REGISTER: 'The Road to Sundance Film Festival' Live Online Event

[New York Film Academy]( [NYFA Film Festival Department Presents]( LIVE ONLINE EVENT The Road to Sundance: How Two NYFA Alumni Created the Film Festival Run of Their Dreams August 15, 2023 9 a.m. PT / 12 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. BST --------------------------------------------------------------- Getting into the Sundance Film Festival is every emerging filmmaker's dream, yet less than one percent of submitted shorts are selected each year. Join Crickett Rumley, Senior Director of NYFA's Film Festival Department, for a conversation with MFA alumni Lucía Flórez and Chémi Pérez, who beat the odds when their documentary Shirampari: Legacies of the River became an official selection of Sundance's 2023 edition. They'll discuss how they developed a festival strategy unique to the filmmakers and their film, what they learned in the early months of their submission process and festival run, and how they prepared for -- and made the most of -- their Sundance experience. [REGISTER]( --------------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THE GUESTS [Lucia Florez]( LUCÍA FLÓREZ is a documentary filmmaker with a decade of experience creating short films on social and environmental topics (UN, WWF, WCS, among others). She is a Fulbright scholar and earned a Master's in Documentary Filmmaking at the New York Film Academy. During her time in the United States, she directed Paperthin (2018) and Mamá (2019). She received the Yvonne Hebert Award from UN Women and the Matthew Modine Master's Scholarship. In 2021, Lucía became a National Geographic Explorer and directed Shirampari: Legacies of the River (2022), a documentary short film shot in a pristine area of the Peruvian Amazon. The film has been screened at prestigious international festivals such as Sundance 2023, DOC NYC, Santa Barbara, Big Sky, and DOK Leipzig, among others. Currently, she is developing her first feature film, Ever and the Sharks, while working as a filmmaker and screenwriter at El Taller.pe, the Peruvian production company she co-founded. Flórez combines these activities with participation in the Jackson Wild and Santiago Wild labs. [Chemi Perez]( CHÉMI PÉREZ is a producer, film director, and screenwriter based in the Canary Islands. His work as a journalist led him to make documentaries in Mexico, Guatemala, and Argentina, and then he leaped into fiction thanks to a Fulbright scholarship in 2018. He graduated with honors from the MFA in Filmmaking degree program at the New York Film Academy after writing and directing four narrative short films and becoming part of Gold Rising, a program of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Oscars) that elevates the work of emerging filmmakers. In 2022, he traveled to the heart of the Peruvian Amazon to produce Shirampari: Legacies of the River. He is currently developing feature film projects at his production company, Cabo Sur, based in Arguineguín, Gran Canaria. --------------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THE MODERATOR [NYFA Crickett Rumley]( CRICKETT RUMLEY received her MFA in Film at Columbia University and is the founder and senior director of the Film Festival Department at the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles. With diversity, equity, and inclusion at the center of her work, she develops educational programs and festival strategy for a diverse student body. She has guided filmmakers to official selections at such esteemed festivals ranging from Sundance to Bronzelens and to nomination and shortlisting for the BAFTA Student Film Awards, the Student Academy Awards, and the College Television Awards. [REGISTER]( [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Twitter]( [Snapchat]( [YouTube]( [TikTok]( New York Film Academy [NYFA.EDU]( 1-800-611-FILM 17 Battery Pl FL 5, New York, NY 10004 --------------------------------------------------------------- [Remove me from future messages]( Powered by TargetX