Sundance Institute Directing and Screenwriting Lab Fellows
The Sundance Institute does an annual directing and screenwriting lab and yesterday they announced their projects:
The directors lab projects and fellows are:
- 40 Days of Silence/Saodat Ismailova (writer/director), Uzbekistan
- Bluebird/Lance Edmands (writer/director), USA
- Drunktown’s Finest/Sydney Freeland (writer/director), USA
- Martha Marcy May Marlene/Sean Durkin (writer/director), USA
- My Favorite Nightmare/Myna Joseph (writer/director), USA
- The Perfect Moment/Ondi Timoner (director) and Bruce Goodrich (writer), USA
- The Ruined Cast/Dash Shaw (writer/director), USA
- Shelter/Kasem Kharsa (writer/director), Egypt/USA
The screenwriters lab projects and fellows are:
- Aqui Y Alli (Here and There)/Antonio Mendez Esparza (writer/director), Spain/USA
- Nobody Walks/Ry Russo-Young (co-writer/director) and Lena Dunham (co-writer), USA
- Run and Jump/Steph Green (co-writer/director) and Alibhe Keogan (co-writer), Ireland/ USA
- Wolf/Bogdan Mustata (writer/director), Romania
- Zero Motivation/Talya Lavie (writer/director), Israel
This year’s creative advisers include Robert Redford, Allison Anders, John August, Caleb Deschanel, John Gatins, Keith Gordon, Randa Haines, Ed Harris, Christine Lahti, Doug McGrath, Walter Mosley, Susan Shilliday, Stewart Stern and Audrey Wells.
For more information, go here.