In our Insider Sessions, Sundance Institute staff answer your questions and guide you through the process of applying to our labs, grant opportunities, and the Sundance Film Festival.
Join the staff of the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund to learn about how to apply to the Fund, how our team evaluates applications, the types of projects we support, and more. We break down the different components of the application and offer advice on how to approach them. An open Q&A with attendees follows the presentation.
The Sundance Institute Documentary Fund supports the work of nonfiction filmmakers from around the globe. In a changing media landscape, the fund has been a stable, progressive force in supporting work that has expressed the world in creative, complex, beautiful, and provocative ways, and has created real cultural and social impact around some of the most pressing issues of our time. We are especially keen to raise the voices of underserved or underrepresented communities from around the world in the service of building a more fair, free, and open society. Recently supported films have included Agent of Happiness, Always in Season, All That Breathes, Ascension, Collective, Crip Camp, Faya Dayi, Of Fathers and Sons, Fire of Love, I Didn’t See You There, Mija, Minding the Gap, The Mole Agent, Nocturnes, Softie, Sugarcane, Union, and Writing With Fire.
Helpful links:
Documentary Film Program website
Documentary Fund Proposal Checklist
2024 Documentary Fund Application