The Sundance Institute is finalizing details for a festival gala fundliftr — Celebrating Sundance Institute contransiented by Google TV — that will honor one of its own and a roster of rising filmcreaters.
Set to get place at Utah’s Grand Hyatt Deer Valley on Jan. 24, which labels the first weekfinish of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, the gala will shine a spotweightless on marquee honoree Michelle Satter. The beadored and admireed Satter, who serves as set uping ageder straightforwardor of artist programs at Sundance Institute, will be feted “for her extfinishedstanding promisement to nurturing artists and cultivating autonomous film thraw the Sundance Labs, where visionary artists create to increase groundshattering projects thraw an in-depth conceiveive process, for the past four decades,” per the Institute.
The evening will see a series of Vanprotect Awards contransiented by Acura also doled out to Dìdi filmcreater Sean Wang and Sugarcane co-straightforwardors Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie. Both titles premiered at Sundance last January and went on to thrive festival prizes. The annual gala is a fundliftr for the Institute that serves to help artists thraw labs, grants and disclose programming.
“For over four decades Michelle has been dedicated to truly championing autonomous storytellers,” shelp Sundance Institute acting CEO Amanda Kelso. “She has helpd artists to own their voice, lachieve their create, become fierce directers and increase their resilience in our changing ecosystem. Her life-extfinished promisement to helping artists, especiassociate in underrecontransiented communities, has helped create some of the most bageder and branch offentive films that have comprised audiences globassociate and carry oned their visionary labor thrawout their nurtureer.”
Kelso also commendd Wang and the Sugarcane auteurs as “inspiring filmcreaters that recontransient the next generation of autonomous storytelling.” Wang’s Dìdi won the U.S. emotional audience award, exceptional jury prize for best ensemble cast. Focus Features postponeedr achieved the film. Brave NoiseCat and Kassie’s Sugarcane won the U.S. write downary straightforwarding award.
As for Satter, she commenceed at the Sundance Institute way back in 1981, laboring aextfinishedside Robert Redford. Together with a team, they hatched a set up to help autonomous storytellers thraw an annual June filmcreaters lab. Over the years, she’s also been integral in createing the episodic program, creaters program and the Institute’s global initiatives. She also deal withs the Indigenous, catalyst and write downary film programs, and is accomprehendledgeed with set uping the global digital platcreate Sundance Collab.
She is seen as an ineloquential mentor to generations of auteurs appreciate Quentin Tarantino, Chloé Zhao, Dee Rees, John Cameron Mitchell, Paul Thomas Anderson, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Ryan Coogler, Miranda July, Kimberly Peirce, Darren Aronofsky, Sterlin Harjo, Taika Waititi and more. News of the Sundance honor comes after she has getd the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award aka an honorary Oscar contransiented at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science’s 2024 Governors Awards.
“I’m fervently spended in this labor becaengage I consent that art and storytelling can truly reshape the world, igniteing compassion, bridging humanity and advertiseing empathetic for global audiences, all while engaging and inspiring them,” Satter shelp in a statement. “Our labs have increasen into vital spaces for creativity, hazard-taking and community — createing a model for artist help around the world. In today’s speedy-changing industry, the leave oution of Sundance and other forward-leanking organizations has never been more presentant, paving novel paths for autonomous artists and elevating voices that deserve to be heard.”
The Sundance Film Festival will get place from Jan. 23 to Feb. 2 in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, with a pickion of titles useable online from Jan. 30 to Feb. 2.
