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Sissako builds the film forward, advancing with the characters to discover the unexpected consequences that result from their conflicts.
Every year, Film Forward travels to 14 places around the world to screen 10 films: five international, five from the United States.
This week, Film Forward, a Sundance Institute initiative, and FilmAid International, a humanitarian aid organization, are bringing a festival to Kenya's sprawling Kakuma and Dadaab camps, home to hundreds of thousands of refugees.
A Separation's popularity in Iran forced authorities to put the film forward for the Oscars, where it beat Belgium's Bullhead, Israel's Footnote, Poland's In Darkness and Canada's Monsieur Lazhar to win the best foreign film prize.
But despite suspicion of the motives of foreign festival juries, the sheer popularity of A Separation meant the authorities had little choice but to put Farhadi's film forward for the Oscars.
As a result, France was not allowed to put the film forward as its official Oscar contender; it could do so next year, but by then, its moment may well have passed.
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I consider my films forward movements, each one on a step to the next one.
Together they recognized that bringing a collection of such films forward could have a great impact.
The Braintrust operates under a philosophy of a "filmmaker-driven studio", in which creatives help each other move their films forward through a process somewhat like peer review, as opposed to the traditional Hollywood approach of an "executive-driven studio" in which directors are micromanaged through "mandatory notes" from development executives ranking above the producers.
The participants interpreted familiar films as more intentional than novel films and forward films as more intentional than backward films.
Although shot as a feature-length film, Forward Unto Dawn was originally released as a webseries consisting of five roughly 15-minute episodes, the first of which was released on October 5, 2012, with the last episode released on November 2 , 2012
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