NYU Tisch School of the Arts Impacts One in Three Films at 2012 Sundance Film Festival

One-in-three films at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival were impacted by graduates and students of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, including 150 directors, producers, writers, set designers, editors, cinematographers and actors.  Of the films in competition, four are directed by undergraduate alumni of the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television at Tisch.  Participating Tisch students and alumni include Spike Lee, Elizabeth Olsen, Kristen Bell, Jason Ritter, Andy Samberg and many others.

 

For nearly 20 years NYU's Tisch School of the Arts has been an Institute Associate of the Sundance Film Festival, maintaining a year-round relationship with The Sundance Institute characterized by mutually-aligned missions to nurture independent vision and thought. The Sundance Film Festival begins January 19, 2012 in Park City, Utah. 

 

About Tisch School of the Arts
For more than 40 years, Tisch School of the Arts has drawn on the vast resources of New York City and New York University to create an extraordinary training ground for the individual artist and scholar of the arts. Students learn their craft in a spirited, risk-taking environment that combines the professional training of a conservatory with the liberal arts education of a major research university. 

 

As one of the nation's leading centers of undergraduate and graduate study in the performing and cinematic arts, Tisch offers programs of study that incorporate state-of-the-art facilities; a collaboratively oriented community of award-winning faculty members; internship opportunities with established professionals; and the incomparable artistic and cultural resources of New York City. Learn more at www.tisch.nyu.edu.