Soheil Rezayazdi

Digital Course & Events Producer, Sundance Collab

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Soheil Rezayazdi is a Digital Course & Event Producer at the Sundance Institute, where he produces multi-session courses, master classes, filmmaker Q&As, and other digital programs for Sundance Collab. Prior to Sundance, Soheil served as the Nonfiction Programs Manager at the Gotham Film & Media Institute. He oversaw the Gotham’s core documentary programs: the Documentary Feature Lab, the Spotlight on Documentaries project market, and the Documentary Development Initiative in partnership with HBO Documentary Films. Soheil has worked with emerging filmmakers since 2015, when he began a seven-year tenure at the Columbia University MFA Film Program. At Columbia he managed the Columbia University Film Festival (CUFF), the Dr. Saul and Dorothy Kit Film Noir Festival, and the Carla Kuhn Memorial Speaker Series. 


Soheil is also a freelance writer on film and pop culture with articles in Indiewire, McSweeney’s, Vice, Filmmaker Magazine, Documentary Magazine, Paper, Paste, and elsewhere. He has also served as an external reviewer for artist programs operated by Creative Capital, Kartemquin Pictures, Chicken & Egg Pictures, and the International Documentary Association. A native of Iran, he holds an MA in journalism and a BA in film studies from the University of Iowa.

Courses and Content

Event

15

Oct

Event
Wednesday | October 15, 2025

Advisor Studio: Crafting Bone-Chilling Horror Beat Sheets with Beth Bruckner O’Brien

10:00AM - 11:15AM (PDT)

Beth Bruckner O’Brien

Event Recording
Event Recording

Advisor Studio: Navigating Generative AI with the Archival Producers Alliance Tool Kit

Briana Bierman

Event

19

Sep

Event
Friday | September 19, 2025

Advisor Studio: Writing Action That Works As Drama with Javier Grillo-Marxuach

1:00PM - 2:30PM (PDT)

Javier Grillo-Marxuach

Event Recording
Event Recording

Festival Spotlight 2025: Advocacy Meets AI with FREE LEONARD PELTIER

Jhane Myers

Event Recording
Event Recording

Festival Spotlight 2025: Making Your First Feature

Rashad Frett

Event Recording
Event Recording

Festival Spotlight Event 2025: World Cinema Documentary Competition

Sara Khaki

Event Recording
Event Recording

Inside the Edit with BIPOC Doc Editors: PATRICE: THE MOVIE

Jenna A. Bush

Event Recording
Event Recording

Inside the Edit with BIPOC Doc Editors: SABBATH QUEEN

Sandi DuBowski

Event Recording
Event Recording

Inside the Edit with BIPOC Doc Editors: SPERMWORLD

Daniel Garber

Event

9

Oct

Event
Thursday | October 09, 2025

Insider Session: Applying to Sundance Collab’s Cultural Impact Residency

2:00PM - 3:00PM (PDT)

Alejandra López

Fellow, 2025 Cultural Impact Residency

Event Recording
Event Recording

Profiles in Indie Distribution: Harnessing Data for Audience Discovery with Jolt and CAN'T LOOK AWAY

Matthew O’Neill

Event Recording
Event Recording

Spotlight: Documenting Digital Lives with Lauren Greenfield (SOCIAL STUDIES)

Lauren Greenfield

Event Recording
Event Recording

Spotlight: Showrunning the Resistance with ANDOR Creator Tony Gilroy

Tony Gilroy