Community

Your Creative Community Starts Here

From the Writer’s Café to forums, challenges, and residencies—this is your space to collaborate, grow, and stay inspired.

Writers Café
Pull up a virtual chair and pen your pages alongside fellow storytellers. This is a dedicated, real-time writing room for real-time writing sessions, accountability check-ins, and supportive camaraderie with other creators dedicated to getting words on the page.
Community Forum
Dive into discussions, ask questions, share wins, and get real-time insights from fellow creators. This is your open forum to connect, collaborate, and keep your momentum going.
Community Leaders
Meet with trusted creators who lend their expertise, answer questions, and help you navigate your creative journey—no matter where you’re starting.
Sundance Collab Challenges
Ready to level up? Take advantage of quick prompts to bigger creative pushes, challenges help you experiment, stay accountable, and share your finished work with peers. Browse current challenges or revisit past ones to see what the community has created.
Cultural Impact Residency
Apply your voice. Make your impact. Each year, this six-month residency connects early-career storytellers with mentors, peers, and resources to create films that inspire, challenge, and resonate—helping your work reach its fullest potential.
I'm very happy to tell you that the TV series I developed with this course has been commissioned by Canal+ and we made 42 episodes. I have received incredible positive feedback on the series’ positive impact on the TV landscape in Ethiopia…. Thank you so much for the scholarship!
Semagngeta Aychiluhem
Ethiopia
Sundance Collab is a massive gift to our industry. Whether you are just starting out or working on your hundredth project, with a subject as vast as filmmaking, there is always something new to learn. Sundance is offering everyone a chance to expand their education with kind and brilliant teachers, online, with a flexible schedule, at a relaxed pace. It is a wholly inclusive, safe environment that honors art and creativity and I couldn't recommend it more.
Laura Chinn
Lab & Festival Alum
[The Workshop] informed me so much about the tone and characters. It was the first time the film came to life in any way. That was fascinating and gave me so much information for when I actually was shooting it a year later.
Reza Dahya
Toronto, Canada
I've taken several Sundance [Collab] classes to help build my TV writing skills and this past week, an indie TV series I was hired to create/write and Executive Produce was just announced to have its World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival!... I’m so grateful for the classes and instruction I received, and the communities that came with it. I’m even developing a new show with someone I met in class whose writing I loved!
Veronica Reyes-How
New York City, USA
I'm very happy to tell you that the TV series I developed with this course has been commissioned by Canal+ and we made 42 episodes. I have received incredible positive feedback on the series’ positive impact on the TV landscape in Ethiopia…. Thank you so much for the scholarship!
Semagngeta Aychiluhem
Ethiopia