MUMBAI: Sundance Institute has inducted new members Anand Mahindra, Sean Bailey and Jacki Zehner as members of the Institute‘s Board of Trustees.

Under the guidance of President and founder Robert Redford, in close collaboration with executive director Keri Putnam, the 23-person Board will be responsible for the governance of Sundance Institute and works to actively advance creative and financial support for artists developing original stories for the screen and stage.

Wally Weisman continues to be the chairman of the Board. "We welcome these new members of our Board. We are proud of the organisation‘s standing as an internationally recognised nonprofit arts organisation, and we are extremely optimistic about the stability of the Institute and its recent growth to include several new initiatives that are connecting artists with audiences around the world," observed Weisman.

In addition to the three newly inducted members those who recently joined the Board are Sheila C Johnson, James R Swartz and Stanley Tucci along with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lynn Nottage and Heather Rae as Artist Trustees.

Artist trustees are participants from Institutes including the Sundance Film Festival, Artistic Labs and direct granting, who share with the Board their perspectives and act as liaisons to other institute alumni.

Sundance Institute is a global non-profit organisation founded by Robert Redford in 1981. Through its artistic development programs for directors, screenwriters, producers, composers and playwrights, the Institute seeks to discover and support independent film and theatre artists from the United States and around the world, and to introduce audiences to their new work.

The Institute has nurtured films like Born into Brothels, Trouble the Water, Son of Babylon, Amreeka, An Inconvenient Truth, Spring Awakening, I Am My Own Wife, Light in the Piazza and Angels in America.