Carrie Lozano

Director, Documentary Film and Artist Programs

Carrie Lozano is the Director of the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film and Artist Programs, and is an award winning documentary filmmaker and journalist. Prior to Sundance, she was director of the International Documentary Association’s Enterprise Documentary and Pare Lorentz funds, where she supported more than 60 diverse films and filmmakers at the intersection of documentary and journalism. She is on the advisory board of U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she is an alumnus and has been a lecturer and editor in its documentary film and investigative reporting programs. Lozano was previously an executive at Al Jazeera America and a senior producer of the network’s investigative series Fault Lines. Her recent film credits include The Ballad of Fred Hersch and Prognosis: Notes on Living.

Participating Sessions

FUNDING SHIFT

The reckonings over race, power and the role of media are forcing a reevaluation among funders across the country. Not only are foundations beginning to ask new questions of their applicants, but they are interrogating their own grant-making, with some even changing their grant review and selection process to cede their own agency and power and to render their decisions more transparent. The shift includes new application questions designed to...