A group of 10 producers booked a trip to the Sundance Institute’s Producers Lab.
The institute has revealed the roster for its upcoming labs set to take place for feature film producers from July 13-18, and for documentary producers July 20-25. Labs will take place at Ucross Foundation in Clearmont, Wyoming.
The selected producers and their projects are Jaelyn Ellis with Likeness, Kara Grace Miller with Make Me a Pizza, Natalie Remplakowski with Sweetwater, Marie Alyse Rodriguez with How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water, and Sean Weiner with The End of All Rivers on the feature film side. Those selected on the documentary side are Chelsea Hernandez with The School of Hope, Vero Kompalic with Yosi, Hansen Lin with God Lives Here, Julia Pontecorvo with Unfiltered (working title), and Cherrelle Swain with Southmont Drive.
The labs offer project-specific support including one-on-one meetings and group sessions with experienced producers and industry advisors designed to help with pitching, financing, production, navigating the marketplace and more. After the lab concludes, producers engage in a yearlong fellowship.
Feature film lab advisors include Allison Rose Carter (I Love Boosters), Deniese Davis (One of Them Days), Eugene Pikulin (law firm Bruns Brennan Berry Pikulin & Jacobs PC), Lucas Joaquin (Death of a Unicorn), and Peter Saraf (The Farewell). Doc lab advisors include Andrea Meditch (Grizzly Man), Gema Juárez Allen (The Castle), Rémi Grellety (Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat), Darcy McKinnon (Natchez), and Lance Kramer (Holding Liat).
“This year’s projects reflect extraordinary depth of vision, originality, and storytelling ambition, and we’re proud to support the producers shepherding them,” said documentary film program and artist programs director Kristin Feeley and feature film program producing and artist support director Shira Rockowitz in a joint statement. “Working in partnership with a remarkable network of accomplished producers and industry advisors, we look forward to working with these filmmakers from development through release, helping them navigate a dynamic landscape that necessitates curiosity, creativity and grit.”
The Sundance Institute Producers Program is supported by an endowment from the Sandra and Malcolm Berman Charitable Foundation with additional support from John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Amazon MGM Studios, Wyck Godfrey, RAMO, APM Music, ESME GRACE and an anonymous donor.
More about the fellows and their selected projects can be found here.
