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
Exclusive: Former Women in Film president Cathy Schulman, now president/CEO of Welle Entertainment, doesn’t only talk the talk but is walking the walk about getting more female-strong projects into the pipeline. The executive and producer has been on a buying spree of late, acquiring six new, female-facing IP titles which are being developing for both film and TV — one with Gabrielle Union.
They come in the form of five books and one play. In the list of female-oriented projects, Welle Entertainment has first acquired the rights to two novels that will be developed into feature films:
The Idea of You, an erotic drama with Gabrielle Union (Being Mary Jane) producing through her production company I’ll Have Another along with Robinne Lee, Eric Hayes and Jeff Morrone, which is about a 39-year old mom in Los Angeles who takes her daughter to meet her favorite boyband, and in...
They come in the form of five books and one play. In the list of female-oriented projects, Welle Entertainment has first acquired the rights to two novels that will be developed into feature films:
The Idea of You, an erotic drama with Gabrielle Union (Being Mary Jane) producing through her production company I’ll Have Another along with Robinne Lee, Eric Hayes and Jeff Morrone, which is about a 39-year old mom in Los Angeles who takes her daughter to meet her favorite boyband, and in...
- 12/19/2018
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline Film + TV
Plus… Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards winners announced and San Francisco Film Festival secures two-year Sloan grantSpotlight has earned the Chicago’s 51st Chicago International Film Festival’s audience award for best narrative English-language feature while France’s foreign-language Oscar submission Mustang took the foreign-language prize. Where To Invade Next earned documentary honours and Oh Lucy! won in the short film category.Emily Bensinger has won first prize for her script Harridans at the 60th Annual Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards. Noel Scott Chalmers for Stinker and Chloe Keenan for What I Did This Summer By Sophie Crumb tied for second and Melissa Finnell came third for Sensitivity Training. Sean Dennison earned an honourable mention on Monday night’s ceremony at UCLA in Los Angeles for Panacea.The San Francisco Film Society has secured a two-year $417,500 grant from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation to initiate programmes that “nurture, cultivate and champion films that explore scientific or technological themes and characters...
- 11/2/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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