"Sundance Institute announced details for the second Sundance Institute Documentary Composers Lab. Five documentary filmmakers and six film music composers have been selected to participate in this year’s Lab, which is a collaboration between the Institute’s Documentary Film Program and its Film Music Program.  Based on the success of the Feature Film Composers Lab, the Documentary Composers Lab is an intensive five-day lab, running August 1-5, that focuses on the importance of musical composition in non-fiction filmmaking.  This year’s Documentary Composers Lab Filmmaker Fellows are Ra’ed Andoni, Mark Becker, Mercedes Moncada, Hank Rogerson, and Jilann Spitzmiller.  The Composing Lab Fellows are Peter Fitazpatrick, Aiko Fuskushima, Joseph Julian Gonzales, Gary Louris, Frank Macchia, and Ras Mesinai.  Together, the Documentary filmmaker and composer Fellows will explore and identify scenes to score, and engage in critiques and discussions with Creative Advisors ranging from their work at the Lab to the role of music in independent documentary film. For more information on the Sundance Institute, visit theirsite.