Exclusive: Outfest has selected ten queer and transgender writers from diverse backgrounds for its 2022 Screenwriting Lab.
The participants workshopping feature-length scripts during the week-long program, taking place virtually from today through Friday, December 9, include Bri J. Hernandez (Boys in Bands), Donovan Tolledo (Fat Lip), James Acker (Sadboi), Joseph Sackett (Cross Pollination), Katie Heaney (My Ex-Wife’s Wedding) and Vernon Jordan, III (Lavender Boy).
Those working on episodic projects are Estevan (Elote Preparado), Paloma Riojas (Shepherd), Riya Saxena (Matchmakers) and Rubén Mendive (Little Village).
Then, there are the thirteen additional Notable Writers selected to receive industry support from Outfest. Those scribes are Adelina Anthony, Adina Kruskal, Chasey Ridgley, Drew Burnett Gregory, Ernesto Martínez, Gerard Shaka, Joseph Pellegrino, Kate Imy, Nathan Pearson, Nick Janaye, Robert Cunningham, Sebastián Rea and Stevie Wain.
Created in 1997 as a screenwriting contest, the Outfest Screenwriting Lab has since become the cornerstone of Outfest’s artist development and education programs.
The participants workshopping feature-length scripts during the week-long program, taking place virtually from today through Friday, December 9, include Bri J. Hernandez (Boys in Bands), Donovan Tolledo (Fat Lip), James Acker (Sadboi), Joseph Sackett (Cross Pollination), Katie Heaney (My Ex-Wife’s Wedding) and Vernon Jordan, III (Lavender Boy).
Those working on episodic projects are Estevan (Elote Preparado), Paloma Riojas (Shepherd), Riya Saxena (Matchmakers) and Rubén Mendive (Little Village).
Then, there are the thirteen additional Notable Writers selected to receive industry support from Outfest. Those scribes are Adelina Anthony, Adina Kruskal, Chasey Ridgley, Drew Burnett Gregory, Ernesto Martínez, Gerard Shaka, Joseph Pellegrino, Kate Imy, Nathan Pearson, Nick Janaye, Robert Cunningham, Sebastián Rea and Stevie Wain.
Created in 1997 as a screenwriting contest, the Outfest Screenwriting Lab has since become the cornerstone of Outfest’s artist development and education programs.
- 12/5/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
In-person and virtual meetings set for September.
New work from Venice Horizons 2019 best director Théo Court and Australian filmmaker Darlene Johnson are among 142 international and US titles selected for the 2022 Gotham Week Project Market.
In-person Project Market industry meetings with distributors, financiers, production companies, festival programmers, sales and talent agents and other potential collaborators are set for September 19-21, while virtual meetings take place from September 22-23.
The Gotham Week Conference exploring the art and business of film and media returns and programming highlights include the inaugural Gotham Week Expo, which will bring together partners from The Gotham’s Expanding Communities,...
New work from Venice Horizons 2019 best director Théo Court and Australian filmmaker Darlene Johnson are among 142 international and US titles selected for the 2022 Gotham Week Project Market.
In-person Project Market industry meetings with distributors, financiers, production companies, festival programmers, sales and talent agents and other potential collaborators are set for September 19-21, while virtual meetings take place from September 22-23.
The Gotham Week Conference exploring the art and business of film and media returns and programming highlights include the inaugural Gotham Week Expo, which will bring together partners from The Gotham’s Expanding Communities,...
- 8/1/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
In-person and virtual meetings set for September.
New work from Venice Horizons 2019 best director Théo Court and Australian filmmaker Darlene Johnson are among 142 international and US titles selected for the 2022 Gotham Week Project Market.
In-person Project Market industry meetings with distributors, financiers, production companies, festival programmers, sales and talent agents and other potential collaborators are set for September 19-21, while virtual meetings take place from September 22-23.
The Gotham Week Conference exploring the art and business of film and media returns and programming highlights include the inaugural Gotham Week Expo, which will bring together partners from The Gotham’s Expanding Communities,...
New work from Venice Horizons 2019 best director Théo Court and Australian filmmaker Darlene Johnson are among 142 international and US titles selected for the 2022 Gotham Week Project Market.
In-person Project Market industry meetings with distributors, financiers, production companies, festival programmers, sales and talent agents and other potential collaborators are set for September 19-21, while virtual meetings take place from September 22-23.
The Gotham Week Conference exploring the art and business of film and media returns and programming highlights include the inaugural Gotham Week Expo, which will bring together partners from The Gotham’s Expanding Communities,...
- 8/1/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Mentorship Matters, an initiative aimed at boosting opportunities for emerging writers of color, has been officially unveiled, along with the participants in its inaugural 2021-22 cycle.
Developed by executive producers/showrunners, including Aaron Rahsaan Thomas (S.W.A.T.), Raelle Tucker, Gianna Sobol (Counterpart) and Melinda Hsu Taylor with sponsorship by AMC Networks, Amazon, The Walter Kaitz Foundation and Sony Pictures Entertainment, the year-long mentorship program provides consistent, in-depth mentorship and creative advocacy from a committed showrunner. The first set of pairings will connect 23 leading showrunners with promising mentees to foster growth and build invaluable industry contacts.
The program includes meeting at least monthly in addition to offering guidance with developing and polishing an original writing sample, panels and seminars with high-level industry professionals, and opportunities to meet agents, managers, and executives.
Mentees were selected from over 1,200 applicants throughout the U.S., with varying experiences and backgrounds.
Developed by executive producers/showrunners, including Aaron Rahsaan Thomas (S.W.A.T.), Raelle Tucker, Gianna Sobol (Counterpart) and Melinda Hsu Taylor with sponsorship by AMC Networks, Amazon, The Walter Kaitz Foundation and Sony Pictures Entertainment, the year-long mentorship program provides consistent, in-depth mentorship and creative advocacy from a committed showrunner. The first set of pairings will connect 23 leading showrunners with promising mentees to foster growth and build invaluable industry contacts.
The program includes meeting at least monthly in addition to offering guidance with developing and polishing an original writing sample, panels and seminars with high-level industry professionals, and opportunities to meet agents, managers, and executives.
Mentees were selected from over 1,200 applicants throughout the U.S., with varying experiences and backgrounds.
- 4/29/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The inaugural Latinx TV List has been revealed! On Monday, during the Nalip Media Summit, Nalip executive director Ben Lopez joined Franklin Leonard and Kate Hagen of The Black List alongside Gloria Calderon-Kellett (One Day at a Time) and Tanya Saracho (Vida) of the Untitled Latinx Project to announce the 10 original television pilots selected.
The Black List teamed with the Latin Tracking Board, Nalip, Remezcla and The Untitled Latinx Project for the list which opened submissions in February. Here were the requirements:
Writers should be Latinos residing currently in the Us – any country of origin or other status is fine Any kind of story is eligible and will be considered All scripts must have one Latinx character in a prominent, lead role Scripts can be bilingual as long as they are written primarily in English Half-hours and one-hours considered. No webseries. All levels of experience considered for submitting writers...
The Black List teamed with the Latin Tracking Board, Nalip, Remezcla and The Untitled Latinx Project for the list which opened submissions in February. Here were the requirements:
Writers should be Latinos residing currently in the Us – any country of origin or other status is fine Any kind of story is eligible and will be considered All scripts must have one Latinx character in a prominent, lead role Scripts can be bilingual as long as they are written primarily in English Half-hours and one-hours considered. No webseries. All levels of experience considered for submitting writers...
- 6/29/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Challenges are plentiful when making a short film, says A.M. Lukas, whose short “One Cambodian Family Please for My Pleasure” was selected as a finalist at TheWrap’s 2019 ShortList Film Festival. What matters is how you handle those challenges — a lesson she learned first-hand.
“I had $80,000 and then I lost it; I had Emily Mortimer, and I was about to get on the plane to Fargo, and then we lost Emily; and then we got Emily back. So it was just completely insane every step of the way,” Lukas said in a panel with other ShortList filmmakers Thursday night at the W Hotel Hollywood. You can watch a video clip above of the conversation moderated by TheWrap’s awards editor Steve Pond.
“It’s letting it all happen and then solving each problem,” Lukas said, sharing wise advice from “The Graduate” director Mike Nichols. “You can never know what the film is actually gonna be.
“I had $80,000 and then I lost it; I had Emily Mortimer, and I was about to get on the plane to Fargo, and then we lost Emily; and then we got Emily back. So it was just completely insane every step of the way,” Lukas said in a panel with other ShortList filmmakers Thursday night at the W Hotel Hollywood. You can watch a video clip above of the conversation moderated by TheWrap’s awards editor Steve Pond.
“It’s letting it all happen and then solving each problem,” Lukas said, sharing wise advice from “The Graduate” director Mike Nichols. “You can never know what the film is actually gonna be.
- 8/23/2019
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
“Enforcement Hours,” director Paloma Martinez’s timely documentary short about a hotline for immigrants in San Francisco, won the Industry Prize at TheWrap’s Shortlist Film Festival on Thursday.
Brian Bolster and Jonathan Napolitano’s “Departing Gesture,” a documentary short centered on a funeral director in the heart of the South confronted by societal shame and ignorance as he handles the bodies of people who have died of AIDS, took the Audience Prize at an awards ceremony held Thursday at the W Hollywood and hosted by Harvey Guillén, star of FX’s “What We Do in The Shadows.”
“Departing Gesture” directors Jonathan Napolitano and Brian Bolster accept the Audience Prize (Photo by Ted Soqui)
“No Sanctuary,” a short exploring human nature through the personal lens of those who have been affected by America’s indifference to gun violence, won the top prize in the student competition for University of North Carolina School...
Brian Bolster and Jonathan Napolitano’s “Departing Gesture,” a documentary short centered on a funeral director in the heart of the South confronted by societal shame and ignorance as he handles the bodies of people who have died of AIDS, took the Audience Prize at an awards ceremony held Thursday at the W Hollywood and hosted by Harvey Guillén, star of FX’s “What We Do in The Shadows.”
“Departing Gesture” directors Jonathan Napolitano and Brian Bolster accept the Audience Prize (Photo by Ted Soqui)
“No Sanctuary,” a short exploring human nature through the personal lens of those who have been affected by America’s indifference to gun violence, won the top prize in the student competition for University of North Carolina School...
- 8/23/2019
- by Emily Vogel
- The Wrap
Siqi Song grew up in China in the 1990s as a rarity: a younger sister. At the time, the country had instituted a “one-child policy” to control population — and while exceptions were made, the policy meant that most families had a single child, or in some circumstances a second child if the first was a girl.
“My parents had to make a choice whether they wanted to give birth to me or abort me, and little sisters were almost always the ones to get aborted,” said Song, whose older sibling is a big brother. “Almost all my friends were only children, and I always wanted to make a film on this topic.”
That film is the animated short “Sister,” one of 12 finalists in TheWrap’s ShortList Film Festival. An eight-minute stop-motion film in which an older brother reminisces about his sister, it slips in and out of fantasy and finds...
“My parents had to make a choice whether they wanted to give birth to me or abort me, and little sisters were almost always the ones to get aborted,” said Song, whose older sibling is a big brother. “Almost all my friends were only children, and I always wanted to make a film on this topic.”
That film is the animated short “Sister,” one of 12 finalists in TheWrap’s ShortList Film Festival. An eight-minute stop-motion film in which an older brother reminisces about his sister, it slips in and out of fantasy and finds...
- 8/9/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
It’s hard to imagine a more tortured route to the screen than the one taken by writer-director A.M. Lukas with her short film “One Cambodian Family Please for My Pleasure,” one of the finalists in TheWrap’s 2019 ShortList Film Festival.
Lukas wrote the screenplay, which was based on her own upbringing as part of an immigrant family in Fargo, North Dakota, as a way to get into the AFI directing program for women. AFI liked it well enough to take her to lunch and tell her so, but they didn’t admit her.
Years later, the Tribeca Film Festival gave her a grant to make the film as part of a competition aimed at increasing the number of female directors — but before she could start production, she became ill and had to stop. Tribeca gave the money to somebody else.
Also Read: 2019 ShortList Film Festival Finalists Announced: Watch and Vote for the Winner!
Lukas wrote the screenplay, which was based on her own upbringing as part of an immigrant family in Fargo, North Dakota, as a way to get into the AFI directing program for women. AFI liked it well enough to take her to lunch and tell her so, but they didn’t admit her.
Years later, the Tribeca Film Festival gave her a grant to make the film as part of a competition aimed at increasing the number of female directors — but before she could start production, she became ill and had to stop. Tribeca gave the money to somebody else.
Also Read: 2019 ShortList Film Festival Finalists Announced: Watch and Vote for the Winner!
- 8/8/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Three days after a white-supremacist gunman opened fire in an El Paso, Texas, mall and killed 22 people while targeting immigrants, Houston-based Mexican-American filmmaker Paloma Martinez struggled to come to terms with the horrifying event.
“Hatred seems to be coming out in the open, where before it was maybe underground,” said Martinez, whose short film “Enforcement Hours” takes a measured approach to portraying the fear and hatred in and around immigrant communities.
“But even as I was going though Houston yesterday, it felt surreal knowing that we are seen as the enemy in this polarized environment. Our communities are very real and vibrant — we exist, and here, at least in inner city Texas, we’re embraced and celebrated. That’s what we love about our cities.”
“Enforcement Hours,” a finalist in TheWrap’s 2019 ShortList Film Festival, is set in one of the nation’s most liberal cities, San Francisco. And yet...
“Hatred seems to be coming out in the open, where before it was maybe underground,” said Martinez, whose short film “Enforcement Hours” takes a measured approach to portraying the fear and hatred in and around immigrant communities.
“But even as I was going though Houston yesterday, it felt surreal knowing that we are seen as the enemy in this polarized environment. Our communities are very real and vibrant — we exist, and here, at least in inner city Texas, we’re embraced and celebrated. That’s what we love about our cities.”
“Enforcement Hours,” a finalist in TheWrap’s 2019 ShortList Film Festival, is set in one of the nation’s most liberal cities, San Francisco. And yet...
- 8/7/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
TheWrap on Wednesday announced the 12 finalists for its eighth annual ShortList Film Festival, including stories from around the world about immigration, sex workers, adoption and the first person to introduce the Hula Hoop to the Us.
Online viewing and voting launches today on ShortListFilmFestival.com and runs through August 21, 2019.
This year’s selected films have won awards at festivals including Sundance, SXSW, La Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, Aspen Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival among a number of other prestigious festivals. The films and filmmakers come from the United States, Germany, Japan, Canada, China, Switzerland and elsewhere around the globe.
Also Read: 'The Driver Is Red,' 'Magic Alps' Take Top Prizes at TheWrap's ShortList Film Festival 2018
In addition to the lineup of festival winners, the ShortList also features up-and-coming filmmakers from top film schools across the country. The 2019 student films come from four schools: UCLA, University of Texas at Austin,...
Online viewing and voting launches today on ShortListFilmFestival.com and runs through August 21, 2019.
This year’s selected films have won awards at festivals including Sundance, SXSW, La Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, Aspen Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival among a number of other prestigious festivals. The films and filmmakers come from the United States, Germany, Japan, Canada, China, Switzerland and elsewhere around the globe.
Also Read: 'The Driver Is Red,' 'Magic Alps' Take Top Prizes at TheWrap's ShortList Film Festival 2018
In addition to the lineup of festival winners, the ShortList also features up-and-coming filmmakers from top film schools across the country. The 2019 student films come from four schools: UCLA, University of Texas at Austin,...
- 8/7/2019
- by TheWrap Staff
- The Wrap
The Guardian newspaper is eyeing its first move into long-form feature docs following its success in short-to-medium length online films.
This comes as it rolls out its latest online doc – Crisanto Street – a film about gentrification in Silicon Valley.
Charlie Phillips, Head of Documentaries at the Guardian, told Deadline that it is in the early stages of plotting a move to become a funder and partner for longer form films and documentaries.
“That’s definitely something that we are wanting to do and are figuring out the best model for, especially when it comes to in-house Guardian ideas. There’s a ton of great investigative journalism going on and big stories that people are working on and there’s definitely a space in which that IP could be matched up with a really great doc filmmaker and we could have an incubation lab for those kinds of ideas. It takes...
This comes as it rolls out its latest online doc – Crisanto Street – a film about gentrification in Silicon Valley.
Charlie Phillips, Head of Documentaries at the Guardian, told Deadline that it is in the early stages of plotting a move to become a funder and partner for longer form films and documentaries.
“That’s definitely something that we are wanting to do and are figuring out the best model for, especially when it comes to in-house Guardian ideas. There’s a ton of great investigative journalism going on and big stories that people are working on and there’s definitely a space in which that IP could be matched up with a really great doc filmmaker and we could have an incubation lab for those kinds of ideas. It takes...
- 12/18/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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