Film Independent Announces Screenwriting Fellows
(released
Wednesday, August 6, 2008)
By greenroomwire
Film Independent announced the selected fellows for its annual Screenwriters Lab, which started August 4th and runs through September 11th, 2008. Writer/producer Meg LeFauve will teach the Lab, which is sponsored by the Writers Guild West and Final Draft.
The Screenwriters Lab is a six-week program designed to assist writers working in independent film improve their craft and take their current scripts to the next level. This session's speakers will include writer/director Zach Helm (Stranger than Fiction), writer/producer Dianna Ossana (Brokeback Mountain), writer/director Jonathan Levine (The Wackness), writer Howard Rodman (Savage Grace), writer/director Jay Duplass (Baghead), and writer/director Kasi Lemmons (Talk to Me).
The Film Independent Screenwriters Lab participants were chosen based on the strength of screenwriter's submitted script and application.
The participants and their projects are:
- John Benton and Alexandra Brodsky, BUST
- Soo-Hyun Chung, GROUPIE
- Darian and Desha Dauchan, KALFOU
- Wade Gasque, HALF TRUTH
- Xochitl Gonzalez, THE (MOSTLY) TRUE STORY OF THE CRAZY FU*%ED UP SH*%T I DID AT UNI HIGH
- Jonathan Hludzinski, CLOSE TO ME
- Cedar Sherbert, UNTITLED "BISCUIT" PROJECT
- Mia Trachinger, WHAT REMAINS
- Michael Urban, DIFFICULT CHILD
- David Zeiger, OTHERWISE PANDEMONIUM
Past Screenwriters Lab participants include Scott Prendergast, whose debut feature Kabluey was released theatrically this summer; Lance Hammer, director of the critically-acclaimed Ballast; Suzi Yoonessi, who is currently in production on her debut feature Dear Lemon, Lima; Beth Schacter, whose debut feature Normal Adolescent Behavior premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival; Scott Coffey, who wrote and directed Ellie Parker; and Minh Nguyen-Vo, whose film Buffalo Boy was Vietnam's official entry for the 2006 Academy Awards.
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