(U.S.A.): Summer, 2004. co-wrote and produced the two-time Sundance award-winning film, (short and feature versions.) His first short, Act of God, has won many awards, including Best U.S. Short at the Palm Springs ShortsFest and an Audience Award at SXSW 2022. We feel privileged to provide vital creative guidance and meaningful community at a crucial moment in the development of these projects.. Today we are. Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Olive Nwosu is a BAFTA-Pigott Scholar, Alex Sichel Fellow at Columbia University, and an African Promises director selected by the Institut Franais. 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. 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. is a filmmaker from Fremont, CA. Parker Smith is a filmmaker based in Austin, Texas, originally from Louisville, Kentucky. (U.S.A.): Summer, 2004. His short film THE CHICKEN premiered at the 2020 Locarno International Film Festival. A USC film school alumnus and native of the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles, David Lius work as a screenwriter and director is supported by the Sundance Institute, SFFILM, IFP/Gotham, ARRAY, Visual Communications, and CAPE. She is the co-Creator of Carlas Quince (Drama League nominee). Keisha Rae Witherspoon is a Miami-based filmmaker. Her film Cracked won The Spike Lee Production Grant and a KingWasserman Award for Best Graduate Film at NYUs First Run Festival. (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. Her short film, Beast, premiered at the Tribeca FilmFestival and screened in select theaters nationally before Jordan Peeles Nope. Those taking part in the Directors Lab and/or [] His latest short film. Shireen Alihaji is a First Gen, Ecuadorian-Iranian, Muslim, and disabled filmmaker. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads. His first short, , has won many awards, including Best U.S. Short at the Palm Springs ShortsFest. After her MFA from Columbia University, Fakihreceived the Ezra Litwak Award for Screenwriting Distinction. Her work draws cultural bridges that lead to the Caribbean through intersectionality, duality and ancestral memory. His first film, the documentary feature Ramblin Freak, premiered at SXSW in 2017. Hes currently in post on his horror short film. 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, added McKimmie. Michael Len is a Cuban-American writer/director. All of their work has the power to impact audiences through their unique voices, personal perspectives and exciting and unheard stories, said Michelle Satter, Founding Senior Director of Sundance Institutes Artist Programs. (U.S.A.): In the wake of 9/11, a First-Gen Muslim teenager discovers her mothers cassette tapes. Show less Visiting Practitioner University of the Arts London Mar 2023 - Apr 2023 2 months. (Lebanon/Canada/France): Rana, a feisty & competitive woman avoiding a secret from her past, becomes obsessed with the male-dominated pigeon wars of Beirut. Lowen is also winner of the National Poetry Series for her collection The Cloud That Contained the Lightning about the making of the atomic bomb. 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. Her feature screenplay Keep It Together was shortlisted for the 2019 Tribeca All Access program. 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. is a First Gen, Ecuadorian-Iranian, Muslim, and disabled filmmaker. 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. Who are these men beneath their uniforms, and how many degrees of separation really exist between them? For 40 years, the Feature Film Program (FFP) Labs have supported and championed an exciting and ground-breaking array of independent filmmakers including 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. He has written films that have premiered in Berlinale and Venice andwere Nepals official entry for the Academy Awards. Click here to read our spring 2023 issue, featuring A.V. Bernardo Cubra is a Mexican award-winning screenwriter and playwright. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. Most recently, she wrote on the acclaimed television series Ramy (A24 & Hulu). Her latest short, (Criterion Channel) won the Jury Prize for Best International Fiction Short at the. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapib. 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 into the human gene pool and propagate his species. Recipient of the Sloan Development Fellowship. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. Audrey Rosenberg is an award-winning writer/director. Stay up to date with Sundance Collab in your inbox with our weekly newsletter. As barriers to her career overwhelm her, Mileva battles mental illness and her own exclusion from history. Rockwell (. is an award-winning writer/director/producer and graduate of NYU, won The Spike Lee Production Grant and a King. Urvashi Pathania (Writer/Director) with Skin (U.S.A.): A body-positivity influencer enters a desperate bid to save her self-loathing sister when the latter becomes a test subject for their aunts plastic surgery and skin-lightening racket. Newton-Bernal strives to use film as a means of collaborative social change, to enrich our understanding of the world and our role in it. Caledonia Curry (aka Swoon) is an artist and filmmaker recognized for her pioneering vision of public artwork. . (written and directed by Vuk Lungulov-Klotz), (written and directed by A.V. Her short Unmothered is available on HBOMax. Wasserman Award for Best Graduate Film at NYUs First Run Festival. 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. She was a Merata Mita Fellow at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival with her project I love my Guooheaddji. (U.S.A.): After a fatal mistake makes her the pariah of her insular and devout 19th century farming community, Frances becomes consumed with hunting down a mythic beast, at the cost of her familys reputation and safety. (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. This relationship was the basis for their 2022 SXSW Audience Award-winning short, Act of God. 2023 Filmmaker Magazine. The projects and fellows selected for the. Ev is a paranoid young hustler who believes his mother was abducted by aliens when he was a boy. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". The 2023 Sundance Film Festival will present the world premieres of seven Feature Film Program supported projects that include: -written/directed by Laura Moss, co-written by Brendan OBrien). Hes currently in post on his horror short film, TheMan in the Sky Wont Let Me Sleep. She is an Assistant Professor of Filmmaking at the University of Oregon. Nwosus work is informed by the intersectional nature of her life across multiple continents and identities. Hes currently in post on his horror short film, The Man in the Sky Wont Let Me Sleep. Abinash Bikram Shah is an award-winning writer/director based in Nepal. 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. 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. Her intersections inspire her to create space through film technologies. is a filmmaker whose interests lie in telling the stories of trans women of, color. 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. Masami Kawai is a Los Angeles-born filmmaker of Ryukyuan descent. He is a 2020 Sundance Ignite Fellow, 2021 SFFILM Rainin Grantee, and 2022 Sundance Institute & Asian American Foundation Fellow. Recipient of the Sloan Development Fellowship. many years he was caretaker for Spencer Cook. Recipient of the Sundance Institute HorrorFellowship, supported by K Period Media Fund Foundation. and hes currently in post-production on his first feature. 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. They find forgotten memories, love, and connection through this seemingly obsolete object. All Rights Reserved. The projects selected for the 2023 January Screenwriters Lab and the artists participating are. Herintersections inspire her to create space through film technologies. Revise the script again. The fellows come from both the U.S. and abroad, with participants hailing from the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon and Nepal. Today we are. (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 (Writer/Director) with Leche (U.S.A.): Eighteen-year-old Almas purposeful and happy life is disrupted when she must cope with the shock of intrafamily sexual abuse. Dania Bdeir is a Lebanese director with an MFA in film from NYU Tisch. She is currently working towards developing her first feature film. Masami Kawai is a Los Angeles-born filmmaker of Ryukyuan descent. (U.S.A.): In the wake of 9/11, a First-Gen Muslim teenager discovers her mothers cassette tapes. (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. 2008. Given how we, remember is pivotal to healing, her films use memory as a central gaze to de-internalize. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". 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. When Lungulov-Klotz applied, The heart of Sundance Institutes work begins with our labs each spring/summer and continues year-round with the nurturing of diverse, dynamic voices. Joseph Sackett received his MFA in Directing from NYU Tisch Graduate Film. 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, . is a Los Angeles-born and raised filmmaker. The Lab will be dedicated to the memory of Sundances generous Creative Advisor Douglas McGrath who passed away several months ago. Lowen is also winner of the National Poetry Seriesfor her collection The Cloud That Contained the Lightning about the making of theatomic bomb. His work has placed at Los Angeles CineFest, Filmmatic, andAustin Film Festival, among others. Installed by Cloudflare. Rashad Frett 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. 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. Walter Thompson-Hernndez is a Los Angeles-born and raised filmmaker. ): 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. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". Her first feature documentary received the Sundance Award for Best Cinematography and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Join Sundance Institute on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. Her feature screenplay Keep It Together was shortlisted for the 2019 Tribeca All Access program. For many years he was caretaker for Spencer Cook. Ciara Leinaali Lacy (Writer) with Untitled Eddie Aikau Biopic (U.S.A.): Legendary Native Hawaiian big wave surfer, Eddie Aikau, breaks into the scene of global surf culture while facing colonization of the sport. Neo Sora is a filmmaker, translator, and artist working in New York and Tokyo. Nwosu's work is informed by the intersectional nature of her life across multiple continents and . He is, with Carlos Lpez Estrada attached to direct, and the writer of. Used to cache geolocation (session, deleted when closing the browser). Lab participants . Other. 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. Gabriela Ortega is a multi-disciplinary artist from the Dominican Republic. He iscurrently in the writers room for Acapulco on Apple TV+. Her short film, Festival and screened in select theaters nationally before Jordan Peeles. personal story of losing his brother to bipolar. Award at Outfest and is available to stream on Fandor. Recipient of the Sundance Institute Comedy Fellowship. Ciara Leina`ala Lacy is a filmmaker whose Native Hawaiian identity drives her works intimacy and authenticity. One of the most exciting things about the Sundance Film Festival is having a front-row seat for the bright future of independent filmmaking. Ciara Leina`ala Lacy is a filmmaker whose Native Hawaiian identity drives her works intimacy and authenticity. 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. He is a 2021 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow, a recipient of the 2020 Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Grant, a 2020 Cine Qua Non Lab Script Revision Lab fellowship, the Martin E. Segal Production . Founded by Robert Redford in 1981 with the mission of fostering new voices in American storytelling, the nonprofit Sundance Institute is a champion and curator of stories for the stage and screen. In a Minute Youll Be Gone is her first feature film. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Pigeon Wars will be her debut feature. (co-written/directed by Roger Ross Williams, co-written by David Teague), (co-written/directed by Erica Tremblay, co-written by Miciana Al. The Lab will be dedicated to the memory of Sundances generous Creative Advisor Douglas McGrath who passed away several months ago. He is a 2020 Sundance Ignite Fellow, 2021 SFFILM Rainin Grantee, and 2022 Sundance Institute & Asian American. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website.
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