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Thirteen Independent Feature Film Projects Selected to Attend Sundance Institute Directors & Screenwriters Labs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: May 22, 2018 Spencer Alcorn 310.360.1981 [email protected] Thirteen Independent Feature Film Projects Selected to Attend Sundance Institute Directors & Screenwriters Labs Visionary Storytellers to Receive Individualized Mentorship from Industry Notables and Year-Round Suite of Creative and Tactical Support Los Angeles, CA — Thirteen new independent feature projects from the U.S., Cuba, Kenya, Mexico, Morocco, ​ and Palestine have been selected for the 2018 Sundance Institute Directors and Screenwriters Labs. At the Directors Lab (May 28-June 21), filmmakers will rehearse, shoot and edit key scenes from their scripts, working closely with industry advisors, actors, and production crews to help drive creative growth via an immersive and ​ ​ hands-on experience at the Sundance Resort in Utah. The Screenwriters Lab from June 23-28 fosters a similar environment of dynamic inspiration as participants focus on the art and craft of screenplay writing with one-on-one support from Institute advisors . Overseen by Feature Film Program Founding Director Michelle Satter and Labs ​ ​ Director Ilyse McKimmie, the Labs begin a year-round continuum of customized support for Fellows, which can ​ ​ include creative mentorship, granting, and guidance from industry professionals. “We're very excited to be supporting this remarkable group of storytellers whose work is defined by their bold and singular visions,” said Satter. “Using the art form of cinema to explore contemporary issues and our essential ​ ​ humanity, their films are deeply personal, powerful, and timely. We look forward to continuing our partnership with these artists as creative and strategic advocates throughout their filmmaking process.” ​ Advisors for the month include Robert Redford, Gyula Gazdag (Artistic Director for the Directors Lab), Miguel ​ ​ ​ Arteta, John August, Ritesh Batra, Charlotte Bruus Christensen, Lisa Zeno Churgin, Sebastian Cordero, Joan Darling, Rodrigo Garcia, John Gatins, Lesli Linka Glatter, Keith Gordon, Randa Haines, Liz Hannah, Joe Hutshing, Azazel Jacobs, So Yong Kim, Ken Kwapis, Christine Lahti, Kasi Lemmons, David Lowery, Doug McGrath, Anthony Mackie, Walter Mosley, Dean Parisot, Rodrigo Prieto, Howard Rodman (Artistic ​ Director for the Screenwriters Lab), Jennifer Salt, Susan Shilliday, Terilyn Shropshire, Peter Sollett, Dana ​ Stevens, Robin Swicord, Joan Tewkesbury, Dylan Tichenor, John Toll, Audrey Wells, Tyger Williams, and ​ Doug Wright. ​ Since 1981, the Feature Film Program has supported an extensive list of leading-edge independent filmmakers at Labs, including Ryan Coogler, Cary Fukunaga, Dee Rees, Benh Zeitlin, Haifaa Al Mansour, Damien ​ Chazelle, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Marielle Heller, Paul Thomas Anderson, Miranda July and Quentin ​ ​ Tarantino, among many others. Lab-supported films that premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival to be ​ released this year include American Animals, written and directed by Bart Layton, Monsters and Men, written and ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 2 directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, Nancy, written and directed by Christina Choe, Night Comes On, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ co-written by Angelica Nwandu and Jordana Spiro and directed by Jordana Spiro, Sorry to Bother You, written ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ and directed by Boots Riley, and We the Animals, co-written by Daniel Kitrosser and Jeremiah Zagar and ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ directed by Jeremiah Zagar. ​ ​ Directors Lab projects Doha - The Rising Sun (U.S.A./Morocco) / Eimi Imanishi (writer/director): Disheartened by her deportation from ​ ​ ​ ​ Europe, Mariam is forced to return home to Western Sahara. Adrift in the very place that once was her home, she searches for the means to assert agency over her own life. Eimi Imanishi is a Japanese American filmmaker who grew up in France. She directed two award-winning short films: Battalion to My Beat, which screened at the Toronto International ​ ​ Film Festival and won the Canal+ Award for Best International Short at Clermont-Ferrand in 2017, and One-Up, which won Best Narrative Short at Indie Memphis, was released online as a ​ ​ Vimeo Staff Pick film, and won Short of the Week. Imanishi was supported at the 2018 Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab and the Film Independent Directors Lab of the same year. Hawa Hawaii (Kenya) / Amirah Tajdin (writer/director): Hamedi, a Muslim drag queen, returns home to be with ​ ​ ​ ​ his dying mother. Back in Mombasa for the first time in decades, yet still facing his mother’s longstanding disapproval of his lifestyle, he decides that Taarab, the fading art of Swahili orchestral singing, may be the only way to mend their deeply fractured relationship. Amirah Tajdin is a Kenyan artist and filmmaker of Afro Arab and Indian heritage. Her co-directed short, Marea de Tierra, premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival as part of ​ ​ the Chile Factory Residency. The film also screened at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and went on to play at over 20 film festivals worldwide. Her short films Fluorescent Sin and His To ​ ​ ​ Keep played various festivals, with Fluorescent Sin garnering Jury Special Mention awards at ​ ​ ​ the Zanzibar International Film Festival and Film Africa London. The Huntress (U.S.A./Mexico) / Suzanne Andrews Correa (writer/director): In Juarez, Mexico, where violence ​ ​ ​ ​ against women goes unnoticed and unpunished, an unlikely heroine emerges to seek justice. Suzanne Andrews Correa is a Mexican American screenwriter and director and a recent MFA graduate of the Film Program at Columbia University. Her latest short, La Casa de Beatriz, ​ ​ premiered at the 2017 Morelia International Film Festival, received awards from the Princess Grace Foundation and Directors Guild of America, and can now be seen on HBO Latino/HBO GO/HBO NOW. Andrews Correa was supported at the 2018 Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab, where she was the recipient of the Sundance Latinx Fellowship, and a winner of the Atlanta Film Festival feature screenplay competition. 3 Josephine (U.S.A.) / Beth de Araújo (writer/director): After accidentally witnessing a rape in Golden Gate Park, ​ ​ ​ ​ eight-year-old Josephine is plunged into a maelstrom of fear and paranoia. Surrounded by adults helpless to assuage her and unable to understand her, she acts out with increasing violence, searching for any way to regain control of her own safety. Beth de Araújo is a writer and director recently featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces ​ ​ of Independent Film. Her feature screenplay, Josephine, participated in the 2018 Sundance ​ ​ Screenwriters Lab and is a recipient of the SFFILM Rainin Filmmaking Grant. Josephine will ​ ​ mark her feature directorial debut. In 2017, Araújo directed 2 episodes of television for Lifetime Movie Network and was a shadowing director within the Ryan Murphy HALF Program. Her recent short film, I Want To Marry A Creative Jewish Girl, was shot through the AFI Directing ​ ​ Workshop for Women, based on her Gawker essay of the same name. The Life and Death of Cassandro (U.S.A.) / Roger Ross Williams (co-writer/director) and David Teague ​ ​ ​ ​ (co-writer): Saúl Armendáriz, a gay lucha libre wrestler, creates a powerful and popular alter ego named ​ Cassandro to help him fight in the ring and face his personal demons. When Cassandro begins to take control, this superhero story gets turned on its head as it looks like Saúl's alter ego may become his downfall. Roger Ross Williams is the first African American director to win an Academy Award for his short film Music By Prudence. Williams has directed a wide variety of acclaimed documentary films ​ ​ including God Loves Uganda, which was shortlisted for an Academy Award, and Life, Animated, ​ ​ ​ ​ which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2017. He is on the Board of Governors for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences representing the Documentary branch and serves on the Diversity Committee. The Life and Death of Cassandro will mark his debut as a ​ ​ fiction feature director. David Teague is a writer and documentary film editor. He has edited five Oscar-nominated documentaries, including one winner. His work includes Life, Animated, Cutie and the Boxer, ​ ​ The Departure, E-TEAM, Mondays at Racine, and Freeheld. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Shock Labor (Cuba) / Marcos Díaz Sosa (writer/director): Cuba, 1988. Wilma struggles to maintain a small farm ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ in the Cuban countryside while caring for her disabled husband, but her fortunes change when she is discovered to be a talented skeet shooter who can represent her country. As Wilma rises to stardom, a tornado sweeps her away to a vast luxury resort. Though she finds herself lauded by her country’s ruling class, Wilma realizes that there is no place like home and knows she must find her way back to her farm. Marcos Díaz Sosa is a Cuban film director and playwright. At the age of 17, he directed Fractal, ​ ​ a 60-minute documentary that won an award at the fifth Muestra Joven in Cuba. His short film Natural Phenomena premiered in competition at the Guadalajara Film Festival. He has worked ​ ​ ​ ​ 4 with the State Theatre of Jena, Germany, and co-directed the play Bad Taste at the Offene Welt Internationales ​ ​ Festival, Ludwigshafen, Germany, in 2015. Wild Indian (U.S.A.) / Lyle Mitchell Corbine, Jr. (writer/director): Two Anishinaabe men are inextricably bound ​ ​ ​ ​ together after covering up the savage murder of a schoolmate. After years of separation following wildly divergent paths, they must finally confront how their traumatic secret
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