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Annenberg Foundation Awards Sundance Institute $1 Million Grant

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The Sundance Institute has been awarded a $1 million, three-year grant from the Annenberg Foundation, which will provide support for the Institute's year-round creative and tactical programs for independent film artists. The Annenberg's past support of the Institute, the Film Fellows Program from 2004-2011, helped support projects such as Sean Durkin's "Martha Marcy May Marlene," Dee Rees' "Pariah" and Behn Zeitlin's "Beasts of the Southern Wild."

By Beth Hanna
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August 27, 2012 4:11 PM
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11 New Sundance Supported Films Now Streaming

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Now available on SnagFilms, Hulu and Netflix are eleven new films supported by the Sundance Institute's Artist Services Program, which launched in February. Artist Services gives filmmakers exclusive opportunities to self-finance, market and distribute their films. Films from the program are also available on...

By Sophia Savage
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August 23, 2012 4:23 PM
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Sundance Institute Adds 10 Titles to Artists Services Program, Fellows Self-Distribute Online

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The Sundance Institute announces today that 10 additional titles are now available on the Artists Services access to distribution program, which makes films from previous Sundance festivals available for rent, download and streaming on various digital platforms and storefronts (iTunes, Amazon, SundanceNOW, YouTube, etc).

By Beth Hanna
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July 18, 2012 4:37 PM
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Sundance Institute Hosts Summer Producing Summit, Names First Bingham Ray Producing Fellow

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The Sundance Institute puts on a producing summit and creative labs every year at Robert Redford's ski resort that many indies look forward to as a working summer camp in the glorious Rocky Mountains. Eleven projects go into the creative producing labs July 30; the Institute has also named the winner of the first Bingham Ray Producing Fellowship.

By Anne Thompson
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July 16, 2012 11:42 AM
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Public Sundance ShortsLab Workshop Coming to Los Angeles August 11

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The Sundance Institute announces the Los Angeles edition of their public one-day filmmaking ShortsLab workshop will take place on August 11, after their successful events in New York and Seattle...

By Sophia Savage
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July 12, 2012 9:25 PM
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Sundance Institute Names Six Fellows for 2012 Composers Lab in Utah

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The Sundance Institute announces six fellows chosen to participate in the 2012 Feature Film Composers Lab at the Sundance Resort in Utah. The Lab, running July 25 - August 8, is produced by SI's Film Music Program in conjunction with their Feature Film Program...

By Sophia Savage
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July 10, 2012 5:01 PM
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Imprisoned Chinese Artist and Dissident Ai Weiwei Will Learn the Fate of His Bail Conditions on June 22

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China's most famous international artist and staunchly outspoken domestic critic, Ai Weiwei, finds out June 22 if the Chinese government's bail conditions for his imprisonment over the past year will be lifted. The subject of Alison Klayman's Sundance and Berlinale doc "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry," the artist was incarcerated...

By Beth Hanna
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June 21, 2012 12:39 PM
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Sundance Institute Chooses Documentary Edit and Story Lab Participants

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The Sundance Institute has chosen 24 fellows representing nine films to participate in the 2012 Documentary Edit and Story Labs taking place this June and July at the Sundance Resort in Utah. The nine-day labs bring rising filmmakers together with experienced editors and directors to assist and speed up the post-production process.

By Sophia Savage
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June 18, 2012 4:03 PM
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Focus Forward's 'Short Films, Big Ideas' Competition Hits LAFF; Offers $100K Prize for Grand-Prize Winner

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Focus Forward first announced its $200K Filmmaker Challenge at Sundance in January, and will be at LA Film Fest starting tomorrow (June 14-24) to encourage festival attendees and emerging talent to get in on the competition as well. "Short Films, Big Ideas" will ultimately be a series of 30 three-minute nonfiction films.

By Beth Hanna
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June 13, 2012 7:37 PM
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LA Film Fest Soft-Launches with Virgin Airlines Commercial 'Departure Date,' Tiffany Sponsors Sundance Fundraiser

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"I didn't know this job was about fund-raising," said new Los Angeles Film Festival director Stephanie Allain at Monday night's downtown soft-launch party in advance of the real opening night Thursday of Woody Allen's "To Rome with Love." This premiere was for Virgin Australia/Virgina Atlantic/Virgin America commercial "Departure Date."