19th May 2012
Sundance & Cinereach $1.5M Project Starts Shooting
22nd August 2010
Sundance Institute, the Sundance Film Festival's organiser, and
not-for-profit foundation Cinereach have chosen 11 lucky filmmakers
to benefit from their jointly supported $1.5 million three-year
initiative called the Cinereach Project.
The venture aims to offer financial assistance and filmmaking
resources to up-and-coming documentary and narrative-feature
directors, producers and writers from around the world. The goal is
to help them develop, produce or complete films that are
innovative, aim to promote cultural exchange and have social
significance.
The selected few will also be able to take advantage of the
Sundance Institute's facilities, such as the Screenwriters Lab,
Directors Lab, Composers & Documentary Lab, the Creative
Producing Feature & Documentary Labs, and the Sundance festival
itself. The next edition of the festival takes place 20-30 January,
2011.
Among the projects picked receiving grants from the Cinereach
Project are Yelling To The Sky, by writer/director Victoria
Mahoney, and producer Diane Houslin. Postcards From The Zoo is
co-written and co-directed by Daud Sumolang and Edwin; and produced
by Meiske Taurisia and Lorna Tee.
Photography by Glenn Harper