The Sundance Institute introduced as we speak the the fellows chosen for its 2024 Directors, Screenwriters, and Native Labs. The Native Lab in New Mexico will help 4 fellows and two artists in residence, and the Directors Lab in Colorado will help the event of eight initiatives with 9 fellows, with a further three fellows additionally becoming a member of for the web Screenwriters Lab held instantly after. For the primary time the Directors Lab will probably be held on the Stanley Hotel in Estes, Colorado — Stephen King’s inspiration for The Shining — whereas the Native Lab will probably be returning to Santa Fe, New Mexico, whereas the Screenwriters Lab will happen on-line.
The Directors Lab is led by Artistic Director Gyula Gazdag, and advisors embrace Miguel Arteta, Joan Darling, Rick Famuyiwa, Stephen Goldblatt, Keith Gordon, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Andrew Haigh, Randa Haines, Ed Harris, Siân Heder, André Holland, Karyn Kusama, Pam Martin, Estes Tarver, and Dylan Tichenor. The Screenwriters Lab is led by Artistic Director Howard Rodman and advisors embrace John August, Scott Z. Burns, Reggie Rock Bythewood, Scott Frank, Susannah Grant, Tamara Jenkins, Meg LeFauve, Jenny Lumet, Josh Marston, Kemp Powers, Robin Swicord, and Joan Tewkesbury.
The Native Lab will embrace two artists in residence — Fox Maxy (Mesa Grande Band of Mission Indians and Payómkawish) and Shea Vassar (Cherokee), who’re in script improvement on their very own initiatives. This 12 months’s Native Lab inventive advisors are Patrick Brice, Tai Leclaire (Mohawk and Mi’kmaq), Kishori Rajan, and Jon Raymond.
From the press launch:
“Our Indigenous Program team looks forward to returning to Santa Fe to spend a week supporting some of the best and brightest Indigenous artists working today,” mentioned Adam Piron, Director of Indigenous Program. “This group is diverse in the work they are bringing to develop and in how their Indigeneity shapes it — their differences are their strengths. We can’t wait to see what those combined strengths help them add to each other’s projects as they collaborate with each other and with our creative advisors.”
“For over four decades since their conception, the labs remain critical to the vitality of the independent filmmaking community. It has never been more important to invest in the growth of independent storytellers. While our Directors and Screenwriters Labs take place over several weeks, our commitment to these emerging artists and their creative and career journey to making their films is far more enduring and meaningful,” mentioned Michelle Satter, Founding Senior Director of Artist Programs. “We are connected with the fellows year-round, building a robust and supportive community where they can grow as storytellers, hone their craft, and see their vision come to life. We look forward to welcoming this cohort of fellows to the labs and appreciate the time and generous efforts of the staff, advisors, actors, crew, and more who support this essential work of Sundance Institute.”
The Directors and Screenwriters Labs are overseen by Michelle Satter, Founding Senior Director of the Institute’s Artist Programs, and Ilyse McKimmie, Deputy Director of the Feature Film Program. The Native Lab is overseen by Adam Piron, Director of the Institute’s Indigenous Program, and Ianeta Le’i, this system’s Senior Manager.
The 2024 Sundance Institute Native Lab fellows are:
Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan (Writer-Director) with Hum (Philippines, U.S.A.): Haunted by the six-year absence of her lacking husband, Esther, a single mom who works as a tour information for mountaineers, embarks on her personal treacherous journey of trying to find him within the jungle the place he had retreated to reside with the beasts. Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan is a filmmaker from the Philippines. Eblahan’s works discover themes of trauma, spirituality, and nature, advised via the cosmic lens of post-colonial areas and Indigenous identities. His movie The Headhunter’s Daughter was awarded the Short Grand Jury Prize on the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.
Ryland Walker Knight (Writer-Director) with The Lip of the World (U.S.A.): When Cassandra discovers a younger Indigenous girl washed ashore with no reminiscence, the pair journey into the violent underworld of the Northern California psychedelic tradition to uncover her true identification. Ryland Walker Knight is a Cherokee author and a filmmaker, and as soon as upon a time he was known as a movie critic. An avid basketball and audiobook fanatic, Knight lives and works in Oakland and Los Angeles, California.
Charine Pilar Gonzales (Writer-Director) with NDN Time (U.S.A.): A Tewa faculty scholar should grasp her new dimension-bending skills to reveal the nuclear secrets and techniques threatening her Pueblo. Charine Pilar Gonzales wrote and directed the brief movies River Bank (Pō-Kehgeh) and Our Quiyo: Maria Martinez. She co-produced the 2024 Sundance Film Festival brief doc Winding Path. A Tewa filmmaker from San Ildefonso Pueblo and Santa Fe, New Mexico, she goals to intertwine reminiscences, goals, and truths via story.
Lindsay McIntyre (Writer-Director) with The Words We Can’t Speak (Canada): A horrible Arctic accident leaves an Inuk interpreter unwelcome in her group. She is compelled to climate not possible circumstances and hateful prejudices, but nonetheless take care of her daughter, when she embarks on a harmful 1,000-mile journey by canine sled with an inexperienced RCMP constable who fancies her for his spouse. Lindsay McIntyre (Inuit/settler) is a filmmaker whose works explores themes of portraiture, place, and private histories. After 40+ experimental/documentary movies and lots of pageant awards, her latest leap into narrative with NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ(2023) garnered her Best Short at imagineNATIVE and an opportunity on the Oscars. She teaches movie at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
The 2024 Sundance Institute Directors and Screenwriters Labs fellows are:
Keisha Rae Witherspoon (Co-Writer, Director) and Jason Fitzroy Jeffers (Co-Writer) with Arc (U.S.A.): Ev is an outcast Miami hustler who believes his mom was kidnapped by aliens when he was a boy. When a mysterious girl descends on his group sermonizing about extraterrestrial salvation, he finds new function, which is quickly threatened by a disgraced former authorities agent and a looming hurricane. Keisha Rae Witherspoon is a Miami-born filmmaker whose brief movie T received the Golden Bear on the 2020 Berlinale. Keisha was named certainly one of Filmmaker journal’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2020 and is a 2022 USA Fellow. She is co-founder of Third Horizon Film Festival. Jason Fitzroy Jeffers is a Barbadian filmmaker who has produced award-winning shorts similar to Papa Machete and T, winner of the Golden Bear on the 2020 Berlinale. He is co-founder and former pageant director of Third Horizon Film Festival, a 2023 USA Fellow, and a 2024 Creative Capital awardee. [Screenwriters Lab only]
Jane Casey Modderno (Writer-Director) with Here for the Weekend (U.S.A.): A rom-com about three trans women questing for love in Palm Springs. It facilities Cherry, a type-A resort employee with goals of launching a lingerie model, and her seduction of a visitor with the facility to vary her life… however solely by ditching her mates Jane Casey Modderno wrote for Facebook’s The Birch and Peacock’s The Girl within the Woods. As director, her shorts have screened at festivals worldwide and can be found to observe on Vimeo Staff Picks and Short of the Week.
Sylvia Khoury (Writer-Director) with I’m Heather (U.S.A.): Recently widowed Lebanese housewife Fadia, 60, dares to pursue a life outdoors the house by serving as a standardized affected person for medical college students to follow interacting with. Finding that Heather, the white character she performs, instructions extra respect than she does, Fadia begins to play at being Heather in her on a regular basis life. Sylvia Khoury obtained her MD from the Icahn School of Medicine in 2021 and is a 2022 Pulitzer Finalist in Drama (Selling Kabul). She is the Berlind Playwright-in-Residence at Princeton, commissioned by Lincoln Center and LAMF/Protozoa, and growing authentic TV exhibits with Plan B and at FX with the Js.
Kristine Gerolaga (Writer-Director) with Lamok (Philippines / U.S.A.): A Filipino girl decided to avenge the dying of her daughter following a botched abortion finds her worldview dramatically altered after she is cursed to rework nightly right into a fetus-eating creature referred to as the manananggal. [Screenwriters Lab only]. Kristine Gerolaga is a Filipina American filmmaker and actor. She is supported by The Future of Film is Female and Sundance Institute’s Artist Accelerator Program. Mosquito Lady, the proof-of-concept brief for Lamok, had its world premiere at Beyond Fest and is now on the pageant circuit.
Diana Peralta (Writer-Director) with No Love Lost (U.S.A.): When a troubled younger girl brings her new husband residence to fulfill the household, her devoted however insular sisters reveal the extremes they’ll go to guard each other. Diana Peralta is a Dominican American author, director, and artistic producer from New York City. Her debut characteristic movie, De Lo Mio (The Criterion Collection), premiered because the closing night time movie of BAMcinemaFest in 2019 and was initially distributed by HBO. Peralta was featured in Filmmaker journal’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.”
Hanna Gray Organschi (Writer-Director) with Rubber Hut (U.S.A.): Rhode Island, 1992. An entrepreneurial ex–Pan Am stewardess opens a drive-thru condom store in her Italian Catholic city. Overnight, Emanuella DelVecchio turns into the native lightning rod, a radical hero to the neighborhood teenagers and an unlikely menace to her tight-knit group. Hanna Gray Organschi is a New England filmmaker pursuing her MFA at New York University. She obtained the NYWIFT scholarship, the Wasserman Award, and the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative Accelerator Grant and is on the 2024 Purple List. Her upcoming brief F*ck That Guy is executive-produced by Spike Lee and Riva Marker.
Sara Crow (Co-Writer, Co-Director) and David Rafailedes (Co-Writer, Co-Director) withSatoshi (U.S.A.): The probably true story of a teenage anime-obsessed hacktivist who, after dropping her scholarship to Stanford, returns residence to Arizona to develop into the mysterious inventor of a brand new digital forex known as Bitcoin. Sara Crow is a Brooklyn-based writer-director whose tales middle misfits and subcultures. She is at present an MFA candidate at New York University’s Graduate Film Program, the place she is a Martin Scorsese Scholar and the recipient of the Sloan Feature Film Award and the Sundance Institute Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. David Rafailedes is a bicoastal (Hudson River/Lake Erie) primarily based writer-director. He attends New York University’s Graduate Film Program. He can be the co-playwright of Cellino v. Barnes and the recipient of the Sloan Feature Film Award and the Sundance Institute Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.
Urvashi Pathania (Writer-Director) with Skin (U.S.A.): A horror-thriller a few dark-skinned Indian American girl tempted by an addictive and harmful experimental pores and skin bleaching machine — and the white girl who invented it. [Screenwriters Lab only] Urvashi Pathania (she/her) is a writer-director primarily based in Brooklyn. Her movies discover gender, sexuality, and cultural bereavement. Pathania was chosen for the 2023 Sundance Screenwriters Intensive along with her characteristic Skin. She can be a recipient of the 2023 Sundance Horror Fellowship.
Claire Fowler (Writer-Director) with Toad (U.Ok.): After seeing a disturbing accusation on-line, a girl dwelling far-off from residence and ostracized from her strikingly profitable twin brother begins to piece collectively reminiscences of the teenager theater expertise that got here between them. Claire Fowler is a author and director from North Wales. She is an alum of Oxford University, Columbia University’s Film MFA, the WB Directors’ workshop, and the AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women. Her brief Salam premiered at Tribeca and received a BAFTA Cymru, and she or he lately was a director on Netflix’s Manifest.
Ramzi Bashour (Writer-Director) with Tomahawk Springs (U.S.A.): Tomahawk Springs is a comedy a few Lebanese girl in America on an odyssey along with her second-generation teenage son who barely speaks any Arabic. One driving shotgun, the opposite on the wheel, they journey the open highway and rediscover themselves alongside the way in which. Ramzi Bashour is a filmmaker primarily based in New York. He grew up in Beirut and over time has labored as a prepare dinner, baker, journalist, and trainer. He’s written and directed award-winning shorts, together with The Trees, and has collaborated as a composer and editor on characteristic movies.
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