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Announcing the 2022 Fellows for the second edition of the Sundance Institute Producers Intensive

26/10/2022

By Shira Rockowitz and Kristin Feeley

We're delighted to announce the 12 fellows selected to participate in the second edition of the Sundance Institute Producers Intensive, taking place online October 26-27, 2022.

The Producers Intensive is a collaboration between the Sundance Documentary Film and Feature Film Programs that reflects a long-standing commitment to increase support for independent producers. The Intensive provides creative, strategic and professional development support for early career fiction and nonfiction producers from traditionally underrepresented communities who are poised to take the next step in their filmmaking career. The two-day program features group sessions and round table conversations on topics including the producer/director collaboration, pitching, legal & business affairs, packaging and financing, and budgeting. It will be supplemented by a Sundance Collab self-guided curriculum and a legal workshop in partnership with the Cardozo Law School's Filmmakers Legal Clinic.

This year's group of talented producers reflect an individual and collective commitment to bold, nuanced storytelling. We look forward to a dynamic program and are grateful to our generous and accomplished advisors, including Natalie Bullock Brown (Hazing), Jennifer Maytorena Taylor (For the Love of Rutland), Nico Opper (Try Harder!), Natalie Qasabian (Searching), Rishi Rajani (Hillman Grad Productions), Lizzie Shapiro (Shiva Baby), Jonathan Wang (Everything Everwhere All At Once), Mark Wright (Higher Ground Productions), and attorney Nicole Compas (Ramo Law PC).

The Intensive is part of the Sundance Institute Producers Program, which includes: a Lab supporting emerging independent producers through intimate group sessions and one-on-one meetings with veteran producer advisors, a Summit, an annual orientation for Sundance Film Festival Producers, and the Producers Awards, supported by Amazon Studios, at the Sundance Film Festival's Producers Celebration.

The Sundance Institute Producers Program is supported by an endowment from the Sandra and Malcolm Berman Charitable Foundation, with generous additional support from Amazon Studios, Cinereach, and SAGindie.

NONFICTION FELLOWS

Drew Dickler (Producer) with What Will I Become?: What Will I Become? weaves together the stories of two trans boys who died by suicide and examples of trans masculine+ community surviving the suppression and isolation that comes with binary masculinity, offering resources and imagination for a way forward.

Drew Dickler is a documentary filmmaker and producer. Her first feature, Fireboys, premiered at Dances With Films in 2021 and is streaming on HBO Max. Drew is the co-founder of Deep Dive Films, an award-winning production company that produces commercial work alongside independent feature documentaries.

Tiffany Fisher-Love (Producer) with Storming: A family hangs in limbo, caring for their comatose son who may never wake. Love and denial blur as seasons circle. A meditation on time, acceptance, grief- and letting go.

Tiffany Fisher-Love Current work includes feature documentary Storming, and feature narrative, Hawaiian Vacation. She was the Co-Producer for Boycott, and United Skates. She also produced award-winning shorts: Barista, Daniel, #Goinghomeless, and The Call. With a decade of experience in digital media, she seeks to distribute impactful content at scale.

Anjanette Levert (Producer) with The Only Doctor: For over 15 years, Dr. Karen Kinsell has been the only doctor in rural Clay County, Georgia. Near 65, she considers retirement, forcing the community to grapple with its healthcare future. After several options, a possibility emerges, but so does the pandemic creating disappointment, opportunity and an urgency to live.

Anjanette Levert is a documentary filmmaker, producer, programmer, curator and consultant. She is a professor at Spelman College and directs the Documentary Film Program. This year she is the recipient of the 2022-2023 Presidential Teaching Award. She is the Producer of The Only Doctor by Matthew Hashiguchi and is in post-production on a short film about Mobile, Alabama's Mardi Gras.

Tracy Nguyen-Chung (Producer) with Fruit of Soil: The soil in Portland, Oregon is rich with a hidden history - what has grown here is rooted in racism, erasure, and neglect. Yet, a small group of Black farmers is thriving and reconnecting with ancestral knowledge and legacy. And through that soil, reclaiming space and nourishing each other.

Tracy is a strategist, storyteller, and organizer whose work spans the documentary, commercial and branded, environmental, and communications fields. Her most recent work explores abolition through an environmental justice lens. Tracy is a Brown Girls Doc Mafia board member and the founder of Brown Folks Fishing.

Debra Wilson (Producer) with Coach Emily: Emily Taylor is a queer Black rock climber who coaches young girls of color to find their place in the outdoors as they experience discrimination in the climbing world.

Debra is an award-winning director and producer. Her most recent films are The Lucky Ones and The Lake Merritt Monster. She was a 2015 BAVC National MediaMaker Fellow and a 2017 SF FilmHouse Resident. Debra was a Location Manager for over ten years and won the COLA for Fruitvale Station.

FICTION FELLOWS

Gerard Elmore (Producer) with Last Hawaiian Sugar: Set in 2016, during the final days of Big Sugar' production in Hawai'i, fifteen year-old Nua escapes abuse at the shelter she's placed in by her well-meaning but troubled social worker, sending him on a desperate hunt to find her in the paradise lost of Waikiki.

Gerard Elmore is a creative producer/director/editor/cinematographer. He is currently vice president of film at NMG Network where he is responsible for developing the company's branded conten
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