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# Sundance Institute Grants COVID Relief Funds to 39 Arts Organizations
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sundance-institute-39-covid-relief-grantees/
- Published: 2020-08-19T18:00:56.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:51:54.000Z
- Description: The Institute and Artist Relief have awarded more than $400,000 in total to a diverse group of film organizations and collectives.
- Author: Dan Schindel
- Tags: News, Artist Relief, COVID-19, Documentary, Sundance Institute, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:41 (2019, 2020, part 2)

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This past April, the [Sundance Institute](https://www.sundance.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com) and [Artist Relief](https://www.artistrelief.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com) teamed up to create the $1 million [Sundance Institute Respond and Reimagine Plan](https://hyperallergic.com/sundance-institute-artist-relief/) in order to aid film workers hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the long summer of quarantine, 60% of the plan’s funds were distributed to various artists, including 103 who participated in [the Sundance Institute Labs](https://collab.sundance.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com). Now, the Institute [has announced](https://www.sundance.org/covid19?ref=hyperallergic.com) that it is providing a total of $405,500 to 39 different arts organizations. The funds do not need to be repaid, and can be spent flexibly by the recipients.

Grantees include the venerable queer cinema organization [Frameline](https://www.frameline.org/about?ref=hyperallergic.com), the Miami-based filmmaking collective [Third Horizon](https://hyperallergic.com/third-horizon-film-festival-miami/), and [Brown Girls Doc Mafia](http://www.browngirlsdocmafia.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com), which represents [thousands of BIPOC female and nonbinary nonfiction filmmaking professionals](https://hyperallergic.com/brown-girls-doc-mafia-directory-fundraiser/). In a press release, the Sundance Institute said: “The need to support the arts around the world will be ongoing as these organizations weather the continuing challenges of the pandemic. It’s our hope that the Sundance Institute Respond and Reimagine Plan will help support art and artists around the world.”

The complete list of grantees can be viewed [here](https://www.sundance.org/covid19?ref=hyperallergic.com). Both [Artist Relief](https://www.unitedstatesartists.org/artistrelief/?ref=hyperallergic.com) and the [Sundance Institute](https://www.sundance.org/covid19?ref=hyperallergic.com) are still accepting donations to aid these programs.