In Advisor Studio sessions, Sundance Collab Advisors share field experiences and insights into their specific areas of craft, including writing, directing and producing for TV and film.
At Sundance, we champion artists with unique voices, elevating personal and compelling stories that only they can tell. As independent filmmakers, you have the story you are excited to share with an audience, that has characters, and scenarios that have lived in your mind for, perhaps, years. With an oversaturated and ever-changing industry, the mindset of writing a story “that sells” can be limiting. How do you find a way to break out of this narrative of cyclical storytelling to get to the root of how you can meaningfully tell your story?
Filmmaker and Collab advisor, Maria Judice (Elephant, Neptune, Frost), discusses different ways that artists can rediscover their own stories. Taking philosophies from her independently run course Screenwriting Rooted in Decolonization and Abstract Thinking, Maria discusses tools that can be used to break away from classical storytelling to re-center your own narrative.
