Sundance Collab’s Cultural Impact Residency Honoring the Legacy of Michael Latt to start up in March 2025
Sundance Collab is the digital arm of the Sundance Institute providing learning and community to creators from across the world. Honoring the legacy of social justice advocate Michael Latt.
2024 New Media Ventures Summit: Powering the Collective and the Changemakers Film Showcase
As a tribute to Michael Latt, New Media Ventures Summit held their first ever short film competition providing awards to three ground-breaking filmmakers.
Michael Latt is commemorated in Glenn Kaino’s “Sails” with one of the “sails” named for Michael’s company and mantra Lead with Love.
Glenn Kaino, born, raised, and still residing in LA, is an artist who consistently believes in the forward momentum that art can possess to build community and create change in the world.
Michael Latt Legacy Fund: Leading With Love together with Spark Features has created a Marketing Impact Grant.
For three years, 2025-2027, the Michael Latt Legacy Fund/Spark Features Marketing Impact Grant will support a first feature film directed by a bold new artist from an underrepresented community that will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
On Saturday, September 28, 2024 For Freedoms Congress 2024 at LACMA honored Michael Latt.
FFCON2024 featured a series of programs, interactive events, art installations, performances, and spaces for collective joy, grief, and healing. To open the Saturday session, the Congress paid tribute to the beloved and much missed Michael Latt.
Michael Latt was an advocate for justice, a champion for artists of color, and a dear friend of New Media Ventures
To honor his legacy, his family has established the Michael Latt Legacy Fund to foster love, hope, and healing and provide grants that support non-profit organizations and artists working to make lasting positive social change.