Launched in 2008, the Sundance Institute Producers Program boasts 174 alumni, a rising variety of storytellers to which six fiction movie producers and 5 nonfiction movie producers are added in 2025.
The Sundance Institute Producers Program champions impartial producers throughout profession levels, empowering them to refine their craft in recognition of their pivotal position within the storytelling ecosystem. The Producers Lab is the point of interest of this system and kicks off a yearlong fellowship, making a group for fiction and nonfiction movie producers as they community and take part in skilled improvement alternatives whereas engaged on a feature-length challenge.
Rising impartial producers chosen for the Producers Lab construct group whereas receiving project-specific assist in one-on-one conferences and small group periods with established producers and business advisors. Fellows sharpen their management and problem-solving abilities whereas cultivating inventive considering. They develop methods for pitching, securing funding, managing manufacturing, navigating {the marketplace}, and reaching sustainability. The 2025 cohort contains six fiction movie producers and 5 nonfiction movie producers.
Following the lab, fellows obtain ongoing assist by means of a yearlong mentorship from a devoted advisor, business networking alternatives, common cohort gatherings, Sundance Collab advantages, and participation in ELEVATE, Sundance Institute’s skilled improvement monitor.
Fellows within the Function Movie Producers Lab embrace Ryan Bobkin with Individuals You Observe, April S. Chang and Vicki Syal with Dying is Nice, Karen Madar with Little Phnom Penh, Steven Snyder with Inform Me a Secret, and Daniel Tantalean with Birthright. Fellows within the Documentary Producers Lab embrace Loi Ameera Almeron with Changing into Us, Wendy P. Espinal with Anna Borges do Sacramento, Crystal Isaac with Basketball Heaven, Elijah Stevens with Untitled Science Venture, and Nicole Tsien with Spirited.
The 2025 Function Movie Producers Lab advisors are Anne Carey (Nightbitch), Sylvia Desrochers (MPRM Communications), Poppy Hanks (One in every of Them Days), Kimberly Parker Zox (The Final Black Man in San Francisco), Josh Peters (Dìdi (弟弟)), and Eugene Pikulin (Bruns Brennan Berry Pikulin & Jacobs PC). The 2025 Documentary Producers Lab advisors are Jamie Gonçalves (Caballerango), Rémi Grellety (Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat), Lance Kramer (Holding Liat), Andrea Meditch (Fathom), and Diane Quon (Minding the Hole).
“We’re energized by the singular storytelling on this yr’s tasks and the creativity and imaginative and prescient of the producers bringing them to life,” mentioned Kristin Feeley, Director of Documentary and Artist Packages, and Shira Rockowitz, Director of Producing and Artist Assist for the Function Movie Program. “Our staff is happy to assist these dynamic artists — from improvement by means of launch — alongside the trailblazing group of producers and business advisors whose knowledge and generosity play a significant position of their journeys.”
Launched in 2008, the Sundance Institute Producers Program boasts 174 fiction and nonfiction producer alumni, together with Pierre Coleman (Ricky), Deidre Backs (Fancy Dance), Dan Janvey and Josh Penn (Beasts of the Southern Wild), Keith Wilson (I Didn’t See You There), and Kellen Quinn (Midnight Household). Program alumni have additionally garnered 8 Academy Award nominations total for Nomadland, Moonlight, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Navalny, Time, All of the Magnificence and the Bloodshed, Minding the Hole, and Sugarcane. Fiction program alumni have been nominated 16 occasions for the Unbiased Spirit Producers Award and brought house 10 of these prizes.
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