Sundance Institute Humanities Fellowship

FAIN: ZIN-283649-21

Sundance Institute (Park City, UT 84060-7226)
Carrie Lozano (Project Director: May 2021 to January 2022)
Hajnal Molnar-Szakacs (Project Director: January 2022 to October 2025)

A grant program resulting in up to 20 individual awards to provide relief from the coronavirus pandemic to underemployed filmmakers working on humanities-focused projects.

The purpose of this program is to provide a year of direct, unrestricted monthly stipends to supplement the income of media-makers working on a humanities-driven project, whose work and livelihoods have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Associated Products

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE HUMANITIES SUSTAINABILITY FELLOWSHIP EVALUATION REPORT (Report)
Title: SUNDANCE INSTITUTE HUMANITIES SUSTAINABILITY FELLOWSHIP EVALUATION REPORT
Author: 8 Bridges Workshop
Author: Sundance Institute
Abstract: In 2022, Artist Accelerator, a new program at Sundance Institute dedicated to piloting cross-disciplinary artist support programs, had the incredible opportunity to launch the Sundance Institute | Humanities Sustainability Fellowship funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan. This program provided 20 nonfiction mediamakers at all phases of their careers with a $60,000 unrestricted stipend, creative and professional support, and a dedicated paid humanities advisor for their humanities-focused feature-length documentary films and nonfiction emerging media projects. Because this was a new way of supporting nonfiction mediamakers, we wanted to understand the impacts on the fellows and on their projects, so we engaged 8 Bridges Workshop to join us to help capture the successes, challenges, and learnings from this initiative. This report details their findings.
Date: 8/31/2023
Primary URL: https://www.sundance.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Sundance-Fellowship-Final-Review-2.pdf
Primary URL Description: Link to the report PDF
Secondary URL: https://www.sundance.org/blogs/learn-what-happened-when-we-gave-20-mediamakers-60000-each-to-live-work-and-grow-as-creatives/
Secondary URL Description: Link to the blog post about the report on sundance.org
Access Model: Open Access

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