Sundace Ignite X Adobe Fellowship 2025 ($3,000 grant) – YOA

Deadline: February 14, 2025

Applications are open for the Sundace Ignite X Adobe Fellowship 2025. The Sundance Institute and Adobe are teaming as much as discover the following 10 Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellows—rising filmmakers who’re creating tales that carry their ardour, voice, and perspective to life.

The Sundance Ignite program identifies and helps new voices and expertise from the following technology of filmmakers by offering creative {and professional} growth to advance filmmakers to the following stage of their filmmaking. The yearlong Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship is open to rising documentary and fiction filmmakers from throughout the globe between ages 18 and 25. The fellowship begins with a weeklong in-particular person lab at MassMoca in North Adams, Massachusetts, orienting filmmakers to the fellowship and 12 months forward.

To select this 12 months’s fellows, they’re asking filmmakers to submit a one- to fifteen-minute quick that exhibits their creative imaginative and prescient and distinctive voice. Submissions aren’t restricted to any style or matter — the one requirement is that they characterize the filmmaker’s perspective as an artist. You may even embody supplies in help of a brand new undertaking that you just intend to work on all through the fellowship. 

Benefits

Throughout the 12 months, filmmakers will:

• Work with a Sundance Institute alumni mentor.
• Receive a $3,000 artist grant.
• Participate as a cohort in month-to-month webinars, workshops and workshares all year long.
• Receive a complimentary Adobe Creative Cloud 12-month membership, the place Creative Cloud is on the market.

Eligibility

• Open to filmmakers between the ages of 18 and 25 who be a part of the Sundance Collab group.
• One entry per particular person.

Submission Guidelines

• Films submitted have to be below quarter-hour lengthy (together with credit) and will need to have been accomplished inside the final 12 months, as of February 14, 2025.
• Accepted video file codecs: AVI, FLV, MOV, MP4, or MPEG-2.
  Note: If you select to add a .MOV file, be sure that it’s not utilizing the Apple ProRes compression. We don’t help studying Apple ProRes recordsdata or uncooked digicam codecs like ARRI and RED at the moment.
• An energetic undertaking is required for the fellowship, nevertheless there isn’t a obligation or expectation to finish the undertaking through the fellowship.
• Materials supporting a undertaking that you just intend to work on all through the yearlong fellowship. These can embody lookbooks, 5 pages of a script, therapies and pitch decks. Note: Materials have to be in a PDF format.

Application

The deadline to submit is February 14, 2025, at 11 a.m. PST.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Sundace Ignite X Adobe Fellowship.