The nonprofit Sundance Institute said it will use the gift — its largest endowment ever — to support new programs that boost indigenous artists.
To commemorate next year’s 40th edition of the Sundance Film Festival, we’re spending 12 months looking at the lives of 7 members of this year’s class.for emerging and mid-career Indigenous artists, the institute said. With the new donation, Sundance’s endowment has a current value of $28 million.“It’s both giving back, but also it’s giving forward,” Sundance Institute Chief Executive Joana Vicente said of the federation’s support.
Sundance Institute Chief Executive Joana Vicente addresses reporters at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.In 2022, 0.4% of theatrical film roles were portrayed by Native actors, while 64% were played by white actors, according to aby the UCLA Entertainment and Media Research Initiative, which examined the top 89 English-language movies in theaters based on box office data. Native actors did not receive any lead roles in major theatrical films in 2022, the report said.
There were no Native directors reflected in 2022’s top English-language theatrical films, nor in the top 100 streaming movies based on Nielsen ratings, according to the
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