FEATURE FILM DEADLINES: Early - July 28, 2025 Official - August 29, 2025 Late - September 22, 2025 SHORT FILM DEADLINES: Early - July 14, 2025 Official - August 4, 2025 Late - September 1, 2025 EPISODIC DEADLINES: Early - July 25, 2025 Official - August 15, 2025 Late - September 12, 2025 Each year, we select a slate of feature films, short films, and episodic projects to play within each of our Festival programs. Submissions to the 2026 Sundance Film Festival are now open.

DEADLINE: August 31, 2025 The Sundance Institute | Graton Collab Artist Opportunity serves to cultivate a stage for artists from federally and nonfederally recognized California Indian tribes to tell their stories through film. The inaugural fellows will be awarded curated courses from the Sundance Collab platform, which provides a virtual destination for emerging artists to learn craft and career strategies and to build community through courses, workshops, advisor sessions, extensive resources, and community gatherings.

DEADLINE: May 14, 2025 The Development Track and Directors and Screenwriters Lab help filmmakers find a visual language in an atmosphere where experimentation and risk-taking is encouraged. The development track has one open application that allows the artists’ work-in-progress fiction feature screenplay to be considered for programs, fellowships, and grants.