Inevitable Foundation Announces Spring 2022 Screenwriting Fellows
variety.comSasha Urban editorInevitable Foundation, a non-profit for mid-career disabled screenwriters, announced that its fellows for the spring of 2022 will be Sam Dunnewold and Anton Ray.
Each of them will receive a $40,000 grant and 12 months of individualized mentorship, workshops and networking opportunities with major players in the entertainment industry.The two of them will join fall 2021 fellows Shaina Ghuraya, Greg Machlin and Aoife Baker, as well as spring 2021 fellows Shani Am Moore and Kalen Feeney.“We are thrilled to welcome Sam and Anton into the program.
There is a massive void of upper-level talent in the industry — of the 1,300 first look and overall deals on record in 2021, only one was with a disabled creator — and we are laser focused on putting disabled screenwriters in positions of power,” foundation co-founders Richie Siegel and Marisa Torelli-Pedevska said in a statement. “Our fellowship helps them develop and sell their own content and climb the (often inaccessible) ladder to the upper-levels of the film and television industry.” Sam Dunnewold, originally from Minnesota, is a comedy writer who “likes a sharp wit and a good poop joke” and his writing “is often high-concept, usually dark and always nerdy,” per Inevitable.
He graduated from Carleton College with a major in film and has worked as an editor at The Onion, Funny or Die and Team Coco, in addition to working on fiction podcasts.
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