Los Angeles, CA Sundance Institute and Time Warner Foundation announced today the ten artists selected for the 2015 Sundance Institute | Time Warner Foundation Fellowship Program, which recognizes and fosters the talent of diverse independent artists. These Fellowships and accompanying grants are part of the Institute's year-round artist programs, including 24 residency labs and more than $2.5 million in grants for independent artists each year.
The program this year expanded to include support for Fellows working in new media, as well as continued support for Fellows in documentary and narrative film, theatre and film music as well as from the Institute's Native American and Indigenous Program. Fellows attend an annual Lab and receive continued support from the Institute, including mentoring, strategic granting, attendance at the Sundance Film Festival and participation in screenplay readings, work-in-progress screenings and related programs and events. Since 2007, Time Warner Foundation has supported more than 54 artists through Sundance Institute, including Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station), Aurora Guerrero (Mosquita y Mari), Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate) and Sydney Freeland (Drunktown's Finest).
Keri Putnam, Executive Director of Sundance Institute, said, Time Warner Foundation's longstanding support for independent artists has nurtured a diverse and profound body of work. We are grateful to the Time Warner Foundation for their shared encouragement of championing unique voices.
The mission of the Time Warner Foundation is to seek innovative and powerful ways to discover, nurture and celebrate the next generation of storytellers. To that end, the Foundation has developed the New Works/New Voices initiative to foster the creation, development and production of work that reflects the voices and experiences of artists from all backgrounds. Time Warner has been, and continues to be, a tremendous advocate of Sundance Institute's work around the world as a partner aligned with our mission, said Lisa Garcia-Quiroz, Senior Vice President of Cultural Investments at Time Warner. It is a special thrill to see past Time Warner Fellows screen their incredible films, and we're looking forward to these new Time Warner Fellows engaging audiences in the larger discussion of how storytelling unites our global community.
The 2015 Sundance Institute | Time Warner Foundation Fellows are:
Cecilia Aldarondo (Documentary Film Program) Cecilia Aldarondo is a New York-based filmmaker of Puerto Rican origin. She obtained her MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths College and PhD in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society from the University of Minnesota. Her feature documentary Memories of a Penitent Heart is one of 10 projects selected for IFPs 2015 Documentary Completion Labs. The film has been supported by grants and fellowships The MacDowell Colony, The Sundance Institute, The Time Warner Foundation, and The National Association of Latino Independent Producers. She is a Firelight Media Producers Lab Fellow, and joins the faculty of Skidmore College in Fall 2015 as Assistant Professor of Film.
Kathryn Bostic (Film Music Program) Kathryn Bostic has composed music for film, TV and theater. Her credits include the award-winning films Dear White People and Middle of Nowhere. She collaborated with the iconic playwright August Wilson on Broadway and wrote the original score for the PBS American Masters documentary August Wilson-The Ground on Which I Stand. Through the Sundance Institute | Time Warner Foundation Fellowship Bostic will continue creation of The August Wilson Symphony, based on her music from the PBS American Masters documentary and her work with Wilson.
Christopher Nataanii Cegielski (Native American and Indigenous Program, Time Warner Foundation Native Producer Fellow) - Christopher Nataanii Cegielski is a Navajo filmmaker from Flagstaff, Arizona. As a recent graduate from The University of Arizona's B.F.A. film program, he has worked on narrative shorts, documentaries, music videos and feature films. His new short film, Bloodlines (2014), was a project completed for his senior thesis at The University of Arizona. Bloodlines has been an official selection at festivals such as the Berlinale International Film Festival, Sun Valley Film Festival, Cine Las Americas International Film Festival and the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. His new short film, Movement Through the Valley (2015) is set to shoot in October of 2015.
Christopher Chen (Theatre Program) Christopher Chen is a San Francisco based playwright whose produced works include The Hundred Flowers Project, Mutt, The Late Wedding, Caught and Aulis: An Act of Nihilism in One Long Act. He has been produced and developed at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Beijing Fringe, Berkeley Rep Ground Floor, Crowded Fire, Impact Theatre, InterAct Theatre, The Lark, Silk Road Rising, Sundance Institute Theatre Lab and U.C. Berkeley/Zellerbach Playhouse. His honors include: the Glickman Award, Rella Lossy Award, shortlist for the James Tait Black Award, PONY finalist and the 2013 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, through which he was playwright-in-residence at The Vineyard Theatre.
Nia DaCosta (Feature Film Program) Nia DaCosta is a writer/director based in New York City. She has written and directed projects for stage, film and new media platforms including the playlet Kingdom Come at the Leicester Square Theatre in London, the game show Sagmeister v Walsh for Adobe (Behance), and the documentary Shark Loves the Amazon. The Sundance Institute | Time Warner Fellowship included support for DaCosta to continue to research and develop her project Little Woods which she recently workshopped at the Sundance Institute Directors Lab.
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Los Angeles, CA Sundance Institute and Time Warner Foundation announced today the ten artists selected for the 2015 Sundance Institute | Time Warner Foundation Fellowship Program, which recognizes and fosters the talent of diverse independent artists. These Fellowships and accompanying grants are part of the Institute's year-round artist programs, including 24 residency labs and more than $2.5 million in grants for independent artists each year.
