YOU ARE INVITED
TO JOIN US FOR
BANS OFF OUR STORIES:
BANS OFF OUR STORIES:
A NIGHT OF CREATIVE INSPIRATION!
A NIGHT OF CREATIVE INSPIRATION
2025 sUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
SATURDAY
JAN 25
the park
JAN 25
the park
2025 sUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
PRESENTED BY
PURPLE PARLOR FUND &
LEVEL FORWARD
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
ALL* ABOVE ALL,
PREGNANCY JUSTICE, &
FULL SPECTRUM FEATURES
At the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, join Level Forward and friends for a night of creative inspiration both amplifying and destigmatizing the narrative fight for bans off of ALL our bodies and reproductive justice.
This multimodal storytelling experience is designed to equip filmmakers, producers, financiers, distributors, agents, and brands with the language, tools, relationships, and tactics for a resurgent cultural force that refuses to obey in advance, declines to go backwards, and will prevail through strategy, bridge-building, resource-sharing, and independent creative voices.
Ignite your inner fire through live performances, a special edition More To Talk About conversation with filmmakers and changemakers, partner activations, testimony, gifts, photo-opps, actionable next steps, and more to be announced. It’s a new dawn for storytelling and we are up for the rising. Come hungry, come thirsty and come eager to build community and conspire with Level Forward, friends, and partners.
RSVP NOWThis multimodal storytelling experience is designed to equip filmmakers, producers, financiers, distributors, agents, and brands with the language, tools, relationships, and tactics for a resurgent cultural force that refuses to obey in advance, declines to go backwards, and will prevail through strategy, bridge-building, resource-sharing, and independent creative voices.
Ignite your inner fire through live performances, a special edition More To Talk About conversation with filmmakers and changemakers, partner activations, testimony, gifts, photo-opps, actionable next steps, and more to be announced. It’s a new dawn for storytelling and we are up for the rising. Come hungry, come thirsty and come eager to build community and conspire with Level Forward, friends, and partners.
Hosted By Andrea Ambam
FEATURING
Nazrin
Choudhury
Choudhury
Red, White and Blue - Writer/Director/Producer
sOledad
O’Brien
O’Brien
The Devil is Busy - Executive Producer
Sam
Feder
Feder
Heightened Scrutiny and Disclosure - Director
Nourbese
Flint
Flint
President of All* Above All
Lourdes
Rivera
Rivera
President of Pregnancy Justice
live music from
S T A R R Busby
A performance from
The Ford/Hill Project
(A Waterwell Production)
(A Waterwell Production)
30 years apart, Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford provoked a reckoning about who is given the power to shape the future of our country by telling the story of one of the most private moments of their lives in one of the most public settings imaginable.
The Ford / Hill Project was created by Lee Sunday Evans and Elizabeth Marvel - the script is edited from the verbatim transcripts of the Supreme Court confirmation hearings in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991 and 2018.
The Ford / Hill Project was created by Lee Sunday Evans and Elizabeth Marvel - the script is edited from the verbatim transcripts of the Supreme Court confirmation hearings in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991 and 2018.
INTRODUCED BY Arian Moayed, Co-founder of Waterwell
PERFORMED BY Maria Dizzia as Christine Blasey Ford AND Cassandra Freeman as Anita Hill
PERFORMED BY Maria Dizzia as Christine Blasey Ford AND Cassandra Freeman as Anita Hill
A PREMIERE SCREENING OF
Last Condom On Earth
Set thirty years in a conservative future where contraception has been banned, a pack of boys find a relic of the past....
Written & Directed by: Lara Everly
Produced by: Brian Etting, Tracy Pion, Julie Hermelin & Jessica Stamen
Line Produced by: Ivy Yu
Director of Photography: Nicole Whitaker
Talent: Michael Zampino, Mateo Ray, Nathan Rhee, Ethan Mejia
Written & Directed by: Lara Everly
Produced by: Brian Etting, Tracy Pion, Julie Hermelin & Jessica Stamen
Line Produced by: Ivy Yu
Director of Photography: Nicole Whitaker
Talent: Michael Zampino, Mateo Ray, Nathan Rhee, Ethan Mejia
PLUS
A special welcome from
Michelle Satter
Founding Senior Director of
Sundance Institute’s Artist Programs
Sundance Institute’s Artist Programs
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A TEASER OF
The Ebony Canal
The Ebony Canal is a documentary film narrated by Academy Award-winning icon, Viola Davis starring 4 remarkably courageous women, Mariah Peoples, Larissa Lane, Alana Yzola Daly and Rachel Strader. This cinematic poem directed by Emmy Award winner, Emmai Alaquiva examines the HERstoric portal between the disparities of infant mortality and the current state of maternal health orbiting Black and Brown women.The vision is to move maternal health forward in the journey to save Black and brown mothers and their babies.
You’re invited to a full screening of the doc - rsvp here!
You’re invited to a full screening of the doc - rsvp here!
a special message from
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rsvp for Bans Off Our Stories: A Night of Creative Inspiration
7:00PM-10:00PM
The Park
950 Iron Horse Dr. Park City, UT 84060
Accessibility: Real-time captioning and live translation will be available at this event via 4ALL.Live Captions. There is limited accessible parking available on a first-come, first-served basis. The Front entrance to the building is accessible. Restrooms are accessible and located in the back-of-house. There will be an accessible cool down space inside the venue. Please email accessibility@sundance.org or call (435) 776-7790 for accessibility inquiries and requests.
Note: This event is private. By completing THIS RSVP form below you are adding your name to the list. This form is not to be promoted or published widely. Please only share this form thoughtfully and intentionally.
More To Talk About:
Make Your Story A Movement
4:30PM-6PM
The Box at The Ray Theatre
1768 Park Avenue Park City, UT 84060
How do a group of Indigenous women motorcyclists use film to create meaningful community impact? Join Level Forward and Red Sand Project for a high-energy guided storytelling experience led by boundary-pushing narrative changemakers, built to equip and enrich you with the tools to make meaningful cultural impact through storytelling. In addition to a participatory workshop, come to learn from Prairie Rose Seminole (Co-Director of the film We Ride For Her) and Lisa SacredRyder Rivera—a member of Medicine Wheel Ride, an all women, Indigenous, motorcycle group using story to raise awareness about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women/Relatives Crisis.
Accessibility: There is limited accessible parking available on a first-come, first-served basis. The Front entrance to the building is accessible. Restrooms are accessible and located in the back-of-house. There will be an accessible cool down space inside the venue. Please email accessibility@sundance.org or call (435) 776-7790 for accessibility inquiries and requests.
Note: This event is private. By completing THIS RSVP form below you are adding your name to the list. This form is not to be promoted or published widely. Please only share this form thoughtfully and intentionally.
A NIGHT OF IMPACT:
After Party
7:30PM-11PM
The Park
950 Iron Horse Dr. Park City, UT 84060
A story-driven / impact-minded party celebrating storytelling as one of our most powerful human resources. Instigate, excavate, and rejoice in the collective power of story through connections with boundary-pushing artist and industry leaders, a ceremonial tribute from the Medicine Wheel Riders, a photo opp, activation stations filled with freebies and hands-on activities, and an exclusive sneak peek of the forthcoming documentary short We Ride For Her. Come hungry, come thirsty and come eager to gather with friends from Level Forward, Red Sand Project, Broadway Advocacy Coalition, Full Spectrum Features, and more for narrative adventures amidst a night of impact.
Accessibility: There is limited accessible parking available on a first-come, first-served basis. The Front entrance to the building is accessible. Restrooms are accessible and located in the back-of-house. There will be an accessible cool down space inside the venue. Please email accessibility@sundance.org or call (435) 776-7790 for accessibility inquiries and requests.
Note: This event is private. By completing THIS RSVP form below you are adding your name to the list. This form is not to be promoted or published widely. Please only share this form thoughtfully and intentionally.
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As a champion and curator of independent stories, the nonprofit Sundance Institute provides and preserves the space for artists in film and episodic storytelling to create and thrive.
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Full Spectrum Features is a 501(c)(3) social justice organization that harnesses the power of cinema to create and inspire more inclusive cultural narratives. Our work is deeply rooted in community, highlighting the many complexities and contradictions of identity. Our core services include film production and impact distribution, as well as industry-leading educational and field-building initiatives.
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All* Above All is a catalyst for abortion justice. We envision a world where abortion care is affordable, available, and supported for everyone who needs it.
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Pregnancy Justice protects and advances pregnant people’s bodily autonomy and rights by defending those who have been criminalized, advocating for proactive policy and legal change, and shifting the public narrative. We focus on those most vulnerable to investigation, arrest, detention, or family separation related to pregnancy. This includes women and people who are poor, of color, with disabilities, do not conform to gender binary stereotypes, and/or use drugs.
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The Purple Parlor Fund is deploying financial capital in support of the RED, WHITE AND BLUE’s impact initiative, bringing the Oscar-nominated film, its dialogue, questions, and impactful story to audiences who have been traditionally closed to the conversation; particularly people from different faiths, economic realities, and party affiliations. The Fund’s ultimate goal is to spark personal and private conversations about reproductive rights and justice—beyond the in-theater or talkback experience—which can subsequently take place within families or subsets of communities, that nurture civil discourse and a meaningful narrative shift on the issues.
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LEVEL FORWARD
Level Forward makes brave stories, produces courageous conversations, and works for enduring impact. A public benefit entertainment mini-studio comprised of creatives, entrepreneurs, and change-makers, we work on project and system levels to balance artistic vision, social impact, and stakeholder return. Films include the forthcoming Bjork's Cornucopia, Mountains, Red, White and Blue, The Year Between, Body Parts, and The Assistant. Broadway and live shows include SUFFS, How To Dance In Ohio, Parade, POTUS, Slave Play, What The Constitution Means To Me, and Sanctuary City. Browse our Tony Award, Spirit Award, Anthem Award-winning and Oscar-nominated creative work at levelforward.co, our conversation library at moretotalkabout.com, or our flagship learning program at sfsgworkshop.com.
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