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Last year, Rolling Stone joined forces with IndieWire, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and online-education platform Yellowbrick to launch “Film and TV Industry Essentials,” an online certificate program that will cover multiple, interlacing careers in the film and television industry. Contributors include filmmakers such as Judd Apatow and Ang Lee as well as a range of craftspeople and executives from across the industry.

Now module 3, which focuses on the production process, is now available. Watch the trailer to survey course offerings below.

The completely online program,...

IndieWire is joining forces with Rolling Stone, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and online education platform Yellowbrick to launch “Film and TV Industry Essentials,” an online certificate program that will cover multiple, interlacing careers in the film and TV industry. Contributors include filmmakers such as Judd Apatow and Ang Lee as well as a range of craftspeople and executives from across the industry.

To sign up for email updates on the program, go here.

The completely online program, which will admit its first students in September, is comprised of modules covering the creative process, mechanics of crafts, business concepts, and criticism. The curriculum has been designed to help aspiring directors, producers, writers, and executives better understand their own inclinations and career paths. The organizers hope that Yellowbrick’s track record of attracting learners from diverse backgrounds will help draw talent that may not have otherwise found routes into the industry.

To assist directors in financing and speeding completion of their projects, the Festival created the Atelier in 2005.

For its 5th edition, the Atelier de la Cinéfondation has chosen 15 projects from 14 countries. The selection has been restricted to highlight both up and coming directors: Ho Wi Ding, Caran Hartsfield or Bertrand Mandico, and established directors: Zhang Yuan, Faouzi Bensaidi, Diego Lerman, Danielle Arbid or Malgoska Szumowska.

Alongside the producer(s) of their films, each director will meet in Cannes from May 15th to May 22nd film industry professional (sales agents, distributors, TV channels, producers, financiers, and representative of funding bodies) during the course of meetings that are presently being organized.

To download the Livre des Projets, as well as to request meetings with the directors and their producers, please follow the links below:

Livre Des Projets

Meeting Form in Pdf

Meeting Form in Excel file

Please do not hesitate to contact Agnès Durvin,...

• Caran Hartfield's Bury Me Standing and Jake Mahaffy's Free in Deed are two in development projects looking for funding among the 15 selected by Cannes' Atelier de la Cinéfondation. As explained to me by some Sundance directors who had a chance to have their projects take part in the Cannes' The Atelier, in a nutshell, it acts as one extra way to meet with other producers in an attempt to get some coin (mostly foreign) prior to production. Mostly reserved to first, second and third time directors, this year selection includes two U.S. based projects. The directors and producers meet with industry people during the festival's hustle and bustle. Supported by indie producers Effie Brown (Real Women Have Curves) and Gina Kwon (Me and You and Everyone We Know), Bury Me Standing already has three players attached to the project (Mos Def, Kerry Washington and Alfre Woodard) and

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For the second consecutive year, the Sundance Institute will partner with art house cinemas nationwide to present specialized screening programs of films that have played the Sundance Film Festival.

Under the banner of the Sundance Institute Arthouse Project, which was inaugurated last year, the film series will play theaters in 12 cities.

Each of the participating venues will design a customized Sundance screening series for its local community, drawing from films that have played the Sundance fest -- some of which are still seeking distribution -- as well as films supported by the Sundance Institute.

This year, the local programs will include a specially selected series of short films from the 2007 fest: Death to the Tinman, directed by Ray Tintori; Peace Talk, Jennifer Malmqvist; King, Caran Hartsfield; Salt Kiss, Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa; God Provides, Brian Cassidy and Melanie Shatzsky; Everything Will Be OK, Don Hertzfeldt; and Happiness, Sophie Barthes.

The participating theaters and film programs are Belcourt Theatre in Nashville; Broadway Center Cinemas in Salt Lake City, Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, Mass., Enzian Theater in Orlando, International Film Series in Boulder, Colo., Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, N.Y., Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, Mich., Oklahoma City Museum of Art in Oklahoma City, Pickford Cinema in Bellingham, Wash., Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, Calif., Ragtag Cinema in Columbia, Mo., and Railroad Square Cinema in Waterville, Maine.

PARK CITY -- Four filmmakers will each receive $10,000 and Japanese television broadcast rights for their next project thanks to this year's Sundance/NHK International Filmmaker Awards, it was announced Thursday.

The winning filmmakers are Lucia Cedron (Agnus Dei) from Latin America, Caran Hartsfield (Bury Me Standing) from the U.S., Tomoko Kana (Two by the River) from Japan and Dagur Kari (The Good Heart) from Europe.

Sundance Institute staffers will assist each winner in obtaining financing and distribution for their upcoming projects. Their next features will be shown on NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp.), which has five 24-hour TV and three radio channels in Japan.

Each winner was chosen from 12 finalists based on their projects.

The jury included Brad Silberling, Bent Hamer, Pawel Pawlikowski, Rafael Yglesias and other filmmakers.

The awards were founded in 1996 to "support visionary film directors" from four global regions: Europe, Latin America, the U.S. and Japan. Previous recipients include Miranda July, Andrucha Waddington, Walter Salles and Chris Eyre.

The winners will receive the award Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival awards ceremony.