A 60-something woman has her life turned upside down when her polygamous husband, who had been happily ensconced with his second wife, unexpectedly expresses a renewed interest in their stale relationship. His short film THE CHICKEN premiered at the 2020 Locarno International Film Festival. Newton-Bernal strives to use film as a means of collaborative social change, to. Dania Bdeir (Co-writer/Director) & Bane Fakih (Co-writer) with Pigeon Wars (Lebanon/Canada/France): Rana, a feisty & competitive woman avoiding a secret from her past, becomes obsessed with the male-dominated pigeon wars of Beirut. Jesahel Newton-Bernal is a writer/director born and raised in Ecuador with an MFAfrom Columbia University. The Screenwriters Labs, for those who aren't familiar, have supported a who's-who of terrific indie features over the last few years, including Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale Station, David Lowery's Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Benh Zeitlin's Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Andrea Arnold's Red Road, Miranda July's Me and You and Everyone We Know, Sean Television and film credits include Search Party, Law & Order, and Crabs in a Barrel (HBO Latinx Short Film Competition winner). Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapib. Its especially exciting to be together again where our Advisors and writing fellows will spend four days in our immersive lab online in intensive story meetings, craft workshops, and creative conversations, as the Fellows begin their cycle of year-round support. said Michelle Satter. Pirati, the matriarch of this makeshift family, has her plans to embark on an independent life suddenly derailed when one of her daughters goes missing. Cubria is the co-writer of Kill YrIdols, with Carlos Lpez Estrada attached to direct, and the writer of Like It Used ToBe, with Gina Rodriguez to direct and star. Sundance Institute has selected 12 projects for its 2013 January Screenwriters Lab, an immersive, five-day (January 11-16) writers' workshop at the Sundance Resort in Utah. Sean Wang is a filmmaker from Fremont, CA. Recipient of the Sloan Development Fellowship. The opportunity is in the networking as winners can . Estrada) and is in pre-production on his feature directorial debut. Her films have screened atvarious venues, including the Rotterdam Film Festival, LACMA, and Palm SpringsShortFest. Co-Founder of 3 Percent Films. She participated in theGotham Project Market and Film Independents FastTrack. He has written films that have premiered in Berlinale and Venice and. Hasan Hadi is an Iraqi writer/director based in New York. (France): The fates of two French-born Muslim Arabs born in the same neighborhood collide as they find themselves on opposite sides of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack: one a police officer, the other a terrorist. Recipient of the Sundance Institute Comedy Fellowship. He is a documentary director of films and various series at Amazon, HBO and CNN. The projects and fellows selected for the 2022 January Screenwriters Lab are: Eliza McNitt (Writer/Director) with BLACK HOLE (U.S.A.): At a pivotal moment in both her career and her complicated relationship with her mother, an astrophysicists universe unravels when she encounters a black hole of her own creation. Bing was supported by the Sundance Institute's 2020 Directors and Screenwriters Lab on his first fiction feature which is currently in development. January 14, 2022. Fremont, CA. After failing to recruit her friends to join her crusade, she catches a lucky break when she learns her rival isnt exactly who she says she is. Masami Kawai (Writer/Director) with Valley of the Tall Grass (U.S.A.): A discarded TV/VCR combo set circulates through the lives of various working-class indigenous characters of color in an Oregon town. Sundance Institute has supported and showcased such projects as, Summer of Soul (or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), CODA, Flee, Passing, Clemency, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, On The Record, Boys State, The Farewell, Honeyland, The Souvenir, The Infiltrators, Sorry to Bother You, Wont You Be My Neighbor?, Hereditary, Call Me By Your Name, Get Out, The Big Sick, Mudbound, Fruitvale Station, City So Real, Top of the Lake, Between the World & Me, Wild Goose Dreams, Give Me the Backstory: Get to Know Emanuele Crialese, the Director of LImmensit, Started at Sundance: The Daniels Talk Sound, Music, and Their First Oscar-Nominated Film, Everything Everywhere All At Once. His first film, the documentary feature Ramblin Freak, premiered at SXSW in 2017. Masami Kawai is a Los Angeles-born filmmaker of Ryukyuan descent. Her mission is to tell urgent, cinematic, African stories. She is the inaugural Sundance Merata Mita Fellow. is a Miami-based filmmaker. Yuan Yuan is a Chinese writer-director and an MFA thesis candidate at NYU, where she is an Ang Lee Scholar and Spike Lee Film Production Fellow. Walter Thompson-Hernndez is a Los Angeles-born and raised filmmaker. Walter Thompson-Hernndez is a Los Angeles-born and raised filmmaker. His short Crabs in a Barrel is an HBO Latinx Short Film Competition winner. 10 Takeaways from the (Life-Changing!) Our puppies have the perfect temperaments for the perfect family dog and many of them go on to do therapy work!! Marja Bl Nango (Co-writer/Director) and Ingir Bl Nango (Co-writer) with I Love My Guooheaddji / I Love My Reindeerherder (Norway, Sweden): A closeted gay Smi boy navigates a secret boyfriend, a local criminal plot, and family drama as he tries to achieve his dream of living as a reindeer herder with his own herding license. Cracked worldpremiered at Tribeca and is streaming on HBO Max & Hulu. Who are these men beneath their uniforms, and how many degrees of separation really exist between them? He is also co-founder of ThirdHorizon Film Festival in Miami. Cubria is the co-writer of Kill Yr Idols, with Carlos Lpez Estrada attached to direct, and the writer of Like It Used To Be, with Gina Rodriguez to direct and star. Zandash Brown is a Louisiana born-and-based storyteller whose work funnels spirituality, catharsis, and a rural Black experience through the lens of southern gothic horror. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo. premiered at Tribeca and is streaming on HBO Max & Hulu. But he encounters unexpectedand very humancomplications when he falls in love with the man who knocks him up. One of the highlights for us every January is gathering a new and uniquely talented group of storytellers at our annual Screenwriters Lab. Each year the Sundance Institute gathers recipients of this program for a week of mentorship and project development in Utah. His short. She has been awarded a Miami Individual Artist Stipend and fellowship from the South Florida Cultural Consortium. Recipient of the Sundance Institute Horror Fellowship, supported by K Period Media Fund Foundation. A USC film school alumnus and native of the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles, DavidLius work as a screenwriter and director is supported by the Sundance Institute,SFFILM, IFP/Gotham, ARRAY, Visual Communications, and CAPE. We feel privileged to provide vital creative guidance and meaningful community at a crucial moment in the development of these projects., For 40 years, the Feature Film Program (FFP) Labs have supported and championed an exciting and groundbreaking array of independent filmmakers including Charlotte Wells (. She befriends Hassan, a kindred spirit with an inner struggle of his own, and against the backdrop of growing political crisis in Beirut, they embark on a mission to catch a rare bird the Nicobar. Bernardo Cubra is a Mexican award-winning screenwriter and playwright. His filmshave won many awards, including a Special Jury Mention at Cannes in 2022 for hisshort film Lori. Omar Mullick directed the feature non-fiction film These Birds Walk, which was theatrically distributed by Oscilloscope. Shes the, (Netflix/PBS). Joshua Penn Soskin is an award-winning director, writer and photographer. "Year two continues to attract gifted writers who embody creativity and inclusivity. Abinash Bikram Shah (Writer/Director) with Elephants in the Fog (Nepal/France): In Nepal, a group of trans women have banded together at the margins of their community, patrolling the village to keep wild elephants at bay. The Sundance Institute Feature Film Program is supported by explore.org, a direct charitable activity of the Annenberg Foundation; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Will & Jada Smith Family Foundation; Maja Kristin; NBCUniversal; Amazon Studios; Hollywood Foreign Press Association; Karen Lauder; Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund; Sandra and Malcolm Berman Charitable Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; NHK/NHK Enterprises, Inc.; Kimberly StewardK Period Media; SAGindie; Rosalie Swedlin and Robert Cort; Directors Guild of America; Deborah Reinisch and Michael Theodore Fund; Octavia Spencer; and Scott and Jennifer Frank. He is currently working with director Carlos Lpez Estrada on Kill Yr Idols, and is developing a project for Warner Brothers withdirector Alfonso Gomez Rejon. ): A 60-something woman has her life turned upside down when her polygamous husband, who had been happily ensconced with his second wife, unexpectedly expresses a renewed interest in their stale relationship. Save Your Soul. Originally founded by Robert Redford in the mountains of Sundance, Utah, Sundance Institute has always provided a space for independent artists to explore their stories free from commercial and political pressures. David Miranda Hardy is a Chilean filmmaker living in Vermont. Shireen Alihaji is a First Gen, Ecuadorian-Iranian, Muslim, and disabled filmmaker. Charlotte, with her project "Aftersun," was supported by the Sundance Institute's 2020 Directors and Screenwriters Labs. She is a, Sundance Interdisciplinary Program and Academy of Motion Pictures fellow, and is, one of Filmmaker Magazines 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Top LR: Joseph Sackett, Sean Wang, Abinash Bikram Shah, Gabriela Ortega, Walter Thompson-Hernndez, Hadas Ayalon, Bernardo Cubria, 2nd Row LR: John Hibey, Dania Bdeir, Bane Fakih, Rashad Frett, Lin Que Ayoung, Farida Zahran, Masami Kawai, 3rd Row LR: Audrey Rosenberg, Keisha Witherspoon, Jason Fitzroy Jeffers, Shireen Alihaji, Spencer Cook, Parker Smith, Jesahel Newton-Bernal, Bottom LR: Cynthia Lowen, Rebin Zangana, David Liu, Urvashi Pathania, Ciara Leina`Ala Lacy, Faye Ruiz. The Screenwriters Intensive, a two-day online workshop, will have 12 writers participating on March 2-3 to develop their first fiction features. Hasan Hadi (Writer/Director) with The Presidents Cake (Iraq, U.S.A): While everyday people struggle daily to survive under sanctions in Saddams Iraq, nine-year-old Saeed must use his wits to gather the ingredients for the required cake to celebrate President Saddam Husseins birthday or face the consequences alongside his family. Join Sundance Institute on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. ho confronted rampant discrimination to become one of the first women in physics and an essential contributor to the theory of relativity. is an Egyptian writer/director based in Brooklyn. Lab and Intensive participants were selected from over 2000 submissions to further develop their scripts with the guidance of accomplished advisors under the leadership of Michelle Satter (Founding Senior Director, Sundance Institutes Artist Programs) and Ilyse McKimmie (Deputy Director, Feature Film Program). Fellowship, supported by K Period Media Fund Foundation. In the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family cant teach him: how to skate, how to flirt and how to love your mom. Park City, UT The Sundance Institute announced today 16 writers invited to develop 12 original projects at the 2022 Screenwriters Lab, which will be hosted online from January 15-18. He is a 2021 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow, a recipient of the 2020 Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Grant, a 2020. Other. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Othersupporters include Tribeca, Nia Tero, Princess Grace Foundation, NACF, PIC, ITVS,MacArthur, and Firelight. He was, named one of Filmmaker Magazines 25 New Faces of Independent Film and was a. As barriers to her career overwhelm her, Mileva battles mental illness and her own exclusion from history. They write genre work,predominantly gothic, folk, psychological, and body horror with queer and femalecharacters at the helm. He developed and co-wrote the border comedy Kill Yr Idols (to be directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada) and is in pre-production on his feature directorial debut, The Rooster Prince, a personal story of losing his brother to bipolar. We feel privileged to provide vital creative guidance and meaningful community at a crucial moment in the development of these projects.. Recipient of the Sloan Development Fellowship. is a filmmaker whose Native Hawaiian identity drives her works, intimacy and authenticity. He is currently working with director Carlos Lpez Estrada on Kill Yr Idols, and is developing a project for Warner Brothers with director Alfonso Gomez Rejon. Douglas was an Advisor to over 200 writers in his twenty years participating in the Lab. A graduate in Film & Media Arts from American University in Washington DC, Nicole is a polyglot who writes about the confluence of . However, in return for participation in a Screenwriters Lab, fellows are obligated to sign an agreement stipulating that (a) they will make a contribution to Sundance of % of their film's final budget in excess of $1,000,000 (the "Budget Participation"), (b) Sundance will receive 1% of 100% of the film's net receipts, and (c) Sundance will Her feature screenplay Keep It Together was shortlisted for the 2019 Tribeca All Access program. Hadas Ayalon is a director, screenwriter and film editor living in Tel Aviv. 2008. Her work pushes the envelope of expression by experimenting with genre and form. Recipient of the Sundance Institute HorrorFellowship, supported by K Period Media Fund Foundation. Walter Thompson-Hernndez (Writer/Director) with If I Go Will They Miss Me (U.S.A.): Twelve-year-old Lil Ant begins to see mysterious figureseerie men with their arms spread like wingsaround his home. Bringing you exemplary service, along with a . Please email us with any questions you have at anytime! Caledonia Curry (aka Swoon) is an artist and filmmaker recognized for her pioneering vision of public artwork. Were looking forward to kicking off a new year of the Screenwriters Lab, supporting the bold visions of a stellar group of storytellers. Her latest short, The Tongues, won best international short film at the 2020 Palm Springs Shortfest. Her first shortfilm Paris on the Water (2014) won the Student Academy Award and the IsraeliAcademy Award for Best Narrative Short. John Hibey co-wrote and produced the two-time Sundance award-winning film FishingWithout Nets (short and feature versions.) Audrey Rosenberg is an award-winning writer/director. Strange, interconnected events transform three generations of lives in the Southern California foothills an aging heiress haunted by visions of her dead mother, an aspiring young female novelist running a video game arcade, and a trio of teenage musicians caught in an increasingly tense dispute between local gangs. Now more than ever, your support is critical to help us keep our community informed about the evolving coronavirus pandemic and the impact it is having locally. They find forgotten memories, love, and connection through this seemingly obsolete object. personal story of losing his brother to bipolar. Faye Ruiz (Writer/Director) with Wishes Sink in Man-Made Lakes (U.S.A.): Two trans teens secretly living in the attic of a cheap-seat movie theater spend an endless summer trying anything and everything to start hormone replacement therapy. The January Screenwriters Lab cohort will develop their projects in person at the Sundance Mountain Resort from January 14-18 with the generous support of Artistic Director Jessie Nelson, along with Creative Advisors Ritesh Batra, Linda Yvette Chvez, Scott Frank, Phil Hay, Eliza Hittman, Attica Locke, Walter Mosley, Marti Noxon, Nicole Perlman, Howard Rodman, Dana Stevens, Joan Tewkesbury, Lulu Wang, Bill Wheeler, Tyger Williams, Virgil Williams, and Doug Wright. If you don't know the institute and its programs, you certainly know the films that . Their short film Skin received a Special Jury Mention at Outfest(2019). Newly released after being locked up in his teens, 30-year-old Ricky navigates the challenging realities of life post-incarceration, and the complexity of gaining independence for the first time as an adult. Hedeveloped and co-wrote the border comedy Kill Yr Idols (to be directed by Carlos LopezEstrada) and is in pre-production on his feature directorial debut, The Rooster Prince, apersonal story of losing his brother to bipolar. el): A middle-aged lesbian couple are struggling with the death of their son when an unexpected letter from a sperm bank puts their relationship to the test, forcing them to confront their loss and their identity as mothers. Pigeon Wars will be her debut feature. She is anAssistant Professor of Filmmaking at the University of Oregon. Terms & Conditions Privacy Policy 2022 Sundance.org, Joseph Sackett, Sean Wang, Abinash Bikram Shah, Gabriela Ortega, Walter Thompson-Hernndez, Hadas Ayalon, Bernardo Cubria, John Hibey, Dania Bdeir, Bane Fakih, Rashad Frett, Lin Que Ayoung, Farida Zahran, Masami Kawai, Audrey Rosenberg, Keisha Witherspoon, Jason Fitzroy Jeffers, Shireen Alihaji, Spencer Cook, Parker Smith, Jesahel Newton-Bernal, Cynthia Lowen, Rebin Zangana, David Liu, Urvashi Pathania, Ciara Leina`Ala Lacy, Faye Ruiz, Today the nonprofit Sundance Institute announc. Through its programs, the Institute seeks to discover, support, and inspire independent film and theatre artists from the United States and around the world, and to introduce audiences to their new work. is a filmmaker whose interests lie in telling the stories of trans women of, color. As a champion and curator of independent stories, the nonprofit Sundance Institute provides and preserves the space for artists across storytelling media to create and thrive. Hadas Ayalon (Writer/Director) with In a Minute Youll Be Gone (Israel): A middle-aged lesbian couple are struggling with the death of their son when an unexpected letter from a sperm bank puts their relationship to the test, forcing them to confront their loss and their identity as mothers.
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