The Latine Fellowship & Collab Scholarship at Central Recorderdance Institute was launched Monday. It will provide scholarships and fellowships to 11 emerging Latino artists. There will also be career development opportunities and opportunities to network with mentors or filmmakers.
Sundance Institute Latine Fellowship, a non-profit organization, will offer six emerging Latino artists a year-long fellowship experience. It is multi-disciplinary and offers creative and tactical support, as well as unrestricted grants of $10,000.
The remaining five artists have no prior engagement to Sundance Institute and will receive a scholarship to attend a live online course with the non-profit’s learning platform Sundance Collab, as well as feedback on their projects and networking opportunities.
The institute also revealed the names of 11 individuals who will be receiving grants as well as the selected projects. You can find them all below.
“Latinx talent has always been present at the Sundance Institute but supporting these storytellers across disciplines in a single class of fellows or by providing them with a Sundance Collab scholarship is a way for us to deepen our ties to extraordinary artists telling valuable stories,” said Carrie Lozano, director, Documentary Film & Artist Programs. “More importantly, this new program is a way for them to build on their craft, move forward with their current projects and build a community with other up-and-coming, diverse creators.”
“Over the years, we’ve seen incremental change in industry-wide representation for Latinx creatives. We’re thrilled to be partnering with the MacArthur Foundation and Board members Lyn Lear and Cindy Horn in our commitment to continuing and expanding the work that’s needed for more substantive change,” said Michelle Satter, founding senior director, Artist Programs. “It is our hope that by creating opportunities with these two program strands, we can elevate Latinx representation with more visibility, access to resources and meaningful connection with each other, the industry and the larger Sundance ecosystem.”
The 2022 Latine Fellowship & Collab Scholarships were developed with leadership funding support from Lyn Lear and Cindy Horn, and additional support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
These are the fellows who were selected to receive the Sundance Institute Latine Fellowship in 2022:
Ashley Alvarez (writer) Michael León(co-writer, director) “Crabs in a Barrel”(U.S.A.: When her talentless foe is anointed “future of Latinx voices,”A struggling Latina writer decides to take advantage of an unearned opportunity. After failing to recruit her friends to join her crusade, she gets a lucky break when she learns her rival isn’t exactly who she says she is.
Luna X. Moya (director/producer/editor/DP)with “What the Pier Gave Us” (U.S.A.) A film that is visually beautiful about immigrants fishing at a New York City Pier. In five vignettes, “What the Pier Gave Us”Lyrically, it captures the seasonal changes in a pier over a year.
Marilyn Oliva (director/producer). “Chalate” (U.S.A.: A grandmother teaches her daughter valuable life lessons, while she makes ends meet in Chalatenango’s small market.
George Pérez(creator/writer with “Los Cubanos” (U.S.A): Forced to flee Castro’s Cuba in 1980, a husband and wife make the gut-wrenching decision to abandon their daughter. Now, in a menacing and uncertain America, they’ll do anything to protect their other child; becoming drug traffickers and assassins, echoing the past they left behind.
Cat Rodríguez(divisor/performer). “Untitled Bikini Bodybuilding Project” (U.S.A): A hybrid theater and live-stream performance that uses a female bodybuilding competition as an allegory for questions about race, class, gender, and climate.
The following artists have been selected for the Sundance Institute Latine Collab Scholarship 2022
Shireen Alihaji (writer/director)with “Blue Veil” (U.S.A): In the wake of 9/11, a First-Gen Muslim teenager discovers her mother’s record collection and begins sampling. The songs reflect her parent’s migration stories (from Iran and Ecuador) to America, and serve as a roadmap to Amina’s identity. Amina’s music unlocks her memories.
Erin Nene-Lee Ramirez(writer/director) “Love, as an Illusion” (U.S.A) : In the heat of a New England summer, a young Dominican student finds himself stirring up the intimate dynamic between a reckless teenage couple as he spends his final days in the US, where he challenges the couples’ ideas of acceptance, intimacy and love.
Fabiano Mixo (writer/director)with “A Home of My Own” (U.S.A) : When an insomniac handyman comes across a train in the forest after a flood in town, he decides it’s time to build his own house.
Maggy Torres Rodriguez (writer) “Cherries” (U.S.A): Inner-city Miami knew the gang as The Cherries – sweet Latina vigilantes who protected teenage girls by keeping drugs off the streets… and butchering drug dealers if they had to. Ten years later, The Cherries, who are now retired, must reunite in order to combat the resurgence old enemies.
Mathew Ramirez Warren (Director/Producer). “Weed Dreams” (U.S.A): Black-owned businesses in Oakland, California try to break into the predominantly white legal Cannabis industry, through the nation’s first ever Cannabis Equity Program.
