Never content with answers, they push each experience to its breaking point, testing what it might mean to be truly awake in a world that seems satisfied to be asleep. Christopher and Michal, on the precipice of their own coming of age, restlessly roam their city’s streets in search of living forever inside the beautiful moment.

Producer: Marta Golba, Michal Marczak, Julia Nottingham, Thomas Benski and Lucas OchoaĪ new era is coming, and Warsaw stands uncomfortably at its edge.

Whose Streets? follows the journey of everyday people turned freedom fighters, whose lives intertwine with a burgeoning national movement for black liberation. The murder of a teenage boy became the last straw for a community under siege. When God Sleeps depicts the journey of an Iranian musician who is forced into hiding after hardline clerics offer a $100,000 reward for his murder Producer: Sara Nodjoumi & Till Schauder (U.S./Germany) Young Men and Fire tells the story of working class men in a single wildland firefighting crew as they struggle with fear, loyalty, love, and defeat all over the course of a single fire season. Can this Yoghurt Utopia survive the mounting internal and external pressures?ĭirector: Kahlil Hudson and Alex Jablonski Producer: Femke Wolting, Bruno Felix, Roger Ross Williamsįilmmaker Roger ross williams sets out on a deeply personal journey to understand why so many friends from his childhood town of Easton, Pennsylvania are in prison.Ĭhristopher Columbus gives 200 mental patients an opportunity to live, work and lead productive lives producing La Fageda, a top yogurt brand from Catalonia, Spain. Untitled Kronos Project is an experimental, live documentary that will tell the story of legendary classical group the Kronos Quartet and its 40 year career. There’s no-one else on Earth quite like you. Nearly twenty years later, his widow uncovers the 16mm cans in New Orleans-and ships them to the film’s screenwriter-actress, who embarks on a new voyage to Singapore, Cambridge, New Orleans, and into the past. In 1992, an enigmatic American named Georges shot Singapore’s first indie film with a group of female teenage film-buffs, then absconded with all the footage. The filmmaker found her missing brother, who was kidnapped at age six by his father, a man with extraordinary connections in communist Hungary.Īn artful exploration of the legacy of the world’s most sensational child-murder case, the unsolved death of six-year-old American beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey. This documentary reunites them forty years later to reveal what actually happened during one of history’s strangest group experiments. In 1973 five men and six women went on a dramatic raft expedition across the Atlantic Ocean for 101 days to study human aggression and sexuality. Submissions remain open year-round, and filmmakers with projects are encouraged to submit for consideration when they are ready to do so. Joining these artists are U.S.-based filmmakers from a diverse range of backgrounds including Roger Ross Williams, Pacho Velez, Sabaah Jordan and Damon Davis, Kahlil Hudson, and Sandi Tan.įilms will continue to be supported on a rolling basis. Our support of in-country filmmakers is a proud mark of our work this year and a reflection of our ongoing commitment to supporting international storytellers (India, Democratic Republic of Congo, Hungary, Russia/Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Afghanistan). Many films probe vital and pressing contemporary topics including Black Lives Matter ( Whose Streets?), incarceration in America ( Untitled Prison Project), mass shootings/gun violence ( Untitled Newtown Documentary), juvenile sexual assault ( Audrie & Daisy), and juvenile incarceration ( They Call Us Monsters). Highlights of films awarded grant support include projects that may experiment with or expand the nonfiction form in compelling ways, such as All These Sleepless Nights, Casting JonBenet, Shirkers, The Event, The Reagan Years, and Untitled Kronos Project. Overall the selections are characterized by risk, inclusion and innovation as well as addressing the most vital conversations of our time.” We eliminated deadlines, embraced risk taking in form, filmmaker and subject matter, but we stayed true to our core purpose of discovering contemporary stories of meaning and moral purpose. Rahdi Taylor, Film Fund Director, said, “This past year was one of experimentation and change. The Sundance Documentary Fund moved to a limited rolling open call in 2015, encouraging filmmakers to submit applications only when they feel their film is ready to share. Thirty-three independent documentary films have been selected for Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program support in 2015, with grantees including original voices from around the world.

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