Sundance Institute has appointed its longtime Institute’s Indigenous Program staff member Adam Piron director of the Indigenous Program.
Piron will lead Sundance’s engagement and investment in global Indigenous storytellers and will take over the position vacated by Bird Runningwater several months ago.
The Indigenous Program encompasses The Native Lab and the Merata Mita and Full Circle Fellowships.
Piron belongs to the Kiowa and Mohawk Tribes and was raised in Phoenix, Arizona. In addition to his new role he also serves as a short film programmer for the Sundance Film Festival. He previously served as Indigenous Program’s interim director, associate director, and program manager.
He is a co-founder of Cousin, a film collective dedicated to supporting Indigenous artists, and was previously film curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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