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Michelle Satter to Be Honored at 2025 Sundance Gala; Filmmakers Sean Wang, Julian Brave NoiseCat & Emily Kassie Set For Vanguard Awards
The 2025 Sundance Gala will honor the festival's Michelle Satter, as well as 'Dìdi' filmmaker Sean Wang and several others.
Past recipients have included Celine Song, Maite Alberdi, W. Kamau Bell, Nikyatu Jusu, Ryan Coogler, Siân Heder, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Radha Blank, Lulu Wang, Dee Rees, Damien Chazelle, Marielle Heller, Benh Zeitlin, and Boots Riley, among others. She has acted as an influential mentor to generations of award-winning filmmakers, including Quentin Tarantino, Chloé Zhao, Dee Rees, John Cameron Mitchell, Paul Thomas Anderson, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Ryan Coogler, Miranda July, Kimberly Peirce, Darren Aronofsky, Sterlin Harjo, Taika Waititi, and many more. An Emmy- and Peabody Award-nominated filmmaker and investigative journalist, Kassie’s work for The New York Times, PBS, and Netflix has also covered the Taliban’s crackdown on women, sexual abuse in America’s immigrant detention system, drug and weapons trafficking in the Saharan desert, and child labor in Turkey.
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