Ciara Wardlow

Ciara Wardlow is the Feature Film Program Manager at Sundance Institute, where she manages outreach, tracking, and the submission review process for several artist development programs supporting emerging filmmakers. She was previously the development associate at BOOM! Studios, where she worked on film and television adaptations of the comic book publisher’s IP library. Prior to BOOM, she worked at Paramount Pictures and the production company Maven Screen Media, and was a 2021 Film Independent Project Involve Fellow. In her past life as a film critic, her bylines included The Hollywood Reporter, RogerEbert.com, Film School Rejects, and Pajiba.