SUNDANCE INSTITUTE
PO BOX 684429, PARK CITY, UT 84068 www.sundance.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: SUNDANCE INSTITUTE IS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO THE DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT OF INDEPENDENT ARTISTS AND AUDIENCES. THROUGH ITS PROGRAMS, THE INSTITUTE SEEKS TO - CONTINUED IN GENERAL FOOTNOTE 1

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAM THE 2020 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTED 118 FEATURE-LENGTH FILMS, REPRESENTING 27 COUNTRIES AND 44 FIRST-TIME FILMMAKERS. OF THE 65 DIRECTORS IN ALL FOUR COMPETITION CATEGORIES, COMPRISING 56 FILMS, 46% WERE WOMEN, 38% WERE PEOPLE OF COLOR, AND 12% WERE LGBTQ+. IN THE U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION, 47% OF THE DIRECTORS WERE WOMEN; 53% WERE PEOPLE OF COLOR; 5% WERE LGBTQ+. IN THIS YEAR'S U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION, 45% WERE WOMEN; 23% WERE PEOPLE OF COLOR; 23% WERE LGBTQ+. 44%, OR 52, OF ALL FILMS WERE DIRECTED BY ONE OR MORE WOMEN; 34%, OR 40, WERE DIRECTED BY ONE OR MORE FILMMAKERS OF COLOR; 15% OR 18 BY ONE OR MORE PEOPLE WHO IDENTIFY AS LGBTQ +. 23 FILMS WERE SUPPORTED BY SUNDANCE INSTITUTE IN DEVELOPMENT, WHETHER THROUGH DIRECT GRANTING OR RESIDENCY LABS. 107 OF THE FESTIVAL'S FEATURE FILMS, OR 91% OF THE LINEUP WERE WORLD PREMIERES. ADDITIONALLY, THE FESTIVAL SHOWCASED 74 SHORT FILMS AND EPISODICS ALONG WITH 27 NEW FRONTIER EXHIBITIONS. THESE FILMS WERE SELECTED FROM 15,100 SUBMISSIONS, INCLUDING 3,853 FEATURE-LENGTH FILMS AND 10,397 SHORT FILMS. OF THE FEATURE FILM SUBMISSIONS, 1,698 WERE FROM THE U.S. AND 2,155 WERE INTERNATIONAL. THE FESTIVAL DREW 116,800 ATTENDEES, GENERATED 167.5 MILLION IN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY FOR THE STATE OF UTAH AND SUPPORTED 2,730 LOCAL JOBS, ACCORDING TO AN INDEPENDENT THIRD PARTY'S ECONOMIC IMPACT STUDY RELEASED JUNE 2020.

DOCUMENTARY FILM PROGRAM THIS PROGRAM SUPPORTS NONFICTION FILMMAKERS WORLDWIDE IN THE PRODUCTION OF CINEMATIC DOCUMENTARIES ON CONTEMPORARY THEMES. ESTABLISHED IN 2002, THE PROGRAM IS A VIBRANT GLOBAL RESOURCE FOR INDEPENDENT NONFICTION STORYTELLING THAT INVESTS THROUGH ITS DOCUMENTARY FUND TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF NONFICTION FILMMAKERS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE. IN A CHANGING MEDIA LANDSCAPE, THE FUND HAS BEEN A STABLE, PROGRESSIVE FORCE IN SUPPORTING WORK THAT HAS EXPRESSED THE WORLD IN CREATIVE, COMPLEX, BEAUTIFUL, AND PROVOCATIVE WAYS, AND HAS CREATED REAL-CULTURAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT AROUND SOME OF THE MOST PRESSING ISSUES OF OUR TIME. THE DOCUMENTARY FILM PROGRAM ALSO PROVIDES CREATIVE LABS THROUGH UNIQUE RESIDENTIAL WORKSHOPS THAT BRING TOGETHER A WORLD-CLASS COMMUNITY OF DIRECTORS, EDITORS, AND PRODUCERS DEDICATED TO BOLD, COURAGEOUS NONFICTION STORYTELLING.

FEATURE FILM PROGRAM THIS PROGRAM HAS SUPPORTED AND CHAMPIONED MANY OF THE LEADING INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS OF THE PAST 35 YEARS WHOSE DISTINCTIVE, SINGULAR FILMS HAVE ENGAGED AUDIENCES INTERNATIONALLY. IT EMBRACES THE DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS FROM THE U.S. AND AROUND THE WORLD, ENCOURAGING A RIGOROUS CREATIVE PROCESS WITH A FOCUS ON ORIGINAL AND DEEPLY RESONANT STORYTELLING. OVER THE YEARS, THE FEATURE FILM PROGRAM HAS EVOLVED TO PROVIDE IN-DEPTH AND YEAR-ROUND SUPPORT TO A NEXT GENERATION OF FILMMAKERS FROM DEVELOPMENT THROUGH DISTRIBUTION AND HAS BECOME A GLOBAL MODEL FOR SUPPORTING ARTISTS AROUND THE WORLD. THE PROGRAM PROVIDES SUPPORT TO FICTION FEATURE WRITERS, DIRECTORS, WRITER/DIRECTORS, OR WRITER/DIRECTOR TEAMS THROUGH LABS, ALONG WITH YEAR-ROUND MENTORSHIPS, GRANTS AND CUSTOMIZED STRATEGIC SUPPORT, THE PROGRAM WORKS TO FOSTER SELF-EXPRESSION, RISK-TAKING, COLLABORATION, AND COMMUNITY.

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