Support for
Sundance Institute
Our supporters enrich Sundance Institute’s Film Festival and other public events, and help to sustain our year-round programs for independent artists. As a nonprofit, Sundance Institute relies on gifts from our generous community of supporters, including many individuals, foundations, government agencies, and corporate sponsors and partners. These gifts make our programs possible, and we are grateful to those listed here.
Our supporters enrich Sundance Institute’s Film Festival and other public events, and help to sustain our year-round programs for independent artists. As a nonprofit, Sundance Institute relies on gifts from our generous community of supporters, including many individuals, foundations, government agencies, and corporate sponsors and partners. These gifts make our programs possible, and we are grateful to those listed here.
PRESENTING SPONSORS
PRESENTING SPONSORS
FESTIVAL
HOST STATE
FESTIVAL HOST STATE
LEADERSHIP SPONSORS
LEADERSHIP SPONSORS
SUSTAINING SPONSORS
SUSTAINING SPONSORS
MEDIA SPONSORS
MEDIA
SPONSORS
INSTITUTE SUPPORTERS
As a nonprofit, the Sundance Institute relies on gifts from our generous community of supporters, including many individuals, foundations, government agencies, and corporate sponsors and partners. These gifts make our programs possible, and we are grateful to those listed here who contributed between December 1, 2023, and November 30, 2024.
INDIVIDUALS
INDIVIDUALS
$100,000 AND ABOVE
Anonymous
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Aldag, Jr.
Frank and Mary Lake Bennack
John Boccardo and J. Derek Esplin
Ebs Burnough and Pierre LaGrange
David and Linda Cornfield
Charles Engelhard Foundation
Nina and David Fialkow
The Gruneich Foundation
Bill and Ruth Ann Harnisch – The Harnisch Foundation
Sarah Johnson
Lear Family Foundation
Melony and Adam Lewis
Ann Lewnes
Medical Properties Trust, Inc.
Cathy and Alex Mendez
Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation
Steward Family Foundation
Elizabeth and Kenneth Whitney
$50,000-$99,999
Anonymous
Salman Al-Rashid
Charmaine and Sean Bailey
Peggy Bergmann
Jason and Lauren Blum
Philipp Engelhorn and Cameron Yates
Facet
Caterina Fake
Jeanne Donovan Fisher
Linda and Bob Frankenberg
Wyck Godfrey
Andrew Hee and Rachel Erickson Hee
Ann Hill
The Horn Foundation
Caroline and Edward Hyman
Amanda Kelso and Cameron Marlow
Charles and Stacey King
Shelly and Robert Light
Wonya Lucas
Alejandro Ramírez Magaña
Minderoo Pictures
Bill Plapinger and Cassie Murray
Robina Riccitiello – Spark Features
Elena and Geoffrey Sands
Nadine Schiff and Fred Rosen
Fred Thompson
$25,000-$49,999
Anonymous
Frankie and Joseph Armstead
Michele Boal
April and Andrew Bosworth
Hannalorre Chahine
Leigh Ann Charlot
Joseph Cleary
The Desich Family Foundation
John and Lauren Driscoll
Jana Edelbaum
Roger Ehrenberg and Carin Levine-Ehrenberg
Essex County Community Foundation
William and Sakurako Fisher
Scott and Molly Forstall
Scott and Jennifer Frank
Heather Goodman
Marni Grossman
The Handasyde Group
Sandra and Howard Hoffen
Margaret Jacobs
Nicole Jordan-Webber
Phil Kent
The Leupold Family
Grace Lay – LinLay Productions
Lippman Family Foundation
The Long Family
Crystal and Charles Maggelet
Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman
Susan Bay Nimoy
Meryl Metni and Ubiquitous Entertainment Group
Pat Mitchell and Scott Seydel
Monika Parekh – P-Squared Philanthropies
Jack Pearkes
Ken Pelletier
Jennifer Pelling
Diana and Bruce Rauner
Bill and Emily Reedy – Peak 5 Films
Ellen and Michael Rosenberg
Saturnia
Jane Solomon
Nancy Stephens and Rick Rosenthal – The Rosenthal Family Foundation
Christopher and Heidi Stolte
Janet and Gottfried Tittiger
Samantha Topping Gellert – Little Bit Barn Productions
Gayle and Barry Tyerman
Andrea van Beuren
Rosadel Varela and Stephane Bouvel
Marni McKinney Waterfield and Richard Waterfield
$10,000-$24,999
Anonymous
Shizuka Asakawa
Elizabeth Barrow
Elizabeth and Brad Bird
Nancy Blachman and David desJardins
Karen Bobe
Anne and Jim Bodnar
Karen and Ian Calderon
Michele Carbonell
Jen Chaiken
Lorinda Chiang
Matthew Clyde
Elliot Cooperstone
Rachel Crane
Ian Darling
Dana and Andy Eckert
Richard and Jill Schnitzer Edelson
Molly and Kevin Efrusy
The Eisenberg Family
Leslie and Jeffrey Fischer
Leonard Gail
Mell and Kieran Gallahue
Heather Goodman
Robert Goodman
Anne and Mark Hansen
J. Dale Harvey
Terry and Ann Marie Horner
Barbara and Bob Jones
Mischel Kwon
Whitaker Lader
Antje Lechner
Suzanne Lueder
Randall Mays
Rob and Laura Medway
John Mooty Foundation – Elizabeth and Chuck Mooty
Maureen Pelton
Kathryn Petersen
Rob Pitts
Dwight Poler
Othon Prounis
David E. Quinney III
Brian Rosen
Ellen and Michael Rosenberg
Kara Ross
Caryn and Barry Rudofsky
Kenneth Sankin
Robert and Deborah Schiller
Jason Seegert
Wendy and Frank Serrino
Barry Stark
Laura Stuart
Rosalie Swedlin and Robert Cort
Katrina Vanden Heuvel
Mark Wawro
Jeff and Liesl Wilke
Lisa Wilson
Graham Yost
Catherine Wyler
The Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Foundation
Samantha Zinober
$5,000-$9,999
Anonymous
Michelle Ashford
Amy and Barry Baker Family Foundation
Julie Baker
Laurence Bardoff and Lilli Alberga
Valerie Barrett
Susan Barsamian
Jeannien Berkman
William Bindley
Maria Boyce
Mary Boyle
Farran Brown
Robyn Carp
Daniel Chun
Steve Cohen and Paula Froehle – Chicago Media Project
Daniel Conway
Laura Cornish
David Cowan
Michael and Christine Curtis
Sarah Cuthill
Margaret and Yogen Dalal
Deborah and Forrest Danson
Sean Devlin
Dana DiCarlo
William Dietz
Hassan Elmasry
Wendy Ettinger
Chandler and Oliver Evans
Beth Falcone
Howard Fischer
Marissa Fisher
Gregg and Jeff Foxworthy
Sarah Foshee
The Fredston-Hermann Family
Jamie Pafford-Gresham
Janice and Steven Hefter
Mona Heyer
Barbara Hulit
Barbara and Julius Hyatt
Kristin M. Johnson
Allison Jones
William Julien
MaryBeth Kane
Jean Kaplan
Stephen Kay and Susan Bloch Kay
Heather Kenihan
Stefani and Scott Kimche
Ellen Kirsh
Rahul Kishore
Patricia Kivel and Tom Biafore
Jeffrey Kolovson
Christine Leuthold
Susan Lockwood
Kelley and Stephen Lubanko
Charlotte Lubert
Lauren Lustbader
Julia Massa
Bethany Mayer and Dale Jantzen
Katherine Milias
Dale S. Miller
Laura Moorman
Julie Morris and Diane Philips
Susan and Gib Myers
Anna Near
Kelly and Michael Palmer
Allen Pixton
John and Marcia Price Family Foundation
David Pruner
Lindsay Raffaele
Anita Rao
Erica Rivinoja
Martine Rothblatt
Mr. Howard R. Rothwell
Anish Savjani
Jim and Emily Scheinman
Laurie and Owen Schwartz
Jim and Stacy Scott
Beesham Seecharan
Dina Shaw
Deborah and Gary Shedlin
Robin Shepherd
Joel and Lisa Shine
Elisa and Brian Slobodow
Rick Smith
Joy and Bruce Soll
Paul Spaht
Steiner King Foundation
Sarah Timberman
Millicent and Todd Tracey
Christina Varotsis
Margot Weinstein
Elaine and Joe Weis
Barbara Wolf
FOUNDATIONS
FOUNDATIONS
$1,000,000 AND ABOVE
Acton Family Giving
Anonymous
Doris Duke Foundation
John Templeton Foundation
Ford Foundation
Open Society Foundations
Sandbox Films
$500,000-$999,999
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Mellon Foundation
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
$250,000-$499,999
Arison Arts Foundation
The Asian American Foundation (TAAF)
The 11th Hour Project, a program of the Schmidt Family Foundation
$100,000-$249,999
Cinereach
George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation
Ray and Dagmar Dolby Fund
$50,000-$99,999
Golden Globe Foundation
The Kahlert Foundation
$25,000-$49,999
Baszucki Group
Common Pictures
Critical Minded
The deNovo Initiative
Evoke Media
Jerome Foundation
JL Foundation
Sobrato Philanthropies
$10,000-$24,999
Paul T. Walton Jr. Charitable Foundation
Promontory Foundation
$5,000-$9,999
Deborah Reinisch and Michael Theodore Fund
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
$500,000 AND ABOVE
Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria
State of Utah
Summit County Restaurant Tax
$100,000-$249,999
National Endowment for the Arts
Salt Lake County
Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts & Parks (ZAP)
Summit County Council
$10,000-$49,999
FEMA’s Resilient Nation Partnership Network
Indigenous Screen Office
$5,000–$9,999
European Film Promotion
Salt Lake City Arts Council
Special thanks to the Utah Film Commission, Park City Municipal Corporation, Park City Visitors Bureau and Film Commission.
CORPORATE SUPPORTERS
CORPORATE SUPPORTERS
INDUSTRY PARTNERS
101 Studios
AMC+
Cedar Road
Cinetic Media and Sloss Eckhouse Dasti Haynes LawCo
NHK
ShivHans Pictures
Sons of Rigor
Sony Pictures Classics
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions
Working Barn Productions
INSTITUTE ASSOCIATES
ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers)
Asia Society Northern California
CNN Films
Easterseals Disability Services
ESME GRACE
The Impact Lounge
Kanopy
NASA+
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA)
Sundance Living
Sustainable Entertainment Alliance
Windrider Institute
