Meet the Sundance Team–Supporting Artists Year-Round

Kristin Feeley oversees five Sundance Documentary Creative Labs annually, co-programs the Sundance Creative Producing Summit and the Fellows Program at Sundance Film Festival, which serves over 150 artists annually. She plays a staff advisory role with the Sundance Documentary Fund, oversees DFP content production and also works on DFP Creative Partnerships such as Stories of Change. Prior to Sundance DFP she worked at Tribeca Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival.

Peter Golub is the composer of numerous works for film, the concert hall, theatre and dance. His film scores include: Frozen River (directed by Courtney Hunt and nominated for 2 Academy Awards); The Laramie Project (for HBO); The Great Debaters (directed by Denzel Washington and co-composed with James Newton Howard); Wordplay (directed by Patrick Creadon); Countdown to Zero (dir by Lucy Walker); Sound of a Dream (dir by Zhang Wei); and Songs My Brothers Taught Me (dir by Chloe Zhao). Scores for Broadway include: The Country House (by Donald Marguiles, directed by Daniel Sullivan, with Blythe Danner), The Heiress (directed by Moises Kaufman, with Jessica Chastain) and Hedda Gabler (directed by Nicholas Martin, with Kate Burton). 

In his early career he was Composer-in-Residence for Charles Ludlam's legendary Ridiculous Theatrical Company in Greenwich Village, along with considerable work composing music for the theatre with Joseph Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival (including numerous productions at the Delacorte in Central Park as well as at the Public downtown) and at La Mama, including work with Ethyl Eichelberger, Ellen Stewart, Jospeh Chaikin and others. His musical, Ampigorey, with book, lyrics and designs by Edward Gorey, was produced at the American Music Theater Festival (Philadelphia), as well as at the American Repertory Theatre (ART) in Cambridge, culminating in an off-Broadway run at the Perry Street Theatre in NY. Amphigorey was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Musical. 

His ballet based on Gorey's The Gilded Bat, choreography by Peter Anastos, was commissioned by Ballet West and performed at the Kennedy Center and throughout the US. Other ballets were commissioned by the Miami City Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, and Atlanta Ballet. Recent concert music includes: Sleepwalking (a cello concerto), Ghost Songs (for voice and piano, to texts by Thomas Hardy), Six Dirty Limericks, Garden Paths (for flute, viola and Harp), Florestan & Eusebius (for saxophone quartet) and A Child of Children and Art (commissioned by pianist Anthony de Mare as part of a set of original piano pieces in tribute to Stephen Sondheim). He studied composition with Toru Takemitsu and Henry Brant.

Golub is the Director of the Sundance Film Music Program and teaches at UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Jen Goyne Blake is Senior Manager of Sundance Institute's Episodic Program. Previously, Jen had a first look production deal with Relativity Media to develop television and film projects. She also worked as a script analyst at William Morris Agency in the television department and got her start as an assistant at the Robert Evans Company and Tregan Entertainment. She is an alumna of the University of Texas at Austin and proudly displays a longhorn sticker on her purse.

Anne Lai is Director of Creative Producing & Artist Support in the Feature Film Program at Sundance Institute, focusing on discovering and nurturing emerging independent producers, screenwriters, and directors in narrative features. Through Labs, granting, mentorship, networking events, and educational programming she tailors support for artists on their current feature film while also providing ongoing creative and strategic feedback. Recently supported films include writer/director Reinaldo Green and producer Elizabeth Lodge Stepp’s Monsters and Men, Geremy Jasper's Patti Cake$, Eliza Hittman's Beach Rats, Daniels’ Swiss Army Man, Marielle Heller’s Diary of a Teenage Girl, co-writer/director Susanna Fogel and producer Jordana Mollick’s Life Partners, Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station, and co-writer/director Benh Zeitlin and producers Dan Janvey and Josh Penn’s Beasts of the Southern Wild. 

 Anne also leads the annual Creative Producing Summit and curates narrative features for the Catalyst Forum which connects projects with potential financiers. Prior to joining Sundance, Anne served as Vice President of Production at Scott Free, the film and television company founded by directors Ridley and Tony Scott. She worked on films including Gladiator, Hannibal, Black Hawk Down, and Tristan & Isolde. Anne attended the University of Michigan and received her degree in film production from the University of Southern California.​

Ilyse McKimmie is the Deputy Director for Sundance Institute's Feature Film Program. She oversees the Directors and Screenwriters Labs and the Screenwriters Intensive, provides year-round creative and strategic support to alumni filmmakers, and plays a key role in the Producers and Episodic Programs. 

Films developed at the Labs during her tenure include Dìdi (弟弟), A Thousand and One, Aftersun, Nanny, The 40-Year-Old Version, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, The Farewell, Sorry to Bother You, We the Animals, Beach Rats, Swiss Army Man, Diary of a Teenage Girl, Fruitvale Station, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Pariah, Sin Nombre, Red Road, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Paradise Now, and Maria Full of Grace, among many others. Before joining Sundance 25 years ago, she held positions at ICM and Red Wagon Entertainment. Her roots lie in the theater; her first job after graduating from UCLA was as a production stage manager in the Los Angeles theater scene.

Maya Solis-Austin (Pascua Yaqui/Blackfeet) Serves as Senior Manager for the Native American and Indigenous Program at Sundance Institute, a non-profit organization that supports the development of Independent stories for the screen. Her focus is to identify and support emerging Indigenous filmmakers and content creators across the US and globally. 

She manages the implementation of the Native Forum at Sundance Film Festival, Native Filmmakers Lab Fellowship, the Time Warner Producer Fellowship, the Full-Circle Fellowship and the Merata Mita Fellowship. Maya is Vice-Chair for Vision Maker Media, which empowers and engages Native Peoples to tell their stories for public television. 

Previously, Maya worked as an archivist for the National NAGPRA Program, the Southern Ute Cultural Center & Museum, the Academy Film Archive, and the UCLA Cataloging and Metadata Center. She is a graduate of the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) with degrees in History, Film and Moving Image Archive Studies.