Sundance Ignite X Adobe Fellowship 2024

The Sundance Ignite program identifies and supports new voices and talent from the next generation of filmmakers by providing artistic and professional development to advance filmmakers to the next stage in their filmmaking.

Funding Information

• Filmmakers will receive a $3,000 artist grant.

Benefits

• The fellowship begins with a weeklong lab orienting filmmakers to the fellowship and year ahead. Throughout the year, filmmakers will:
  • Work with a Sundance Institute alumni mentor;
  • Participate as a cohort in monthly webinars, workshops and workshares throughout the year;
  • Receive a complimentary Adobe Creative Cloud 12-month membership, where Creative Cloud is available.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Ignite x Adobe Fellowship application is open to filmmakers between the ages of 18 and 25 who join the Sundance Collab community.
• All submissions will be viewable to the community.
• All submissions will be given equal consideration, the finalists and 10 fellows will be determined by the consensus of the designated Sundance Ignite judges.
• All work submitted, for both the short film and supplemental materials, must be entirely your own; you cannot include film clips or music created by others without their written permission. If your film features people, you must obtain their consent.
• Only one director per submission can be considered for the Ignite x Adobe Fellowship. If two or more directors are identified for a single submission, priority will be given to the director who completed the submission. Films can only be submitted once.
• Only the director of the film can submit and be considered for the fellowship.
• Any film not in English must include English subtitles.
• Work re-submitted from previous editions of the Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship, including those on the Adobe Project 1324 platform will not be considered.
• All short films must be submitted online in digital video format.
• The maximum file size you can upload is 4.9 GB.
• An active project is required for the fellowship; however there is no obligation or expectation to complete the project during the fellowship.
• Employees of Sundance Institute are not eligible to submit.

Submission Guidelines

• One entry per person.
• Films submitted must be under 15 minutes long (including credits) and must have been completed within the last 12 months, as of February 7, 2024.
• Accepted video file formats: AVI, FLV, MOV, MP4, or MPEG-2.
• An active project is required for the fellowship; however there is no obligation or expectation to complete the project during the fellowship.
• Materials supporting a project that you intend to work on throughout the yearlong fellowship. These can include lookbooks, five pages of a script, treatments and pitch decks. Note: Materials must be in a PDF format.

For more information, visit Sundance Institute.