UNCSA Film School Alum Craig Zoebel is one of eleven filmmakers selected for the $1.5 million Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute. Zoebel received one of the post-production feature film grants, which not only funds his production, but provides support from the Sundance Labs including the Documentary Edit & Story Lab, Composers & Documentary Lab, the Creative Producing Feature and Documentary Labs.
The grant will fund Zoebel’s most recent project, “Compliance.” Based on true events, “Compliance” follows a fast-food manager who is convinced by a prank caller to interrogate an innocent employee. Zoebel, a Sundance Institute Screenwriting Labs Fellow, won the Gotham Award for Breakthrough Director for his first feature, “Great World of Sound.” Producer Sophia Lin, a Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellow, has worked with other UNCSA alumni David Gordon Green and Jeff Nichols on projects including “George Washington” and “Take Shelter.” This is her second collaboration with Zoebel.
The Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute is a three-year program that supports “documentary and narrative feature film projects with themes that evoke global cultural exchange and social impact.” Filmmakers received a total of $131,000 in this series of grants.
