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2026 Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe Fellowship is sponsored by Sundance Institute. Supports emerging filmmakers ages 18-25 creating documentary and fiction films. Includes one-week in-person lab at MassMoca, yearlong mentorship, and $5,000 grant.
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Established in 2015 with founding support from Adobe, the program offers individuals ages 18 to 25 the Sundance Film Festival Ignite x Adobe Ticket Package and the Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe Fellowship Program, a competitive and year-round artist-development program supporting emerging filmmakers ages 18 to 25 with a year of mentorship and program opportunities, and Sundance Institute Ignite traveling programs.
Documentaries from around the globe that bear witness to issues of human rights, social justice, civil liberties and freedom of expression bring forth truth in ways which can have a profound effect on societies and lives. Bringing these truths forward is critical, now more than ever.
” marking the 20th anniversary of Documentary Fund in 2022 Sundance Institute Ignite Program Calendar Sundance Institute Ignite hosts several events throughout the year, including the Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe Fellowship. Hosted on Sundance Institute Collab, the year-long fellowship is aimed at helping emerging filmmakers ages 18–25 hone the projects that they are working on.
2026 Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe Fellowship Application Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts November 11, 2025 – February 12, 2026 Sundance Film Festival Ignite x Adobe Ticket Package 2026 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT 2025 Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe Fellows In collaboration with Adobe, Sundance Institute announced the 2025 class of Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe Fellows in June 2025.
The fellows were chosen from a broad global pool of more than 1000 entrants to the Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe Fellowship. Check out their winning films on Sundance Institute Collab! Support for Sundance Institute Ignite Sundance Institute Ignite is supported by Adobe and Arison Arts Foundation.
A look inside our Ignite Program Labs, Fellowships, Grants, Programs Sundance Film Festival Industry Office Membership and Donor Circles Trademark Use & Brand Guidelines Entities (Sundance Group) 2025 Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe Fellows In collaboration with Adobe, Sundance Institute announced the 2025 class of Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe Fellows in June 2025.
The fellows were chosen from a broad global pool of more than 1000 entrants to the Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe Fellowship. Check out their winning films on Sundance Institute Collab! Omolola Ajao is an artist working within film, video, and theater.
Her work repeatedly attends to the metaphysical and psychological. Her short film After Sunday premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. She holds a Master of Visual Studies degree from the University of Toronto.
Harlan Banks is a writer, director, editor, and Miles Morales fanatic from Stanford, California. He’s interested in shining new lights on often overshadowed perspectives through telling stories that subvert genre conventions while blurring lines between documentary and narrative. Ruairí Bradley is a director from Ireland.
His debut short film, We Beg To Differ , screened at SXSW, Clermont-Ferrand, and Shortfest. It qualified for the Oscars, was nominated for Best Short at the London Critics and Irish Film and Television Awards, and is a 2026 European Film Awards candidate. Siwoo Kim is a filmmaker and animator based in New York.
He graduated from Pratt Institute as a recipient of the Seeman Burse scholarship. His animated thesis, Inside My Worn Out Drawer, is an Ocean , was awarded by a panel of external jurors to screen at BAM and is in the festival circuit. Rahul Koul is an Indian American filmmaker exploring spirituality and cultural identity.
His debut short, Yajñopavīta , written and directed with Ford Cowan, is in the festival circuit. A Vanderbilt alum based in Seattle, Koul draws from his South Asian heritage to craft meditative, poetic narratives. Giles Perkins is a Brooklyn-based writer and director from Baltimore, Maryland.
A graduate of NYU Tisch, his work explores interpersonal conflict shaped by misguided American ideals. His latest short, Expiration Date , premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Festival. Cloe Velarde Raffo, born in Lima and raised on Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast, draws inspiration from nature and the surf-beach culture.
With a BA in film and TV, she focuses on directing and cinematography — telling stories that explore human experience, female perspectives, and cultural depth with visual emotion. Leon Ristov is a Macedonian filmmaker based in New York. He is currently completing the film MFA at Columbia University as a Miloš Forman fellow.
His films have screened at the Sarajevo Film Festival, NFFTY, and over 30 international festivals. He is an alum of Clermont-Ferrand Euro Connection. Anooya Swamy is a New York–based Indian filmmaker born and raised in Bangalore pursuing her MFA at Tisch School of Arts in film/TV production.
She is an Ang Lee Scholar, a BAFTA Scholar, and Spike Lee’s current assistant. Her films are for women and people who live life in pursuit of love. Brittany Alexia Young is a Florida-born, LA-based filmmaker making coming-of-age, genre-blending films following Black and queer protagonists.
She is currently developing a feature for her latest short, Munchies , which was backed by the WAVE Grant and screened at Palm Springs International ShortFest, Frameline49, and NFFTY. 2024 Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellows In collaboration with Adobe, Sundance Institute announced the 2024 class of Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellows in June 2024.
The fellows were chosen from a broad global pool of more than 1000 entrants to the Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship. Check out their winning films on Sundance Collab! Devon Blackwell is a filmmaker and MFA student in documentary film at Stanford University.
Her debut film, Goodbye, Morganza , premiered at Tribeca Festival, garnering a special jury mention in Short Documentary. Bridget Frances Harris is a director, actor, writer, and Tiny Desk Concert enthusiast from Las Vegas, Nevada. She received the Panavision NFP grant, and she’s screened at Palm Springs Short Fest, Florida Film Festival, and NFFTY.
Harris graduated from The Theatre School at DePaul University with her BFA in acting. Natalie Jasmine Harris is a filmmaker from Maryland passionate about centering Black queer joy and girlhood in her work. Harris has directed shorts that have been acquired by HBO and played at the Sundance Film Festival, Palm Springs ShortFest, Outfest, and more.
She is currently developing her first feature. Taylor Sanghyun Lee is a director and cinematographer based in New York City. He is currently a Directing fellow at NYU Tisch Graduate Film, where he is the recipient of the Ang Lee Scholarship.
His short film Layover won the NYU Black Family Prize and premiered at the 67th San Francisco International Film Festival. Mackie Mallison is a filmmaker living in Brooklyn, New York. He was named one of Filmmaker Magazine ’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2023, and his work has screened at New York Film Festival, SXSW, Palm Springs, BAM, SIFF, and BFI.
Mallison’s short films will premiere on The Criterion Channel in 2024. Justine Martin is a director based in Montréal whose first short, Oasis (2022), was selected for festivals like IDFA and DOK Leipzig before getting onto the 2024 Oscars shortlist. Martin is currently working on a fiction film and on the development of a feature-length documentary.
Cormac McCrimmon is a documentary cinematographer, journalist, and director based in Denver, Colorado. He’s interested in telling stories that force us to reckon with long-held myths, reimagine our relationship to nature, and capture the beauty of ordinary lives. Justine Prince is a French Canadian director whose work explores gender representation and nostalgia.
Her works stand out for their benevolence, treating drama in a soft and poetic way. Samina Saifee is a filmmaker and New York University Tisch graduate based in Brooklyn. Her second short, Ayat , starring Laith Nakli ( Ramy , Problemista ), is in the festival circuit.
Her work has been supported by Sundance Institute and Film Independent, and she is currently developing her first feature. Philip Thompson is a filmmaker from New England, based in Brooklyn, listed as one of Filmmaker magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film. ” His work investigates popular media’s influence on culture and the one-sided “looking” relationship between audiences and image subjects.
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Xiaoxuan Jiang is an ethnic Manchurian filmmaker born and raised in Inner Mongolia, China. In 2020, she received her BFA in Film&TV from NYU. Her works explore topics of femininity, animals, nature, and mysticism in the Inner Mongolian and global context.
Her latest narrative short “Graveyard of Horses”(2022) was officially selected for SXSW ’23, Pöff Shorts(Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival), and won the NETPAC Award at the Busan International Short Film Festival. Alvina Joshi is an Indian editor and filmmaker. She works primarily in Non-fiction, and is interested in exploring the confluence of lives, spaces, time and memory in the context of unequal societies.
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His debut short film, Birdsong, which he co-directed and produced premiered at SXSW 2023 and has been acquired by The Guardian. He is an incoming student at NYU Tisch’s Graduate Film programme.
Milla Lewis is a UK filmmaker whose work focuses on the intersection of history, memory and myth, with a specific interest in how individuals experience conflicts around their pillars of reality, and how these relate to themes of isolation and belonging. Starting out as an award-winning photographer, in 2021 she was the recipient of the Directing Mentorship Programme at the Polish National Film School in Łódź.
Rafaël Beauchamp is a French Canadian filmmaker and a bachelor from the Université du Québec à Montréal. He is interested in enhancing modern societal issues through the lens of genre cinema. His films have been screened internationally at festivals such as SXSW, Palm Springs, Leiden Shorts and Inside Out.
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com/IsleChild with Executive Producer Jim Cummings. Advik Beni is a South African artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Through magical realism and non-hierarchical, hybrid modes of filmmaking, he collectively creates spaces for peoples on the fringes to express grief and trauma.
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His debut short film El Extraño en la Casa Rivera has won several awards, including the Filmmaker to Watch Award at the 2022 Atlanta Film Festival. Tae Catalina Low is a filmmaker and programmer from Bogotá, Colombia. She is currently based in Mexico City.
Her films explore different imaginaries and mythologies of globalization. Justin Kim WooSŏk was born in Korea and came of age in LA. He graduated Wesleyan in 2019 with an honor’s degree in Film and American Studies.
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Mykea Fairweather Perry is a filmmaker from London and a graduate of Ravensbroune University. His passion lies within telling real world, personal stories, with his recent projects having screened at BAFTA and BIFA-qualifying festivals. Things Mykea likes: filmmaking & playing rugby.
Things Mykea doesn’t like: writing bio’s in third person. 2021 Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellows In collaboration with Adobe, Sundance Institute announced the 2021 class of Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellows in July 2021. The fellows were chosen from a broad global pool of more than 1,600 entrants to the Sundance Ignite x Adobe Short Film Challenge.
Check out their winning films on Sundance Co//ab! Diego Bragà was born in Minas Gerais, Brazil and lives in Lisbon, Portugal. Diego is a non-binary artist who began their studies through dance.
They lock themselves in their office and dance frantically everyday. Diego received a lot of Love from their Ancestors, one of them dressed as a witch and chased them around the house. Diego tries to listen to the Universe, striving for a fluid, magical and beautiful future ahead.
Karina Dandashi is a Syrian-American Muslim writer, director, and actress based in Brooklyn, NY. Her films aim to explore nuances in identity through family, religion, and culture in SWANA and Muslim communities in America. Karina is the 2021 Silver Sun Diverse Voices Filmmaker Fellow at the Jacob Burns Film Center.
She is currently writing her first feature film. Dylan Gee is a half-Chinese, half-Caucasian filmmaker. In 2019, she graduated from NYU’S Tisch with a B.
F. A. in Film + Television Production.
Through film, she’s interested in making sense of the absurdities around us. Dylan currently works at Anonymous Content and formerly worked at Angry Hero Entertainment. She’s working on an upcoming short and writing her first feature length film.
She’s also obsessed with chess. Justice Jamal Jones (He/They) is a filmmaker, actor, and writer based in New York City. Jones is a graduate of New York University with a degree in Arts Therapy for “Marginalized” Groups.
As a self-proclaimed Black queer alchemist, they intergrate Black Feminist and Queer theory into my art alongside Black diasporic spiritual pratices, tranforming everyday mundane western occurrences and conjuring them into seremdipitious collisions of of progressive storytelling, that center the marginalized.
Recently their debut film “How To Raise A Black Boy” has been recognized at Cleveland International Film Festival, Outfest Fusion Film Festival, and at Atlanta Film Festival, where Jones won “Filmmaker to Watch.' ” The film also had its digital premiere with NOWNESS. Justice is also the founder of Rainbow Farm Productions (Rainbowfarmprod.
com), and they are developing their first feature film “Crossroads Blues. ” Dubheasa is a South London based writer, director, and producer working across film and theatre. She is a co-founder of failsafe, an arts collective focusing on the importance of embracing failure in the creative process and also aims to bring opportunities to other budding young creatives.
Dubheasa currently works in photography based arts education and on independent films while writing and directing her own work in between projects. Lindiwe Makgalemele is a South African filmmaker based in the United Kingdom. She is a graduate of Harvard University with an honour’s degree in History and Science and a minor in Romance Languages and Literature.
Her short film, The Town, has just began its festival run. Lindiwe is interested in stories that celebrate the small, intimate, and spectacular moments that make up people’s lives, particularly those of black and African women. She is currently completing a master’s degree at the University of Oxford and developing a short she intends to shoot this Fall.
Maliyamungu Gift Muhande is a Congolese Documentary filmmaker and Artist based in New York City. In 2020 she Directed a 6-week, film program for under-represented teens in Monticello, NY. From that program came her documentary-in-progress Near Broadway, co-created with her students, about their lives in the economically depressed town and in the U.S. as it exists today.
Muhande’s short documentary on the 80-year-old African American New York City street photographer, Louis Mendes, was screened in the fall of 2020 as part of the Doc NYC film festival and was selected by the National Board of Review. She is currently working on expanding this short into a feature film. Natalie Murao is a yonsei (fourth generation Japanese Canadian) filmmaker from Vancouver.
She received a BFA in Film Production from Simon Fraser University. Her work explores themes of generational disconnect, personal memory, and communication. Her latest short film, No More Parties (2020), was selected for Telefilm Canada’s Not Short on Talent program at Clermont-Ferrand and is now available to watch on digital TIFF Bell Lightbox as part of their Community Impact shelf.
As a first-generation Latina filmmaker hailing from the Bay Area with an educational background in Anthropology, Latinx Studies, and Documentary Media, Marilyn Oliva is an independent documentary and experimental filmmaker. Her experimental films explore the diversity of Latina/o/x communities and lives, often using oral indigenous histories.
Furthermore, her documentary films explore how the Latina/o/x community navigates several U.S. social, political, and economic institutions. Juanita is a filmmaker from Bogota, Colombia based in Atlanta, Georgia. Her films and documentaries explore the personal and subtle moments of family life with a focus on social commentary.
When she’s not directing or writing her own films, she enjoys working as a camera assistant and production assistant. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation The Charles Engelhard Foundation Entertainment Industry Foundation Occidental Petroleum Corporation
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Emerging filmmakers ages 18-25 worldwide. Must submit one short film (under 15 minutes) completed within last 12 months and materials for proposed project. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
Current published award information indicates $5,000 artist grant plus mentorship and Adobe Creative Cloud membership Always verify allowable costs, matching requirements, and funding caps directly in the sponsor documentation.
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