"Sundance in New Mexico" was announced Thursday by Gov. Bill Richardson and Robert Redford. It will be a collaboration between the state of New Mexico to create more training opportunities for Native American and Hispanic filmmakers.
The Sundance lab program is operated under the guidance of Bird Runningwater, Associate Director, Sundance Instititute Native American and Indigenous Program. It offers training for Native American filmmakers in their early stages of their career. The lab has moved to New Mexico and started yesterday and runs until Friday, May 22. The four selected filmmakers are: Sydney Freeland, Adam Piron, Rachel Naninnaaq Edwardson, and Brian Young. The four advisors are Sterlin Harjo, Merata Mita, Allison Anders, and Kasi Lemmons.
Redford sees the move as a positive change. "It has a lot to do with the changes in the world around us, the fact that there's change that's in the air right now ... and the positive has to do with arts and culture," he said to NY Daily News.
"It's been very frustrating to me to see art constantly categorized at the end of the train, as the caboose, as something that's elitist or extremely leftist ... always pushed into the nonprofit zone," he said.
"That to me is an old saw that needs to be changed."
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