Sundance Institute has introduced the members chosen for the 2023 Momentum Fellowship, a program “designed to support and provide coaching to mid-career artists with a focus on career development,” per Deadline. Launched in 2018, the fellowship was “created to support storytellers from historically marginalized communities who have recently achieved a noteworthy accomplishment, such as a regarded feature film or series,” and “provides fellows with a full-year program of deep, customized support around the goals they have identified for themselves to level up in their craft and career.” Eligible artists embrace these “identifying as women, non-binary and/or transgender, Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color, and artists with disabilities.”
The Momentum Fellowship consists of an unrestricted artist grant, skilled teaching, year-round assist from Sundance Institute workers, and extra.
Eight fellows have been chosen this 12 months, and 7 of them are ladies: Francisca Alegria (“The Cow Who Sang A Song Into the Future”); Rita Baghdadi (“Sirens”); Michelle Garza (“Huesera”); Nikyatu Jusu (“Nanny”); Kate Tsang (” Marvelous and the Black Hole”); Charlotte Wells (“Aftersun”); and Violet du Feng (“Hidden Letters”).
“Over the years, the fellows selected for Momentum have all experienced success with their recently completed projects. This has often been a critical moment for artists to receive creative and tactical support as they focus on a meaningful path forward,” mentioned Michelle Satter, Sundance’s founding Senior Director, Artist Programs. “This is where Momentum is both aptly named and unique in the industry – the fellowship is customized to the needs of individual filmmakers as they move forward with their next steps, making choices that’ll ensure they can sustain a career that gives them exciting and timely creative opportunities.”
Past fellows embrace Cristina Costantini (“Mucho Mucho Amor”), Ekwa Msangi (“Farewell Amor”), and Christina Choe (“Nancy”).
Read extra concerning the Momentum Fellows beneath, courtesy of Sundance.
Francisca Alegria is an award-winning filmmaker who’s quick movie And the Whole Sky Fit within the Dead Cow’s Eye acquired the award for Best International Fiction Short at Sundance Film Festival. Her debut characteristic The Cow Who Sang A Song Into the Future premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2022 and was supported by the 2017 Sundance Institute Screenwriters and Directors Lab together with the Catalyst Forum.
Rita Baghdadi is an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker identified for the intimacy of her daring, character-driven movies. Her newest characteristic, Sirens, premiered on the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and gained the Grand Jury Prize at Outfest. Rita’s work has been supported by Sundance, Tribeca, Netflix, HBO, IDA and Film Independent.
Michelle Garza is a director and screenwriter who graduated from CCC in Mexico City and Goldsmiths in London. Her debut characteristic Huesera premiered at Tribeca 2022 the place it gained the Best New Narrative Director and the Nora Ephron awards. Michelle additionally gained the Citizen Kane award for the most effective new director at Sitges 2022.
Nikyatu Jusu is a author and director and her first characteristic movie, Nanny, was developed on the Sundance Institute’s 2020 Directors and Screenwriters Labs and debuted on the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, the place it gained the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize. Her observe up unique characteristic movie screenplay was acquired by Universal Studios and Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions. She works as an Assistant Professor of Directing and Screenwriting, Film and Video Studies, on the College of Visual & Performing Arts at George Mason University.
Bing Liu is a China-born, Midwest-raised filmmaker. His directorial credit embrace Minding the Gap, America To Me and All These Sons. Bing was supported by the Sundance Institute’s 2020 Directors and Screenwriters Lab on his first fiction characteristic which is at present in growth.
Kate Tsang is an artist/filmmaker creating imaginative, offbeat tales with coronary heart. Her debut characteristic Marvelous and the Black Hole premiered on the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. She wrote on the Emmy-nominated reveals Adventure Time: Distant Lands (HBO MAX) and Steven Universe Future (Cartoon Network).
Charlotte Wells is a BAFTA profitable Scottish filmmaker whose debut characteristic, the award-winning Aftersun premiered in Critics’ Week at Cannes. Prior to Aftersun, Wells wrote and directed three quick movies, Tuesday, Laps, and Blue Christmas. She is a graduate of the MBA/MFA program at NYU the place she was supported by BAFTA NY and LA. Charlotte, together with her mission Aftersun, was supported by the Sundance Institute’s 2020 Directors and Screenwriters Labs.
Violet du Feng is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. She has directed, produced or government produced 13 movies together with the newest Tribeca-premiered and Sundance Documentary Film Program supported Hidden Letters. Her major producing credit embrace Dear Mother, I Meant to Write about Death, Singing within the Wilderness, Confucian Dream, Maineland and Please Remember Me.
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