
Short Film News- The Sundance Institute Documentary Fund announced the result of its first round of grants in 2006.
The 605 thousand-dollar money contribution is given to 15 long documentary projects to be made individually or independently in the U.S.A, Cambodia, Israel, Philippines, Turkey, Colombia, and Liberia.
Sundance supports the documentaries with a focus on subjects such as human rights, freedom of expression, social justice, civil freedoms, and other social issues.
This grant was started in 2002 and is done in two rounds each year. 133 films have so far used this money contribution.
The films that are going to use the first amount of this money contribution in 2006 are as follows: Bombhunters by Skye Fitzgerald (U.S.A, Cambodia), Made in L.A by Almudena Carrecedo and Robert Bahar, Miss Gulag by Maria Yatskova, Irina Vodar and Raphaela Neihausen, My American Dream by Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini, Trouble the Waters by Tia Lessin, Carl Deal and Amir Bar-Lev, The Tight Rope by Petr Lom, Greenboro: Closer to the Truth by Adam Zucker, and Wonders Are Many by Jon Else (U.S.A), 9 Star Hotel by Ido Haar, and Justice must be Seen by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz (Israel), The Learning by Ramona S. Diaz (U.S.A & Philippines), The Visitors by Melis Birder (U.S.A & Turkey), The Baton Resistance by Margarita Martinez Escallon and Miguel Salazar (Colombia), Rebirth of a Nation (U.S.A & Liberia), and Chekpapi by Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt.
Most of the directors of the above-mentioned films are immigrants living in the U.S.A.
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