Sundance Documentary Fund – Faculty /faculty Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:50:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 /wp-content/themes/b/bates-framework/styles/images/bates-favicon.png Sundance Documentary Fund – Faculty /faculty 32 32 Carolina González Valencia’s film funding success highlighted in ‘Deadline’ /faculty/2025/11/24/carolina-gonzalez-valencias-film-funding-success-highlighted-in-deadline/ Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:02:19 +0000 /faculty/?p=7724 News of Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture Carolina González Valencia’s&Բ; grant of $50,000 to finish her film How to Clean a House in Ten Easy Steps was covered in The Sundance Institute funded 32 projects this year.

In August, Deadline covered Gonzalez Valencia’s&Բ;, which supports filmmakers in developing their pitches, and invites them to present their works in progress to a panel of funders and distributors at Camden International Film Festival. The film, which is being shot in the U.S., Colombia, and Mexico, is a “hybrid documentary” in which a domestic worker and her filmmaker daughter co-create the fictional character of a writer to uncover the slippage between truth and fantasy. It tells a story about immigration, labor, dreams, and the power of fiction to spark emancipation.

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