Film Independent Sets Screenwriting Lab Participants For 2024
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Film Independent has named Omer Ben Shachar, Mary Dauterman, MG Evangelista, Naomi Iwamoto, Thomas Kivney, Juan Paulo Laserna and Jhanvi Motla as the screenwriters selected for the 26th edition of its Screenwriting Lab, an intensive program designed to provide individualized story and career development for screenwriters with fiction feature scripts.Over the course of the program, Fellows will workshop their projects under the guidance of creative advisors Javier Fuentes-León, Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi, Jessica Sharzer, Jeff Stockwell and Christopher Makoto Yogi.
Additional guest speakers and advisors will include Ruth Atkinson, Danielle Renfrew Behrens, Bridget Savage Cole, Lauren Craniotes, Ellie Foumbi, Priyanka Kapoor, Danielle Krudy, Amanda Marshall, Josh Peters, Jon Schumacher, Ellen Shanman, Lauren Shelton and Caddy Vanasirikul. “We are honored to provide the tools and support necessary for these exceptional filmmakers to propel their projects and careers forward,” said Dea Vazquez, Associate Director of Fiction Programs for Film Independent.
Past Screenwriting Lab projects include Billy Luther’s Frybread Face and Me, Academy Award winner Chloé Zhao’s feature debut Songs My Brothers Taught Me, Andrew Ahn’s Independent Spirit Award-winning debut Spa Night, Hikari’s Berlin prize winner 37 Seconds, Ani Simon Kennedy’s A Short History of the Long Road, and Kate Marks’ The Cow of Queens, which landed a Nicholl Fellowship in 2020.
Read more about the projects of this year’s participants below. Burning WellWriter/Director: MG EvangelistaLogline: In a re-imagining of the Prodigal Son story, on receiving news of his mother’s illness, a young trans man returns home to mend complicated relationships and
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