She is an Assistant Professor of Filmmaking at the University of Oregon. Given how we remember is pivotal to healing, her films use memory as a central gaze to de-internalize surveillance, uncensor the imagination and mirror our infinite reflections. Caledonia Curry (aka Swoon) is an artist and filmmaker recognized for her pioneering vision of public artwork. This relationship was the basis for their2022 SXSW Audience Award-winning short, Act of God. Joshua Penn Soskin is an award-winning director, writer and photographer. They find forgotten memories, love, and connection through this seemingly obsolete object. and hes currently in post-production on his first feature. Dina Amer (Co-writer/Director) and Omar Mullick (Co-writer) with Cain and Abel (France): The fates of two French-born Muslim Arabs born in the same neighborhood collide as they find themselves on opposite sides of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack: one a police officer, the other a terrorist. Pirati, the matriarch of this makeshift family, has her plans to embark on an independent life suddenly derailed when one of her daughters goes missing. When a mysterious woman descends on his city sermonizing about extraterrestrial salvation, he thinks reunion awaits him, unaware that this seemingly joyful deliverance will soon be threatened by a looming hurricane. Her film Cracked won The Spike Lee Production Grant and a KingWasserman Award for Best Graduate Film at NYUs First Run Festival. This years projects were chosen from over 2,000 submissions, and the selected fellows will work to develop their scripts with Michelle Satter, Founding Senior Director of Sundance Institutes Artist Programs, and Ilyse McKimmie, Deputy Director of the Feature Film Program. Sundance Institute's 2020 Directors & Screenwriters Lab Fellows Rebin Zangana is a Kurdish American writer from Ohio. He is a 2020 Sundance Ignite Fellow, 2021 SFFILM Rainin Grantee, and 2022 Sundance Institute & Asian American Foundation Fellow. Walter Thompson-Hernndez is a Los Angeles-born and raised filmmaker. Sign Up Hadis recognitions include the Tisch Deans Fellowship, The Gotham-Marcie Bloom Fellowship, the Black Family Production Prize, the Sloan Foundation Award and the BAFTA Newcomers Program. 2022 Martha MOCA Resident. His short, SWIMSUIT, won an Oscar-qualifying award at Urbanworld. Jason Fitzroy Jeffers is a filmmaker from Barbados who has produced award-winning short films such as Papa Machete and T that have screened at festivals such as Sundance Film Festival, TIFF, BlackStar, and Berlinale. After failing to recruit her friends to join her crusade, she catches a lucky break when she learns her rival isnt exactly who she says she is. Fremont, CA. (U.S.A.): Haunted by a supernatural force, a Kurdish American man struggles to start a new life with his American fiancee while dealing with the reappearance of his estranged father. While we, By Stephanie Ornelas Raw, truthful, collaborative. These were the three words writer-director Vuk Lungulov-Klotz uses to describe the labs at Sundance Institute. Ciara Leinaali Lacy (Writer) with Untitled Eddie Aikau Biopic (U.S.A.): Legendary Native Hawaiian big wave surfer, Eddie Aikau, breaks into the scene of global surf culture while facing colonization of the sport. Farida Zahran (Writer/Director) with The Leftover Ladies (Egypt/U.S.A. Parker Smith is a filmmaker based in Austin, Texas, originally from Louisville, Kentucky. The Sundance Institute has named the participants and projects set for the 2023 editions of a pair of its flagship programs: the Screenwriters Lab and Screenwriters Intensive. He was named one of Filmmaker Magazines 25 New Faces of Independent Film and was a 2022 Martha MOCA Resident.