The Sundance Institute announced the latest round of beneficiaries of its Documentary Fund. Eighteen projects at different stages of development received a total of $590,000, funded by various institutional and individual donors. The grants do not come with any restrictions on use. Past films supported by the fund include Hale county this morning, tonight, hour, and Collective.
Supported projects include The language of waterabout an indigenous woman in Cambodia trying to rebuild her life after her home was destroyed by the construction of a dam; Therapy, on gay conversion therapy in Israel; and black mothersfollowing two black women fighting against police racism in the United States.
The Sundance Institute is also accepting applications for the next funding cycle until July 26.
The recently announced recipients are:
Projects in development:
The gardeners (WE)
Director: Crystal Kayiza
Producer: Crystal Kayiza
gross national happiness (Bhutan, Hungary)
Directors: Arun Bhattarai, Dorottia Zurbó
Producer: Noemi Veronika Szakonyi, Arun Bhattarai
The ship and the sea (Mozambique, Brazil, Portugal)
Directed by: Lara Sousa, Everlane Moraes
Producers: Matheus Mello, Emerson d’Almeida, Joelma Oliveira Gonzaga, Elsa Sertorio
The language of water (France, Cambodia)
Director: Polén Ly
Producers: Rithy Panh, Lucas Sénécaut, Thibaut Amri
under the dance floor (Hungary)
Director: Sára Timár
Producer: Krisztina Meggyes
In production:
Against a current (India)
Directors: Sarvnik Kaur
Producers: Sarvnik Kaur, Koval Bhatia
Do you love me (job title) (Lebanon, Germany)
Director: Lana Daher
Producer: Lana Daher, Jasper Mielke
Igualada (Colombia)
Director: Juan Mejia
Producer: Juan Yepes
Reverse Monitoring Project (WE)
Director: Assia Boundaoui
Producer: Nouha Boundaoui
get up at night (Democratic Republic of Congo, Belgium)
Director: Nelson Makengo
Producer: Rosa Spaliviero, Dada Kahindo Siku
Smoke Sauna Brotherhood (Estonia, France, Iceland)
Director: Anna Hints
Producer: Marianne Ostrat, Juliette Cazanave, Pierre Jestaz, Hlín Jóhannesdóttir
Therapy (Israel)
Director: Zvi Landsman
Producer: Ori Szternfeld, Zvi Landsman
Untitled (US, Canada)
Director: Sura Mallouh
Producer: Sura Mallouh, Laura Poitras, Yoni Golijov
In post production:
black mothers (WE)
Director: Debora Souza Silva
Producers: Debora Souza Silva, David Felix Sutcliffe
Hazing (WE)
Director: Byron Hurt
Producer: Natalie Bullock Brown
liquor store dreams (WE)
Director: So Yun Um
Producer: So Yun Um, Eddie Kim
silent beauty (United States, Mexico)
Director: Jasmine Mara Lopez
Producer: Jasmine Mara Lopez
Untitled documentary on the Muscogee Nation (Muscogee Nation, USA)
Directed by: Rebecca Landsberry-Baker, Joe Peeler
Producer: Conrad Beilharz, Garrett Baker, Tyler Graim