Through its international workshops, the Sundance Institute identifies and supports promising and unique filmmakers in a wide range of regions with emerging film industries, including Central Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, Cuba, Mexico, and Brazil. Through a variety of activities, the Sundance International Initiative and film professionals in the host countries seek out and nurture new generations of filmmaking talent. This years Sundance at MoMA is a snapshot of a few of the impressive fiction and documentary features and shorts that have been through workshops and developed with the assistance of the Sundance Feature Film and Documentary International Initiative. With some works that are older, others newly finished, some internationally well known, and still others rarely screened, this exhibition reflects the range of Sundance Institutes international collaborations.
This fourth installment of Sundance at MoMA is organized by Jytte Jensen, Curator, Department of Film; Cara Mertes, Director, Documentary Film Program, and Michelle Satter, Director, Feature Film Program, Sundance Institute.