Four ITVS funded films are headed to Sundance 2026!

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Sonsplitter

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A long-distance phone call reconnecting a German-Turk dancer to his estranged father prompts him to confront the traumatic silence of his past.

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Daniel Chein

Director

Daniel is an independent filmmaker. He has been a Flaherty Seminar Fellow, and his work has received support from ITVS, the Sundance Institute, the Princess Grace Foundation, BAVC, the Points North Institute, SFFILM, UnionDocs, and the Berkeley Film Foundation. He received a Master of Fine Arts in cinema from San Francisco State University.

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Sidsel L Siersted

Producer

Sidsel is an independent film producer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has worked professionally with TV, documentary films, and series for more than ten years. Sidsel has worked on widely distributed and awarded titles such as Democrats, Something Better to Come, and Aquarela. She was consulting producer on The Edge of Democracy.

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