Sundance Announces Participants for Producers Lab and Producers Summit

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The Sundance Institute has unveiled the participants for its first in-person Producers Lab and Producers Summit in three years, set to take place in Utah this month.Under the umbrella of its year-round Producers Program, the two conferences are intended to incubate and champion rising talent by pairing them with industry veterans.From July 25 to July 28, the Producers Lab will bring together 11 filmmakers and their projects in group workshops and one-on-one mentoring sessions.

On the feature film side are Apoorva Guru Charan (“The Rotting Of Casey Culpepper”), Leah Chen Baker (“The President’s Cake”), Eli Raskin (“Starfuckers”), Chloe Sabin (“Sales Per Hour”) and Helena Sardinha and Doménica Castro (“Huella”).

The documentary producer participants are Lindsey Dryden (“Untitled Dwarfism Project”), Yoni Golijov (“Untitled Sura Mallouh Project”), Dawne Langford (“Untitled Baltimore Project”), Neyda Martinez (“Bartolo”) and Igor Myakotin (“Queendom”).The following week (July 29-31) will see 12 independent filmmakers convene at Sundance Mountain Resort, along with an assortment of distributors, financiers, agents, sales reps and seasoned independent producers.

Jade Jackson (“Losa”), Lauren Lopez de Victoria (“Forward”), Fox Maxy (“Water Tight”), Albert Tholen and Aiko Masubuchi (“Earthquake”) and Séverine Tibi (“Birthday”) have been selected for the fiction cohort.