Sundance Institute is proud to announce our first-ever Alumni Advisory Board. Our community begins with our artists, and we are excited to be bringing the voices of our artist alumni direct to you starting this month. For this year’s Board, we’ve assembled twelve Sundance Institute artist alumni who have generously agreed to share their stories and experiences to advise us on Institute programs, and to offer their unique perspectives on what Sundance Institute is all about. The members of the Alumni Board represent all of our Institute programs, and we are very grateful to these artists for using their voices to help us build our community of artists and audiences.
Each month, we will spotlight one of the 12 Artist Alumni on our website. Check back each month to see who we unveil as the Artist Spotlight. The venerable Morgan Spurlock kicks things off as our January Artist Alumni Spotlight with an interview below. http://www.sundance.org/festival/blog-entry/introducing-the-sundance-institute-alumni-advisory-board/
Meet the 2011 Sundance Institute Alumni Advisory Board. Click here for full bios and photos.
· Katie Aselton: Sundance Film Festival Director (The Freebie), Annenberg Grant winner
· Lee Daniels: Sundance Film Festival Director (Precious) producer (The Woodsman)
· America Ferrera: Sundance Film Festival Actor (Real Women Have Curves, How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer, Steel City, La Misma Luna, The Dry Land (also EP)); 2011 Sundance Film Festival Juror
· James Franco: Sundance Film Festival Actor (Howl, An American Crime) Director (Herbert White, 2010 Short), Down & Dirty shorts program in LA; 2011 Sundance Film Festival New Frontier Artist
· Clark Gregg: Sundance Film Festival Director (Choke) Actor (Adventures of Sebastian Cole, 500 Days of Summer, Lovely and Amazing); 2011 Sundance Film Festival Sloan Juror
· Lauren Greenfield: Sundance Film Festival Director (kids+money, Thin), 2007 Sundance Film Festival Juror
· Braden King: Feature Film Program (Here, 2007) NHK Award, Annenberg Grant, Cinereach Project, Composers Lab Experiment; 2011 Sundance Film Festival Director (Here)
· Stacy Peralta: Sundance Film Festival Director (Riding Giants, Made in America, Dogtown & Z Boys), 2005 Sundance Film Festival Juror
· Stew: Feature Film Program Directors Lab (We Can See Today, 2005), Theatre Lab (Passing Strange, 2005)
· Jason Reitman: Sundance Film Festival Director (Thank You for Smoking), 3 Short Films (In God We Trust, Operation and Gulp); 2008 Short Film Juror; 2011 Sundance Film Festival Juror
· Morgan Spurlock: Sundance Film Festival Director (Supersize Me, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden); 2010 Sundance Film Festival Juror; 2011 Sundance Film Festival Director (The Greatest Movie Ever Sold); 2011 Sundance Film Festival Artist at the Table Keynote Speaker
· Taika Waititi: Sundance Film Festival Director (Boy, Eagle vs. Shark, Tama Tu, The Volcano), Feature Film Program Directors Lab (Eagle vs. Shark, 2005)
Many thanks to Morgan Spurlock for taking the plunge as our first featured Alumni Spotlight for the month of January. Morgan is premiering his newest film, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, at this year’s Festival. Before he heads to Utah he caught up with Sundance Institute Executive Director Keri Putnam to talk life changing moments, impregnating brains, and who is going to win an Oscar. You can read the full Q&A on www.sundance.org.
Leave a Reply