Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship 2025 for Emerging Filmmakers ($3,000 Artist Grant)

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Applications are open for Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship 2025. The Sundance Institute and Adobe are teaming up to find the next 10 Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellows—emerging filmmakers (ages 18 to 25) who are creating stories that bring their passion, voice, and perspective to life.

The Sundance Ignite program identifies and supports new voices and talent from the next generation of filmmakers by providing artistic and professional development to advance filmmakers to the next stage in their filmmaking. The yearlong Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship is open to emerging documentary and fiction filmmakers from across the globe between ages 18 and 25. The fellowship begins with a weeklong in-person lab at MassMoca in North Adams, Massachusetts, orienting filmmakers to the fellowship and year ahead.

Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship Benefits

Throughout the year, filmmakers will:

Work with a Sundance Institute alumni mentor
Receive a $3,000 artist grant
Participate as a cohort in monthly webinars, workshops and workshares throughout the year
Receive a complimentary Adobe Creative Cloud 12-month membership, where Creative Cloud is available.

Eligibility Criteria

The Ignite x Adobe Fellowship Application is open to filmmakers between the ages of 18 and 25 who join the Sundance Collab community.
One entry per person.

Submission Guidelines for Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship

Films submitted must be under 15 minutes long (including credits) and must have been completed within the last 12 months, as of February 14, 2025.
Accepted video file formats: AVI, FLV, MOV, MP4, or MPEG-2.
Note: If you choose to upload a .MOV file, make sure that it is not using the Apple ProRes compression. We do not support reading Apple ProRes files or raw camera formats like ARRI and RED at this time.
An active project is required for the fellowship, however there is no obligation or expectation to complete the project during the fellowship.
Materials supporting a project that you intend to work on throughout the yearlong fellowship. These can include lookbooks, five pages of a script, treatments and pitch decks. Note: Materials must be in a PDF format.
The deadline to submit is February 14, 2025, at 11 a.m. PST.