Sundance Institute Awards Fellowships to Seven Moviemakers

By Jessica Wall
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/sundance_institute_2008_annenberg_film_fellowships_20080730/
The Sundance Institute may be best known for its star-studded winter festival, but its dedication to moviemaking is a year-round effort. It recently awarded Annenberg Film Fellowships to seven moviemakers chosen from its June Directors Lab as part of a $5 million dollar grant created by the Annenberg Foundation. The recipients are John Magary, Fellipe Barbosa, Moon Molson, Daniel Casey, Frank Budgen, Lara Foot Newton and Gerhard Marx, whose fellowship projects range from Shockheaded Peter, Budgen’s adaptation of gruesome fairy tales, to Casa Grande, Barbosa’s story of a young boy struggling with class privilege in Rio.