Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences. ho confronted rampant discrimination to become one of the first women in physics and an essential contributor to the theory of relativity. She is the inaugural Sundance Merata Mita Fellow. Estrada) and is in pre-production on his feature directorial debut. Shireen Alihaji is a First Gen, Ecuadorian-Iranian, Muslim, and disabled filmmaker. 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. (U.S.A.): Eighteen-year-old Almas purposeful and happy life is disrupted when she must cope with the shock of intrafamily sexual abuse. The projects selected for the 2023 January Screenwriters Lab and the artists participating are. As barriers to her career overwhelm her, Mileva battles mental illness and her own exclusion from history. His latest short film, H.A.G.S (Have A Good Summer), was acquired by the New York Times Op-Docs. Nwosus work is informed by the intersectional nature of her life across multiple continents and identities. Her short film Heading South has won awards at the DGA Student Film Awards, Aspen, Palm Springs, Hamptons and Hong Kong International Film Festival. ): 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. 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. Were looking forward to kicking off a new year of the Screenwriters Lab, supporting the bold visions of a stellar group of storytellers. January 14, 2022. s work as a screenwriter and director is supported by the Sundance Institute, SFFILM, IFP/Gotham, ARRAY, Visual Communications, and CAPE. 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. Recipient of the Sundance Institute Comedy Fellowship. Join Sundance Institute on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. His short. 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. Committed to supporting excellence in dentistry, Sundance strives to consistently fabricate high-quality restorations and dental devices. Over five days, our Advisors and Fellows will be immersed in story meetings, craft workshops, and conversations that will form a foundation of year-round support and the beginning of a creative community that will last throughout the full journey of bringing these films to worldwide audiences. Guest editorial: We must bust the Sundance myth, Park City Institute and Park City School District come to terms about the Eccles Center, Park City inquires about Sundance traffic in weeks after community was overwhelmed. Why Us? She was a Merata Mita Fellow at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival with her project I love my Guooheaddji. His short film If I Go Will They Miss Me won the 2022 Sundance U.S. Fiction Short Film award, and hes currently in post-production on his first feature. 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. 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. Othersupporters include Tribeca, Nia Tero, Princess Grace Foundation, NACF, PIC, ITVS,MacArthur, and Firelight. David Liu (Writer/Director) with Santa Anita (U.S.A.): Summer, 2004. Foundation Fellow. Bane Fakih is a Lebanese filmmaker whose shorts Assil and Jad and Vibes screened at Palm Springs ShortsFest and Outfest. Violet du Feng is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. 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. 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. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo. Hasan Hadi is an Iraqi writer/director based in New York. All of their work has the power to impact audiences through their unique voices, personal perspectives and exciting and unheard stories, said. John Hibey co-wrote and produced the two-time Sundance award-winning film FishingWithout Nets (short and feature versions.) Keisha Rae Witherspoon is a Miami-based filmmaker. Lauri's List of Screenwriting Fellowships, Labs, Grants, Contests and Other Opportunities Last updated on January 29, 2023. Caledonia Curry (aka Swoon) is an artist and filmmaker recognized for her pioneering vision of public artwork. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. (U.S.A.): In the wake of 9/11, a First-Gen Muslim teenager discovers her mothers cassette tapes. Welcome to Sundance Dental Laboratory. is an Egyptian writer/director based in Brooklyn. 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. 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. Her films have been supported by Tribeca, Chanel, Kickstarter, and the New Orleans Film Society, where she programs narrative films for the New Orleans Film Festival. Given how weremember is pivotal to healing, her films use memory as a central gaze to de-internalizesurveillance, uncensor the imagination and mirror our infinite reflections. Sean Wang is a filmmaker from Fremont, CA. Each donation will be used exclusively for the development and creation of increased news coverage. He. is a writer/director born and raised in Ecuador with an MFA, from Columbia University. They write genre work, predominantly gothic, folk, psychological, and body horror with queer and female, received a Special Jury Mention at Outfest, (2019). His first film, the documentary feature Ramblin Freak, premiered at SXSW in 2017. The Sundance Screenwriters Lab is an experiential and nebulous process. Fresh . 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. This relationship was the basis for their2022 SXSW Audience Award-winning short, Act of God. Zahran is a. Rebin Zangana is a Kurdish American writer from Ohio. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Her short film, Beast, premiered at the Tribeca FilmFestival and screened in select theaters nationally before Jordan Peeles Nope. Her, intersections inspire her to create space through film technologies. Cynthia Lowen is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and writer. Recipient of the Sundance Institute Comedy Fellowship. By Ryan Koo. Lin Que Ayoung is an award-winning writer/director/producer and graduate of NYU Grad Film. Sundance Screenwriters Lab. 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. is a filmmaker based in Austin, Texas, originally from Louisville, Kentucky. 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. For Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, writer-directors of Everything Everywhere All At Once, it all started at Sundance.The filmmaking duo's debut feature, Swiss Army Man, about a man stranded on an island who befriends a dead body, not only premiered at the 2016 . Recipient of the Sundance Institute Comedy Fellowship. Hes currently in post on his horror short film. is a writer/director based in Brooklyn. Yuan Yuan, Sundance January Screenwriters Lab participant and writer/director of Late Spring. 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. Sean Wang is a filmmaker from Fremont, CA. Her first short, (2014) won the Student Academy Award and the Israeli. 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. Eliza McNitt is a writer and director. The opportunity is in the networking as winners can . Herintersections inspire her to create space through film technologies. Farida Zahran is an Egyptian writer/director based in Brooklyn. Her short film, Festival and screened in select theaters nationally before Jordan Peeles. Production guide and directory with crew, equipment, digital media, pre-production, post production, production support and talent services. Her films have screened atvarious venues, including the Rotterdam Film Festival, LACMA, and Palm SpringsShortFest. Each year the Sundance Institute gathers recipients of this program for a week of mentorship and project development in Utah. Lowen is also winner of the National Poetry Seriesfor her collection The Cloud That Contained the Lightning about the making of theatomic bomb. Walter worked as a journalist for The New York Times. K Period Media; SAGindie; Rosalie Swedlin and Robert Cort; Deborah Reinisch and Michael Theodore Fund; Octavia Spencer; Scott and Jennifer Frank. Pigeon Wars willbe her debut feature. He writes horror and comedyfeaturing immigrant leads. He is a 2021 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow, a recipient of the 2020 Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Grant, a 2020. When his father, Big Ant, realizes his son sees these airplane people too, their family history emerges and reveals deeper meaning and connection between them. Sundance Screenwriters Lab: One of the most prestigious programs for screenwriters, with a focus on independent filmmaking. Bernardo Cubra is a Mexican award-winning screenwriter and playwright. 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. Cynthia Lowen (Writer/Director) with Light Mass Energy (U.S.A. / Switzerland): Light Mass Energy is the story of Mileva Mari Einstein, who confronted rampant discrimination to become one of the first women in physics and an essential contributor to the theory of relativity. 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. 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.