Ciara Leina`ala Lacy is a filmmaker whose Native Hawaiian identity drives her works intimacy and authenticity. (Lebanon/Canada/France): Rana, a feisty & competitive woman avoiding a secret from her past, becomes obsessed with the male-dominated pigeon wars of Beirut. The Fellows were selected from 3,200 submissions to further develop their scripts with the guidance of accomplished advisors, some of whom are alumni of the Screenwriters Lab themselves. His first feature, Homebody, won the Emerging Talent Award at Outfest and is available to stream on Fandor. For 40 years, the Feature Film Program (FFP) Labs have supported and championed an exciting and groundbreaking array of independent filmmakers including Charlotte Wells (Aftersun), Nikyatu Jusu (Nanny), Tatiana Huezo (Prayers for the Stolen [Noche de Fuego]), Lyle Corbine Jr. (Wild Indian), Radha Blank (The 40-Year-Old Version), Lulu Wang (The Farewell), Chloe Zhao (Songs My Brother Taught Me), Eliza Hittman (Beach Rats), Marielle Heller (Diary of a Teenage Girl), Fernando Frias de la Parra (Im No Longer Here), Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre), Damien Chazelle (Whiplash), Edson Oda (Nine Days), Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station), Dee Rees (Pariah), Nia DaCosta (Little Woods), Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox), and Benh Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar (Beasts of the Southern Wild)among many others. GitHub export from English Wikipedia. His first short, Act ofGod, has won many awards, including Best U.S. Short at the Palm Springs ShortsFestand an Audience Award at SXSW 2022. personal story of losing his brother to bipolar. He is a 2021 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow, a recipient of the 2020 Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Grant, a 2020. 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; NBCUniversal; 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 StewardK Period Media; SAGindie; Rosalie Swedlin and Robert Cort; Deborah Reinisch and Michael Theodore Fund; Octavia Spencer; Scott and Jennifer Frank. ed the 12 projects invited to the 2023 Screenwriters Lab and the 10 projects selected for the Screenwriters Intensive, including filmmakers from the U.S.A. and internationally from the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon and Nepal. CREATIVE DIRECTOR / FILMMAKER / DIGITAL PRODUCT DESIGNER; WITH 20 + YEARS EXPERIENCE DEVELOPING CONTENT/SOLUTIONS FOR BRANDS, BROADCASTERS & PRODUCTION COMPANIES. The Screenwriters Intensive allows us to extend the breadth of our support to a wider group of emerging independent artists, and were thrilled to include such an extensive range of stories, genres, and essential voices in the cohort, said Ilyse McKimmie, Deputy Director of the Feature Film Program. Her feature screenplay Keep It Together was shortlisted for the 2019 Tribeca All Access program. 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. , with Gina Rodriguez to direct and star. She was a Merata Mita Fellow at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival with her project I love my Guooheaddji. Bane Fakih is a Lebanese filmmaker whose shorts Assil and Jad and Vibes screened at Palm Springs ShortsFest and Outfest. Eliza McNitt is a writer and director. 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. PARK CITY, UTAH, January 13, 2023 Today the nonprofit Sundance Institute announced the 12 projects invited to the 2023 Screenwriters Lab and the 10 projects selected for the Screenwriters Intensive, including filmmakers from the U.S.A. and internationally from the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon and Nepal. Rosenberg has written for television while developing. But he encounters unexpectedand very humancomplications when he falls in love with the man who knocks him up. The Screenwriters Intensive, a two-day online workshop, will have 12 writers participating on March 2-3 to develop their first fiction features. Palm Springs ShortsFest and Outfest. Jason Fitzroy Jeffers is a filmmaker from Barbados who has produced award-winningshort films such as Papa Machete and T that have screened at festivals such asSundance Film Festival, TIFF, BlackStar, and Berlinale. The Academy Nicholl Fellowship is one of the best screenwriting fellowships for new, up and coming screenwriters. Zahran is agraduate of the NYU Grad Film Program. (co-written/directed by Roger Ross Williams, co-written by David Teague), (co-written/directed by Erica Tremblay, co-written by Miciana Al. As barriers to her career overwhelm her, Mileva battles mental illness and her own exclusion from history. Bernardo Cubra is a Mexican award-winning screenwriter and playwright. 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. Sundance 2023 Sundance-2023 | Jan 17, 2023. She is a Sundance Interdisciplinary Program and Academy of Motion Pictures fellow, and is one of Filmmaker Magazines 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Television and film credits include Search Party, Law & Order, and Crabs in a Barrel (HBO Latinx Short Film Competition winner). The 2023 Sundance Film Festival will present the world premieres of seven Feature Film Program supported projects that include: birth/rebirth (co-written/directed by Laura Moss, co-written by Brendan OBrien), Cassandro (co-written/directed by Roger Ross Williams, co-written by David Teague), Fancy Dance (co-written/directed by Erica Tremblay, co-written by Miciana Alise), Mutt (written and directed by Vuk Lungulov-Klotz), The Starling Girl (written and directed by Laurel Parmet), A Thousand and One (written and directed by A.V. ho confronted rampant discrimination to become one of the first women in physics and an essential contributor to the theory of relativity. 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. Faye Ruiz is a filmmaker whose interests lie in telling the stories of trans women ofcolor. The Sundance Film Festival and other public programs connect audiences and artists to ignite new ideas, discover original voices, and build a community dedicated to independent storytelling. His first feature. Lab and Intensive participants were selected from over 2000 submissio, ns to further develop their scripts with the guidance of accomplished advisors under the leadership of, (Founding Senior Director, Sundance Institutes Artist Programs) and, 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. The Sundance Institute has chosen its 16 screenwriters to participate in the 2o22 Screenwriters Lab. Rashad Frett (Co-writer/Director) & Lin Que Ayoung (Co-writer) with Ricky U.S.A.): 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. 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. Masami Kawai is a Los Angeles-born filmmaker of Ryukyuan descent. She wrote and co-directed Hilbes biig, which screened at nearly 30 film festivals, and The Tongues, winning four awards, three of them at Oscar Qualifying Film Festivals. Each donation will be used exclusively for the development and creation of increased news coverage. Her debut feature The Cow Who Sang A Song Into the Future premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2022 and was supported by the 2017 Sundance Institute Screenwriters and Directors Lab, along with the Catalyst Forum. His films have won many awards, including a Special Jury Mention at Cannes in 2022 for his short film Lori. 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. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize. With industry icons as creative advisors, it features one-on-one story sessions and a tough rewriting experience. many years he was caretaker for Spencer Cook. You may not know it, but it begins when you make that first bold step to submit your screenplay for consideration, it . Sean Wang (Writer/Director) with Ddi () (U.S.A.): Fremont, CA. Given how we, remember is pivotal to healing, her films use memory as a central gaze to de-internalize. Recipient of the Sloan Development Fellowship. Her work drawscultural bridges that lead to the Caribbean through intersectionality, duality andancestral memory. was shortlisted for the 2019 Tribeca All Access program. Abinash Bikram Shah is an award-winning writer/director based in Nepal. Please email us with any questions you have at anytime! Shes the, (Netflix/PBS). She is currently working towards developing her first featurefilm. We love to talk Labradoodles. Bernardo Cubra (Co-writer), John Hibey (Co-writer), & Joshua Penn Soskin (Co-writer, not attending) with Kill Yr Idols (U.S.A.): In the Rio Grande Valley, just north of the Mexico/US border, the friendship of two teenage boys is tested as they embark on a whirlwind punk rock odyssey to escape their realities and seize their dreams. Nwosus work is informed by the intersectional nature of her life across multiple continents and identities. Ingir Bl Nango is a screenwriter. When her young son develops an unexpected bond with the flocks scout bird, both mother and son must contend with the complex emotional fallout of their shared loss. Lolita has been a fellow at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab Intensive, Cave Canem Poetry Retreat, and Atlantic Center for the Arts. (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. Neo Sora (Writer/Director) with Earthquake (U.S.A., Japan): Two teenage best friends living in near-future Tokyo, where earthquakes are part of the fabric of life, must confront the end of their friendship as they navigate diverging paths towards adulthood. After being written up in Variety and Cahiers Du Cinema, Filmmaker Magazine named Sora one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Gabriela Ortega (Writer/Director) with Huella (Dominican Republic / U.S.A.): Following the death of her familys matriarch in the Dominican Republic, a disenchanted flamenco dancer living in New York City must rid herself from her ancestors curses to pave her own future. Before transitioning to film. After her MFA from Columbia University, Fakih, received the Ezra Litwak Award for Screenwriting Distinction.