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The Sundance Institute Short Film Challenge is asking filmmakers to create and submit short films that celebrate the ingenuity and imagination that citizens employ to overcome real life issues brought on by extreme poverty. The following five films were commissioned to launch an invitation to filmmakers everywhere to submit their work for review. They were produced with grants from the Sundance Institute and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and are a great example of the type of work we ...
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Sundance ShortsCast: Everything You Wanted to Know About Sudden Birth* (*but were afraid to ask*)
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Join Sundance Film Festival senior programmer Mike Plante as he sits down with director Scott Calonico and producer Jeffrey J. Radice from the 2019 Festival short film Everything You Wanted to Know About Sudden Birth* (*but were afraid to ask). The short is the true story of how the Berkeley Police Department, the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, …
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Join Sundance Film Festival short film programmer Lisa Ogdie as she sits down with Carlen May-Mann, director of the 2019 Festival short film The Rat. In this fiction short, it’s Halloween night and Renee is madly in love with Jim. On their way to a party, Jim detours to a haunted house where Renee is forced to confront a terrifying situation.The Su…
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Sundance ShortsCast: Throat Singing In Kangirsuk
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Join Sundance Film Festival short film programmer Adam Piron as he sits down with Eva Kaukai and Manon Chamberland, directors of the 2019 Festival short film Throat Singing in Kangirsuk. In this doc short, Eva and Manon practice the art of throat singing in the small village of Kangirsuk, in their native Arctic land, interspliced with footage of th…
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Sundance ShortsCast: Sometimes, I Think About Dying
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Join Sundance Film Festival senior programmer Mike Plante as he sits down with Stefanie Abel Horowitz, director of the 2019 Festival short film Sometimes, I Think About Dying. In this fiction short, Fran is thinking about dying, but a man in the office might want to date her.The Sundance Film Festival celebrates the short form worldwide, from the h…
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Sundance ShortsCast: I Snuck Off the Slave Ship
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Join Sundance Film Festival senior programmer Mike Plante as he sits down with co-director and musician Lonnie Holley and producer Matt Arnett of the 2019 Festival short film I Snuck Off the Slave Ship. The film follows Holley, a “self-taught African American artist” and dimensional traveler, as he attempts to sneak off the slave ship America.The S…
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Sundance ShortsCast: As Told to G/d Thyself
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Join Sundance Film Festival senior programmer Mike Plante as he sits down with Jenn Nkiru, Marc Thomas, and Kamasi Washington, three of the co-directors of the 2019 Festival short film As Told to G/D Thyself. The short, with music by Washington, tells the cosmic journey of sacred youth, during which pain, pleasure, and sublimation are non-negotiabl…
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Join Sundance Film Festival short film programmer Sudeep Sharma as he sits down with Trevor Anderson, director of the 2019 Festival short film Docking. In the midnight movie short, Trevor reflects on his fear of dating.The Sundance Film Festival celebrates the short form worldwide, from the high mountains of Park City to the online realm. The Festi…
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"After My Garden Grows" a short film by Megan Mylan
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A young girl in rural India tills a small plot of land to feed her family and plant seeds of independence and financial freedom in her male dominated community. Director Megan Mylan directed and produced the Oscar-winning film Smile Pinki, which broadcast on HBO and the Sundance Channel. Her film, Lost Boys of Sudan, had a 70-city theatrical releas…
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"Am I Going Too Fast?" a short film by Hank Willis Thomas and Christopher Myers
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"Am I Going Too Fast?" is a digital tapestry of the intersecting worlds and interactions of craftspeople, shopkeepers, and ordinary folks whose lives have been transformed by new technologies, cell phone banking, and micro-finance; threads that weave together to form a web of connection and possibility in contemporary Nairobi. Hank Willis Thomas is…
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"Kombit" a short film by Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman
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Haiti's internally displaced people start a micro-garden movement to combat post-earthquake hunger and despair. Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman produced and directed the feature documentary "Remote Area Medical," which premiered at the 2013 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and was supported by the Sundance Documentary Film Fund.…
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"The Masterchef" a short film by Ritesh Batra
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Akhil, a young shoeshine boy, dreams of becoming a gourmet chef when he has a chance encounter with India's most popular TV cuisiner. Director Ritesh Batra's "The Lunchbox" will make its US Premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2014. It won the Grand Rail d'Or at Cannes 2013 and was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics for North America. Batra also won …
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A 9 year-old girl tells the tale about how her family and village came back from near starvation after their fishing village adopted sustainable fishing practices. Director Tod Lending is an Academy Award nominated and national Emmy winning producer, director, and cinematographer whose work has aired nationally on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, HBO, Al Jazeer…
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