Selected Filmmakers tell Provocative and Surprising Stories with Specificity and Authenticity; Projects Cover Wide Range of Genres and Content, All with Contemporary Resonance
Los Angeles, CA-Sundance Institute has selected twelve projects for the annual January Screenwriters Lab, to be held January 14-19, 2011 at the Sundance Resort in Utah. This year’s group includes filmmakers from regions throughout the world, including the United States, Mexico, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. A hallmark of this year’s Lab is its diversity, with filmmakers from a variety of ethnicities and backgrounds, an almost even split of men and women, and a wide spectrum of genres that includes comedy, period, horror-tinged thriller, and classic indie drama.
The Screenwriters Lab is a five-day writers’ workshop that gives independent screenwriters the opportunity to work intensely on their feature film scripts with the support of established writers in an environment that encourages innovation and creative risk-taking. Through one-on-one story sessions, fellows engage in an artistically rigorous process that offers them indispensable lessons in craft, as well as the means to do the deep exploration needed to fully realize their material.
The projects selected for the 2011 January Screenwriters Lab are:
* Adelaide / Liliana Greenfield-Sanders (writer/director), U.S.A.
* Adelyne / Holden Abigail Osborne (writer/director), U.S.A.
* confederacy / Jody Lee Lipes (co-writer/director) and Jeffrey Peixoto (co-writer), U.S.A.
* Eyes of a Thief / Najwa Najjar (writer/director), Palestinian territories
* Imperial Dreams / Malik Vitthal (co-writer/director) and Ismet Prcic (co-writer), U.S.A.
* In What City Does It Live? / Seng Tat Liew (writer/director), Malaysia
* La Raya / Yolanda Cruz (writer/director), Mexico, U.S.A.
* Little Accidents / Sara Colangelo (writer/director), U.S.A.
* On Evil / Carlo Mirabella-Davis (writer/director), U.S.A.
* Providence / Yaelle Kayam (writer/director), Israel
* Stem / Diane Bell (writer/director), Scotland, U.S.A.
* The Western Habit / Ian Olds (co-writer/director) and Paul Felten (co-writer), U.S.A.
“Our Feature Film Program’s screenwriters labs are foundations of Sundance Institute and in many ways illustrate the scope of our year-round work around the world,” said Executive Director Keri Putnam. “Many of the artists we have been privileged to work with have gone on to make brilliant films, and some of those films will make their world premieres at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.”…more
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