Sundance: Michelle Satter Brings Tears To Festival’s Gala With Words Of Family & Loss; Cynthia Erivo & James Mangold Accept Visionary & Trailblazer Awards
deadline.comThe Sundance Film Festival truly rolled double last year when the picked the honorees for tonight’s Gala fundraiser at the newly opened Grand Hyatt Deer Valley.
However, even with newly minted Oscar nominees Cynthia Erivo and James Mangold in the house to receive the Visionary Award and Trailblazer Award respectively, it was Michelle Satter, the Founding Senior Director of Artists Program for the Sundance Institute that brought the high-profile packed ballroom truly together.
Satter was being recognized for her decades-long commitment to nurturing artists and cultivating independent film through the Sundance Labs.
As many in the room knew and as Satter mentioned herself, she and her husband David Latt were among the thousands who lost their homes in the recent wildfires that have scorched LA.
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