Institute launched the Catalyst Forum to connect forward-thinking investors with filmmakers advancing their projects through various stages of production. Connecting forward-thinking investors with the world of independent film, the The #ArtistServices Program empowers filmmakers GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS invitation-only event, held annually at the Sundance Resort, brings together select navigating the changing business of independent Arcus Foundation Fund films developed at the Institute’s Labs or by its alumni artists with culturally engaged #ArtistServices Fund film. Through online resources, live workshops, and a financiers to spur new paths to production and to envision film finance in a new light. network of allied organizations, the Program provides PUBLIC PROGRAMMING support and insights on creative funding, marketing, #ArtistServices Digital Releases and distribution. For Institute Alumni, #ArtistServices Community Screenings offers a wide array of digital distribution opportunities Workshops in Austin, San Francisco, and (through partnerships with Netflix, iTunes, Hulu, Google Play and 11 other distribution platforms), promotion and consultation for Kickstarter campaigns, and strategies for audience engagement.

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 25 ARTIST SUPPORT DIVERSITY AND WOMEN’S INITIATIVE

Throughout 2014, the Diversity Initiative at Sundance deepened and expanded the Institute’s efforts to reach new communities of storytellers and audiences across regions, genres and ethnicities.

One area of focus for this work is the Women’s Initiative, an effort launched with Women in Film/LA and a group of allied organizations to foster gender equality in American independent film. Structured upon the learnings of field research conducted by Dr. Stacy Smith and her team at U.S.C.’s Annenberg School of Communication, the Initiative provides resources to women filmmakers as they develop their stories, seek and reach audiences, and establish viable, sustainable careers.

To advance our commitment to artists from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds, the Diversity Initiative also conducts targeted artist outreach and partnerships, working in collaboration with allied organizations in the field. In 2014, resources include Screenwriters Intensives, Time Warner Fellowships through each of the Institute’s programs, and a Knight Foundation initiative that extends Sundance programs to communities across the U.S. A study of the Institute’s submissions and selections data is underway, and findings will provide important benchmarks from which to build, provide, and measure resources and tools for creators.

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS WORKSHOPS Arcus Foundation Fund Women Filmmakers Initiative Asian American Feature Finance Forum LA Film Fellowship Women Filmmakers Initiative Feature Film Program Finance Intensive NYC collaboration with Blacklist Sundance Industry Meetings at Harnisch Foundation Sundance Film Festival (SIMS) Coaching Program Knight Fellows Pilot Project Latino Screenwriters Project at CineFestival Time Warner Fellowship Program Women Filmmakers Initiative Dove Project Grant Women Filmmakers Initiative Mentorship Program

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The Sundance Film Festival was founded in 1985 as a premier platform to showcase the best of independent film with audiences eager for fresh perspectives and new voices. Since then, the Institute has expanded its offering of public programs to connect more groundbreaking artists with wider global audiences—featuring over 50 other public programs throughout the year to create a thriving community around independent storytelling.

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 27 PUBLICPUBLIC PROGRAMS PROGRAMS SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL Q&A: JOHN COOPER

What’s one of your favorite Festival moments? COOPER: When I am backstage with an artist who is about to screen their world premiere with an audience for the first time, I love their sense of pride mixed with vulnerability. I know their lives will be changed after that screening. I sense they know The Sundance Film Festival that too. That feels important and rewarding. brings the most original storytellers together with the From a programming perspective, what makes Sundance most adventurous audiences so special? for its annual program of COOPER: Our attention to detail both in creating a world-class dramatic and documentary event and in the rigorous work it takes to find undiscovered films, shorts, New Frontier films, installations, perform- voices. We are dedicated and passionate in our selection ances, panel discussions, and process. By listening to our various constituents, we are always dynamic music events. Under evolving the experiences of the Festival so the community can the direction of John Cooper, thrive. We are diligent about providing the best we can to the who has been a member of artists, industry, and audiences. the Sundance programming staff since 1989 and assumed What stands out about Sundance filmmakers of recent years? the role of Festival Director in 2009, the Festival continues COOPER: As the independent filmmaking community to evolve as the leading source strengthens, I feel a greater sense of commitment to the art for discovering new talent and form coming from our filmmakers. They are no longer just for the best of independent looking for the big break to take them somewhere else. They film produced each year. are acknowledging the power of independent expression, As a vibrant gathering place and many are looking for sustainability in the independent for the community to share film realm. For the most part, independent films are more ideas about film, culture, and accomplished than in the past. This may be in part to society at large, the Festival’s impact reverberates well advancements in technology, but also as the bar is set each beyond 10 days in January. year, young filmmakers are reaching for greater excellence.

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 28 PUBLIC PROGRAMS WHIPLASH CASE STUDY FILM FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT

Sprung from his 2013 Sundance Film Festival award-winning short film, Whiplash is Damien Chazelle’s fully realized feature that captivated audiences at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. With riveting performances by J.K. Simmons and Miles Teller, the brilliantly blistering film about an aspiring drummer received the Festival’s top accolades—including both the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and the Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic Presented by Acura. Sony Pictures Classics acquired Whiplash following its premiere in the Festival’s highly anticipated Day One line-up. Continuing to find critical success around the world, Whiplash was theatrically released nationwide in fall 2014.

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE FESTIVALS & SUPPORT AWARDS INCLUDE Sundance Institute’s Vanguard Nominated for a 2015 Golden Globe, “ Just try to sit still in your seat.” Award, Presented with The Lincoln four Independent Spirit Awards, Motor Company and a Gotham Award A.O. SCOTT, THE NEW YORK TIMES A development grant and dedicated Winner, AFI’s Movie of the Year screenwriter mentors from the Winner, New York Film Critics Sundance Institute Feature Circle Award Film Program Winner, Los Angeles Film Critics The short version of the film won Association Award a Short Film Jury Award at the 2013 Festival The 40th Deauville American Film Festival, Winner, Grand Prize and the Audience Award for Favorite Film , Nominated for Queer Palm Award Valladolid International Film Festival, Nominated for Best Film Toronto Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight New York Film Festival

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 29 30TH 2014 MARKED THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL AND PROVIDED AN OPPORTUNITY TO RECALL THE THOUSANDS OF EXTRAORDINARY STORIES SEEN FIRST ON SUNDANCE SCREENS. FROM BLOOD SIMPLE IN 1985 TO WHIPLASH IN 2014, THE FESTIVAL CONTINUES TO INTRODUCE AND CELEBRATE THE MOST GROUND-BREAKING FILMS OF THE YEAR. PUBLIC PROGRAMS SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SUBMISSION TO SELECTION DELIBERATIONS ONE DOT ( ) REPRESENTS ONE SUBMISSION

features shorts 550 finalists are chosen after all programmers come together to review the VIEWING remaining films. 250 300 SELECTIONS MONTHS feature short 7 nalists nalists Programmers begin viewing and screening in June. 190 final films are announced in early December to premiere at the Festival. DISCOVERY 120 70 selected selected 365 DAYS features shorts Festival Programmers track and watch films year-round.

SUBMISSIONS + 12films were, submitted000 for consideration.

4,000 8,000 FEATURE FILM SHORT FILM features shorts SUBMISSIONS SUBMISSIONS

Screeners watch and provide Screeners watch and provide coverage for every film coverage for every film Programming teams meet daily to Programming teams watch discuss CONTENDERS films to identify PASSES and CONTENDERS Programming Teams meet weekly with Festival Director and Programming Teams meet Director of Programming weekly with Festival Director and Director of Programming Programmers review coverage and watch each film and either PASS or Programming teams meet daily to DISCUSS with another Programmer to discuss CONTENDERS determine whether a film moves on Programmers broken into two teams: documentary and narrative PUBLIC PUBLIC PROGRAMS PROGRAMS REACHING AUDIENCES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AND AROUND THE WORLD FROM FREE COMMUNITY SCREENINGS TO OPEN ACCESS DAY LABS, SUNDANCE HOSTS PROGRAMS IN CITIES AROUND THE WORLD TO ENGAGE AND INSPIRE AUDIENCES THROUGH FILM, THEATRE, MUSIC, AND NEW MEDIA.

SUNDANCE NEXT FEST SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL Fueled by the renegade SHORT FILM TOUR spirit of independent artists, Showcasing a wide variety Sundance NEXT FEST is of story and style, the Short a new breed of festival Film Tour is a 94-minute experience celebrating the theatrical program of eight intersection of music and short films. Fresh from the film. In 2014, NEXT FEST Sundance Film Festival, kicked off with an outdoor the Tour traveled to 59 screening of the Sundance communities across the classic Napoleon Dynamite U.S. with a beautiful - and and continued through often hilarious - program of the weekend with the fiction, documentary, and Los Angeles premieres of six rambunctious animation. films at the historic Theatre at Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles. The screenings were either paired with a special music performance that embodied a shared artistic sensibility, or a conversation bringing together filmmakers.

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 32 PUBLIC PROGRAMS SUNDANCE LONDON FILM AND MUSIC FESTIVAL In its third year, Sundance London Film and Music Festival presented a cross- section of films fresh from Sundance Film Festival— a mix of documentary and narrative features, made by first-time and established directors, and short films from around the world— along with a music program highlighting the link between film and music. Sundance London was also host to a number of lively panel discussions with luminaries from both sides of the pond.

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DAY LABS UTAH COMMUNITY Open to all artists, and held PROGRAMS around the country, public Sundance Institute hosts workshops and Day labs community programs both offer participants premium year-round and at the annual resources and expert advice Sundance Film Festival to on topics ranging from offer local Utah audiences screenwriting to digital the chance to experience distribution. In 2014, the independent film, theatre, Institute held day-long and music through free ShortsLabs in London and screenings and discussions. Los Angeles, and Miami and Last year over 7,000 Philadelphia through the students participated in the Knight Foundation Fellows George S. and Dolores Doré Project, to inform and inspire Eccles Foundation High a new wave of filmmakers. School Screening Series The Artist Services team held during the Festival, and public workshops in New another 7,000+ Utahans York, San Francisco, and attended special screenings Austin to provide support during the 10-day event. and insights on creative Beyond January, more funding, marketing, and than 20,000 Utah locals distribution. The Film Music took part in programs in Program presented its fourth 2014, including the outdoor annual Composers Lab: Summer Screening Series LA, connecting composers at Red Butte Garden and directors in a one- in and at day series of informative City Park in Park City, as conversations, presentations, well as script readings, and networking opportunities musical performances, with renowned composers and discussions at local and industry professionals. community organizations.

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 34 PUBLIC PROGRAMS SUNDANCE FILM FORWARD An international exchange program designed to enhance cross-cultural understanding, collaboration, and dialogue around the globe, Film Forward is an initiative of Sundance Institute and The President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. In 2014, Film Forward traveled the globe—from Serbia to Mississippi, and from Indonesia to Pennsylvania— using film and conversations with filmmakers to excite and introduce a new generation to the power of story.

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 35 PUBLIC PROGRAMS FESTIVAL E-WAITLIST FILM FESTIVAL CASE STUDY

In years past, the waitlist at the Sundance Film Festival had become synonymous with long lines and cold temperatures. When popular screenings would sell out in advance of the Festival, sometimes a few extra tickets would become available at the last minute. For those “waitlist tickets,” diehard film fans would brave the cold to line up at a theatre two hours in advance, collect a paper waitlist number, then return to that theatre 30 minutes before the start of the film to see if they got in. And sometimes they didn’t get in, so they could have better spent their time seeing a different film, a concert at Music Café, a panel at Filmmaker Lodge, or a New Frontier exhibit. In 2014, Sundance pioneered the eWaitlist, the first virtual queuing system of its kind in the world. At the forefront of cutting-edge technology and customer service, the eWaitlist allowed patrons to “check in” from any location via an Internet enabled device—smartphone, tablet, or computer—and immediately receive their queue number without actually waiting in line. By improving customer service to enable more Festivalgoers to see more films, the eWaitlist advanced Sundance’s mission to connect artists and audiences.

OVERALL IMPACT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT More Festivalgoers used the waitlist The Festival avoided printing more and saw more films through the than 57,000 waitlist numbers. waitlist than ever before: • 30,476 unique users in 2014 CUSTOMER SERVICE AND OPERATIONAL IMPACT • 75,705 Waitlist Numbers issued: In the past, for especially popular 33% increase from previous year screenings, unofficial waitlist lines • 25,475 Waitlist Tickets sold: could form four to eight hours in 24% increase from previous year advance, taking up significant • At the highest rate, one theatre space and impeding operations at saw an 88% increase in the the venues. The eWaitlist eliminated average waitlist attendance these “lines before the lines” making it easier for Festival staff to keep theatre operations safe and smoothly running, and allowed Festivalgoers to more conveniently enter theatres.

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 36 Transformative FEATURED Support SUNDANCE INSTITUTE HAS BEEN HONORED BY VISIONARY SUPPORT FROM THE OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS, FORD FOUNDATION, COLLABORATIONS AND THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION. EACH INVESTMENT SERVED AS A CATALYST FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ARTIST PROGRAMS AND MEANINGFUL SOCIAL CHANGE.

OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS As the founding supporter of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program (DFP) in 2002, Open Society Foundations established the Sundance Documentary Fund, which has become a leading global ILLUMINATING OUR CULTURE resource for independent documentary filmmakers. In addition, THROUGH STORYTELLING OSF’s China Program has supported the DFP’s annual workshop for Chinese documentary filmmakers in Beijing since 2011. Supported projects emphasize human rights, Sundance Institute has worked closely democracy, and social issues around the world. with many of the world’s leading FORD FOUNDATION Ford Foundation has also been a vital supporter of the Documentary Film Program since 2000 and foundations, government agencies, is a generous contributor to the Institute’s endowment. In 2005, the Foundation began supporting the Documentary Film and corporations to revolutionize Program through its JustFilms Initiative. the way stories are told and shared. THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION The Feature Film Program has been similarly transformed by the generosity of The We are proud to highlight just a few Annenberg Foundation, which in 2002 made a founding commitment to establish a grant fund for narrative filmmakers. of the many organizations that have From 2004 - 2011, the Annenberg Foundation Feature Film Fellowship Program enabled more than 100 Sundance transformed our work, our artists, and filmmakers from 16 countries to develop their projects. Since 2012, the Foundation has generously supported the Institute’s our community. general operations.

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UTAH HOST STATE As host of the annual Sundance Film Festival, the State of Utah supports the Institute in creating a thriving place for local and HP global audiences to be transformed by the power of storytelling. BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION After more than a decade of extensive support as a Presenting Since 2009, the Sundance Film Festival has provided an TIME WARNER FOUNDATION In an ambitious effort to spark a global conversation about Sponsor of the Sundance Film Festival, in 2014 HP and economic impact of more than $370 million for Utah businesses As a founding supporter of Sundance Institute’s Diversity innovative solutions to global challenges such as extreme Sundance Institute expanded the relationship to establish the and residents, and international brand recognition for the Utah Initiative, Time Warner has emboldened the Institute’s poverty and hunger, Sundance Institute and the Bill & Sundance Institute | HP Fellowship. Understanding that the Office of Tourism to attract additional tourism and interest. This longstanding mission to invest in a great diversity of voices. Melinda Gates Foundation teamed up this year to present the Sundance Labs are a critical start to a filmmaker’s journey, unique relationship garners opportunities for new businesses By providing grants and Lab Fellowships to over 45 artists from Sundance Institute Short Film Challenge—a commissioning this new fellowship is offered to a Lab participant distinguished and other agencies like the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic various backgrounds since 2011, the Time Warner Fellowship program of short narrative and documentary films created by a project that demonstrates a passion for technology and Development and the Utah Film Commission, which use Program has made supporting diverse stories an institutional by Institute Alumni, and by filmmakers selected through a innovation in independent filmmaking. This year’s award went the platform of Sundance to draw film industry and future priority. The Fellowship Program now spans a variety of Institute public call for submissions. Harnessing the universal power of to Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert to push forward their productions to Utah. Beyond January’s Festival, community programs, including Feature Film, Theatre, Native American and independent storytelling with a wide global reach, the Institute project Swiss Army Man with funding and comprehensive, programs inspire local Utahans, who consistently welcome Indigenous, Documentary Film, and Film Music. The Fellowship and the foundation are collectively working to inspire millions ongoing technology support. HP’s commitment to the creative and celebrate the independent stories and original voices has provide critical resources to a broad range of today’s most around the world. community extends to providing resources for the Institute’s championed by the Institute. innovative and distinctive storytellers, including day-to-day operations. Faster networking, servers, personal (Fruitvale Station), Sydney Freeland (Drunktown’s Finest), and BRITDOC/GOOD PITCH computers and monitors and copy and printing products allow WOMEN’S INITIATIVE: Chloé Zhao (Songs My Brothers Taught Me). Sundance Institute has been working with The BRITDOC Institute staff to more effectively achieve the mission. HP also THE HARNISCH FOUNDATION AND DOVE Foundation since the inception of Good Pitch in 2008 contributed high-end server hardware to the recent Digital Asset SKOLL FOUNDATION Sundance Institute supports female filmmakers through two in the UK. With events in the U.S., UK, Europe, India, Management (DAM) project enabling the Institute’s historical unique collaborations. The Women’s Initiative Fellowship In 2007, Sundance collaborated with the Skoll Foundation to Argentina, South Africa, and Australia, the Good Pitch model materials to be available online. Program is a cornerstone of a new project with Women in launch Stories of Change: Social Entrepreneurship In Focus convenes documentary filmmakers with foundations, NGOs, Film/LA to foster gender equality in American independent Through Documentary. Designed to support the making of campaigners, philanthropists, policymakers, brands, and KICKSTARTER cinema. The Harnisch Foundation Coaching Program pairs each films that examine and amplify innovative approaches to the media around pressing social and environmental issues. Sharing a love for the best independent culture in the world, Fellow with a distinguished professional coach who provides major social challenges of our time, Stories of Change pairs To date, over 60 Sundance Institute Documentary Film Kickstarter has been the Institute’s exclusive crowd-funding mentorship and support as each filmmaker pursues the next filmmakers with social entrepreneurs from around the world. Program-supported films have participated in Good Pitch, partner and a critical part of the #ArtistServices Program steps of her projects and career within the independent industry. Addressing subjects such as empowered female educators in gaining production and outreach funds and forging new since 2010. As one of the first cultural organizations to have Afghanistan, to an architect transforming lives along the flood- collaborations that have increased the reach and impact a dedicated page on Kickstarter, Sundance has leveraged Sundance also teamed up with Dove to commission a short prone river basins of Bangladesh, these inspirational films of their films. Good Pitch events create a lively, exciting its brand power on the platform to support the success of film project by an Institute alum. Documentary filmmaker shed light on untold stories of hope, invention, and progress. atmosphere for independent documentary, which amplifies hundreds of film campaigns. To further empower Sundance Cynthia Wade, was selected to work with Award-winning By fostering a remarkable community of activists who would their reach and ultimately the filmmakers’ aspirations for alumni to build the best possible campaign strategies to filmmaker Barbara Kopple to collaborate on Selfie, which otherwise never be connected, Stories of Change also brings their film. By piloting the way for new funders and strategists reach their fundraising goals, Kickstarter collaborated with the explores female teenagers’ use of social media to discover together filmmakers and entrepreneurs throughout the year to enter the documentary space, the collaboration between Institute to offer workshops and events across the world from inner and outer beauty. Since its premiere at the Women at at key global gatherings, including the Skoll World Forum in the Institute and Good Pitch advances the role of nonfiction London and New York to Utah and Sundance Brunch at the 2014 Festival, the film has attracted Oxford and the Sundance Film Festival. storytelling to create social change. Los Angeles. more than one million views on YouTube and won a Clio Award.

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 38 INSTITUTIONAL HEALTH 136 FULL-TIME STAFF A THRIVING COMMUNITY AND A COMMITMENT TO INNOVATION SEASONAL STAFF 245

2,012 1,789 OFFICES IN CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK, AND UTAH DONORS VOLUNTEERS

1M+ FACEBOOK, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM FOLLOWERS

12M+ SUNDANCE.ORG VISITORS 86.4SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ECONOMIC MM IMPACT IN UTAH

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DEVELOPMENT BENEFIT EVENTS 3% FINANCIAL HEALTH EXPENSES GOVERNMENT 7% GIVING 9%

ADMINISTRATIVE INDIVIDUAL GIVING EXPENSES 21% 15%

FOUNDATION GIVING PROGRAM 28%

TOTAL EXPENSES $35MM TOTAL EXPENSES CORPORATE 78% GIVING 39% CONTRIBUTED REVENUE $20MM As Sundance Institute dares to take tremendous risks on supporting bold, innovative artists, the Institute

OTHER ENDOWMENT also remains deeply committed INCOME DRAW 5% to sound fiscal management and 1% strong institutional health. Proving CONTRACT SERVICES EARNED to be another financially healthy 24% REVENUE 42% year for the nonprofit Sundance LABS .5% ONE DAY CONTRIBUTED BOX OFFICE Institute, the FY14 year end includes REVENUE 64% 57% TOTAL REVENUE $35.2MM TOTAL

a total cash revenue of $35,216,506, EARNED REVENUE $14.7MM SUBMISSIONS with less total expenses of 5% $35,043,443, resulting in net income

of $173,063. MERCHANDISE 2.5%

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FOCUS ON Adam Hendricks Deepanjali B Sarkar Judd Greenstein Rami Kodeih Adelina Anthony Deron Albright Julian Yuri Rodriguez Ricardo Rivera Ala’a Mosbah Dylan Mohan Gray Jyson McLean Riel Roch Decter Alex O’Flinn Elisabeth Holm Karin Kelly Rinio Dragassaki Alex Orlovsky Fernando Frias Karrie Crouse Robert Eggers Alexandros Chantzis Gabriela Amaral Almeida Katerina Kaklamaki Robert Ramell Ross THE ARTIST Alix Lambert Gabrielle Nadig Kazuhito Nakae Ryan Koo Amanda Livanou Gary Baseman Kelly Williams Sanjay Talreja Ameen Nayfeh Gaurav Madan Kim Sherman Sarah Kramer Geoffrey Quan Laura Wagner Shantell Martin Andrew Ahn Geremy Jasper Lisa Biagiotti Sofia Exarchou Andrew Renzi Gerry Kim Lucas Leyva Stacie Passon Angelica Nwandu Haifaa Al Mansour Lynn Shelton Tala Hadid Anne Carey Hala Dabaji M. Elizabeth Hughes Tayarisha Poe Ashlee Page Heidi Saman M.K. Asante Terence Nance Ashley Maynor Hiroshi Kurosaki Malik Vitthal Tobias Lindholm Ashvin Kumar Hong Khaou Marcela Said Tomofumi Tanaka Assad Fouladkar Ian Hendrie Marielle Heller Ulku Oktay August Tarrier Isaac Ho Mark Elijah Rosenberg Varun Grover Aurora Guerrero Israel Peterson Vasquez Mayuran Tiruchelvam Vasan Bala IGNITE NEW VOICES Averie Storck Jan Kwiecinski Michael Dennis Vatche Boulghourijian Banker White Janine Salinas Schoenberg Michael Gottwald Will Joines Barbara Kingsolver Jason Michael Berman Mike Cahill Wissam Charaf Sundance Institute believes that Baris Sarhan Jay Bushman Mike Ryan Xindi Chloe Zhao Bart Layton Jay van Hoy Monica Pena Yahya Al-Abdallah Bornila Chatterjee Jean Lee Morteza Farshbaf Ya’Ke Smith independent artists, if given the Brooke Swaney Jeremiah Zagar Nadia Hallgren Zaid Abu Hamdan Casey Neistat Jeremy Yaches Nanci Gaglio Zhuojie Chen resources and a place to foster self- Catherine Rios Jeri Rafter Nate Parker Abdul Rahman Loutfi Ceyda Asar Jillian Mayer Navneet Behal Al Morrow Chad Burris Joan Stein Schimke Naz Sadoughi Alex Sichel expression and a sense of community, Charles Spano John Lang Neeraj Ghaywan Allan Tong Cheryl Hess Johnny Ma Almudena Carracedo have the potential for far-reaching Chris Ohlson Jonas Carpignano Nicole Riegel Amber Fares Clay Jeter Jonathan Duffy Nijla Mu’min Amelia Green-Dove D. Rubin Green Jonathan Wang Nikole Beckwith Amit Madheshiya creative and cultural impact. These Dan Kitrosser Jordana Mollick Nora Salim Amy Ziering Dana Turken Jordana Spiro Oorlagh George Anadil Hossain are the storytellers we have been Daniel Kwan Jos Duncan Paul Harrill Anas Gzenay Daniel Scheinert Joshua Frankel Peter Vack Andres Aros David Charles Joshua James Philiane Phang Andrew Droz Palermo proud to support throughout 2014. David Schwab Joshua Zunie Prashant Nair Andrew Feinstein

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Anna Sandilands Hank Willis Thomas Meghan O’Hara Sebastian Moreno Aaron Jafferis Sheila Callaghan Christopher St. John Michael Klein Arthur Dong Haytham Fathy Menno Boerema Sedika Mojadidi Andia Kisia Sheila Tousey Clay Jeter Oorlagh George Avi Goldstein Hiba Dhaouadi Michael Aaglund Shalini Kantayya Angella Emurwon Surafel Wondimu Abebe Daniel Scheinert Orlando Bagwell Ben Kalina Hui-jing Xu Michael Klein Sharon Shattuck Anne Kauffman Theresa Flanagan David Felix Sutcliffe Paul Harrill Bernardo Ruiz Ignacio Ceruti Mike Attie Shirley Abraham Annie Baker Wesley Ruzibiza Dionne Walker Peter Galison Bill Ross Ivy Meeropol Mike Day Tal Pesses Asha Salimu Mshana Alix Lambert Elisabeth Holm Peter Nicks Blair Doroshwalther Jacob Schulsinger Mohamed Harb Tamara Erde Byron Au Yong Banker White Elizabeth Castle Riel Roch Decter Burcu Melekoglu James Demo Mohieddine Temimi Tarek Ibrahim Chris Haberl Casey Neistat Elizabeth Giamatti Robb Moss Carol Dysinger Jarik Van Sluijs Mor Loushy Tianlin Xu Christopher Chen David Charles Eric Juhola Robert Eggers Carola Fuentes Jason Zeldes Morgan Neville Tod Lending Christopher Oscar Peña Gary Baseman Ewan McNicol Ryan Koo Jeff Reichert Myriam Hammani Tracy Droz Tragos Dan Aibel Jay Bushman Gabriela Amaral Almeida Tracy Droz Tragos Christina King Jennifer Brea Nan Zhang Turner Ross Dave Malloy Jillian Mayer Geoffrey Quan Kalyanee Mam Christopher LaMarca Jeremy Stulberg Ngardy Coneth Vuslat Karan Denis O’Hare Joshua Frankel Gerry Kim PJ Raval Christopher St. John Jessica Devaney Nicole Newnham Walid Sababa Dominique Morisseau Joshua James Ivy Meeropol Yoruba Richen Chyld King Jessica Dimmock Ola Shami Wang Jian-jun Doug Wright Judd Greenstein James Demo Brenda Coughlin Cindy Zeng Xin Jiongjiong Qiu Omar Shami Wu Jian Xing Eisa Davis Julian Yuri Rodriguez Jason Michael Berman Cynthia Wade Clara Tarrico Joe Bini Orlando Bagwell Xu Huijing Elise Thoron Lisa Biagiotti Jason Zeldes Jordana Mollick Claudia Barril Johnny Symons Othmane Balafrej Yacine Helali Faisal Kiwewa Lucas Leyva Jay van Hoy Kim Sherman Cori Shepherd Stern José Luis Flores Arriaza Oualid Ayoub Yance Ford Frank London M. Elizabeth Hughes Jeremiah Zagar Marielle Heller Cynthia Hill Joslyn Barnes Pablo Alvarez Mesa Yasmine Bouqartacha Irene Sanga Monica Pena Jeremy Stulberg Marta Cunningham D. A. Pennebaker Judith Helfand Pamela Green Yi Han James MacDonald Ricardo Rivera Jeremy Yaches Shola Lynch David Felix Sutcliffe Julie Goldman Pamela Yates Yuan-chimr Lu Juliette Carillo Robert Ramell Ross Jeri Rafter David France Justin Schein Pete Nicks Chanda Dancy Kamilah Forbes Sarah Kramer Joan Stein Schimke Deborah Alden Kirby Dick Peter Galison Heather McIntosh Kirsten Sanderson Shantell Martin John Lang Deborah Esquenazi Kirsten Johnson Peter McPhee Jongnic Bontemps Lee Sunday Evans Terence Nance Jonathan Wang Dionne Walker Ko-shang Shen Peter Nicks Josh Moshier Leigh Silverman Adam Hendricks Jordana Spiro El kheyer Zidani Kristi Jacobson Pietra Brettkelly Katy Jarzebowski Les Waters Al Morrow Joshua Zunie Elad Rath Laura Dunn Rabab Haj Yahya KT Tunstall Liesl Tommy Amanda Livanou Joslyn Barnes Elias Khalil Laura Minnear Rafael Valdeavellano Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum Lisa Peterson Amber Fares Julie Goldman Elizabeth Castle Laura Poitras RaMell Ross Ryan Cohan Marios Aristopoulos Amy Ziering Keith Fulton Elizabeth Giamatti Leah Wolchok Raoul Peck Timo Chen Mark Brokaw Anadil Hossain Kirby Dick Eric Juhola Lesya Kalynska Ricardo Acosta Carmen Tsabetsaye Matthew Melchiorre Andrew Droz Palermo Kristi Jacobson Ewan McNicol Lynette Wallworth Ricki Stern Christina King Matthew Paul Olmos Andrew Feinstein Laura Wagner Francois Verster Lyric R. Cabral Ritesh Batra Christopher Kahunahana Michael John LaChiusa Anna Sandilands Frida Kempff Maite Alberti Robb Moss Ciara Leina’Ala Lacy Qui Nguyen Anne Carey Leah Wolchok Fu Yue Mak Ck Robert Bahar Cody Harjo Ralph B. Peña Ashley Maynor Lou Pepe George Amponsah Malcolm Clarke Robert Gordon Daniel Flores Roxie Perkins Aurora Guerrero Lynn Shelton George Tarabay Marc Silver Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami Jeffrey Palmer Samuel Sangwa Muteba Avi Goldstein Lyric R. Cabral Ghassan Bannoura Marco Perez Rotem Faran Kavelina Torres Sandra Tsing Loh Brooke Swaney Marc Silver Haipei Li Mario Bravo Gallardo Ruslan Batytskyi Missy Whiteman Shaina Taub Chad Burris Haitao Guo Matthew Heineman S. Leo Chiang Sydney Freeland Shane Rettig Charles Spano Mayuran Tiruchelvam Hamza El Hachimy Megan Mylan Sara Sellami Ty Coughenour Christina King Michael Gottwald

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WITH ITS DEEPLY DEDICATED LEADERSHIP, STAFF, INCLUDING THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, UTAH ADVISORY BOARD, AND DIRECTOR’S ADVISORY GROUP, Board of Trustees Utah Director’s Alumni SUNDANCE INSTITUTE IS GUIDED BY A GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS UNITED BY Robert Redford, President and Founder Advisory Advisory Advisory THEIR BELIEF IN THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF STORYTELLING. Pat Mitchell, Chair of the Board Board Group Board Jeanne Donovan Fisher, Vice Chair of the Board Geoffrey K. Sands, Vice Chair of the Board Donna Gruneich, Sean Bailey Chad Burris Sean Bailey Utah Advisory Board Chair Jason Blum R.J. Cutler Kenneth Cole Jason Hirschhorn Cherry Jones Ava DuVernay Amy Rees Anderson Andrew Jarecki Diane Kruger Rob Epstein Susan Bramble Chris Kelly Chris Milk Robert J. Frankenberg Andy Cier Blake Krikorian Cindy Harrell Horn Susan Fredston-Hermann Geoffrey Sands Walter Moreira Salles, Jr. Sheila C. Johnson Nancy Garrison Lauren Zalaznick Lynn Shelton Christine Lahti Naja Lockwood Alexander Skarsgård Lyn Davis Lear Claudia McMullin Jenny Slate Thomas E. Rothman Coleen Reardon Adam Smalley Nadine Schiff Ross Romero Roger Ross Williams Jim Swartz Julie Spielberg-Senet Liesl Tommy Rob Slettom John E. Warnock Jenny Wilson Jacki Zehner Jacki Zehner

Wally Weisman (Chair Emeritus) Past Chair Emeritus Glenn Close (Emeritus) Margaret (Margo) Lacke-Jacobs Jake Eberts (Emeritus) Tina Lewis Sally Field (Emeritus) Rory Murphy Steven Haft (Emeritus) George White (Emeritus) Ex-Officio Diane Foster

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 43 SUPPORTERSINSTITUTIONAL HEALTH MEET THE DIVERSE GROUPS OF SUNDANCE INSTITUTE SUPPORTERS. A PASSIONATE COMMUNITY OF ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS WHO BELIEVE THAT EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO TELL THEIR STORY (AS OF AUGUST 31, 2014)

ENDOWMENT SUPPORT Julie and Dwight Anderson Susan and Jim Swartz Rose-Lee and Keith Reinhard Susan and Eric Fredston – Steven C. Ludwig, MD and $5,000 - $9,999 Pamela and Jeff Foxworthy Dwight Anderson Charmaine and Sean Bailey Tina and Byron Trott Robina and John Riccitiello Hermann and Family Cynthia C. Amitin, MD Anonymous (2) Leslie and John Francis Ariel Investments, LLC Amy and Paul Blavin Lee Vickers – The Trine Group Kathleen and Francis Rooney Paula Froehle and Steven Cohen Crystal and Chuck Maggelet Lilli Alberga and Laurence Bardoff Linda Gelfond Lin Arison Blumhouse Marva and John Warnock Marie Savare de Laitre Mr. and Mrs. David W. Garrison J. Manus Foundation Carlos Archilla Barbara and Peter Georgescu Susan Cronyn Maida Brankman – Sheila and Wally Weisman Melissa Soros Sally Gepp Robert Marquardt Frankie and Joseph Armstead Bryan Glazer Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Stupski Family Foundation Liz and Ken Whitney Grazka Taylor Debbie and Alan Gold JoBeth and Steven Maxwell Stephanie and Daniel Aucunas Madelyn and Bruce Glickfeld Jake Eberts Jennifer Carrico and Chris Kelly J.A. & H.G. Woodruff, Jr. Rhona and Rick Thompson Lynda Goldstein Lynn and Tom Meredith Katy and Robert Pattillo Karen and Robert Gober The Charles Engelhard Foundation Maria and Kenneth Cole Charitable Trust David Wanek and Maribeth Portz Maureen and Tim Gray Michael Minor and Cynthia Zollinger Amy and Peter Baskin Heather Goodman Entertainment Industry Foundation Robert A. Compton The Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Angie Wang and Larry Braitman Green Family Foundation Elizabeth and Chuck Mooty Phyllis and Scott Bedford Shari Gottlieb Jeanne Donovan Fisher Scott M. Delman Foundation Christine and David Watson Melanie and Mark Greenberg Irene and Ed Ojdana Judy and Tom Billings Susannah Gray and John Lyons Ford Foundation Linda and Robert Frankenberg Ann and Matt Wigham Robin and Daniel Greenspun Brian Pope Michele and Stephen Boal Deborah Green Mellody Hobson Ruth Ann and William Harnisch – $25,000–$49,999 Lauren Zalaznick and Phelim Dolan Ken Grossinger and Micheline Klagsbrun, Gigi Pritzker, Odd Lot Entertainment Michael Cassidy Frederick W. Green Cindy Harrell Horn and Alan Horn William F. Harnisch Foundation Anonymous (2) CrossCurrents Foundation David E. Quinney III Hannalorre and Mohamad Chahine Heidi and Gardner Grout Karen Lauder The Harnisch Foundation Teri and Jeffry Allen $10,000–$24,999 Bill Guthy and Victoria Jackson Diana and Bruce Rauner Jennifer Chaiken Agnes Gund LisaBeth Foundation Elizabeth Hazard and Ted Dintersmith Nancy Blachman and David desJardins Anonymous (3) Kathleen Hagen Amy Rees Anderson Alexandra and Don Clayton Laura and Clayton Heckler Occidental Petroleum Corporation Jason Hirschhorn Dr. Jan Broberg Carter Thomas Ajamie and Tiffany Adams Andrew Hee Carolyn and Charles Rozwat Elaine and Stanley Cohen Janice and Steven Hefter Elena and Geoffrey Sands Mellody Hobson Kathy Chan and Jon Fougner Amy and Barry Baker Harvey Heller Rosenthal Family Foundation Larry Cohen Marleen and David Hood Target Corporation Nancy and Andrew Jarecki Dwight Curry Phyllis and Scott Bedford Alan Herzig Maureen Shea Steven Cohen and Paula Froehle Barbara and Julius Hyatt Steve Tisch Foundation Sheila C. Johnson Dana and Andy Eckert Rebecka and Arie Belldegrun Joan and George Hornig Douglas Smith Amanda Corley Karen Jacobson Walter L. Weisman Blake Krikorian Tamra and Chris Faulkner Allison and Larry Berg Jimmy Hutcheson Kerry Smith Margaret Crotty and Rory Riggs Karen and Mark James Carl H. Lindner III Cami and John Goff Peggy Bergmann Susan and Joel Hyatt Jane Solomon Peggy and Yogen Dalal Barbara and Bob Jones INDIVIDUALS Lippman Family Foundation Donna and Kevin Gruneich The Berman Family Caroline and Edward Hyman Melissa Spellman Susan Daley Ann Kaplan and Robert Fippinger $100,000 and above Michael Mailis Jamie Hormel Lewis W. Bernard Arlene Inch Steiner-King Foundation Ian Darling Jean Kaplan Anonymous Nion McEvoy Joan and George Hornig Ellen Bialis Margaret and Ken Jacobs The Sam & Diane Stewart Anne and Pierre De Villemejane C Katzman Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Bennack, Jr. Pat Mitchell and Scott Seydel Olanrewaju Idewu Pamela Boll Parker and Sherry Kennedy Family Foundation Valerie and Douglas DeMartin Joy and Joel Kellman Bertha Foundation Ruth Mutch Independent Media, Inc. Linda and Neill Brownstein Joyce Keil-Chafin and Bruce Chafin Eileen and Peter Sudler Abigail Disney and Pierre Hauser Stefani and Scott Kimche Jeanne Donovan Fisher Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy Mike Kaeske Terry and David Camarata Gretchen King and Rachel McAree Marilyn and Tom Sutton Linda and Tom Dupree Scott Kluth Cindy Harrell Horn and Alan Horn Anne O’Shea and Brian Quattrini Karen Lauder Tyrene Christopulos and Kurt Larsen Elizabeth Koch – New Balloon Rosalie Swedlin and Robert Cort Jill Edelson Christine Lahti and Lyn and Norman Lear Joan and Lewis Platt Foundation Rochelle and Robert Light Carol and Larry Clemmensen Mike Kreiger Aleda Toma and Mike McCoy Eisenberg Family Tommy Schlamme Steve Tisch Foundation Linden Rhoads Naja Pham Lockwood and Richard Desich Patricia Lambrecht Kim and Jeff Trocin Leslie and William Elkus George Levie Stephanie and Burton Ritchie David Lockwood Stephanie De Vaan Thomas Lee M. Brent Trostle Deborah Feo Shari Levitin $50,000–$99,999 Thomas E. Rothman Kate and Michel Merkt Natasha and David Dolby Elissa Leonard Mark Wawro Nina and David Fialkow Elaine and Harrison Levy Anonymous Elena and Geoffrey Sands Dave Perno Dobkin Family Foundation Kim and Ping Li Elaine and Joe Weis Louis Feinberg Foundation Michael Luisi – WWE Studios Philip Fung - A3 Foundation Nadine Schiff and Fred Rosen Scott Plank and Dana DiCarlo Betsy and Jesse Fink Susan and Chris Lockwood Lonna and Jonathan Young Marianne and Jack Ferraro John Lyons Robert J. Abernethy Regina Kulik Scully and John Scully Barbara Rapp Kelley and Stephen Lubanko Leslie and Jeffrey Fischer Nancy and Ronald Mannix

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Robin and Nassir Marrouche Annsley and George Strong CreativeFuture Miramax Omnicom Facebook Rastar Printing Weber Shandwick Diane and Mark McCary Mary and Peter Tennyson DCM Productions NBCUniversal Quaker Oats Company Fill-Lite™ Reach Engine Wilshire Screening Room- Beverly Hills, CA Seema and Kevin McGrath Janet Tiggiger Digital Media Services Inc. Participant Media Stella Artois® Film Independent Recycled Paper Greetings The Yarrow Hotel & Conference Center Katherine Milias Aleda Toma and Mike McCoy Directors Guild of America RADiUS-TWC Time Warner Inc. FotoKem Red Butte Garden Rayna and Glen Mintz Elizabeth and Jim Tozer Dove Sony Pictures Classics Festival Host State Haworth Collection Renee Freedman & Company, Inc. FOUNDATIONS Ginni Mithoff Gayle and Barry Tyerman FilmL.A., Inc. Sony Pictures Worldwide Utah Governor’s Office of High West Distillery & Saloon ResortQuest By Wyndham Vacations $1,000,000 and above Laura Moore Kris and Jim Ulland Hilton Worldwide UTA Economic Development The Hollywood Reporter Resorts West Luxury Lodging The Annenberg Foundation Susan and Gib Myers Van Beuren Charitable Fund Impact Partners WME Utah Office of Tourism Identity Properties Riverhorse on Main Ford Foundation Beth and Joshua Nash David Vise Microsoft Utah Film Commission IFP (Independent Filmmaker Project) Rosco Laboratories Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Erica Nelson Tiffany Wince and Patrick Hurley Mumbai Mantra Media Ltd. 2014 SUNDANCE image.net/WireImage/Getty Images Ruckus Wireless The Maurice Marciano Lori and Janusz Ordover Barbara and Bruce Woollen NHK Enterprises, Inc. FILM FESTIVAL IN-KIND SUPPORT IMDb.com, Inc. Salt Lake Marriott City Center Family Foundation Orfalea Foundation Jean and John Yablonski NYU Tisch School of the Arts PRESENTING SPONSORS 90.9 FM KRCL Community Connection – In The Event Scala Digital Signage Software Open Society Foundations Michael Palmer Teri and Tony Zingale Pinewood Studios Group HP Music Discovery Jupiter Bowl Entertainment Schneider Optics William Price Red Crown Productions Acura All Seasons Resort Lodging KCRW 89.9 Sego Strategies $500,000–$999,999 Connie and Richard Prins Special thanks to the State of Utah, ro*co films and the International SundanceTV Angeniuex, a Thales group brand Kenneth Cole Shiftboard Online Workforce & Scheduling The Charles Engelhard Foundation Shari Quinney Utah Office of Tourism, Utah Film Documentary Assoc. Chase Sapphire Preferred® Anton/Bauer, Inc. Kino Flo THE SHOP Yoga Studio The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Jennifer Rainin – Commission, Park City Municipal RT Features ARRI KPCW Radio Shure Incorporated Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in memory of Graham Leggat Corporation, and Park City Visitors SAGIndie LEADERSHIP SPONSORS Audio-Technica KXRK “X96” 96.3 FM Silver Restaurant Time Warner Foundation Stacey and Steven Rauch Bureau and Film Commission. Skywalker Sound Airbnb Avid Technology, Inc. K-Tek The Sky Lodge Carol Rosebrough Sundance Channel Global DIRECTV AWEARNESS, A Kenneth Cole Foundation LaCie SLUG Magazine $250,000–$499,999 Ellen and Mike Rosenberg CORPORATE TED Entertainment Weekly Ballard Spahr LLP Laser Exhibitor Service SmallHD Cinereach Maile Roundtree SUPPORTERS Uber LensCrafters Barco, Inc. Los Angeles magazine Snow Flower Condominiums & W.K. Kellogg Foundation Beth Sackler and Jeff Cohen INSTITUTE ASSOCIATES Walden Media & John Templeton Southwest Airlines Baryshnikov Arts Center MASS MoCA Reservations Skoll Foundation Sonja Saltman 3311 Productions Foundation Sprint Baseline LLC Miderra Transportation Management Sony Electronics Sandra Secord American Society of Composers, WNET New York Public Media YouTube Bill White Restaurant Group MOTU, Inc. Stein Eriksen Lodge $100,000–$249,999 Elizabeth and Gary Schonfeld Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Women In Film Los Angeles Canyons Resort The Nation Stewart Filmscreen Arcus Foundation Beesham Seecharan Bhakti Chai Writers Guild of America, West SUSTAINING SPONSORS Carl Zeiss SBE, LLCZ New World Center Sundance Catalog George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Wendy and Frank Serrino The Blackhouse Foundation Zions Bank Adobe CB2 O.C. Tanner Jewelers Sundance Mountain Resort Foundation Lisa and Joel Shine BMI Brita® FilterForGood®, in partnership CDS - A Consolidated Graphics Company O’Melveny & Myers LLP Swire Coca-Cola Hollywood Foreign Press Association Evan Singer Candescent Films INDUSTRY ALLIANCE with Nalgene® City Weekly Newspaper Park City Lodging Inc. The Tiffen Company John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Elisa and Brian Slobodow Carnegie Mellon University: A&E IndieFilms Canada Goose Cuisine Unlimited Catering & Park City Marriott Todd Oldham Studio John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Linda and Rick Smaligo Master of Entertainment BET Networks Canon U.S.A., Inc. Special Events Park City Rental Properties Trolley Square Foundation Joseph Sorge Industry Management Big Beach Hilton HHonors and Waldorf Astoria Deer Valley Resort Peery’s Egyptian Theater at the Ogden Ucross Foundation John and Marcia Price Family Foundation Susan Sosin CBS CAA Hotels & Resorts Dolby Laboratories, Inc. Eccles Conference Center Valley Behavioral Health Services The Rockefeller Foundation Maddy and Isaac Stein CNN Films Focus Features Ketel One Vodka Done to Your Taste Catering and Events Polycom VARIETY Surdna Foundation Thomas D & Denise R Stern Columbia College Chicago ICM Partners L’Oréal Paris EMC2 Porta Brace Inc. Visit Salt Lake Family Foundation Comcast Kickstarter MorningStar Farms® Express Shuttle Quiet PC The Vitec Group plc

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 45 SUPPORTERSINSTITUTIONAL HEALTH $50,000–$99,999 GOVERNMENT AGENCIES The Ammon Foundation $1,000,000 and above Compton Foundation Utah Governor’s Office of LUMA Foundation Economic Development Norlien Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. $250,000–$499,999 National Endowment for the Arts $25,000–$49,999 The Academy of Motion Picture $100,000–$249,999 Arts and Sciences National Endowment for the Humanities The Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund Summit County Restaurant Tax Promontory Foundation The Harold and Mimi Steinberg $50,000–$99,999 Charitable Trust Institute of Museum and Library Services Threshold Foundation Salt Lake County Economic Development Department $10,000–$24,999 Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts & Parks (ZAP) The Film Music Foundation Program Firestone / von Winterfeldt Summit County Recreation, Arts and Family Fund Parks (RAP) Tax Gruber Family Foundation JL Foundation $10,000–$24,999 Princess Grace Foundation-USA President’s Committee on the Arts and S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney Foundation the Humanities Zygmunt & Audrey Wilf Foundation Utah Division of Arts & Museums

$5,000–$9,999 $5,000–$9,999 The Carrie Louise Hamilton Foundation French Embassy in the United States – The Tony Randall Theatrical Fund, Inc. Mission for Culture and Higher Education Salt Lake City Arts Council

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 46 INSTITUTIONAL HEALTH STAFF SINCE 1981 WHEN ROBERT REDFORD FOUNDED THE INSTITUTE WITH A Bethany Adamek Casey De La Rosa Laurie Hopkins John Nein John Stevenson HANDFUL OF FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES IN THE MOUNTAINS OF UTAH TO Cristin Aery Jason Del Rio Chris Horton Marie Nguyen Jason Storbeck FOSTER INDEPENDENCE, RISK-TAKING, AND NEW VOICES IN AMERICAN FILM, Michelle Anderson Ignacia Delgado Jared Hurst Elizabeth O’Malley Matthew Takata SUNDANCE HAS GROWN TO INCLUDE A STAFF OF 140 EMPLOYEES Joni Aoki Robert Dick Tabitha Jackson Holden Payne Paul Tarmina FROM OFFICES IN PARK CITY, LOS ANGELES, AND NEW YORK CITY. Jennifer Arceneaux Siobhan Doheny Alexis Jallad Sarah Pearce Rahdi Taylor Deborah Asiimwe Michael Driscoll John Jennings Nate Pennington Darien Turner Lisa Baker Amy Drizhal Jess Kantor Richard Ray Perez Nate Von Zumwalt Jennifer Barnett Andrew Eastwick Rebecca Katz Carolina Perez Sarah Warburg Dani Baum Sarah Eaton Katie Kennedy Linda Pfafflin Meredith Wicks Stephanie Bediee Emily Eichhorn-Nye June Kim Mike Plante Rebecca Windsor Christine Benjamin Morgan Everett Anne Lai Meredith Potter Rosie Wong Sean Berrett Paul Federbush Brandon Lake Keri Putnam Kirby Yardley Joseph Beyer Kristin Feeley Jacqueline Landry Andrew Rabkin Kim Yutani Tobias Brooks Thomas Fitzgerald Missy Laney Charlie Reff Royale Ziegler Heidi Bruce Julie Freestone Leah Langan Eva Rinaldi Chris Zulliger Jessica Buzzard Shari Frilot Elizabeth Latenser Velissa Robinson Heidi Zwicker John Cardellino Rebecca Gaster Meredith Lavitt Shira Rockowitz Jacqueline Carlson David Ginsberg Laura Leonard Jarom Rowland Ashley Castro Tim Golden Caroline Libresco Camellia Rowland Kirsten Chalker Peter Golub Angela Long Bird Runningwater Whitney Chaney Jennifer Goyne Blake Megan Lynch David Sabour Bethany Clarke Tina Graham Christina Martin Michelle Satter Maria Clement Elizabeth Greenway Brooke McAffee Kate Schlauch Kara Cody Moira Griffin Josie McGuinn Emel Shaikh Vanessa Cook Trevor Groth Ilyse McKimmie Laura Shumate John Cooper Ryan Hamilton Jacqueline Miller Luis Silva Kenzie Coulson Ligita Henry Mary Mittler Justin Simmons David Courier Christopher Hibma Hajnal Molnar-Szakacs Kamal Sinclair Todd Croak-Falen Philip Himberg Adam Montgomery Michelle Skinner Tanya De Angelis Jessica Hobbs Desiree Nash Maya Solis

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PAGE 3 PAGE 18 PAGE 26 Robert Redford at the opening of the Philip Himberg. at the 2008 Directors Lab. 1981 Directors Lab. Photo by Fred Hayes. Photo by Fred Hayes. Photo by Sharon Beard. PAGE 19 PAGE 27 PAGE 5 Fun Home rehearsal at John Cooper, Keri Putnam, and Quentin Tarantino, Steve Buscemi, and The Public Theater. Robert Redford at the David Jensen at the 1991 Directors Lab. Photo by Tammy Shell, 2014 Sundance Film Festival. Photo by Sandria Miller. courtesy The Public Theater. Photo by Calvin Knight.

PAGE 9 PAGE 20 PAGE 28 Gabriela Amaral Almeida at the Peter Golub. Photo by Fred Hayes. John Cooper. 2014 Directors Lab. Photo by Stephen Speckman. Photo by Ryan Johnson. PAGE 21 Timo Chen at the 2014 Feature Film PAGE 28 PAGE 10 Music and Sound Design Lab. Egyptian Theatre marquee. Atmosphere at the 2014 Feature Film Photo by Jen Siska. Photo by Fred Hayes. Music and Sound Design Lab. Photo by Jen Siska. PAGE 22 PAGE 29 Bird Runningwater. Whiplash, 2014 Sundance Film Festival. PAGE 11 Courtesy Bird Runningwater. Fruitvale Station, PAGE 32 2013 Sundance Film Festival. PAGE 23 Atmosphere at 2014 NEXT FEST. Drunktown’s Finest, Photo by Michael Rababy. PAGE 14 2014 Sundance Film Festival. PAGE 33 Michelle Satter. Frank screening, 2014 Sundance Photo by Fred Hayes. PAGE 24 Shantell Martin at the 2014 London Film and Music Festival. Photo by Tim P. Whitby for WireImage. PAGE 15 New Frontier Artist Residency at MIT. Wadjda, 2009 Rawi Screenwriters Lab Photo by Jonathan Beckley, courtesy Shantell Martin. PAGE 34 Ping Pong Summer community PAGE 16 screening, 2014. Photo by Fred Hayes. Tabitha Jackson. PAGE 25 Courtesy Tabitha Jackson. Jigar Mehta at the 2014 #ArtistServices workshop in San Francisco. PAGE 35 PAGE 17 Photo by Brandon Joseph Baker. Atmosphere from 2014 Film Roger Ross Williams at the 2013 Forward in Taiwan. Sundance Film Festival. Photo by Sundance Institute. Photo by Kristin Murphy for WireImage.

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2014 WINTERS BONE BE TTER LUCK TOMORROW SMOKE SIGNALS FRUITVALE STATION RESERVOIR DOGS PRECIOUS ELECTION CLERKS THE INVISIBLE WAR LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE TROUBLE THE WATER FUN HOME LONGTIME COMPANION THE LARAMIE PROJECT WHIPLASH BOYS DON'T CRY THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT THE COVE EL MARIACHI HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH CITIZEN FOUR SEX LIES AND VIDEOTAPE LONGTIME COMPANION TARNATION CENTRAL STATION THE CASE AGAINST 8 BOYHOOD MI VIDA LOCA NAPOLEON DYNAMITE IN THE BEDROOM ONCE THE SQUARE PASSING STRANGE BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD ANGELS IN AMERICA BORN INTO BROTHELS THE LUNCHBOX TROUBLE THE WATER DEAR WHITE PEOPLE PARIAH QUEEN OF VERSAILLES HALF NELSON SIN NOMBRE BUFFALO '66 I AM MY OWN WIFE SIKUMI/ON THE ICE MEMENTO ANNUAL REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2014