Through intimate portraits, animated films, immersive installations, and multi-year community based projects, she explores the potential inherent within the creative process to act as a catalyst for social change and interpersonal healing. Walter worked as a journalist for The New York Times. She is the co-Creator of Carlas Quince (Drama League nominee). is a filmmaker based in Austin, Texas, originally from Louisville, Kentucky. February 20, 2014. Keisha Rae Witherspoon is a Miami-based filmmaker. Spencer Cook (Co-writer/Director) and Parker Smith (Co-riter/Director) with Lame (U.S.A.): When their federal funding is cut, a disabled man and his roommate/caregiver become small-time con artists to survive, extorting small businesses for minor ADA violations. premiered at Tribeca and is streaming on HBO Max & Hulu. Daniele Anastasion (Writer/Director) with The Scout (U.S.A): A recently widowed biologist is tasked with eradicating thousands of birds accused of spreading disease from a landfill. (U.S.A.): Eighteen-year-old Almas purposeful and happy life is disrupted when she must cope with the shock of intrafamily sexual abuse. Who are these men beneath their uniforms, and how many degrees of separation really exist between them? It's one of the most prestigious, with just 15 lucky screenwriters selected to participate in the five-day workshop and mentoring from esteemed Creative Advisors in Utah. Terms & Conditions Privacy Policy 2022 Sundance.org. 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. Jesahel Newton-Bernal is a writer/director born and raised in Ecuador with an MFAfrom Columbia University. After her MFA from Columbia University, Fakih, received the Ezra Litwak Award for Screenwriting Distinction. (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. is an award-winning Caribbean American filmmaker who pursued a masters degree from NYU Grad Film after experiencing 9/11 as a U.S. Army combat medic. is an award-winning writer/director/producer and graduate of NYU, won The Spike Lee Production Grant and a King. We feel privileged to provide vital creative guidance and meaningful community at a crucial moment in the development of these projects.. 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. received his MFA in Directing from NYU Tisch Graduate Film. 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 As barriers to her career overwhelm her, Mileva battles mental illness and her own exclusion from history. She was a recipient of Sundances 2021 Uprise Grant, one of Filmmaker, Magazines 2021 New Faces and had her recent short film. 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. 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. (co-written/directed by Roger Ross Williams, co-written by David Teague), (co-written/directed by Erica Tremblay, co-written by Miciana Al. We are a comprehensive Primary Care / Family Medicine office servicing Chandler, Gilbert, Higley, Queen Creek and Mesa in the East Valley We treat patients ages 5 and up for all types of conditions. [Above: Daniel Scheinert, Glenn Kiser, Peter Gloub, and Daniel Kwan] By Stephanie Ornelas Every great artist starts somewhere. Their short film Skin received a Special Jury Mention at Outfest(2019). Urvashi Pathania is a writer/director based in Brooklyn. 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. 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. The Academy selects up to 5 screenwriters with a fellowship of $35,000. Before transitioning to film, Walter worked as a journalist for The New York Times. 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. After her MFA from Columbia University, Fakihreceived the Ezra Litwak Award for Screenwriting Distinction. many years he was caretaker for Spencer Cook. Farida Zahran is an Egyptian writer/director based in Brooklyn. However, I don't have personal experience with most of them. One of the most exciting things about starting each year with the Sundance Film Festival is having a front-row seat for the bright future of, Fellowship Enters Fifth Year of Supporting Filmmakers from Underrepresented Communities As They Focus on a Sustainable and Creative Path Forward Los Angeles, CA Today. In addition, screening in the Premieres section are FFP films Gods Country and Honk for Jesus. Sundance Screenwriters Lab Joseph Sackett (Writer/Director) with Cross Pollination (U.S.A.): In this queer sci-fi rom-com, an alien arrives on Earth with one mission: to introduce his DNA. is a writer, director, and lifelong wheelchair user. David Miranda Hardy (Writer/Director) with The Swim Lesson (U.S.A.): Mara postponed her career to raise her daughters, while her husband found success as a professor at an elite liberal arts college. 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. Lolita has been a fellow at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab Intensive, Cave Canem Poetry Retreat, and Atlantic Center for the Arts. Foundation Fellow. Join Sundance Institute on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. Bernardo Cubra is a Mexican award-winning screenwriter and playwright. Audrey Rosenberg is an award-winning writer/director. A USC film school alumnus and native of the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles. The Screenwriters Intensive, a two-day online workshop, will have 12 writers participating on March 2-3 to develop their first fiction features. 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. Lin Que Ayoung is an award-winning writer/director/producer and graduate of NYU Grad Film. The Academy Nicholl Fellowship is one of the best screenwriting fellowships for new, up and coming screenwriters. Cracked worldpremiered at Tribeca and is streaming on HBO Max & Hulu. Joseph Sackett received his MFA in Directing from NYU Tisch Graduate Film. is a writer/director based in Brooklyn. Sundance Institute Announces 2022 January Screenwriters Lab Fellows 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. Recipient of the Sundance Institute HorrorFellowship, supported by K Period Media Fund Foundation. Founded in 1981 by Robert Redford, the Institutes signature Labs, granting, and mentorship programs, dedicated to developing new work, take place throughout the year in the U.S. and internationally. His first feature. His first feature, Homebody, won the Emerging Talent Award at Outfest and is available to stream on Fandor. ): 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. Sean Wang is a filmmaker from Fremont, CA. Were looking forward to kicking off a new year of the Screenwriters Lab, supporting the bold visions of a stellar group of storytellers. The opportunity is in the networking as winners can . and hes currently in post-production on his first feature. She has been awarded a Miami Individual Artist Stipend and fellowship from the South Florida Cultural Consortium. His political thriller Bala Loca proudly lost a Peabody Award to Better Call Saul, and was recommended by Variety, the New York Times, and Rotten Tomatoes. He most recently, A body-positivity influencer enters a desperate bid to save her self-loathing sister when the latter becomes a test subject for their aunts, Recipient of the Sundance Institute Horror. Farida Zahran (Writer/Director) with The Leftover Ladies (Egypt/U.S.A. The Sundance Institute Feature Film Program is supported by explore.org, a direct charitable activity of the Annenberg Foundation; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; The Asian American Foundation (TAAF); Directors Guild of America (DGA), Will & Jada Smith Family Foundation; Hartbeat; Maja Kristin; NBC, ; United Airlines; Amazon Studios; Hollywood Foreign Press Association; Karen Lauder; Ray and Dagmar Dolby Fund; National Endowment for the Arts; NHK/NHK Enterprises, Inc.; Kimberly Steward. Her debut short film T screened at BlackStar, Sundance Film Festival, AFI and others, and won the 2020 Golden Bear forBest Short Film at Berlinale. The projects and fellows selected for the 2023 Screenwriters Intensive are: Keisha Rae Witherspoon (Co-writer/Director) & Jason Fitzroy Jeffers (Co-writer) with Arc (U.S.A.): Ev is a paranoid young hustler who believes his mother was abducted by aliens when he was a boy. Hes a recipient of a DGA Student Film Award, a Spike Lee Production Grant, the Cary Fukunaga Production Grant, and Ryan Murphys HALF Initiative. He is, with Carlos Lpez Estrada attached to direct, and the writer of. Almas love for her close-knit family forces her to maintain the facade that nothing has changed, resulting in the absolute loneliness that comes with pretending. Twelve-year-old Lil Ant begins to see mysterious figureseerie men with their arms spread like wingsaround his home. Were looking forward to kicking off a new year of the Screenwriters Lab, supporting the bold visions of a stellar group of storytellers. . But he encounters unexpectedand very humancomplications when he falls in love with the man who knocks him up. was shortlisted for the 2019 Tribeca All Access program. Spencer Cook is a writer, director, and lifelong wheelchair user. Who are these men beneath their uniforms, and how many degrees of separation really exist between them? Omar Mullick directed the feature non-fiction film These Birds Walk, which was theatrically distributed by Oscilloscope. Her first short, (2014) won the Student Academy Award and the Israeli. Zandash Brown (Writer/Director) with The Matriarch (U.S.A.): When the death of an estranged matriarch summons a fractured family back to their hometown in rural Louisiana, a forlorn teen attempts to forge a relationship with her departed grandmother through ancestral veneration and unlocks instead a deceptive world of spirits, secrecy, and hysteria. Set in sprawling 1970s Hawaii, this is the story of how the Aikau name became synonymous with groundbreaking big wave surfing, the Hokulea, and the reclamation of the most revered sport in Hawaiian history. (U.S.A.): In the wake of 9/11, a First-Gen Muslim teenager discovers her mothers cassette tapes. If you don't know the institute and its programs, you certainly know the films that . Sean Wang (Writer/Director) with Ddi () (U.S.A.): Fremont, CA. The Sundance Institute has chosen its 16 screenwriters to participate in the 2o22 Screenwriters Lab. Nicole Ballivian is a Sundance Screenwriter Fellow and director. Her work pushes the envelope of expression by experimenting with genre and form. One of the most exciting things about starting each year with the Sundance Film Festival is having a front-row seat for the bright future of, Fellowship Enters Fifth Year of Supporting Filmmakers from Underrepresented Communities As They Focus on a Sustainable and Creative Path Forward Los Angeles, CA Today.