Think of a local issue that's important to you and create a piece of work that uses the power of story to engage your audience.
DEADLINE EXTENDED: The challenge closes on July 1, 2019 at 9:00 AM PDT.
Activism comes in many forms, so this month's challenge is a free-style. Select a local issue that's important to you and create a piece of work that uses the power of story to engage your audience: a short documentary, fiction script or video, a podcast - whatever form best expresses your truth and the story you're telling.
SUBMISSION LIMITS
Scripts – 10 page limit; Video – 8 minute limit; Audio/Podcast– 8 minute limit
CHALLENGE RULES
Our monthly challenges are open to everyone in the Sundance Co//ab community. One entry per person, per challenge. All submissions will be viewable to the community. Each person who participates will receive a completed feedback form on the work they submit by one of our Sundance judges. All submissions will be given equal consideration and the final winner will be determined by the consensus of the designated Sundance judges.
Only those submissions that meet the criteria outlined in the submission guidelines will be able to be selected as the winner.
DEADLINE EXTENDED: The challenge closes on July 1, 2019 at 9:00 AM PDT.
PRIZE
The winner will receive a Sundance Co//ab subscription for one year, a one-on-one mentoring session with a Sundance Advisor, a free master class, and will be featured prominently on the site.
Jurors
Cruz Angeles
Juror
Cruz Angeles is an award-winning Film & TV director. His work includes multiple documentary segments for television, including the Peabody Award winning ESPN “30 for 30” documentary, Fernando Nation and several episodes of the Emmy Award winning series A Crime to Remember. His feature length narrative, Don't Let Me Drown, debuted in competition for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. The Hollywood Reporter named the film "one of the best film portraits yet of New York City in the aftermath of 9/11." Cruz is a Sundance Institute Screenwriting and Directing Fellow, a recipient of the NHK/Sundance International Filmmakers Award and a United States Artists Fellow. His latest film, Valiant, is an NHL Original Films documentary about the greatest expansion team in U.S. sports history and how they captured the heart of a community in the wake of tragedy.
Michael Camerini
Juror
Michael Camerini shoots, directs and produces films and documentary series that travel across geographical and subject areas as diverse as women's rights and social change in India, artists both famous and not yet so, and the struggle to balance religious and cultural identity with mainstream values in the United States. His approach to filmmaking is notable for a camera technique that is fluid and non-intrusive, and a style of filming that encourages extraordinary access, as people tell their own stories, whatever the cultural context. An interest in what it means to be a foreigner is the unifying theme in his work. Notable titles include Born Again, Kamalaand Raji, Well-Founded Fear (2000) and the 10-part documentary feature series How Democracy Works Now (2013) and Niger: Tales of Resilience (2016). His production company with Shari Robertson, The Epidavros Project, is located in New York City.
Tani Ikeda
Juror
Tani Ikeda is an Emmy-winning director who creates narratives, documentaries, music videos, and commercial films. She was recently selected as one of Sundance's 2018 intensive screenwriting lab's fellows and was named one of Film Independent’s 33 Emerging Filmmakers as a Project: Involve Directors Fellow. Ikeda is a Rainin Foundation Grant Recipient and CAAM documentary director's fellow. She was an Executive Producer and Director on the Blackpills Documentary TV Series Resist with Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors about the fight against LA County's 3.5 billion dollar jail plan. Tani holds a Bachelors Degree in Film Production from the University of Southern California and currently resides in Los Angeles.
Anne Makepeace
Juror
Anne Makepeace, writer, producer, director, has been making award-winning films for more three decades. Her recent documentary, Tribal Justice, was broadcast on POV, won Best Documentary Feature at the American Indian Film Festival and at the Charlotte Film Festival and the Grand Prix at the Montreal First People’s Film. Her previous films include We Still Live Here, about the return of the Wampanoag language, which won the Moving Mountains Award at Telluride MountainFilm Festival and the Inspiration Award at Full Frame and was broadcast on Independent Lens; and Rain in a Dry Land, Emmy nominee, Full Frame Moving Mountains Award, POV 2006. She has premiered three films at Sundance, won seven Cine Gold Eagles, an Emmy for Robert Capa in Love and War, and top awards from Full Frame, Telluride MountainFilm, and many others. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute. www.MakepeaceProductions.com
Shaandiin Tome
Juror
Shaandiin Tome is an award-winning filmmaker from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Trained as an editor and cinematographer, she is a 2016 Sundance Full Circle Fellowship alumna, 2016 Sundance Programming Intern, and in May 2017, she was selected for the Sundance Native Filmmaker’s Lab Fellowship with her short film project MUD (Hashtl’ishnii). After making MUD (Hashtl’ishnii) it was selected to premiere in Competition at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and traveled the world on the film festival circuit. A recent graduate of the University of New Mexico with a BFA in Film and Digital Media Production, she graduated cum laude and through her filmmaking passion hopes to continue her career creating art. She was recently awarded the MAST fellowship through the Salt Lake Film Society for writing her feature film. She currently lives in Albuquerque, aiming to bring resonating imagery in convergence with story, illustrating her perspective as a Diné woman.