As Director of Producing and Artist Support in the Feature Film Program, Shira Rockowitz leads the organization’s strategy for supporting emerging independent fiction producers, screenwriters, and directors. She devises programs that encompass creative and professional development, granting, mentorship, and industry engagement to help artists advance their projects and build enduring careers. This includes leading Elevate, a year-round professional development track supporting 300+ Sundance artists, and oversight of the Feature Film Producers Program, including the annual Lab & Fellowship and select activities at the Sundance Film Festival. 

Previously, Shira was Director of Development and Production at Exclusive Media and a co-producer on John Carney’s Begin Again. She has also held positions at New Regency, Paramount Vantage, and Fine Line Features / New Line Cinema. Shira is a graduate of Northwestern University and holds an MFA from the Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California, where she is an adjunct professor.

Kristin Feeley is the Director of the Sundance Documentary Film and Artist Programs where her programs support a broad slate of independent, domestic and international nonfiction storytellers focused on human rights, social justice and innovative approaches. She has worked in artist development at the Sundance Institute for over fifteen years, supporting the careers of hundreds of nonfiction directors, editors, producers. During her time at Sundance she launched the Documentary Producers Lab and Fellowship and created the Art of Editing Fellowship as well as the Nonfiction Critics Fellowship. Kristin is committed to supporting artists who contribute to a collaborative, inclusive artistic process in independent nonfiction. Prior to Sundance, Kristin worked in social policy research and arts nonprofits before pursuing a Masters in Film at the University of Glasgow.

Maria Clement supports independent nonfiction storytellers year round as Senior Manager of Documentary Film and Producer Program. She oversees the Documentary Film Producers Lab and Fellowship, Documentary Edit and Story Lab and provides year round creative development and strategic guidance to independent U.S. and international nonfiction artists and projects. Maria holds a staff advisory role with the Sundance Documentary Fund. Prior to joining Sundance, she started her career working in documentary production at Interloper Films and Academy Award® nominated Black Valley Films. Of Cuban heritage, she is proficient in Spanish and a Los Angeles native. She holds a degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine.

Andrea Alarcón is a nonprofit arts administrator and curator who manages the submission review processes for the program's Documentary Producers Lab and Fellowship and provides year-round creative and strategic support to DFP supported artists. Andrea also contributes to the submission review process for the Documentary Edit and Story Lab, and the Documentary Fund with a passion for amplifying emerging, historically marginalized and international filmmakers. She is dedicated to applying an equity based lens to her work to ensure that a spectrum of perspectives is represented in the documentary realm. Andrea is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz with a BA in Film and Digital Media, and a concentration in documentary production. Prior to Sundance, she worked with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History to engage and empower underrepresented communities in the arts before moving to Los Angeles.

Ciara Wardlow is the Feature Film Program Manager at Sundance Institute, where she works across outreach, tracking, and the submission review process for the Feature Film and Producing Program Labs, Intensives, and Fellowships, in addition to providing creative and strategic support to current fellows and alumni. She was previously the development associate at BOOM! Studios, where she worked on film and television adaptations of the comic book publisher’s IP library. Prior to BOOM, she worked at Paramount Pictures and the production company Maven Screen Media, and was a 2021 Film Independent Project Involve Fellow. In her past life as a film critic, her bylines included The Hollywood Reporter, RogerEbert.com, Film School Rejects, and Pajiba. She is a graduate of Wellesley College. 

Adrienne Childress, a Chicago native, is a Los Angeles-based producer and writer. Her credits span documentary, commercial, music video, and short- and long-form narrative content, with a central focus on working with directors and creatives whose voices are underrepresented in our industry. From 2015 to 2019, Adrienne managed and oversaw production for the Directing Workshop for Women at the American Film Institute. In 2024, she continued that mission by consulting on the creation and execution of Netflix's Proof of Concept Accelerator Program. Her feature films My Divorce Party, starring Rumer Willis, is streaming on Amazon Prime, and The Hater, starring Joey Ally, Bruce Dern, and Ali Larter, is on Mubi. In 2019, Adrienne’s project Girl Callin, a proof of concept she wrote and produced, was accepted as a part of Refinery 29’s Shatterbox Anthology Series and premiered at the Palm Springs Film Festival in 2020. 

She has produced Visual Impact Statements for victims of the Woolsey, Eaton, Palisades, and Maui fires, as well as the PBS documentary series A Town Called Victoria. Most recently, Adrienne produced the Sundance x Adobe content series “Festival Moments” for the 2025 and 2026 Sundance Film Festivals.