Documentary Film Program Funding Deadlines
Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program awards up to $1.5 million in grants to support documentary films focused on contemporary social issues annually. This year's deadlines to apply for awards are July 7, 2008 and February 5, 2009. Films supported have included Zana Briski and Ross Kaufman's Born Into Brothels, Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern's The Devil Came on Horseback (pictured above), and Laura Poitras's My Country, My Country. Sundance also requests proposals for a new initiative with the Skoll Foundation to fund feature documentary films that examine and amplify social entrepreneurship as an innovative approach to the central questions of our time. Applications will be accepted between June 15 - August 15, 2008.
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Now Playing: Film and Plays in Theatres Now
Yung Chang's Up the Yangtze (pictured above), Tom McCarthy's The Visitor , and Stephen Walker's Young@Heart are among the many Sundance films in theatres now. A Jihad for Love, a Sundance-supported documentary that examines the complex intersection of the Islam faith and homosexuality, has launched its U.S. theatrical release. The Sundance-supported play written by singer/songwriter Stew Passing Strange continues to play on Broadway. Also, The Civilians’ (2007 Theatre Lab) This Beautiful City opens at the Studio Theatre in Washington DC in June and Tanya Barfield’s (2007 Theatre Lab) Of Equal Measure opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles at the end of June.
Read More BMI Honors Peter Golub
As part of the BMI Film and Television Awards last month, Peter Golub, Director of Sundance Institute's Film Music Program, was presented the Classic Contribution Award. For the past ten years, Peter Golub, an accomplished composer of film, theatre, ballet, and concert works, has been leading the program and the Film Composers Lab which enhances the music of independent film by bringing together composers with emerging filmmakers and seasoned advisors.
Learn more From the Archives
As a founding member of Sundance Institute, Sydney Pollack was vital in the development of the Institute as well as the Directors and Screenwriters Labs. Sydney Pollack served as an advisor for the June Screenwriters Lab, Directors Lab, and Composers Lab throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. As the 2008 Directors and Screenwriters Labs begin the summer season in Utah this June, the Board of Directors, staff, and alumni of Sundance Institute mourn the passing of Sydney Pollack.
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