By Chris Gardner Like so many great stories, Michelle Satter’s Sundance backstory started with a phone call and ended with the boldest of propositions. More than 40 years ago, Satter ...

Matt Brennan No one represents the resilience of Los Angeles and its film community quite like Michelle Satter. Little more than a year after her son, Michael Latt, was shot and killed in his home ...

The Sundance Institute announced today that Michelle Satter, Founding Senior Director of Artist Programs at Sundance Institute, will be honored at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival gala fundraiser ...

Angela Bassett and film editor Carol Littleton receiving honorary Academy Awards and the Sundance Institute’s Michelle Satter delivering an emotional speech accepting the Jean Hersholt ...

Beyond freshly 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 ...

The longest and most heartfelt presentation was a series of testimonials to Michelle Satter, the institute’s founding senior director of artist programs. Satter is credited with starting the ...

The institute, on its Twitter account, posted, “We couldn’t agree more with the academy’s decision to honor Michelle for the impact she has had on the industry.” Satter, writing on Twitter ...

Michelle Satter, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, has been called “the fairy godmother of independent cinema.” In 1981, she went to work for ...

Honorary Awards will be presented to Angela Bassett, Mel Brooks and editor Carol Littleton, with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award bestowed upon the Sundance Institute’s Michelle Satter.

Like so many great stories, Michelle Satter's Sundance backstory started with a phone call and ended with the boldest of propositions. More than 40 years ago, Satter, a recent college graduate who ...