Food and Country: When Farmers and Chefs Cry

Exhibiting Forgiveness: An Exercise in Healing, On and Off the Set

PARK CITY, UTAH - JANUARY 20: (L-R) Jaime Ray Newman, Andr Holland, Andra Day, Titus Kaphar, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and John Earl Jelks attend the 2024 Sundance...

Indigenous People Will Save the World: A Spotlight on Sundance Institute's Merata Mita Fellowship

Libby Hakaraia speaking at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Photo by Jovelle Tam...

Saw, An Education, and More Celebrate Anniversaries in October

Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is torn between the life she'd planned and an intriguing older man in An Education. (Photo by Kerry Brown/Sony Pictures Classics)...

Welcoming Our Trans Artists and Community to the 2025 Sundance Film Festival

Updated as of October 10 As we prepare for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, our fundamental intention remains for all who attend the Sundance Film Festival to ...

The Far-Reaching Effects of Colonization in Twice Colonized

PARK CITY, UTAH - JANUARY 23: (L-R) Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Mark Bukdahl, Lin Alluna, Iris Ng, Emile Hertling P ronard, Aaju Peter, Bob Moore, Stacey Aglok MacDo...

2024 Sundance Institute Latine Fellowship & Collab Scholarship Artists Selected

Year-round Program Offers Pivotal Artist Support to Early Career Latine Artists PARK CITY, UTAH, October 10, 2024 - The nonprofit Sundance Institute announced...

Give Me the Backstory: Get to Know Christopher Jenkins, the Filmmaker Behind 10 Lives

By Lucy Spicer One of the most exciting things about the Sundance Film Festival...

The DFP Team Shares 18 Sundance-Supported Nonfiction Projects Not to Miss This Fall

By Jessica Herndon What does it take to move the needle through art? An origina...

A Risky Cat Seeks Another Chance in 10 Lives

PARK CITY, UTAH - JANUARY 20: Mo Gilligan, Chris Jenkins, and Simone Ashley at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival 10 Lives premiere at the Prospector Theatre on ...

The Growing Family Album of the Documentary Film Program

By Kristin Feeley Chilean director Patricio Guzm n said, A country without documentary cinema is like a family without a photo album. We understand who we ar...

Food and Country: When Farmers and Chefs Cry

Georgia farmers Will Harris and daughters Jenni Harris (right) and Jodi Harris (left) are featured in Food and Country, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance F...

Give Me the Backstory: Get to Know 4 Latine Filmmakers With Shorts at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival

A still from Daniel Barosa's Boi de Conchas (The Shell Covered Ox), which ...

Release Rundown: Your Monster, Union, and More Reach Wider Audiences This October

Aspiring actor Laura (Melissa Barrera) contends with a peculiar houseguest in wr...

Give Me the Backstory: Get to Know Nora Fingscheidt, the Writer-Director of The Outrun

By Bailey Pennick One of the most exciting things about the Sundance Film Festi...

Give Me the Backstory: Get to Know Carla Gutirrez, the Director of FRIDA

By Lucy Spicer One of the most exciting things about the Sundance Film Festival is having a front-row seat for the bright future of independent filmmaking. Whi...

Lakota Nation vs. United States and More Sundance-Supported Documentaries Take Home 2024 Emmys

For many September marks the end of summer or the start of school, but around he...

Give Me the Backstory: Get to Know Ramona Diaz, the Filmmaker Behind And So It Begins

By Jessica Herndon One of the most exciting things about the Sundance Film Fes...

Film Festival Watch: Catch These 6 Sundance-Supported Films at the New York Film Festival

By Jessica Herndon This time of year, as leaves on the trees in Central Park ch...

Inside the Archives: Creating Access to Celebrate Community

2024 Documentary Producers Lab fellows, creative advisors, and staff share a moment. Photo by Lance Roth...

Soak Up the Last Days of Adolescence with My Old Ass

Aubrey Plaza getting ready for My Old Ass (photo by George Pimentel/Shutterstock for Sundance)...

A Different Kind of Funny: An Interview With Carol Kane on Between the Temples

Carol Kane, Between the Temples (photo by Presley Ann/Shutterstock for Sundance) By Matthew Eng There's a scene early in Nathan Silver's Between the...

19 Sundance Movies to Watch Before Seeing These Filmmakers' New Fall 2024 Releases

By Jessica Herndon It's time to stock up on pumpkin spice everything and g...

Give Me the Backstory: Get to Know Alessandra Lacorazza, the Writer-Director Behind In The Summers

by Bailey Pennick One of the most exciting things about the Sundance Film Festi...

Writer-Director Jennifer Kent on the 10th Anniversary of The Babadook and Horror as an Independent Art Form

Writer-director Jennifer Kent's The Babadook is returning to the big scree...

A Different Man Is a Triumph That Lingers Long After Credits Role

Warning: This feature contains spoilers about the film. By Bailey Pennick Aaron Schimberg kept it brief in his introduction before A Different Man had its wor...

Will & Harper Takes a True Friendship on the Road

Harper Steele and Will Ferrell (Photo by George Pimentel/Shutterstock for Sundance)...

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story Shines a Light on a Real-Life Hero

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH - JANUARY 19: Matthew Reeve, Alexandra Reeve Givens, Peter Ettedgui, Ian Bonhote, and William Reeve attend the 2024 Sundance Film Festival...

Give Me the Backstory: Get to Know Megan Park, the Filmmaker Behind My Old Ass

By Bailey Pennick One of the most exciting things about the Sundance Film Festival is having a front-row seat for the bright future of independent filmmaking. ...

THE LATINX HOUSE, NETFLIX, SHONDALAND, AND THE SUNDANCE INSTITUTE LAUNCH NEW COHORT OF DIRECTOR FELLOWSHIP TO FUEL LATINE EXCELLENCE IN TELEVISION & FILM

Sundance Institute Selects Three Finalists to Host the Sundance Film Festival Beginning in 2027

Final Phase of RFP Process Will See a Decision Announced in Q1 of 2025...

Skeleton Twins Is 10! Reminisce Over Surprise Musical Moments From the Comedy-Drama and Other Fest Faves

By Jessica Herndon We all have moments from movies that we love to rewatch. Som...

Give Me the Backstory: Get to Know Shuchi Talati, the Writer-Director of Girls Will Be Girls

By Lucy Spicer One of the most exciting things about the Sundance Film Festival...

In The Summers: A Roller-Coaster Rite of Passage With Dad

PARK CITY, UTAH - JANUARY 22: (L-R) Alessandra Lacorazza, Emma Ramos, Kimaya Thais Limon, Ren P rez Joglar, Dreya Castillo, Luciana Elisa Quinonez, L o Mehiel,...

Give Me the Backstory: Get to Know Asmae El Moudir, the Filmmaker Behind The Mother of All Lies

By Jessica Herndon One of the most exciting things about the Sundance Film Fes...

Look Into My Eyes Peers Into the Lives of New York City Psychics

PARK CITY, UTAH - JANUARY 22: (L-R) Eugene Grygo, Phoebe Hoffman, Lana Wilson, Michael Kim, and Nikenya Hall attend the 2024 Sundance Film Festival Look Into M...

Film Festival Watch: 11 Sundance-Supported Films Showing at the Toronto International Film Festival

By Jessica Herndon The buzz in Toronto for the next 11 days will be all about t...

Release Rundown: What to Watch in September, From My Old Ass to In The Summers

Elliott (Maisy Stella) meets an older version of herself (Aubrey Plaza) in Megan Park's My Old Ass....

Seeking Mavis Beacon Searches for an Icon of Black Representation in Technology

By Lucy Spicer Did you think Mavis Beacon was a real person? This is a question that pervades Jazmin Ren e Jones' feature directorial debut, Seeking Ma...

Asmae El Moudir Uncovers Her Family's Truth in The Mother of All Lies

Asmae El Moudir with her Granny puppet (Marc Sagliocco/Shutterstock for Sundance Film Festival)...

Film Festival Watch: Sundance-Supported Films to Catch at the Telluride Film Festival

By Jessica Herndon The 51st Telluride Film Festival kicks off tomorrow in Color...

Dreams of Music Come True in Going Varsity in Mariachi

PARK CITY, UTAH JANUARY 22: The cast attends the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Going Varsity in Mariachi premiere at Park Avenue Theater on January 22, 2023 i...

Film Festival Watch: See These 5 Sundance-Supported Films at the Venice International Film Festival

By Jessica Herndon There is no denying the Venice International Film Festival i...

Inside the Archives: The Summer Trivia Season Finale

By the Archives team As the weather starts to cool down, our trivia games are also wrapping up! In this final summer 2024 edition, we're once again shining...

How Filmmaking Mirrors the Identity Journey of Trans Storytellers Zackary Drucker and River Gallo

By Jessica Herndon Making a film can be unpredictable. Clearance issues may cau...

I'll Be Your Mirror (2022 Festival's blood) Listens In on One Woman's Reluctance to Release Her Grief

[Editor's note: This film has changed its title since this feature originall...

Love Is Weird and Wonderful in Between the Temples

PARK CITY, UTAH - JANUARY 19: Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane attend the 2024 Sundance Film Festival Between the Temples premiere at the Library Center Theat...

From Concept to Edit, Four Sundance Festival Filmmakers Discuss the Process of Making Their First Feature

By Jessica Herndon Most filmmakers will agree that there is nothing like that i...

Give Me the Backstory: Get to Know Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss, the Filmmakers Behind War Game

By Lucy Spicer One of the most exciting things about the Sundance Film Festival...

Daughters and Dads Come Together for One Magical, Fleeting Dance

(Photo by Suzanne Cordeiro/Shutterstock for Sundance Film Festival) By Patty Consolazio This film might hold the world record for speed tear-jerkers. In one ...

Homecoming: Sundance Institute's Indigenous Program Makes Its Return to Hawaii

Pictured top row (L-R): Adam Piron, Kapena Liu, Sky Hopinka, Billy Roehl; bottom...