Two Jacob Burns Film Center Fellows Receive Prestigious Sundance Ignite Fellowships

The Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) announced today that JBFC fellows Leah Galant, 23, of Cortlandt Manor, NY and Emily Ann Hoffman, 23, of Bedford, NY have been awarded 2017 Sundance Ignite Fellowships. Sundance Institute grants fellowships to applicants ages 18–24 who demonstrate the unique talent and potential to achieve success in the film industry.

Galant and Hoffman were two of fifteen fellows selected in a nation-wide search for bold new voices in the next generation of filmmakers. Hoffman’s short narrative Ok, Call Me Back, about a woman who leaves a late-night voicemail, and Galant’s short documentary Putting the Fire Out, about a mother and daughter who challenge their fear through art, earned them each a spot as 2017 Sundance Ignite Fellows.

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