The Sundance Institute has announced the addition of Shripriya Mahesh, Lulu Wang and Patrick Gaspard to its Board of Trustees. The trio will now help steer and act in an advisory capacity for the organization, working closely with Board Chair Ebs Burnough and CEO Joana Vicente.
Mahesh is the founding partner of Spero Ventures, as well as an investor, experienced technology executive and filmmaker. Wang is an award-winning writer, director and producer best known for helming the A24 dramedy The Farewell, which won two Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Feature, upon its 2019 release. A leader in government, philanthropy, labor and global diplomacy, Gaspard serves as President and CEO of the Center for American Progress.
“The new trustees bring an invaluable depth of experience in government and civic engagement, technology and digital product development, and deep knowledge of the media, entertainment, and storytelling landscape,” said Burnough. “As Sundance’s programs continue...
Mahesh is the founding partner of Spero Ventures, as well as an investor, experienced technology executive and filmmaker. Wang is an award-winning writer, director and producer best known for helming the A24 dramedy The Farewell, which won two Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Feature, upon its 2019 release. A leader in government, philanthropy, labor and global diplomacy, Gaspard serves as President and CEO of the Center for American Progress.
“The new trustees bring an invaluable depth of experience in government and civic engagement, technology and digital product development, and deep knowledge of the media, entertainment, and storytelling landscape,” said Burnough. “As Sundance’s programs continue...
- 11/10/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The Sundance Institute has added three newly appointed members to the Board of Trustees. Lulu Wang (director of “The Farewell”), Patrick Gaspard (current CEO for the Center for American Progress) and Shripriya Mahesh (a founding partner at Spero Ventures) have joined the business, cultural and philanthropic leaders who steer the entire organization and also act in an advisory capacity.
They will expand the Institute’s Board of “values-based leaders,” building an “evolving community for storytellers.” The Trustees will work closely with Board Chair Ebs Burnough and CEO Joana Vicente.
“We are honored to have Lulu, Patrick and Shripriya join us as Trustees on the Board of Sundance Institute,” said Vicente in a statment. “Their vision and expertise offer us innovative leadership to continue to evolve as a cultural organization and deepen our commitment to the work.”
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They will expand the Institute’s Board of “values-based leaders,” building an “evolving community for storytellers.” The Trustees will work closely with Board Chair Ebs Burnough and CEO Joana Vicente.
“We are honored to have Lulu, Patrick and Shripriya join us as Trustees on the Board of Sundance Institute,” said Vicente in a statment. “Their vision and expertise offer us innovative leadership to continue to evolve as a cultural organization and deepen our commitment to the work.”
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- 11/10/2022
- by Scott Mendelson
- The Wrap
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The Sundance Institute has added three new names to its board of trustees: Lulu Wang, Patrick Gaspard and Shripriya Mahesh. The trio will help guide and advise the nonprofit on its endeavors, including the prolific filmmaker labs and annual film festival.
Wang is an award winning director, producer, and writer behind titles like The Farewell. Gaspard is president and CEO of the think tank Center for American Progress. Mahesh is a filmmaker and the founding partner of venture capital firm Spero Ventures, a technology executive.
“The new trustees bring an invaluable depth of experience in government and civic engagement, technology and digital product development, and deep knowledge of the media, entertainment, and storytelling landscape,” said Sundance Institute board chair Ebs Burnough.
“We are honored to have Lulu, Patrick and Shripriya join us as Trustees on the Board of Sundance Institute. Their vision and...
The Sundance Institute has added three new names to its board of trustees: Lulu Wang, Patrick Gaspard and Shripriya Mahesh. The trio will help guide and advise the nonprofit on its endeavors, including the prolific filmmaker labs and annual film festival.
Wang is an award winning director, producer, and writer behind titles like The Farewell. Gaspard is president and CEO of the think tank Center for American Progress. Mahesh is a filmmaker and the founding partner of venture capital firm Spero Ventures, a technology executive.
“The new trustees bring an invaluable depth of experience in government and civic engagement, technology and digital product development, and deep knowledge of the media, entertainment, and storytelling landscape,” said Sundance Institute board chair Ebs Burnough.
“We are honored to have Lulu, Patrick and Shripriya join us as Trustees on the Board of Sundance Institute. Their vision and...
- 11/10/2022
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Melbourne International Film Festival have announced the inaugural Miff Awards recipients. The newly introduced Miff Awards, which include the Bright Horizons Competition and Award and the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award, were launched as part of the 70th anniversary alongside the return of the Miff Audience Award. Chosen by a distinguished jury of industry figures. Alongside Jury President, stage and screen Actor and Director Shareena Clanton (Wentworth), the jury comprised Emmy award-winning filmmaker and artist Lynette Wallworth, Australian cinematographer Adam Arkapaw (Animal Kingdom) and Indonesian film director and screenwriter Mouly Surya (Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts). The jury gathered at Olinda Hall, the site of the very first Melbourne Film Festival event in 1952, to deliberate and determine the 2022 category winners,...
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- 8/21/2022
- Screen Anarchy
After 18 days of in-person screenings, over 370 movies and the allocation of a new prize fund totaling 210,000 Aud the Melbourne International Film Festival (Miff) has to be one of the lengthiest, liveliest and now most lucrative film festivals in the world. The winning films were announced at Saturday evening’s closing gala, with Afrofuturist sci-fi musical “Neptune Frost,” a U.S.-Rwandan co-production directed by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, taking the Bright Horizons top prize of 140,000 Aud. Jub Clerc, the Indigenous Australian director of coming-of-age road movie “Sweet As,” scooped the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award of 70,000 Aud.
This is the first year of the Bright Horizons competition. After being selected from an exceptionally strong 11-film lineup, which included festival favourites like Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun,” Laura Wandel’s “Playground” and Natalia López Gallardo’s “Robe of Gems,” Williams and Uzeyman were clearly moved while accepting the award via Zoom.
“It...
This is the first year of the Bright Horizons competition. After being selected from an exceptionally strong 11-film lineup, which included festival favourites like Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun,” Laura Wandel’s “Playground” and Natalia López Gallardo’s “Robe of Gems,” Williams and Uzeyman were clearly moved while accepting the award via Zoom.
“It...
- 8/20/2022
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Lynette Wallworth on joining a cult – then leaving: ‘I didn’t make a move without reading the Bible’
Once a ‘prophetess’ in a Pentecostal cult, the Australian film-maker has watched with horror as evangelicals gain power around the world. With her latest work, she hopes to stop others from doing what she did
When evangelical Americans began talking about Donald Trump as God’s chosen president, the religious phrasing around his leadership – miracles, destiny, calling – triggered something in the memories of Lynette Wallworth, the Emmy-winning Australian virtual reality film-maker. As a young woman, she had been drawn into a Pentecostal community and came to hold “extreme beliefs” about God’s will. She became a “prophetess”; fellow members would come to her with questions to hear her “give prophecy” from literal and earnest biblical interpretations.
“My burgeoning identity as a 17-year-old got fused to a belief system,” says Wallworth. Now 61, she is about to premiere her live one-woman show, How to Live (After You Die), at Sydney Opera House...
When evangelical Americans began talking about Donald Trump as God’s chosen president, the religious phrasing around his leadership – miracles, destiny, calling – triggered something in the memories of Lynette Wallworth, the Emmy-winning Australian virtual reality film-maker. As a young woman, she had been drawn into a Pentecostal community and came to hold “extreme beliefs” about God’s will. She became a “prophetess”; fellow members would come to her with questions to hear her “give prophecy” from literal and earnest biblical interpretations.
“My burgeoning identity as a 17-year-old got fused to a belief system,” says Wallworth. Now 61, she is about to premiere her live one-woman show, How to Live (After You Die), at Sydney Opera House...
- 5/9/2022
- by Steve Dow
- The Guardian - Film News
The Sundance Institute today unveiled the 2022 Sundance Film Festival’s Beyond Film line-up of events that are free to the public. Speakers will include such artists from this year’s program as La Guerra Civil director Eva Longoria Bastón, Dual star Karen Gillan, Cha Cha Real Smooth and Am I Ok? star Dakota Johnson, Alice star Keke Palmer and Lucy & Desi director Amy Poehler.
Beyond Film events will range from artist talks to daily meetups and immersive experiences. Additional programming will include the daily talk show How to Fest: Daily; a solo performance by multiple Emmy–winning artist, Lynette Wallworth; a sneak peek at the film Oscar’s Comeback about Black film pioneer Oscar Micheaux and a conversation with its directors; Artist Spotlights with Xr/VR/new media creators showing work in the New Frontier section; a talk centered on the climate crisis, and more.
The in-person, Park City component...
Beyond Film events will range from artist talks to daily meetups and immersive experiences. Additional programming will include the daily talk show How to Fest: Daily; a solo performance by multiple Emmy–winning artist, Lynette Wallworth; a sneak peek at the film Oscar’s Comeback about Black film pioneer Oscar Micheaux and a conversation with its directors; Artist Spotlights with Xr/VR/new media creators showing work in the New Frontier section; a talk centered on the climate crisis, and more.
The in-person, Park City component...
- 1/13/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The Sundance Institute’s Interdisciplinary Program today named its 2021 grantees, also unveiling those selected as 2021-2022 Art of Practice Fellows. Each fellow and grantee was supported in a designated field or a combination of them, including emerging media, interdisciplinary, music, and/or theater.
Sundance’s latest grantees are Melis Aker (Theater), Shariffa Ali (Interdisciplinary), DeAndre James Allen-Toole (Music), Fabian Almazan (Music), Lily Baldwin (Interdisciplinary), Mariam Bazeed (Interdisciplinary), Carla LynDale Bishop (Emerging Media), Kathryn Bostic (Interdisciplinary), William Caballero (Interdisciplinary), William Calhoun (Interdisciplinary), Raven Chacon (Interdisciplinary), Penelope Jagessar Chaffer (Emerging Media), Layale Chaker (Interdisciplinary), Maya Chami (Interdisciplinary), Heather Christian (Theater), Cora Yi-Huan Chung (Music), Ryan Cohan (Music), Colectivo Los Ingrávidos (Interdisciplinary), Ty Defoe (Interdisciplinary), Heather Dewey-Hagborg (Emerging Media), Angèlica Ekeke (Emerging Media), JJJJJerome Ellis (Interdisciplinary), Tim Fain (Music), Kelley Nicole Girod (Theater), Ben Goldberg (Music), Robert Casey Goodwin (Interdisciplinary), Fernando Gregório (Interdisciplinary), Porpentine Heartscape (Interdisciplinary), Dov Heichemer (Emerging Media), Sultana Isham (Interdisciplinary...
Sundance’s latest grantees are Melis Aker (Theater), Shariffa Ali (Interdisciplinary), DeAndre James Allen-Toole (Music), Fabian Almazan (Music), Lily Baldwin (Interdisciplinary), Mariam Bazeed (Interdisciplinary), Carla LynDale Bishop (Emerging Media), Kathryn Bostic (Interdisciplinary), William Caballero (Interdisciplinary), William Calhoun (Interdisciplinary), Raven Chacon (Interdisciplinary), Penelope Jagessar Chaffer (Emerging Media), Layale Chaker (Interdisciplinary), Maya Chami (Interdisciplinary), Heather Christian (Theater), Cora Yi-Huan Chung (Music), Ryan Cohan (Music), Colectivo Los Ingrávidos (Interdisciplinary), Ty Defoe (Interdisciplinary), Heather Dewey-Hagborg (Emerging Media), Angèlica Ekeke (Emerging Media), JJJJJerome Ellis (Interdisciplinary), Tim Fain (Music), Kelley Nicole Girod (Theater), Ben Goldberg (Music), Robert Casey Goodwin (Interdisciplinary), Fernando Gregório (Interdisciplinary), Porpentine Heartscape (Interdisciplinary), Dov Heichemer (Emerging Media), Sultana Isham (Interdisciplinary...
- 10/28/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Outgoing Screen Australia head of First Nations Penny Smallacombe is set to join Bunya Media Group as a producer.
Smallacombe will produce a number of the company’s upcoming projects, including Sbs drama series Copping It Black, working with directors Erica Glynn and Steven McGregor, who both penned the script with Danielle Maclean.
While at Screen Australia, Smallacombe helped shepherd to screen several Bunya Productions projects, including ABC series Mystery Road, Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country and Ivan Sen’s Goldstone, as well as helping to facilitate Bunya Talent Hub LA.
Smallacombe, a Maramanindji woman from the Northern Territory, tells If she has loved Bunya’s “big, bold” output over the past few years, and considers it a privilege to join the team. She is keen to use her new role to continue to bring authentic First Nations stories to screen, particularly from exciting new talent.
“They’re a trusted...
Smallacombe will produce a number of the company’s upcoming projects, including Sbs drama series Copping It Black, working with directors Erica Glynn and Steven McGregor, who both penned the script with Danielle Maclean.
While at Screen Australia, Smallacombe helped shepherd to screen several Bunya Productions projects, including ABC series Mystery Road, Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country and Ivan Sen’s Goldstone, as well as helping to facilitate Bunya Talent Hub LA.
Smallacombe, a Maramanindji woman from the Northern Territory, tells If she has loved Bunya’s “big, bold” output over the past few years, and considers it a privilege to join the team. She is keen to use her new role to continue to bring authentic First Nations stories to screen, particularly from exciting new talent.
“They’re a trusted...
- 5/26/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
VR artist Lynette Wallworth, broadcasting pioneer Cherie Romaro, and broadcaster and filmmaker Mitch Torres have been recognised with honorary degrees from Aftrs.
Wallworth will receive a Doctor of Arts, Film and Television (honoris causa) 2019 Honorary Degree, which was not presented last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Romaro and Torres are recipients of the 2021 Honorary Degree, with a Doctor of Arts, Radio (honoris causa) and a Doctor of Arts, Film, and Television (honoris causa) being awarded respectively.
They will be presented at the school’s annual graduation ceremony today, which will also see 137 students graduate from the 2020 academic year.
Wallworth, who was Aftrs inaugural Artist-in-Residence last year, is an Emmy and Aacta award-winning artist/filmmaker whose varied works include Evolution of Fearlessness; Coral, Tender, Collisions and Awavena.
Wallworth said she was “thrilled and honoured” with the recognition from Aftrs.
“The school has supported my work for over a decade, it...
Wallworth will receive a Doctor of Arts, Film and Television (honoris causa) 2019 Honorary Degree, which was not presented last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Romaro and Torres are recipients of the 2021 Honorary Degree, with a Doctor of Arts, Radio (honoris causa) and a Doctor of Arts, Film, and Television (honoris causa) being awarded respectively.
They will be presented at the school’s annual graduation ceremony today, which will also see 137 students graduate from the 2020 academic year.
Wallworth, who was Aftrs inaugural Artist-in-Residence last year, is an Emmy and Aacta award-winning artist/filmmaker whose varied works include Evolution of Fearlessness; Coral, Tender, Collisions and Awavena.
Wallworth said she was “thrilled and honoured” with the recognition from Aftrs.
“The school has supported my work for over a decade, it...
- 5/21/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Brendan Harkin, founder of X Media Lab, died on Monday in Lincoln, Nebraska.
A pioneering figure in digital innovation and media, Harkin started X Media Lab back in June 2003 as part of Sydney Film Festival. Over the years, it expanded across Australia and around the world, held in 14 countries, including China, India, the US and UK.
The aim of the creative thinktank was to assist local companies to get their projects to market by connecting them with international leaders in digital media, who were then able to provide mentorship and feedback.
Partners in the lab included the Beijing Film Academy; Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry; Npo, the national broadcaster in The Netherlands; the American Film Institute; Digital Hollywood; 5D Global; the British Council, and the Federal Office of Culture in Switzerland.
Producer Robyn Kershaw tells If the X Media Lab and Harkin’s vision had a “profound impact” on so many filmmakers,...
A pioneering figure in digital innovation and media, Harkin started X Media Lab back in June 2003 as part of Sydney Film Festival. Over the years, it expanded across Australia and around the world, held in 14 countries, including China, India, the US and UK.
The aim of the creative thinktank was to assist local companies to get their projects to market by connecting them with international leaders in digital media, who were then able to provide mentorship and feedback.
Partners in the lab included the Beijing Film Academy; Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry; Npo, the national broadcaster in The Netherlands; the American Film Institute; Digital Hollywood; 5D Global; the British Council, and the Federal Office of Culture in Switzerland.
Producer Robyn Kershaw tells If the X Media Lab and Harkin’s vision had a “profound impact” on so many filmmakers,...
- 3/20/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
The program for next month’s Australian International Documentary Conference (Aidc) has been announced, with the online event to include a strong international presence.
Comprising more than 40 sessions across four days, the conference will feature contributions from a diverse range of speakers and decision-makers.
Among the highlights are keynotes from documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney and Netflix’s VP of documentary features Lisa Nishimura.
There is also a global line-up of speakers, including David France (Welcome to Chechnya); Dick Johnson is Dead director Kirsten Johnson; managing director of Fremantle’s new unscripted television company, Naked, Fatima Salaria; Sundance Film Festival director Tabitha Jackson; two-time Emmy winning documentary creator Lynette Wallworth; artistic director and co-founder of the co-creation studio at MIT Open Documentary Lab, Katerina Cizek; and Studio Lambert’s creative director, Tim Harcourt.
Netflix VP of documentary features Lisa Nishimura.
Aidc CEO and conference director Alice Burgin, for whom the 2021 event will be her last,...
Comprising more than 40 sessions across four days, the conference will feature contributions from a diverse range of speakers and decision-makers.
Among the highlights are keynotes from documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney and Netflix’s VP of documentary features Lisa Nishimura.
There is also a global line-up of speakers, including David France (Welcome to Chechnya); Dick Johnson is Dead director Kirsten Johnson; managing director of Fremantle’s new unscripted television company, Naked, Fatima Salaria; Sundance Film Festival director Tabitha Jackson; two-time Emmy winning documentary creator Lynette Wallworth; artistic director and co-founder of the co-creation studio at MIT Open Documentary Lab, Katerina Cizek; and Studio Lambert’s creative director, Tim Harcourt.
Netflix VP of documentary features Lisa Nishimura.
Aidc CEO and conference director Alice Burgin, for whom the 2021 event will be her last,...
- 1/28/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
The Sundance Institute on Monday appointed seven new members to its Board of Trustees, bringing it to a 32-person board that is evenly split between men and women and features 10 who identify as people of color, including six who identify as Black.
The newest members are Kimberlé Crenshaw, Ann Lewnes and Wonya Lucas, who join the board alongside Uzodinma Iweala, Amanda Kelso, William Plapinger and Junaid Sarieddeen, all of whom joined over the last year. While the Sundance Institute board typically includes 24-28 members, it expanded this year to add new members and to replace three members whose terms had expired.
The new trustees will work closely with Board chair Pat Mitchell and executive director Keri Putnam in shaping the business, cultural and philanthropic goals of the organization in an advisory capacity.
They join current members on the Institute’s Board: Robert Redford, president & founder; Pat Mitchell, chair; Jeanne Donovan Fisher,...
The newest members are Kimberlé Crenshaw, Ann Lewnes and Wonya Lucas, who join the board alongside Uzodinma Iweala, Amanda Kelso, William Plapinger and Junaid Sarieddeen, all of whom joined over the last year. While the Sundance Institute board typically includes 24-28 members, it expanded this year to add new members and to replace three members whose terms had expired.
The new trustees will work closely with Board chair Pat Mitchell and executive director Keri Putnam in shaping the business, cultural and philanthropic goals of the organization in an advisory capacity.
They join current members on the Institute’s Board: Robert Redford, president & founder; Pat Mitchell, chair; Jeanne Donovan Fisher,...
- 10/26/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Sundance Institute has added prominent Civil Rights attorney Kimberlé Crenshaw, Crown Media Family Networks executive Wonya Lucas and Adobe executive Ann Lewnes to its board of trustees.
The institute also announced Monday that Uzodinma Iweala, Amanda Kelso, William Plapinger and Junaid Sarieddeen have joined the board over the last year.
“We are so grateful to welcome the expertise and unique perspectives of Kimberlé, Uzodinma, Amanda, Ann, Bill and Junaid to Sundance as we move forward in this challenging time,” said chair Pat Mitchell. “Our board possesses the right skills, a broad range of talents and a high level of commitment to our founding values and ethics to guide the organization’s mission oriented work in supporting emerging artists around the world and connecting audiences to their stories.”
The trustees announced in August that the 2021 Sundance Film Festival would be shortened from 11 to seven days, running from Jan. 28 to Feb. 3.
Crenshaw...
The institute also announced Monday that Uzodinma Iweala, Amanda Kelso, William Plapinger and Junaid Sarieddeen have joined the board over the last year.
“We are so grateful to welcome the expertise and unique perspectives of Kimberlé, Uzodinma, Amanda, Ann, Bill and Junaid to Sundance as we move forward in this challenging time,” said chair Pat Mitchell. “Our board possesses the right skills, a broad range of talents and a high level of commitment to our founding values and ethics to guide the organization’s mission oriented work in supporting emerging artists around the world and connecting audiences to their stories.”
The trustees announced in August that the 2021 Sundance Film Festival would be shortened from 11 to seven days, running from Jan. 28 to Feb. 3.
Crenshaw...
- 10/26/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Kimberlé Crenshaw, Ann Lewnes, Wonya Lucas have joined the Sundance Institute Board of Trustees alongside Uzodinma Iweala, Amanda Kelso, William Plapinger, and Junaid Sarieddeen who joined over the last year. The group will work closely with Board Chair Pat Mitchell and Executive Director Keri Putnam.
“We are so grateful to welcome the expertise and unique perspectives of Kimberlé, Uzodinma, Amanda, Ann, Bill, and Junaid to Sundance as we move forward in this challenging time,” saidMitchell. “Our board possesses the right skills, a broad range of talents and a high level of commitment to our founding values and ethics to guide the organization’s mission oriented work in supporting emerging artists around the world and connecting audiences to their stories.”
The new members join the Institute’s board comprised of Robert Redford, President & Founder; Pat Mitchell, Chair; Jeanne Donovan Fisher, Vice Chair; Ebs Burnough, Vice Chair; Sean Bailey, Ritesh Batra, Jason Blum,...
“We are so grateful to welcome the expertise and unique perspectives of Kimberlé, Uzodinma, Amanda, Ann, Bill, and Junaid to Sundance as we move forward in this challenging time,” saidMitchell. “Our board possesses the right skills, a broad range of talents and a high level of commitment to our founding values and ethics to guide the organization’s mission oriented work in supporting emerging artists around the world and connecting audiences to their stories.”
The new members join the Institute’s board comprised of Robert Redford, President & Founder; Pat Mitchell, Chair; Jeanne Donovan Fisher, Vice Chair; Ebs Burnough, Vice Chair; Sean Bailey, Ritesh Batra, Jason Blum,...
- 10/26/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Awavena.’
Lynette Wallworth’s Awavena today won the International News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary – her second Emmy following Collisions in 2017.
Supported by the Sundance New Frontiers Artist Residency at The Technicolor Experience Center, the immersive documentary tells the story of Hushahu, the first woman Shaman of the Amazon’s Yawanawa community and the radical reconfiguring of gender relations that takes place following her induction into its spiritual traditions.
The other nominees in the category were Apollo’s Moonshot Ar (Smithsonian Channel), Gone in a Generation (The Washington Post), Tracing Addai (The New York Times), Vox Missing Chapter- How Florida Legally Terrorized Gay Students (Vox) and We Are Witnesses: Chicago (The Marshall Project).
Accepting the award from US filmmaker Dawn Porter in the virtual ceremony, Wallworth said: “It’s an astonishing win given all of those amazing projects.”
She thanked her producer Nicole Newnham (her...
Lynette Wallworth’s Awavena today won the International News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary – her second Emmy following Collisions in 2017.
Supported by the Sundance New Frontiers Artist Residency at The Technicolor Experience Center, the immersive documentary tells the story of Hushahu, the first woman Shaman of the Amazon’s Yawanawa community and the radical reconfiguring of gender relations that takes place following her induction into its spiritual traditions.
The other nominees in the category were Apollo’s Moonshot Ar (Smithsonian Channel), Gone in a Generation (The Washington Post), Tracing Addai (The New York Times), Vox Missing Chapter- How Florida Legally Terrorized Gay Students (Vox) and We Are Witnesses: Chicago (The Marshall Project).
Accepting the award from US filmmaker Dawn Porter in the virtual ceremony, Wallworth said: “It’s an astonishing win given all of those amazing projects.”
She thanked her producer Nicole Newnham (her...
- 9/23/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Lynette Wallworth.
Artist and filmmaker Lynette Wallworth is set to be Australian Film Television and Radio School’s (Aftrs) inaugural artist-in-residence, where she will offer weekly ‘open door’ mentorship and advice to students.
The school will also provide space, support and facilities for the Emmy and Aacta award winner to conduct a research project into the creative potential of audio narratives.
“I am so delighted and proud to announce Lynette as our first artist-in-residence. She is a truly innovative, inspiring artist and a world leader in cross-platform storytelling. Having Lynette with us, particularly during this challenging Covid period, is going to be exactly the inspiration and creative tonic we need,” said Aftrs CEO Nell Greenwood.
“Encouraging industry-wide innovation and experimentation, pushing boundaries, testing form, are all key to our purpose and we are so excited to support Lynette and the storytellers who follow her. As much as our remit at...
Artist and filmmaker Lynette Wallworth is set to be Australian Film Television and Radio School’s (Aftrs) inaugural artist-in-residence, where she will offer weekly ‘open door’ mentorship and advice to students.
The school will also provide space, support and facilities for the Emmy and Aacta award winner to conduct a research project into the creative potential of audio narratives.
“I am so delighted and proud to announce Lynette as our first artist-in-residence. She is a truly innovative, inspiring artist and a world leader in cross-platform storytelling. Having Lynette with us, particularly during this challenging Covid period, is going to be exactly the inspiration and creative tonic we need,” said Aftrs CEO Nell Greenwood.
“Encouraging industry-wide innovation and experimentation, pushing boundaries, testing form, are all key to our purpose and we are so excited to support Lynette and the storytellers who follow her. As much as our remit at...
- 9/3/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
‘Awavena.’
Lynette Wallworth’s Awavena has been nominated in the Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary category in the International News and Documentary Emmy Awards.
The filmmaker and artist’s Collisions, a virtual reality journey to the land of Indigenous elder Nyarri Morgan and the Martu tribe in the remote Western Australian desert, won that award in 2017.
Supported by the Sundance New Frontiers Artist Residency at The Technicolor Experience Center, Awavena enabled Hushuhu, the first woman shaman of the Yawanawa in the Amazon rain forest, to use VR like medicine as a portal to another way of knowing.
After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival and selected for competition at the Venice Film Festival, the work has had extended runs at Carriageworks, Acmi and the Art Gallery of Western Australia. The next planned presentation is at BFI London in January.
“I am so pleased Awavena has received this nomination,” Wallworth tells If.
Lynette Wallworth’s Awavena has been nominated in the Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary category in the International News and Documentary Emmy Awards.
The filmmaker and artist’s Collisions, a virtual reality journey to the land of Indigenous elder Nyarri Morgan and the Martu tribe in the remote Western Australian desert, won that award in 2017.
Supported by the Sundance New Frontiers Artist Residency at The Technicolor Experience Center, Awavena enabled Hushuhu, the first woman shaman of the Yawanawa in the Amazon rain forest, to use VR like medicine as a portal to another way of knowing.
After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival and selected for competition at the Venice Film Festival, the work has had extended runs at Carriageworks, Acmi and the Art Gallery of Western Australia. The next planned presentation is at BFI London in January.
“I am so pleased Awavena has received this nomination,” Wallworth tells If.
- 8/7/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Lynette Wallworth.
Filmmaker and artist Lynette Wallworth, creator of the Emmy Award-winning Vr work Collisions and Awavena, is one of the 2020 recipients of the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award.
The Crystal Award celebrates the achievements of artists and cultural figures whose leadership inspires inclusive and sustainable change. Previous recipients of the award include Sir David Attenborough, Cate Blanchett, Margaret Atwood, Sir Elton John, Shah Rukh Khan and Shirin Neshat.
Wallworth is the second Australian to receive the honour and was awarded for her leadership in creating inclusive narratives. Wallworth’s Collisions premiered at the World Economic Forum and Sundance in the same week. She is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Virtual and and a member of the board of trustees of the Sundance Institute.
“I have sought to use my skills as an artist to bring unheard voices, including Indigenous voices,...
Filmmaker and artist Lynette Wallworth, creator of the Emmy Award-winning Vr work Collisions and Awavena, is one of the 2020 recipients of the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award.
The Crystal Award celebrates the achievements of artists and cultural figures whose leadership inspires inclusive and sustainable change. Previous recipients of the award include Sir David Attenborough, Cate Blanchett, Margaret Atwood, Sir Elton John, Shah Rukh Khan and Shirin Neshat.
Wallworth is the second Australian to receive the honour and was awarded for her leadership in creating inclusive narratives. Wallworth’s Collisions premiered at the World Economic Forum and Sundance in the same week. She is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Virtual and and a member of the board of trustees of the Sundance Institute.
“I have sought to use my skills as an artist to bring unheard voices, including Indigenous voices,...
- 12/16/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
(L-r): Melissa Lee Speyer, Gemma Bird Matheson, Lynette Wallworth.
Screen Australia has put almost $900,000 towards the story development of seven TV dramas, nine online projects, nine features and in an agency first – a podcast.
Podcast Engineering Consciousness, helmed by Emmy Award winner Lynette Wallworth, explores what happens to someone’s consciousness during a near-death experience. The idea is that the podcast will be used as a proof-of-concept for a television drama on the same topic. It will be produced by Bunya Productions’ Sophia Zachariou and Greer Simpkin.
Also on the slate is a live-action feature film from Ludo Studio (Bluey), written and directed by Daley Pearson, and a 10-part fictional TV series about what went on behind the scenes of the iconic Leyland Brothers’ adventures across Australia, created by Daina Reid and produced by Joanna Werner.
This is the first story development round of the year. Screen Australia runs...
Screen Australia has put almost $900,000 towards the story development of seven TV dramas, nine online projects, nine features and in an agency first – a podcast.
Podcast Engineering Consciousness, helmed by Emmy Award winner Lynette Wallworth, explores what happens to someone’s consciousness during a near-death experience. The idea is that the podcast will be used as a proof-of-concept for a television drama on the same topic. It will be produced by Bunya Productions’ Sophia Zachariou and Greer Simpkin.
Also on the slate is a live-action feature film from Ludo Studio (Bluey), written and directed by Daley Pearson, and a 10-part fictional TV series about what went on behind the scenes of the iconic Leyland Brothers’ adventures across Australia, created by Daina Reid and produced by Joanna Werner.
This is the first story development round of the year. Screen Australia runs...
- 11/11/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Lynette Wallworth.
Lynette Wallworth, Jason Blum, Ebs Burnough and Lisa-Michele Church will join the Sundance Institute’s board of trustees, where they will work closely with president/founder Robert Redford, chair Pat Mitchell and executive director Keri Putnam.
The innovative artist/filmmaker’s works have often screened at the Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier, beginning in 2009 with her installation Evolution of Fearlessness.
Wallworth also received Sundance Institute New Frontier’s inaugural Virtual Reality residency which partnered her with Jaunt Vr and a residency at the Technicolor Experience Centre.
She is nominated for best direction in an interactive or immersive title at the 2019 Australian Directors’ Guild awards for her Vr work Awavena, which is now screening at Acmi after premiering at the 2017 Sundance Festival and was selected for competition at the Venice Film Festival last year.
The founder of Blumhouse Productions, Jason Blum’s Whiplash, How to Dance in Ohio,...
Lynette Wallworth, Jason Blum, Ebs Burnough and Lisa-Michele Church will join the Sundance Institute’s board of trustees, where they will work closely with president/founder Robert Redford, chair Pat Mitchell and executive director Keri Putnam.
The innovative artist/filmmaker’s works have often screened at the Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier, beginning in 2009 with her installation Evolution of Fearlessness.
Wallworth also received Sundance Institute New Frontier’s inaugural Virtual Reality residency which partnered her with Jaunt Vr and a residency at the Technicolor Experience Centre.
She is nominated for best direction in an interactive or immersive title at the 2019 Australian Directors’ Guild awards for her Vr work Awavena, which is now screening at Acmi after premiering at the 2017 Sundance Festival and was selected for competition at the Venice Film Festival last year.
The founder of Blumhouse Productions, Jason Blum’s Whiplash, How to Dance in Ohio,...
- 4/10/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Sundance Institute has added four new members — Jason Blum, Ebs Burnough, Lynette Wallworth and Lisa-Michele Church — to its board of trustees, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.
"Jason, Ebs, Lynette and Lisa-Michele each have their own incredible wealth of knowledge of the current cultural landscape, and visionary perspectives on how to shape the work we do," board chair Pat Mitchell said Tuesday in a statement. "We are so grateful to welcome their unique perspectives to the table. We are thrilled that they will join our board as we constantly evolve our organization's mission to support ...
"Jason, Ebs, Lynette and Lisa-Michele each have their own incredible wealth of knowledge of the current cultural landscape, and visionary perspectives on how to shape the work we do," board chair Pat Mitchell said Tuesday in a statement. "We are so grateful to welcome their unique perspectives to the table. We are thrilled that they will join our board as we constantly evolve our organization's mission to support ...
Sundance Institute has added four new members — Jason Blum, Ebs Burnough, Lynette Wallworth and Lisa-Michele Church — to its board of trustees, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.
"Jason, Ebs, Lynette and Lisa-Michele each have their own incredible wealth of knowledge of the current cultural landscape, and visionary perspectives on how to shape the work we do," board chair Pat Mitchell said Tuesday in a statement. "We are so grateful to welcome their unique perspectives to the table. We are thrilled that they will join our board as we constantly evolve our organization's mission to support ...
"Jason, Ebs, Lynette and Lisa-Michele each have their own incredible wealth of knowledge of the current cultural landscape, and visionary perspectives on how to shape the work we do," board chair Pat Mitchell said Tuesday in a statement. "We are so grateful to welcome their unique perspectives to the table. We are thrilled that they will join our board as we constantly evolve our organization's mission to support ...
Dujuan Hoosan and his mother in ‘In My Blood It Runs’. (Photo: Maya Newell)
Director Maya Newell’s feature documentary In My Blood It Runs will have its world premiere in competition at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
In My Blood It Runs (formerly Kids) is one of 12 films in Hot Doc’s competitive International Spectrum program, the others being: Amussu; Bhudda in Africa; Daymohk; For Sama; The Guardian of Memory; Hope Frozen; Life is a Belief; Marek Edelman… and There Was Love in the Ghetto; On the Inside of a Military Dictatorship and The Valley.
Other Aussie projects in the festival include Richard Lowenstein’s feature doc Mystify: Michael Hutchence, which will screen as part of the special presentation section; shorts Happy Android from Jaina Kalifa, Handout from Vedrana Music, and Dusty Devil from Poppy Walker; and Lynette Wallworth’s Vr project Awavena.
This year’s Hot Docs...
Director Maya Newell’s feature documentary In My Blood It Runs will have its world premiere in competition at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
In My Blood It Runs (formerly Kids) is one of 12 films in Hot Doc’s competitive International Spectrum program, the others being: Amussu; Bhudda in Africa; Daymohk; For Sama; The Guardian of Memory; Hope Frozen; Life is a Belief; Marek Edelman… and There Was Love in the Ghetto; On the Inside of a Military Dictatorship and The Valley.
Other Aussie projects in the festival include Richard Lowenstein’s feature doc Mystify: Michael Hutchence, which will screen as part of the special presentation section; shorts Happy Android from Jaina Kalifa, Handout from Vedrana Music, and Dusty Devil from Poppy Walker; and Lynette Wallworth’s Vr project Awavena.
This year’s Hot Docs...
- 3/20/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Escape and Evasion’.
The Gold Coast Film Festival will open in early April with the Australian premiere of Damon Gameau’s 2040, and close with the world premiere of Storm Ashwood’s war film Escape and Evasion.
Good Thing Productions’ 2040 comes to the festival from its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it screened as part of the Kplus section of the Generation program. Gameau will walk the red carpet, and the screening will be followed by a Q&A.
Escape and Evasion, produced by Blake Northfield for Bronte Pictures, was filmed on the Gold Coast in the Currumbin Valley. It explores the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder on a lone surviving soldier.
The Gold Coast Film Festival will this year screen some 107 films over 12 days, with three world premieres and 10 Australian premieres.
Among the other world premieres are Caitlin Farrugia and Michael Jones’ comedy drama Maybe Tomorrow,...
The Gold Coast Film Festival will open in early April with the Australian premiere of Damon Gameau’s 2040, and close with the world premiere of Storm Ashwood’s war film Escape and Evasion.
Good Thing Productions’ 2040 comes to the festival from its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it screened as part of the Kplus section of the Generation program. Gameau will walk the red carpet, and the screening will be followed by a Q&A.
Escape and Evasion, produced by Blake Northfield for Bronte Pictures, was filmed on the Gold Coast in the Currumbin Valley. It explores the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder on a lone surviving soldier.
The Gold Coast Film Festival will this year screen some 107 films over 12 days, with three world premieres and 10 Australian premieres.
Among the other world premieres are Caitlin Farrugia and Michael Jones’ comedy drama Maybe Tomorrow,...
- 3/1/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
The Virtual Reality Portal at the FilmGate Interactive Media Festival, which this year overlapped with Art Basel in downtown Miami, featured a wealth of new discoveries alongside some stellar high-profile projects. Among the three-dozen or so interactive works on display were a pair that made for great companion pieces. The first was Lynette Wallworth’s “psychedelic documentary” Awavena, an inner trip that I’d just missed experiencing at Idfa DocLab (and which made me wish that every Vr experience came with a hammock). The second, Eliza McNitt’s Sundance-premiering outer trip Spheres, also had perhaps the widest target audience of any of the […]...
- 12/9/2018
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The Virtual Reality Portal at the FilmGate Interactive Media Festival, which this year overlapped with Art Basel in downtown Miami, featured a wealth of new discoveries alongside some stellar high-profile projects. Among the three-dozen or so interactive works on display were a pair that made for great companion pieces. The first was Lynette Wallworth’s “psychedelic documentary” Awavena, an inner trip that I’d just missed experiencing at Idfa DocLab (and which made me wish that every Vr experience came with a hammock). The second, Eliza McNitt’s Sundance-premiering outer trip Spheres, also had perhaps the widest target audience of any of the […]...
- 12/9/2018
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Vr artist Lynette Wallworth returns with a film that brings the transcendental experience of Brazil’s Yawanawá people to life in vivid colour
I am deep in the Amazonian jungle, somewhere near the Gregório River. My vision is affected by a hallucinogenic tea called Ayahuasca, referred to by the locals as Uni. A huge and majestic old tree towers in front of me. A patch of bright psychedelic colour appears in my vision and moves with my gaze, as if projected from another plane of existence. Before I have properly come to terms with this striking tableau, my position changes. I realise I am now inside the tree.
This is a scene from Awavena, the new virtual reality film from acclaimed artist Lynette Wallworth. My actual location is Carriageworks, Sydney, where this impressive work had its Australian premiere on Friday as part of Create Nsw’s annual 360 Vision virtual reality and augmented reality event.
I am deep in the Amazonian jungle, somewhere near the Gregório River. My vision is affected by a hallucinogenic tea called Ayahuasca, referred to by the locals as Uni. A huge and majestic old tree towers in front of me. A patch of bright psychedelic colour appears in my vision and moves with my gaze, as if projected from another plane of existence. Before I have properly come to terms with this striking tableau, my position changes. I realise I am now inside the tree.
This is a scene from Awavena, the new virtual reality film from acclaimed artist Lynette Wallworth. My actual location is Carriageworks, Sydney, where this impressive work had its Australian premiere on Friday as part of Create Nsw’s annual 360 Vision virtual reality and augmented reality event.
- 11/19/2018
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Aacta is calling for recommendations for the Byron Kennedy Award which celebrates outstanding creative enterprise in the screen industry.
The prize, which honours Dr George Miller’s original filmmaking partner and Mad Max co-creator Byron Kennedy, is given to an individual or organisation whose work embodies innovation and the relentless pursuit of excellence.
Presented by Kennedy Miller Mitchell in association with Aacta and selected by a jury, the award includes a cash prize of $10,000.
Past recipients include John Poulson; Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin; Animal Logic; filmmakers Ivan Sen, Amiel Courtin-Wilson and Martin Butler and Bentley Dean; Dop Adam Arkapaw; and Vr artist and filmmaker Lynette Wallworth.
The award will be presented at the 8th Aacta Awards in Sydney in December. Recommendations should be emailed to Aacta Awards manager Ivan Vukusic at ivukusic@afi.org.au with:
• A copy of the candidate’s filmography;
• A letter detailing the candidate’s...
The prize, which honours Dr George Miller’s original filmmaking partner and Mad Max co-creator Byron Kennedy, is given to an individual or organisation whose work embodies innovation and the relentless pursuit of excellence.
Presented by Kennedy Miller Mitchell in association with Aacta and selected by a jury, the award includes a cash prize of $10,000.
Past recipients include John Poulson; Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin; Animal Logic; filmmakers Ivan Sen, Amiel Courtin-Wilson and Martin Butler and Bentley Dean; Dop Adam Arkapaw; and Vr artist and filmmaker Lynette Wallworth.
The award will be presented at the 8th Aacta Awards in Sydney in December. Recommendations should be emailed to Aacta Awards manager Ivan Vukusic at ivukusic@afi.org.au with:
• A copy of the candidate’s filmography;
• A letter detailing the candidate’s...
- 9/13/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Mwm Studios has acquired the rights to adapt Lynette Wallworth's virtual reality experience Awavena as an animated feature.
Awavena, which premiered at Sundance and is screening in the Vr competition lineup of the Venice Film Festival, follows the true story of Hushahu, a woman who fought against tradition to become the first-ever female shaman of the Yawanawa people, an indigenous tribe in the Amazon.
Wallworth combines documentary footage with a Vr immersive experience that re-creates the spiritual visions of the shaman. The 18-minute work tells how Hushahu's mentor Tata comes to believe the survival of the Yawanawa depends on his ...
Awavena, which premiered at Sundance and is screening in the Vr competition lineup of the Venice Film Festival, follows the true story of Hushahu, a woman who fought against tradition to become the first-ever female shaman of the Yawanawa people, an indigenous tribe in the Amazon.
Wallworth combines documentary footage with a Vr immersive experience that re-creates the spiritual visions of the shaman. The 18-minute work tells how Hushahu's mentor Tata comes to believe the survival of the Yawanawa depends on his ...
Mwm Studios has acquired the rights to adapt Lynette Wallworth's virtual reality experience Awavena as an animated feature.
Awavena, which premiered at Sundance and is screening in the Vr competition lineup of the Venice Film Festival, follows the true story of Hushahu, a woman who fought against tradition to become the first-ever female shaman of the Yawanawa people, an indigenous tribe in the Amazon.
Wallworth combines documentary footage with a Vr immersive experience that re-creates the spiritual visions of the shaman. The 18-minute work tells how Hushahu's mentor Tata comes to believe the survival of the Yawanawa depends on his ...
Awavena, which premiered at Sundance and is screening in the Vr competition lineup of the Venice Film Festival, follows the true story of Hushahu, a woman who fought against tradition to become the first-ever female shaman of the Yawanawa people, an indigenous tribe in the Amazon.
Wallworth combines documentary footage with a Vr immersive experience that re-creates the spiritual visions of the shaman. The 18-minute work tells how Hushahu's mentor Tata comes to believe the survival of the Yawanawa depends on his ...
Director eliza McNitt’s first virtual reality (Vr) experience back in 2013 was not particularly pleasant. The simulated roller coaster ride, viewed through a development kit version of Oculus Rift, made her feel sick and disconnected. But she saw the glimmer of possibility.
“I thought, give this a few years and people are really going to be embracing this as a new medium for storytelling,” recalls McNitt.
Five years later, many filmmakers have tried their hand at Vr, from big name directors such as Doug Liman (“American Made”), who released the five-part Vr series “Invisible” in 2016, to relative unknowns like McNitt, whose Vr docuseries “Spheres” will be among the more than two dozen works presented as part of the Venice Film Festival’s virtual reality section. But they’re still working out the bugs, both technological and narrative.
When writer-director Eric Darnell first took the plunge into Vr with his Emmy-winning short “Invasion!
“I thought, give this a few years and people are really going to be embracing this as a new medium for storytelling,” recalls McNitt.
Five years later, many filmmakers have tried their hand at Vr, from big name directors such as Doug Liman (“American Made”), who released the five-part Vr series “Invisible” in 2016, to relative unknowns like McNitt, whose Vr docuseries “Spheres” will be among the more than two dozen works presented as part of the Venice Film Festival’s virtual reality section. But they’re still working out the bugs, both technological and narrative.
When writer-director Eric Darnell first took the plunge into Vr with his Emmy-winning short “Invasion!
- 9/4/2018
- by Todd Longwell
- Variety Film + TV
Virtual Reality Finally Sold Big at Sundance: Here’s What It Means for the Future of the Marketplace
While everyone was busy complaining about slow sales at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, something remarkable happened: The festival saw its first major Vr acquisition. For a reported low-to-mid seven figures, CityLights bought the three-part Vr series “Spheres,” directed by science-storytelling whiz Eliza McNitt, narrated by Jessica Chastain, and executive produced by Darren Aronofsky.
A few days later, in the first sale of a Vr documentary at Sundance, Dogwoof acquired “Zikr: A Sufi Revival,” directed by Gabo Arora. “Zikr” is a 15-minute interactive Vr experience that uses song and dance to transport four participants at a time into ecstatic Sufi dance rituals; in addition to location-based installations, the deal includes funding for an online version of the Vr experience that allows multiple players to be networked at once.
In the six years since the festival’s New Frontier section presented its first Vr piece, Nonny de la Pena’s “Hunger in La,...
A few days later, in the first sale of a Vr documentary at Sundance, Dogwoof acquired “Zikr: A Sufi Revival,” directed by Gabo Arora. “Zikr” is a 15-minute interactive Vr experience that uses song and dance to transport four participants at a time into ecstatic Sufi dance rituals; in addition to location-based installations, the deal includes funding for an online version of the Vr experience that allows multiple players to be networked at once.
In the six years since the festival’s New Frontier section presented its first Vr piece, Nonny de la Pena’s “Hunger in La,...
- 1/31/2018
- by Kim Voynar
- Indiewire
As the entertainment space evolves and pushes further into the technology world, including virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and other experimental works, the Sundance Film Festival is continuing to debut some of the best examples of such crossovers as part of its New Frontier section. Every year, the section aims to “offer some of the most innovative independent production and experimentation at the crossroads of film, art and technology that is being created today.” For the 2018 edition of the festival, that will include an international slate of VR, Mr, and AI.
This year, New Frontier programming will encompass three venues, including the New Frontier Exhibition at Kimball Art Center (which will host immersive dance and cutting edge VR & Mr works as well as works involving Artificial Intelligence), along with New Frontier at The Ray, which will also include The Box at New Frontier at The Ray (a 40-seat mobile VR theater...
This year, New Frontier programming will encompass three venues, including the New Frontier Exhibition at Kimball Art Center (which will host immersive dance and cutting edge VR & Mr works as well as works involving Artificial Intelligence), along with New Frontier at The Ray, which will also include The Box at New Frontier at The Ray (a 40-seat mobile VR theater...
- 12/6/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
(L-r): Lynette Wallworth and Mrtu elder Nola Taylor in Wa.
Shari Frilot is the chief curator of New Frontier, the Sundance sidebar devoted to the cutting edge: hybrid projects, transmedia stories, multimedia installations and Vr..
In Australia earlier this year as the guest of the Adelaide Film Festival and the Australia Council for the Arts, she caught up with multi-disciplinary artist Lynette Wallworth, whose work Frilot has shown since 2008..
Wallworth previously exhibited an interactive installation, Evolution of Fearlessness, at New Frontier, and in 2013 she brought Coral: Rekindling Venus to Park City. Kenneth Turan of the La Times called the full-dome film "immersive cinema at its most spectacular".
Last year, Wallworth was selected as the inaugural artist of the Sundance Institute New Frontier | Jaunt Vr Residency Program, undertaking a residency at Palo Alto-based Vr company Jaunt.
Funded with the support of the Adelaide Film Festival Fund, Collisions is the...
Shari Frilot is the chief curator of New Frontier, the Sundance sidebar devoted to the cutting edge: hybrid projects, transmedia stories, multimedia installations and Vr..
In Australia earlier this year as the guest of the Adelaide Film Festival and the Australia Council for the Arts, she caught up with multi-disciplinary artist Lynette Wallworth, whose work Frilot has shown since 2008..
Wallworth previously exhibited an interactive installation, Evolution of Fearlessness, at New Frontier, and in 2013 she brought Coral: Rekindling Venus to Park City. Kenneth Turan of the La Times called the full-dome film "immersive cinema at its most spectacular".
Last year, Wallworth was selected as the inaugural artist of the Sundance Institute New Frontier | Jaunt Vr Residency Program, undertaking a residency at Palo Alto-based Vr company Jaunt.
Funded with the support of the Adelaide Film Festival Fund, Collisions is the...
- 6/30/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Erica Glynn..
Indigenous writer-director Erica Glynn was today named the recipient of this year's David and Joan Williams Documentary Fellowship. .
Glynn, whose latest film.In My Own Words.is.screening at the Sydney Film Festival, played a central role in the development of Indigenous filmmakers and their work through the Indigenous Unit of Screen Australia.
The fellowship is bestowed by former News Limited, Foxtel and Fox Studios Australia CEO Kim Williams in honour of his parents, and is worth $50,000.
Inaugurated in 2010 through the Australian International Documentary Conference, management of the fellowship was transferred to the Documentary Australia Foundation in 2015, when it became biennial. .
The recipient is selected by a panel comprising Bob Connolly, Victoria Treole and Julia Overton, supported by Daf CEO Dr Mitzi Goldman.
The fellowship is intended to give an independent filmmaker enough money and time to reflect and prepare for his or her next work or to undertake relevant study and research.
Indigenous writer-director Erica Glynn was today named the recipient of this year's David and Joan Williams Documentary Fellowship. .
Glynn, whose latest film.In My Own Words.is.screening at the Sydney Film Festival, played a central role in the development of Indigenous filmmakers and their work through the Indigenous Unit of Screen Australia.
The fellowship is bestowed by former News Limited, Foxtel and Fox Studios Australia CEO Kim Williams in honour of his parents, and is worth $50,000.
Inaugurated in 2010 through the Australian International Documentary Conference, management of the fellowship was transferred to the Documentary Australia Foundation in 2015, when it became biennial. .
The recipient is selected by a panel comprising Bob Connolly, Victoria Treole and Julia Overton, supported by Daf CEO Dr Mitzi Goldman.
The fellowship is intended to give an independent filmmaker enough money and time to reflect and prepare for his or her next work or to undertake relevant study and research.
- 6/8/2017
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Collisions.
Multi-disciplinary artist Lynette Wallworth is turning her acclaimed Vr project Collisions into a series.
Wallworth and Collisions producer Nicole Newnham have spent the last twelve months touring the work, during which they engaged with several communities about the possibilities of Vr to transport viewers into their world.
.The people who invited us [in] are thinking about this technology in a very different way,. Wallworth tells If.
.Collisions takes you somewhere as a visitor in a very particular orchestrated encounter, and then something.s revealed to you by the community that you.ve travelled to...
Wallworth is planning first to film an Amazonian tribe in Brazil, whose chief she met through Jeff Skoll.s social enterprise initiative Skoll Stories of Change.
.It takes four days to get in to where they are. But the chief experienced Collisions and had a completely clear picture of the way it could be used from their perspective.
Multi-disciplinary artist Lynette Wallworth is turning her acclaimed Vr project Collisions into a series.
Wallworth and Collisions producer Nicole Newnham have spent the last twelve months touring the work, during which they engaged with several communities about the possibilities of Vr to transport viewers into their world.
.The people who invited us [in] are thinking about this technology in a very different way,. Wallworth tells If.
.Collisions takes you somewhere as a visitor in a very particular orchestrated encounter, and then something.s revealed to you by the community that you.ve travelled to...
Wallworth is planning first to film an Amazonian tribe in Brazil, whose chief she met through Jeff Skoll.s social enterprise initiative Skoll Stories of Change.
.It takes four days to get in to where they are. But the chief experienced Collisions and had a completely clear picture of the way it could be used from their perspective.
- 3/30/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Collisions.
Multi-disciplinary artist Lynette Wallworth is turning her acclaimed Vr project Collisions into a series.
Wallworth and Collisions producer Nicole Newnham have spent the last twelve months touring the work, during which they engaged with several communities about the possibilities of Vr to transport viewers into their world.
.The people who invited us [in] are thinking about this technology in a very different way,. Wallworth tells If.
.Collisions takes you somewhere as a visitor in a very particular orchestrated encounter, and then something.s revealed to you by the community that you.ve travelled to...
Wallworth is planning first to film an Amazonian tribe in Brazil, whose chief she met through Jeff Skoll.s social enterprise initiative Skoll Stories of Change.
.It takes four days to get in to where they are. But the chief experienced Collisions and had a completely clear picture of the way it could be used from their perspective.
Multi-disciplinary artist Lynette Wallworth is turning her acclaimed Vr project Collisions into a series.
Wallworth and Collisions producer Nicole Newnham have spent the last twelve months touring the work, during which they engaged with several communities about the possibilities of Vr to transport viewers into their world.
.The people who invited us [in] are thinking about this technology in a very different way,. Wallworth tells If.
.Collisions takes you somewhere as a visitor in a very particular orchestrated encounter, and then something.s revealed to you by the community that you.ve travelled to...
Wallworth is planning first to film an Amazonian tribe in Brazil, whose chief she met through Jeff Skoll.s social enterprise initiative Skoll Stories of Change.
.It takes four days to get in to where they are. But the chief experienced Collisions and had a completely clear picture of the way it could be used from their perspective.
- 3/30/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
The 2017 Sundance Film Festival is coming to a close with tonight’s awards ceremony. While we’ll have our personal favorites coming early this week, the jury and audience have responded with theirs, topped by Macon Blair‘s I don’t feel at home in this world anymore., which will arrive on Netflix in late February, and the documentary Dina. Check out the full list of winners below see our complete coverage here.
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented by Larry Wilmore to:
Dina / U.S.A. (Directors: Dan Sickles, Antonio Santini) — An eccentric suburban woman and a Walmart door-greeter navigate their evolving relationship in this unconventional love story.
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented by Peter Dinklage to:
I don’t feel at home in this world anymore. / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Macon Blair) — When a depressed woman is burglarized, she...
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented by Larry Wilmore to:
Dina / U.S.A. (Directors: Dan Sickles, Antonio Santini) — An eccentric suburban woman and a Walmart door-greeter navigate their evolving relationship in this unconventional love story.
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented by Peter Dinklage to:
I don’t feel at home in this world anymore. / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Macon Blair) — When a depressed woman is burglarized, she...
- 1/29/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Each year, the Sundance Film Festival rolls out an enviable lineup of jury members — billed as “experts in film, art, culture and science” — to dole out awards to the feature-length works shown at the festival. In total, 28 prizes (and sometimes more!) will be announced at a ceremony on January 28 (as ever, Short Film Awards will be announced at a separate ceremony on January 24). The festival has now announced this year’s various jury members, including actors, filmmakers, producers, writers and other luminaries (and, yes, plenty of Sundance alums pop up amongst their ranks).
Additionally, the festival has also announced that actress, comedian, correspondent and podcast host Jessica Williams will host the annual awards. Jones seems poised to have a very busy Sundance indeed, as she also toplines James Strouse’s premiere “The Incredible Jessica James,” which will close out the festival the night before.
The awards, which recognize standout artistic and story elements,...
Additionally, the festival has also announced that actress, comedian, correspondent and podcast host Jessica Williams will host the annual awards. Jones seems poised to have a very busy Sundance indeed, as she also toplines James Strouse’s premiere “The Incredible Jessica James,” which will close out the festival the night before.
The awards, which recognize standout artistic and story elements,...
- 1/11/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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