Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe Fellowship
Sundance Institute / Adobe Open worldwide
Year-long fellowship for filmmakers aged 18–25 selected via short film submissions; fellows get mentorship, community, resources and a trip to the Sundance Film Festival.
Free to start · no account needed
Get your personal statement, tailored résumé and notes for your referees for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes.
You look at it first. Nothing is submitted without your tap.
About
Also: mentorship; Sundance Film Festival attendance; Adobe resources.
Who can apply: Emerging filmmakers aged 18 to 25.
Annual: 2027 application opens November 12, 2026.
How to apply: through the organiser's own application portal (you need an account there).
What to prepare: short film, statement.
From the official page (checked 2026-10-21): “emerging filmmakers ages 18 to 25”
Who can apply
- Open to creators and freelancers, students
- Emerging filmmakers aged 18 to 25.
What you will need
- Work samplesOnly you can supply it: upload it once and it is attached wherever it is asked for.
- Personal statement / SOPOnward Scout drafts it from your sourced profile; you approve every line.
How to apply
Applications go through the official page (own portal), which needs an account in your name.
How Onward Scout helps
This one is submitted on the organiser's own site, behind your login. Onward Scout prepares every answer and file in the form's order with one-tap copy, so submitting takes minutes; you mark it submitted when you're done.
Every answer is drafted from your own documents and cites where each fact came from; anything we can’t source is flagged for you, never invented.
Let Onward Scout prepare this application
Get your personal statement, tailored résumé and notes for your referees for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes. Free to start, no account needed: you look at the draft first, and nothing goes to Sundance Institute / Adobe without your tap.
Nothing is submitted without your tap. Logins, CAPTCHAs, payments and interviews stay with you.