Universal’s Global Talent Development & Inclusion today announced the debut of the Universal Writers Lab. The new initiative is mean to elevate the Universal Writers Program experience, which the studio launched in 2014.
The lab – one of the only studio writing programs dedicated to feature films – aims to increase the participants’ knowledge of the studio system, expand their networks both within NBCUniversal and the industry at large, as well as enhance their ability to deliver commercially-appealing concepts and scripts, setting them up for increased job opportunities and career momentum during and after their tenure.
Today’s announcement includes the reveal of the six candidates chosen as the first Writers Lab cohort. They are Brandon Collins, Jorge Alfonso Granera, Taryn Hillin, Diana Ly, Arun Narayanan and Joey Rayburn. Representing the Aapi, Black, Indigenous and Latino/Hispanic communities, they will spend the year partnering closely with producer advisors, which include Malcolm D. Lee’s Blackmaled Productions,...
The lab – one of the only studio writing programs dedicated to feature films – aims to increase the participants’ knowledge of the studio system, expand their networks both within NBCUniversal and the industry at large, as well as enhance their ability to deliver commercially-appealing concepts and scripts, setting them up for increased job opportunities and career momentum during and after their tenure.
Today’s announcement includes the reveal of the six candidates chosen as the first Writers Lab cohort. They are Brandon Collins, Jorge Alfonso Granera, Taryn Hillin, Diana Ly, Arun Narayanan and Joey Rayburn. Representing the Aapi, Black, Indigenous and Latino/Hispanic communities, they will spend the year partnering closely with producer advisors, which include Malcolm D. Lee’s Blackmaled Productions,...
- 6/16/2022
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
The premiere post-tiff destination (September 20-25th) in the film community and a major leg up for narrative and non-fiction films in development, the Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) announced a whopping 140 projects selected for the Project Forum at the upcoming Ifp Independent Film Week. Made up of several sections (Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers program, No Borders International Co-Production Market and Spotlight on Documentaries), we find latest updates from the likes of docu-helmers Doug Block (112 Weddings) and Lana Wilson (After Tiller), and among the narrative items we find headliners in Andrew Haigh (coming off the well received 45 Years), Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls and Madame Bovary), Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty), Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries), Jorge Michel Grau (We Are What We Are), Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal (Stranger Things) and new faces in Sundance’s large family in Charles Poekel (Christmas, Again) and Olivia Newman (First Match). Here...
- 7/22/2015
- by admin
- IONCINEMA.com
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