Sundance Labs: 20 Up-and-Coming Directors and Screenwriters Named for 2021 Fellowship
Signature workshops include 12 fellows for directors and screenwriters labs and nine fellows cultivating Native artists
Diane Haithman | May 10, 2021 @ 2:55 PM
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The Sundance Institute named on Monday the artists and projects for the first group of its upcoming summer labs. The group includes 12 fellows for the directors and screenwriters labs and nine artists participating in the Native and Indigenous lab which focuses on the development of storytellers from those backgrounds through feature film, episodic work and other pursuits. One artist will participate in both labs.
Elements of this year’s labs will take place digitally via Sundance Collab.
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Have you ever had to, y’know,
write something? Ugh it’s the worst! Just sitting there, your eyes slowly being irradiated by the punishing white abyss of the blank page; the metronome of the steadily blinking cursor quietly mocking your own imperfect human heartbeat, rushing ahead now into frenzied palpitations as you struggle for Word One; cursing over and over again the pathetic machinery of the human body these weak arms, these reedy fingers and its utter unsuitability as a tool for transmitting thought into anything approaching a lucid pattern of letters and punctuation? Point is: writing is, like… really, really hard.
Directors Close-Up: Stretching Budgets and Ambitions with the 2021 John Cassavetes Noms
Of all the various Film Independent Spirit Award categories, the
John Cassavetes Award is one of the most special, shining a bright light on creative teams making their films truly within an economy of means–specifically, with production budgets under $500,000.
The award is given to the lead creative roles of the awarded film: writer, director and key producers to recognize the work it takes by a core team of dedicated storytellers to deliver an artfully crafted piece of microbudget cinema, very often catching soon-to-be important filmmakers on the early side of their careers; for example, Miguel Arteta and Mike White (
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Autumn began her editorial career at commercial post house Madbox Made in Richmond
A rising star with a multitude of experience, Autumn joins Whitehouse after establishing herself as a successful long form editor. In 2019, Autumn was an assistant editor on Black Is King, Beyonce’s 85-minute elaborate visual album nominated for Best Music Film at the 2021 GRAMMY Awards. Following that, she edited the feature film Shithouse directed by Cooper Raiff, which won the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at SXSW 2020 and was chosen as one of the top 10 films of the year by Vanity Fair Magazine. In 2018, Autumn was one of four editors selected in the competitive Film Independent Project Involve Fellowship. Her work in television has also received accolades including an Emmy for The Future of America’s Past for PBS, and inclusion in the Tribeca Film Festival for the documentary feature The Death of My Two Fathers.