Finding Your Story And Making It Count: A Session With Sundance
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Session Description
We have all witnessed the power of a good story. It can be the determining factor in raising funds, changing behaviors, and making you and your cause memorable. Join the Sundance Institute to explore key elements of narrative storytelling and put those skills to use by sharing your story in small groups over cocktails. Discover how the most effective storylines create empathy that can lead to action. Group leaders include senior Sundance staff and leading independent filmmakers.
FORMAT: NETWORKING ACTIVITY
Time & Location
Time:
17:15 - 18:45, Wednesday, April 13, 2016
BST
Location:
SBS, Pyramid Room
Speakers
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Filmmaker, Little Punk
Oscar-nominated producer Howard Gertler’s credits include David France’s “How to Survive a Plague,” which premiered in competition at Sundance 2012 and was released by IFC Films/Sundance Selects; in addition to the Academy Award nomination, the film collected New York Film Critics’ Circle…
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Filmmaker, Met Film Production
Jerry Rothwell is a filmmaker whose work includes the award-winning feature documentaries: How To Change The World, about the founders of Greenpeace; Town of Runners, about two girls in an Ethiopian village who aspire to be athletes; Donor Unknown, about a sperm donor and his many…
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Artistic Director, MIT Co-Creation Studio, MIT
Katerina Cizek is a two-time Emmy winner and a pioneer in digital media. Her work has documented the Digital Revolution, and has itself become part of the movement. She is the Artistic Director and Executive Producer of the emergent Co-Creation Studio at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
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Filmmaker/Artist, Individual
As co-founding member of the Rada Film Group, filmmaker, artist and author, Michèle Stephenson, pulls from her Panamanian and Haitian roots and international experience as a human rights attorney to tell compelling deeply personal stories in a variety of media that resonate beyond the margins…
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Filmmaker/Artist, Individual
Leah Mahan is an independent documentary filmmaker whose work has been nominated by the Directors Guild of America for Outstanding Directorial Achievement. Sweet Old Song (2002) was featured on the PBS series P.O.V. and was selected by film critic Roger Ebert to be screened at his…
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Facilitator
Executive Director, The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture
Wendy’s creative work takes place at the intersection of storytelling, innovation and social justice. As the Executive Director of The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture, she is focused on facilitating collaboration, innovation, leadership and cultural impact in the media arts field, leading new national and…
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Facilitator
Tabitha Jackson was appointed Director of the Documentary Film Program (DFP) at Sundance Institute in late 2013. The DFP is dedicated to supporting nonfiction filmmakers worldwide in the production of cinematic documentaries that tell compelling stories, push the boundaries of the form, or…
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Filmmaker, Coco Films
Nicole Newnham has been a documentary filmmaker for over twenty years. Most recently she produced “Collisions”. Previously, Nicole co-directed & produced the Emmy-nominated documentary The Revolutionary Optimists, which screened globally and was selected by the Emmy-award winning…
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Artist/Filmmaker, Studio Wallworth
Lynette Wallworth is an Australian artist/filmmaker who has consistently worked with emerging media technologies. Wallworth’s work has shown at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the American Museum of Natural History, New York, Australian Centre for…
