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. 


Filmmakers are often surprised by the technical elements and costs of delivering a film to an online or in-person film festival or distributor.


Join Carolyn Kaylor, Senior Manager of Exhibition at the Sundance Institute in this Advisor Studio session to learn what to expect and how to plan ahead, the latest best practices, and how to prepare your film’s accessibility features for various exhibition platforms to make your film accessible to the widest audience possible.


Topics include:

  • An overview of delivery for a film festival
  • What to include in your budget for delivery
  • How to create your elements for in-person screenings and online screenings (cinema broadcast)
  • Understanding closed captions, open captions, audio descriptions and what is needed to have your film meet accessibility requirements.
  • Mistakes to avoid


If you would benefit from an accommodation to fully participate in this event, please complete this form, contact us at (435) 776-7790, or email us at accessibility@sundance.org to discuss your specific requests. Every effort will be made to accommodate advance requests; requests made within 5 days of the event may not be guaranteed.


Live event registration for Sundance Collab Advisor Studios is free of charge. A recording of this event will be posted to our Video Library the next business day following the event. All registered attendees can watch the recording for two business days after it is posted. After that, on-demand access to the recording can be purchased for $5.

Carolyn Kaylor
Carolyn Kaylor is a New York-based filmmaker, educator, and exhibition specialist, with a wealth of experience across the film industry. Currently, she serves as Senior Manager of Exhibition at the Sundance Institute and Technical Director of the Telluride Film Festival. She has worked as a projectionist, technical director and consultant for a wide range of film festivals, including Nantucket, Savannah, Hamptons, TCM, Bermuda, and Dubai International to name a few. Carolyn’s films have been shown at festivals internationally and she has taught courses in filmmaking at The Museum School, Boston College, and CalArts. Her film experience began with a job as assistant editor for the documentarian Fred Wiseman. She is passionate about the future of cinema and the preservation of the collective movie going experience and recently collaborated with Upstate Films on the purchase and renovation of a historic theater in the Hudson River Valley. Carolyn holds a BA in Philosophy and Art from Umass Boston, and an MFA from The California Institute of the Arts. more...
Erica Elson
Moderator | Digital Course & Event Producer
Erica Elson is a Producer, Writer and Educator based in the mountains outside Los Angeles. Her short film, WING NIGHT, premiered at Method Fest in Los Angeles. She is the co-author of the book THE AWKWARD HUMAN SURVIVAL GUIDE and co-hosted a podcast by the same name on the 5by5 network for five years. Elson's articles have been published by HuffPost, Lifehacker, and Reader's Digest. Prior to working in education, she worked in television development and writers’ rooms such as VH1’s HINDSIGHT, where she had the chance to write for the spinoff web series PLANET SEBASTIAN. more...

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