EXCLUSIVE:The nonprofitSundanceInstitute announced the eight women selected for the 2023 Sundance Women to Watch x Adobe Fellowship.
They were all chosen for their exceptional talent and commitment to furthering their creative practice.
Adobe also supports Sundance Collab, the Institutes global digital space for learning and community.
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She has won Tribeca Through Her Lens 2020 and DocPitch 2022.
Her pilot, Nice, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival.
She co-founded a pan-Asian female-identifying comedy group called Funny Asian Women Kollective (FAWK).
Dawne Langfordis a filmmaker and Sundance Producers Lab fellow.
She shifted her focus to working on independent documentaries to amplify traditionally suppressed narratives.
Neyda Martinezis a producer whose films examine culture, equity, and social justice.
Documentaries in production includeBartolo, A Chasm in Chinatown,andThe People vs. Past credits includeLuckyandDecade of Fire.
Fox Maxyis a filmmaker based in San Diego, California.
Her work has screened at TIFF, MoMA, Rotterdam, and BlackStar Film Festival among other places.
In 2020, COUSIN Collective supported the director with her first grant.
In 2022, Fox was named as Sundance Institutes Merata Mita fellow.
For 20222024, she is a Vera List Center Borderlands fellow.
Fox premiered her first feature-length film, Gush, at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
Currently Fox is working on a film about mental health.
April Maxeyis a Los Angelesbased director from San Antonio, Texas.
Her work explores the complexities of queer intimacy, grief, and healing.
Gabriela Ortegais an award-winning interdisciplinary artist from the Dominican Republic.
She is currently working on her feature film directorial debut to be shot in the Dominican Republic.
Keisha Rae Witherspoonis a Miami-born writer-director.
She is writing her first feature film.
