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  • Windrider

    The Windrider Institute creates, curates and responds to film and visual media, sparking thoughtful conversation around the most significant topics in our culture.

  • Freedom Hair — 2025 Amplify Award Winner

    Movie

    When a determined mother decides to start a natural hair braiding business to achieve financial independence, she must overcome unexpected obstacles imposed by a powerful cosmetology cartel and the state of Mississippi.

  • The Windrider Summit

    Learn more about the Windrider Summit & The Sundance Film Festival Experience! https://www.windriderinstitute.org/summit

    Registration is open now: https://2025-windrider-summit.eventbrite.com

  • Welcome to Windrider Studios!

    Windrider Studios is a curated library of short films, Q&As and discussion guides offered as a resource to the good work of those in the Windrider community.

  • How To Use Windrider Studios

    Access: www.windriderinstitute.org/studios
    Technical Help: www.windriderstudios.org/help
    Programming Assistance: Email [email protected]
    Examples: www.windriderinstitute.org/partner-events

  • Windrider Summit Q&A: Destin Daniel Cretton

    Windrider Conversations presented by MJ Murdock Charitable Trust.

    Craig Detweiler, Co-founder of the Windrider Summit, sits down with Destin Daniel Cretton at the 2023 Summit. Cretton is the director of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Just Mercy and Short Term 12, and a 2023 Sundance ...

  • The Wonder of Film

    Bishop Claude Alexander of Park Church and David Kinnaman of the Barna Group discuss why film can be the starting point for transformation.

  • Value of Sponsorship

    The Windrider Summit is made possible by generous sponsors who value community and transformation through conversation. Your partnership and patronage is priceless to us.

  • Faith + Art

    4 seasons

    Makoto Fujimura and friends discuss the way art interacts and is born out of faith. This series is a wonderful resource for any classroom or audience of creators, communicators and storytellers.