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ANNOUNCING THE SUNDANCE INSTITUTE 2017 SCREENWRITERS INTENSIVE FELLOWS, PROJECTS, AND ADVISORS

Launched in 2013 as part of the Institute’s Diversity Initiative, the Screenwriters Intensive offers an intimate group of emerging screenwriters the opportunity to hone their craft in a two-day concentrated workshop. The program focuses deeply on the creative process of developing a narrative feature screenplay and fosters community amongst the participants. The Intensive includes a hands-on writing workshop, individual feedback sessions with creative advisors, and engagement with the Sundance community through screenings, moderated conversations, and social gatherings. Past projects supported at the Screenwriters Intensive include Spa Night, written and directed by Andrew Ahn, and Deidra and Laney Rob a Train, written by Shelby Farrell and directed by Sydney Freeland. The Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive is made possible with leadership support from the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation.

FELLOWS:

Donari Braxton | Above

Donari Braxton is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. He's received support and awards from Sundance, IFP, Film Independent and Berlinale Talents, amongst other institutions. Last year, the narrative feature he wrote and produced, Out of My Hand, premiered at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival and was theatrically released by Ava Duvernay's ARRAY pictures. He was later nominated for the John Cassavetes Film Independent Spirit Award for his work on this project. Most recently, Braxton was awarded San Francisco Film Society's 2016 KRF Screenwriting Grant and Fellowship for Above, which will be his narrative feature directorial debut.

Beth de Araújo | Josephine

Beth de Araújo is a staff writer and associate producer on the comedy anthology series My Crazy Sex for Lifetime Movie Network, and made her television directorial debut on the series. She was selected for AFI’s 2017 Directing Workshop for Women. Her screenplay, I Want to Marry a Creative Jewish Girl, based on her essay for Gawker Magazine, won Best Screenplay Runner-up at the HollyShorts 2016 Screenplay Competition. Her short film, Initiation, premiered at the 2016 Los Angeles Shorts Film Festival. De Araújo is Chinese and Brazilian with a BA in Sociology from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Screenwriting from AFI.

Christopher Kahunahana | Waikiki

Christopher Kahunahana is a Hawaiian filmmaker and Sundance Institute Native Lab fellow. As founder of 4th World Film, he wrote Karaoke Kings, a feature film in development, and directed Lahaina Noon, an experimental narrative short. In 2014, he wrote and directed a pseudo-documentary for the Smithsonian Institute’s Asian Pacific American "A Day in the Life" project. In 2015, his Hawaii International Film Festival trailer Moments won 4 awards including best cinematography from the American Advertising Awards. He is currently in preproduction for his debut feature film Waikiki.

Vuk Lungulov-Klotz | Quiltro

Vuk Lungulov-Klotz is a young filmmaker born in New York City who was raised in multiple cultures, growing up in New York, Chile, and Serbia. He recently graduated from the SUNY Purchase Film Conservatory and currently lives in Brooklyn. His upbringing and transgender identity have greatly influenced his filmmaking and drives him to make slice-of-life queer films.

Sarah Mintz | Junk Food Diary

Sarah Mintz is a filmmaker working between Los Angeles and New York. She received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where her thesis film Transit, starring Dakota Johnson, was a finalist for Best Short at the 2014 Fusion Film Festival and screened in competition at the 2014 HollyShorts Film Festival. Sarah has been mentored by filmmakers Cary Fukunaga, Joachim Trier, Yann Demange, and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Her screenplay Junk Food Diary was a finalist for the NYU Production Lab, a top ten finalist for Nantucket Screenwriters Colony, and a second round finalist for AFF Screenwriting Competition.

Oualid Mouaness | 1982: A Day in Wissam's Life

Oualid Mouaness is a Lebanese-American writer/director/producer. He studied in Lebanon and received an MFA in film from Florida State University. He co-produced and edited Mari Kornhauser's Kitchen Privileges (2000 SXSW). In 2004, he served as a producer on the documentary Rize (2005 Sundance Film Festival,) followed by Paris Not France (2008 Toronto International Film Festival). Mouaness' diverse producing work includes Michael Jackson's Slave to the Rhythm, Annie Lennox's Emmy-nominated Nostalgia: Live in Concert, and the Audience Award-winning documentary I Am Thalente (2015 Los Angeles Film Festival.) Mouaness also produced seminal music videos for Annie Lennox, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake, Lana Del Rey, and David Bowie, among others. This year, his short film The Rifle, the Jackal, the Wolf and the Boy was shortlisted for the Academy Awards for Best Live Action Short, and he is among Cinephilia’s 2016 Directors to Watch. Mouaness is a RAWI/Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow and a recipient of grants from the Doha Film Institute and Fond Images Francophonie in France. 1982: A Day in Wissam’s Life will mark his feature directorial debut.

Naima Ramos-Chapman | Yeve, or Sad Songs in Lanugages I Don't Understand

Naima Ramos-Chapman is an artist who makes movement, word, image, silence, sound, and technology that tell stories of transformation and understated bravery. Her stories stem from true events, incorporate magical realism, and seek to render psycho-spiritual realities we can not see alongside the mundanities and banal brutality of everyday life. Her first short, And Nothing Happened, explores the psychological aftermath of sexualized violence and premiered at the 2016 Slamdance Film Festival. Naima trained at The Alvin Ailey School for Dance, The Barrow Group for Acting, Howard University and Brooklyn College (CUNY). She holds a B.A. in Journalism.

Elizabeth Richardson | A Forest Without Hours

Elizabeth Richardson is a screenwriter and a medical speech-language pathologist. She holds a degree in Dramatic Art from UCSB, where she was the recipient of the Sherrill C. Corwin – Metropolitan Theatre Writing Award. After seven years in the arts nonprofit world, an interest in neuroscience and neurolinguistics led Richardson to graduate work in Communication Disorders and Sciences at CSUN. She now works in acute care and private practice treating individuals challenged with speech and language deficits following left-hemisphere stroke. She is currently working on a short documentary called Birth Stories and developing her feature script A Forest Without Hours.

Hannah Sanghee Park | The Beauty

Hannah Sanghee Park was born and raised in Washington. She’s the author of the book The Same-Different (LSU Press), the 2014 winner of The Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award. She has received fellowships from The U.S. Fulbright Program, The Civitella Ranieri Foundation, The CBS Writers Mentoring Program, The MacDowell Colony, The Poetry Foundation, and elsewhere. Park holds an MFA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where she was included in Variety’s “110 Students to Watch.”

Bassam Tariq | Mecca, Texas

Bassam Tariq is a TED Fellow and the co-director of the 2013 feature documentary These Birds Walk. The film was recently named one of the best films of the 21st century by the New Yorker. In 2012, he was named one of 25 Filmmakers to Watch by Filmmaker Magazine. He resides in New York City where he runs a butchery in the East Village.

ADVISORS:

Deena Goldstone

Dante Harper

So Yong Kim

Sarah Koskoff

Jennifer Salt

Dana Stevens

Robin Swicord

Joan Tewkesbury

Ligiah Villalobos

Tyger Williams

Andy Wolk

Shelby Farrell

Sydney Freeland

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Con l’annuncio del premio alla carriera che sarà assegnato quest’anno a Lina Wertmuller, la prima donna a ricevere la nomination all’Oscar nella blindata categoria della miglior regia, è apparso a tutti chiaro che sarà un anno favorevole per il contributo offerto dalle registe, il cui lavoro è stato spesso osteggiato se non minimizzato. I numeri parlano chiaro, su 91 edizioni solo 5 donne hanno conquistato la nomination come miglior regista: Lina Wertmuller (1977, Pasqualino Settebelezze), Jane Campion (1994, Lezioni di piano), Sofia Coppola (2004, Lost in Translation), Greta Gerwig (2017, Lady Bird) e Katryn Bigelow (2010, The Hurt Locker) che è stata l’unica a vincerlo.

Nella scorsa Award season le donne registe hanno conquistato numerosi riconoscimenti lasciando supporre ad una successiva apertura da parte degli Academy che però non è avvenuta, nonostante l’anno prima grazie a movimenti come #MeToo e #TimesUp sembrava che il corso fosse cambiato. La più accreditata era Lynne Ramsey per You Were Never Really Here con protagonista Joaquin Phoenix (miglior attore al Festival di Cannes) dopo aver vinto il Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Award e il Boston Society of Film Critics Award. Più distanti ma comunque apprezzate: Debra Granik per Leave No Trace (Bonnie Award agli Spirit Awards) e Chloé Zao per The Rider, vincitrice del prestigioso National Society of Film Critic Award.

Quest’anno però le cose potrebbero cambiare…..ma quali sono le registe che hanno più chance di entrare in questa categoria?

Oscar 2020, le 5 migliori registe da tenere d’occhio

1.Kasi Lemmons (Harriet): grazie all’attesa pellicola Harriet (l’uscita americana è prevista per il 1 novembre) sulla leggendaria figura di Harriet Tubman, da schiava delle piantagioni ad una delle grandi eroine d’America, la Lemmons potrebbe essere la prima regista afro-americana a conquistare la nomination agli Oscar nella blindatissima categoria miglior regia. La Lemmons come regista ha incuriosito fin dai suoi esordi la critica americana. In tal senso nel 1997 con il film Eve’s Bayou ha vinto numerosi riconoscimenti: dal premio come miglior regia ai Black Film Awards all’Independent Spirit Award e al National Board of Review come miglior opera prima. Successivamente si è distinta per il suo lavoro in Talk to me vincendo l’African American Film Critics Association come miglior regista.

Director Kasi Lemmons attends the 17th Annual Gotham Awards presented by IFP at Steiner Studios on November 27, 2007 in Brooklyn, NY. IFP Presents the 17th Annual Gotham Awards – Arrivals Steiner Studios Brooklyn, New York United States November 27, 2007 Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage.com To license this image (15186916), contact WireImage: U.S. +1-212-686-8900 / U.K. +44-207-868-8940 / Australia +61-2-8262-9222 / Germany +49-40-320-05521 / Japan: +81-3-5464-7020 +1 212-686-8901 (fax) [email protected] (e-mail) http://www.wireimage.com (web site)

2–Lulu Wang (The Farewell): dopo l’ottimo successo ottenuto al Sundance Film Festival nella sezione Dramatic Competition, The Farewell ha conquistato la critica americana influenzando i numeri al botteghino, per poi ottenere alte valutazioni sugli aggregatori di recensioni come Rotten Tomatoes (99%) e Metacritic (90/100 su 43 recensioni da parte dei critici – 8.7/10 sul punteggio totale espresso dagli iscritti). Dato il clamore suscitato negli States da questo film, si parla di un vero e proprio caso cinematografico al punto che potrebbe essere uno dei principali competitors per gli Oscar 2020. In particolare la nomination di Lulu Wang come miglior regista sarebbe sicuramente un ottimo segnale di inclusione, regalandole al suo terzo film la possibilità di entrare nella Storia degli Oscar.

3.Marielle Heller (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood): dopo aver sfornato due piccoli cult come The Diary of a Teenage Girl (miglior opera prima agli Spirit Awards) e Copia Originale (3 nomination agli Oscar, miglior regia agli Alliance of Women Film Journalists), la Heller potrebbe ancora lasciare il segno e chissà conquistare una meritata candidatura come miglior regista. Complice l’atteso film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood con protagonista Tom Hanks, ispirato al recente documentario di gran successo sulla figura di Rogers dal titolo analogo “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?“

4.Greta Gerwig (Piccole Donne)

Dopo il trionfale esordio dietro la macchina da presa con la commedia agro-dolce Lady Bird (non contando il dramma Nights and Weekends codiretto con Joe Swanberg) che le ha consentito di conquistare la nomination all’Oscar come miglior regista, diventando la 3 donna americana ad ottenere la candidatura nella storia di questa categoria, Greta Gerwig potrebbe fare il bis, complice il suo attesissimo contributo nell’ottavo adattamento del romanzo del 1868 di Louisa May Alcott, Piccole Donne. Sarebbe la prima donna a conquistare la candidatura come miglior regista per ben due volte.

-Chinonye Chukwu (Clemency)

Al secondo lungometraggio e dopo una serie di cortometraggi convincenti, Chinonye Chukwu potrebbe finalmente ottenere l’attenzione che merita, complice il suo incredibile lavoro nel premiato film Clemency (ha vinto il Gran Premio della Giuria nella sezione Drama Competion dell’ultimo Sundance Film Festival)

Alfre Woodard and Alex Castillo appear in Clemencyby Chinonye Chokwu, an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Courtsey of Sundance Institute | photo by Eric Branco All photos are copyrighted and may be used by press only for the purpose of news or editorial coverage of Sundance Institute programs. Photos must be accompanied by a credit to the photographer and/or ‘Courtesy of Sundance Institute.’ Unauthorized use, alteration, reproduction or sale of logos and/or photos is strictly prohibited.

Seguono Alma Har’el per Honey Boy, Reed Morano per The Rhythm Section, Melina Matsoukas per Queen e Slim, Celinne Sciamma per Portrait de la jeune fille en feu per e Joanna Hogg per The Souvenir.

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#Greta Gerwig #Kasi Lemmons #lulu wang #marielle heller #miglior regia #predictions 2020

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