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Exciting ISAConnect Member Success Stories

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Christian Lybrook Hired to Write Biopic

By: Christian Lybrook
Screenwriter Christian Lybrook has been hired to write a biopic about a millennial bitcoin multimillionaire and the breathless run-up to bitcoin hitting nearly $20,000 in the winter of 2017. Other details about the project remain under wraps, but the script is expected to be finished in early 2021.
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IN GOD WE RUST Optioned
By: Christian Lybrook
Producer Noah Lang ("The Climb") has optioned Christian Lybrook's thriller script IN GOD WE RUST. The story centers around a missing $7 million gold coin. 20 years after the robbery, the architect of the heist races to find the missing coin before his murderous accomplice, freshly released from prison, exacts revenge on everyone involved.
Tags: In God We Rust,

Screenwriter Christian Lybrook to Write Sci-Fi Feature
By: Christian Lybrook
Screenwriter Christian Lybrook has been brought aboard to write the dystopian sci-fi thriller THE MACHINE STOPS based on a story by Rod Blackhurst, Noah Lang, and Bryce McGuire. Blackhurst will direct.

BRANDED TV Series Optioned by the Hexagon Initiative
By: Christian Lybrook
Screenwriter Christian Lybrook's contemporary western crime drama series BRANDED (aka "Scarred Land") has been optioned by the Hexagon Initiative and is in development with Canadian production company Eagle Vision. The series follows the murder investigation of a prominent ranching family when their cattle are found skinned alive. The investigation uncovers ties to a secretive, militarized religious sect that shuns the police, banks and hospitals to protect their way of life—and punish those who turn against them.
Tags: Branded, CineStory T V / Digital Retreat & Fellowship(Semi Finalist), NYTVF Scripts(Semi Finalist), ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship(Semi Finalist)

DEAD DON'T SPEAK Optioned by Witchcraft Motion Picture Company
By: Christian Lybrook
Christian Lybrook's 1950s thriller feature script DEAD DON'T SPEAK has been optioned by producer Noah Lang ("The Climb") with the Witchcraft Motion Picture Company. The script, about an obsessive deputy’s investigation into a history of abducted girls in a small ranching town is slated to bring production in the summer of 2021 with Canadian director Justin Oakey ("Fire in a Cold Season") on board to direct.
Tags: Dead Don't Speak, Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition(Second Rounders), Nicholl Fellowship(Second Rounders), Austin Film Festival Script Competition(Second Rounders)

No Pandemic is Going to Stop Neal Wiser

By: Neal Wiser
Neal Wiser's, FRANKENSTEIN UNLEASHED, has been garnering awards in competitions. Since May, he's won two competitions, and been a Finalist in two more, and is still in consideration for several others. Feedback has been the stuff that dreams are made of and FRANKENSTEIN UNLEASHED is being shopped around town with an A-List Show Runner showing a lot of interest. Only time will tell, but for someone who never won anything, receiving recognition at this level has been both humbling and inspiring for him. He says 'To all my fellow writers out there, sure it's not easy, but it can be done. Keep writing!'

Competition Results
By: Neal Wiser

Writer Neal Wiser has garnered success over the last few years with impressive competition results. His Quantum Effects pilot made the TOP 50 of the ISA Fast Track III Fellowship 2016, 6TH PLACE (of 1400) in Emerging Screenwriters 2015, a FINALIST (11 of 200) at People's Pilot 2015, and a SEMIFINALIST (Top 37 (for TV) of 2000+) in the ScreenCraft Fellowship 2015.

Tags: Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition, ISA Fast Track Fellowship, Scriptapalooza Screenplay & SHORTS Competition

Two screenplays advance to Second Round of 2020 Austin Film Festival

By: Joann Collins
TWO of Joann Buckley Collins' historical drama feature screenplays advanced to the second round of the 2020 Austin Film Festival. Elsa, the story of the world's first performance artist, and the unsung muse behind the Dada art movement of the early 20th century. The Importance of Being Constance, the little-known story of the wife of Oscar Wilde.
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Boundary Waters named 4th place for Shoot Your Sizzle
By: Joann Collins
Joann Collins' BOUNDARY WATERS, a compelling and timely action script with a strong female lead, won 4th place for the ISA's Shoot Your Sizzle competition.
Tags: Boundary Waters, SHOOT YOUR SIZZLE(4th Place)

EXPIRATION DATE selected as finalist for Gidden Grown-Up Movies competition
By: Joann Collins
EXPIRATION DATE a romantic comedy about a married couple facing an empty nest as their children head off to college, was selected as a top 10 finalist by Gidden Media. Their Grown-Up Movies competition focuses on screenplays with a lot of commercial potential for audiences aged 40+
Tags: Expiration Date,

BOUNDARY WATERS named best in Action genre
By: Joann Collins
Joann Collins thrilling survial script BOUNDARY WATERS won the Action category for Creative Screenwriting magazine's Unique Voices competition.
Tags: Boundary Waters, Creative Screenwriting UNIQUE VOICES Screenplay Competition(Category Winner)

ELSA an official selection for the Female Eye Film Festival
By: Joann Collins
ELSA, a historical biography by Joann Collins, that dramatizes the life of outrageous artist Baroness Elsa von-Freytag Loringhaven, was selected as a featured screenplay for Toronto's Female Eye Film Festival, taking place November 2019. The festival included a live reading of the script. At the end of the festival, Elsa was awarded first runner-up for Best of the Fest. Elsa is also in second round consideration for the Sundance Screenwriting Lab and made the top 10% of the Academy's Nicholl Fellowship competition.
Tags: Elsa, Female Eye Film Festival(Second Rounders), Sundance Episodic Lab(Second Rounders)

Johnny Gilligan's Sci-Fi Pilots Garner More Awards & Top RED LIST

By: Johnny Gilligan
After his 1-hour Sci-Fi Pilot REVELATIONS won the Horror/Sci-Fi Category of the 2020 Table Read My Screenplay competition, Johnny Gilligan was invited to join ISA's Development Slate. REVELATIONS joins Johnny's two other 1-hour Sci-Fi pilots SAVANT and WOKE to take the top 3 positions on Coverfly's RED LIST (Sci-Fi TV 1 Hour) this month, positions 2,3 and 4 for the year.

Top 50 Laurel in the ISA Fast Track Goes to THE TRAIL

By: Yvonne Paulin
Yvonne Paulin scores a top 50 laurel for her script, THE TRAIL, a thriller that tells the story of a scientist with a tragic past who discovers a body while collecting samples in the remote regions of the Pacific Northwest. The idea first came to Paulin years ago while working in an Environmental testing lab in Portland, Oregon. What began as a character sketch and tucked away in notebooks that travelled across the country with her, roared to life when Paulin took NYU’s Screenwriting Bootcamp in 2014. Paulin’s writing reflects her passion for science, her love of thriller/action/horror movies, and her belief that women’s voices wield extraordinary power to to expand the collective consciousness and engage audiences in new experiences.
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Action Genre Win Goes to 13 MINUTES
By: Yvonne Paulin
Writer and Environmental Scientist, Yvonne Paulin, hits it big in the ISA Fast Tract XII competition. A Genre Win in the Action category goes to her script, 13 MINUTES, a Sci-Fi action/thriller that pivots on the communication delay between Mars and Earth. Paulin, fascinated at the speed with which we are gearing up to colonize Mars, became obsessed with the new “space race” and began work on 13 MINUTES. The external narrative is a story about the will to survive in dangerous and uninhabitable worlds. Paulin uses this framework to probe deeper into themes of environmental degradation, hubris, loss, betrayal, and redemption through self-sacrifice. Paulin’s writing reflects her passion for science and her love of action/horror movies.
Tags: 13 Minutes, ISA Fast Track Fellowship(Genre Winner)

The Trail, by Yvonne Paulin, top 10% of BlueCat Screenplay Competition 2013
By: Yvonne Paulin
The Trail is a mystery thriller about an environmentalist, recently divorced and still greiving the death of her daughter, who discovers the body of a child while collecting water samples in the remote Pacific Northwest and becomes trapped in a fast moving storm. The problem is, she's not the only one caught in the blizzard.

Yvonne Paulin in the top 100 of the Emerging Screenwriters Competition
By: Yvonne Paulin
THE TRAIL by Yvonne Paulin placed in the top 100 of the 2012 Emerging Screenwriters Competition. 
Tags: Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition

Action Genre Win Goes to 13 MINUTES

By: Yvonne Paulin
Writer and Environmental Scientist, Yvonne Paulin, hits it big in the ISA Fast Tract XII competition. A Genre Win in the Action category goes to her script, 13 MINUTES, a Sci-Fi action/thriller that pivots on the communication delay between Mars and Earth. Paulin, fascinated at the speed with which we are gearing up to colonize Mars, became obsessed with the new “space race” and began work on 13 MINUTES. The external narrative is a story about the will to survive in dangerous and uninhabitable worlds. Paulin uses this framework to probe deeper into themes of environmental degradation, hubris, loss, betrayal, and redemption through self-sacrifice. Paulin’s writing reflects her passion for science and her love of action/horror movies.
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Top 50 Laurel in the ISA Fast Track Goes to THE TRAIL
By: Yvonne Paulin
Yvonne Paulin scores a top 50 laurel for her script, THE TRAIL, a thriller that tells the story of a scientist with a tragic past who discovers a body while collecting samples in the remote regions of the Pacific Northwest. The idea first came to Paulin years ago while working in an Environmental testing lab in Portland, Oregon. What began as a character sketch and tucked away in notebooks that travelled across the country with her, roared to life when Paulin took NYU’s Screenwriting Bootcamp in 2014. Paulin’s writing reflects her passion for science, her love of thriller/action/horror movies, and her belief that women’s voices wield extraordinary power to to expand the collective consciousness and engage audiences in new experiences.
Tags: The Trail, ISA Fast Track Fellowship(Genre Winner)

The Trail, by Yvonne Paulin, top 10% of BlueCat Screenplay Competition 2013
By: Yvonne Paulin
The Trail is a mystery thriller about an environmentalist, recently divorced and still greiving the death of her daughter, who discovers the body of a child while collecting water samples in the remote Pacific Northwest and becomes trapped in a fast moving storm. The problem is, she's not the only one caught in the blizzard.

Yvonne Paulin in the top 100 of the Emerging Screenwriters Competition
By: Yvonne Paulin
THE TRAIL by Yvonne Paulin placed in the top 100 of the 2012 Emerging Screenwriters Competition. 
Tags: Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition

THE REAL THING - 'FILM LOT' The Film Club Australia (2020)

By: Matthew Papadopoulos
THE REAL THING is chosen as Winner: Screenplay at 'FILM LOT' The Film Club Australia (2020) Melbourne, AUS. A 'home game' for Matthew, and the 33rd Winner placement for his screwball comedy screenplay since June 2019.
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THE REAL THING - Screenplay Festival (2020)
By: Matthew Papadopoulos
THE REAL THING chosen as Winner: Honorable Mention - Movie: Comedy at Screenplay Festival (2020) Sherman Oaks, California USA. With this win, Matthew's screenplay brings up its 32nd Winner placement since June 2019.
Tags: The Real Thing, Screenplay Festival(Semi Finalist)

THE REAL THING - Student Los Angeles Film Awards (2020)
By: Matthew Papadopoulos
THE REAL THING placed as Finalist for Best Student Screenplay at Student Los Angeles Film Awards (2020), Hollywood, California USA. The event aims to highlight high school, undergrad and graduate student films (and screenplays) worldwide.
Tags: The Real Thing,

THE REAL THING - Austin Spotlight Film Festival (2020)

By: Matthew Papadopoulos
THE REAL THING placed as an Award Nominee: Screenplay Feature for the Austin Spotlight Film Festival (2020) Austin, Texas USA.
Tags: The Real Thing,

THE REAL THING - SoCal Film Awards (2020)
By: Matthew Papadopoulos
THE REAL THING was a Finalist: Screenplay, SoCal Film Awards (2020) Huntington Beach, California USA. One of four Finalists in the long-form format in this 12 year-running festival.
Tags: The Real Thing,

THE REAL THING - Screenplay Festival (2020)

By: Matthew Papadopoulos
THE REAL THING chosen as Winner: Honorable Mention - Movie: Comedy at Screenplay Festival (2020) Sherman Oaks, California USA. With this win, Matthew's screenplay brings up its 32nd Winner placement since June 2019.
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THE REAL THING - 'FILM LOT' The Film Club Australia (2020)
By: Matthew Papadopoulos
THE REAL THING is chosen as Winner: Screenplay at 'FILM LOT' The Film Club Australia (2020) Melbourne, AUS. A 'home game' for Matthew, and the 33rd Winner placement for his screwball comedy screenplay since June 2019.
Tags: The Real Thing,

THE REAL THING - Student Los Angeles Film Awards (2020)
By: Matthew Papadopoulos
THE REAL THING placed as Finalist for Best Student Screenplay at Student Los Angeles Film Awards (2020), Hollywood, California USA. The event aims to highlight high school, undergrad and graduate student films (and screenplays) worldwide.
Tags: The Real Thing,

THE REAL THING - Austin Spotlight Film Festival (2020)

By: Matthew Papadopoulos
THE REAL THING placed as an Award Nominee: Screenplay Feature for the Austin Spotlight Film Festival (2020) Austin, Texas USA.
Tags: The Real Thing,

THE REAL THING - SoCal Film Awards (2020)
By: Matthew Papadopoulos
THE REAL THING was a Finalist: Screenplay, SoCal Film Awards (2020) Huntington Beach, California USA. One of four Finalists in the long-form format in this 12 year-running festival.
Tags: The Real Thing,

THE REAL THING - Student Los Angeles Film Awards (2020)

By: Matthew Papadopoulos
THE REAL THING placed as Finalist for Best Student Screenplay at Student Los Angeles Film Awards (2020), Hollywood, California USA. The event aims to highlight high school, undergrad and graduate student films (and screenplays) worldwide.
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THE REAL THING - 'FILM LOT' The Film Club Australia (2020)
By: Matthew Papadopoulos
THE REAL THING is chosen as Winner: Screenplay at 'FILM LOT' The Film Club Australia (2020) Melbourne, AUS. A 'home game' for Matthew, and the 33rd Winner placement for his screwball comedy screenplay since June 2019.
Tags: The Real Thing,

THE REAL THING - Screenplay Festival (2020)
By: Matthew Papadopoulos
THE REAL THING chosen as Winner: Honorable Mention - Movie: Comedy at Screenplay Festival (2020) Sherman Oaks, California USA. With this win, Matthew's screenplay brings up its 32nd Winner placement since June 2019.
Tags: The Real Thing, Screenplay Festival(Semi Finalist)

THE REAL THING - Austin Spotlight Film Festival (2020)

By: Matthew Papadopoulos
THE REAL THING placed as an Award Nominee: Screenplay Feature for the Austin Spotlight Film Festival (2020) Austin, Texas USA.
Tags: The Real Thing,

THE REAL THING - SoCal Film Awards (2020)
By: Matthew Papadopoulos
THE REAL THING was a Finalist: Screenplay, SoCal Film Awards (2020) Huntington Beach, California USA. One of four Finalists in the long-form format in this 12 year-running festival.
Tags: The Real Thing,

THE ABYSSINIAN: A Big Apple Film Festival Semi-Finalist

By: Larry Coleman
Larry E Coleman's period war drama, THE ABYSSINIAN, is a Big Apple Film Festival Semi-Finalist in the Historical/Biopic category. This script brings new life to World War II dramatic film-making because its' backdrop doesn't focus on popular settings like Normandy, but instead, on the invasion of Africa, and is seen through the lens of an African, an Ethiopian POW.
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THE ABYSSINIAN: A Top 10 Historical Script
By: Larry Coleman
Larry E Coleman's period war drama, THE ABYSSINIAN finished in the top 10 in the Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition in the Historical/Biopic category. This script brings new life to World War II dramatic film-making because its' backdrop doesn't focus on popular settings like Normandy, but instead, on the invasion of Africa, and is seen through the lens of an African, an Ethiopian POW.
Tags: The Abyssinian, Creative Screenwriting UNIQUE VOICES Screenplay Competition(Top 10)

THE ABYSSINIAN Advances
By: Larry Coleman
The period war drama, THE ABYSSINIAN, advances as a semi-finalist in the Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition in the Historical/Biopic category. This script brings new life to World War II dramatic film-making because its' backdrop doesn't focus on popular settings like Normandy, but instead, on the invasion of Africa, and is seen through the lens of an African, an Ethiopian POW.
Tags: The Abyssinian, Creative Screenwriting UNIQUE VOICES Screenplay Competition(Top 10)

SWIRL CITY 2020 Scriptapaloza Quaterfinalist
By: Larry Coleman
Written well before the pandemic and the George Floyd murder, SWIRL CITY is a dystopian sci-fi script about the catastrophic race wars which came on the heels of protest and how an interracial couple with the help of an AI helped saved humanity.
Tags: Swirl City, Scriptapalooza Screenplay & SHORTS Competition(Quarter Finalist)

The Sundance Institute Documentary Fund

By: Colin Scott
The Sundance Institute Documentary Fund supports the work of nonfiction filmmakers from around the globe. In a changing media landscape, the fund has been a stable, progressive force in supporting work that has expressed the world in creative, complex, beautiful, and provocative ways, and has created real cultural and social impact around some of the most pressing issues of our time.
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FiLM iNDEPENDENT Fiscal Sponsorship
By: Colin Scott
The FiLM iNDEPENDENT fiscal sponsorship agrees to provide administrative services and oversight to, and assume limited legal and financial responsibility for, the activities of groups or individuals engaged in work that furthers the fiscal sponsor’s mission, in this case, to champion creative independence in visual storytelling and support a community of artists who embody diversity, innovation and uniqueness of vision.
Tags: Professor Doctor: Shamanism in the Anthropocene,

The Sundance Institute Native Producing Grant
By: Colin Scott
Under co-creator Lauren Monroe Jr., HORSE NATIONS was awarded The Sundance Institute Native Producing Grant. Sundance's Indigenous Program has built and sustained an indigenous film circle, which now spans over three generations. The cycle of work begins by scouting for and identifying indigenous artists, bringing them through the mechanisms of support at Sundance Institute to get their work made and shown, then bringing the filmmakers and their work back to native lands.
Tags: Horse Nations,

Dance Hall Girls (TV Series Pilot)

By: Melissa Pilgrim
This female-driven, well-researched, western drama series pilot placed as a Top 50 Finalist in the ISA Fast Track Fellowship!

COLE & COLETTE accepted to the Hollywood Blood Horror Film Festival

By: Harker Jones
COLE & COLETTE accepted to and screened at the Hollywood Blood Horror Film Festival.
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COLE & COLETTE accepted into Horror Films in Hotlanta Film Fest
By: Harker Jones
COLE & COLETTE was accepted into and screened at the Horror Films in Hotlanta Film Fest.
Tags: Cole & Colette,

COLE & COLETTE accepted into Halloweenapalooza Film Fest
By: Harker Jones
COLE & COLETTE was accepted into and screened at the Halloweenapalooza Film Fest.
Tags: Cole & Colette,

COLE & COLETTE accepted into Midwest Horror Fest
By: Harker Jones
COLE & COLETTE was accepted into and screened in the Midwest Horror Fest.
Tags: Cole & Colette,

COLE & COLETTE Accepted into Atlanta Horror Film Festival
By: Harker Jones
In August my short thriller COLE & COLETTE was accepted into the Atlanta Horror Film Festival.
Tags: Cole & Colette,

EVERYTHING AND NOTHING Genre Winner (Drama) 2020 Fast Track Fellowship

By: Denise Meyers
EVERYTHING AND NOTHING, based on the true story about a female jockey who agrees to train a mounted anti-poaching unit in the Eastern Cape, was selected by the ISA Fast Track Fellowship as a Genre Winner (Drama).
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LUCKY 13 Is a Finalist for the 2020 Screencraft Fellowship
By: Denise Meyers
LUCKY 13 has been selected from out of nearly 3000 submissions as a Finalist for the 2020 Screencraft Fellowship. The selection represents 1.5 percent of submissions, and adds to the growing list of accolades for this powerfully written screenplay about female pilots in World War Two. LUCKY 13 is the inaugural recipient of a Sloan Foundation Development Grant, awarded a development grant by the Stowe Story Labs for their 2020 fall season, won the Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition and was a Finalist for The Writers Lab and the Nashville Film Festival.
Tags: LUCKY 13, ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship(Finalist)

LUCKY 13 Selected by Stowe Story Labs for a Fall Development Grant
By: Denise Meyers
The Stowe Story Lab has selected LUCKY 13 for a $1000 development grant for the 2020 Fall Lab in Stowe, VT. LUCKY 13 is the inaugural recipient of a Sloan Foundation development grant. The script won the Atlanta Film Festival Screenwriting Competition in 2017 and has also been a finalist for The Writers Lab, the Nashville Film Festival and placed in the Next 100 for the Nicholl Fellowship in 2019.
Tags: LUCKY 13, Stowe Story Labs(Finalist)

EVERYTHING AND NOTHING advances to Finalist
By: Denise Meyers
The Stowe Story Labs, in partnership with Final Draft, have advanced EVERYTHING AND NOTHING, based on a true story about rhino poaching in the Eastern Cape, to finalist for a fellowship grant. Everything and Nothing was a second place selection for Table Read My Screenplay Park City in 2020.
Tags: Everything and Nothing, Stowe Story Labs(Finalist), Stowe Story Labs

EVERYTHING AND NOTHING WINS 2ND PLACE -TABLE READ MY SCREENPLAY - PARK CITY
By: Denise Meyers
EVERYTHING AND NOTHING, based on a true story about the desperate fight to protect endangered black rhino from poachers in the Eastern Cape, won second place for the 2020 Table Read My Screenplay - Park City competition. Meyers, who is the inaugural winner of the Sloan Foundation grant for screenwriting in partnership with the Athena Film Festival, is developing a sizzle reel to support the screenplay and the book it is based on.
Tags: Everything and Nothing,

Best Feature Screenplay for 2020 Lonely Seal International Film Festival

By: Ramona Taylor
A historical drama that is relevant to our current times -Ramona Taylor’s BLIND JUSTICE one of many entries received by the Lonely Seal International Film, Screenplay and Music Festival. The Screenplay inspired by a racially charged 1912 murder case was named Best Screenplay. Taylor’s work will be part of a marketing showcase at CANNES in the Spring 2021. The screenplay also was a winner of the Virginia Governor’s Screenwriting Competition,as well as 2020 Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Semifinalist, a Finalist in the 2020 Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards. an Official Selection of Ink and Cinema’s Diversity Film Script Showcase, an Official Selection of the 2020 Trust Story Screenplay Competition, a ScreenCraft Drama Semifinalist,

FiLM iNDEPENDENT Fiscal Sponsorship

By: Colin Scott
The FiLM iNDEPENDENT fiscal sponsorship agrees to provide administrative services and oversight to, and assume limited legal and financial responsibility for, the activities of groups or individuals engaged in work that furthers the fiscal sponsor’s mission, in this case, to champion creative independence in visual storytelling and support a community of artists who embody diversity, innovation and uniqueness of vision.
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The Sundance Institute Native Producing Grant
By: Colin Scott
Under co-creator Lauren Monroe Jr., HORSE NATIONS was awarded The Sundance Institute Native Producing Grant. Sundance's Indigenous Program has built and sustained an indigenous film circle, which now spans over three generations. The cycle of work begins by scouting for and identifying indigenous artists, bringing them through the mechanisms of support at Sundance Institute to get their work made and shown, then bringing the filmmakers and their work back to native lands.
Tags: Horse Nations,

The Sundance Institute Documentary Fund
By: Colin Scott
The Sundance Institute Documentary Fund supports the work of nonfiction filmmakers from around the globe. In a changing media landscape, the fund has been a stable, progressive force in supporting work that has expressed the world in creative, complex, beautiful, and provocative ways, and has created real cultural and social impact around some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Tags: Horse Nations,

The Sundance Institute Native Producing Grant

By: Colin Scott
Under co-creator Lauren Monroe Jr., HORSE NATIONS was awarded The Sundance Institute Native Producing Grant. Sundance's Indigenous Program has built and sustained an indigenous film circle, which now spans over three generations. The cycle of work begins by scouting for and identifying indigenous artists, bringing them through the mechanisms of support at Sundance Institute to get their work made and shown, then bringing the filmmakers and their work back to native lands.
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FiLM iNDEPENDENT Fiscal Sponsorship
By: Colin Scott
The FiLM iNDEPENDENT fiscal sponsorship agrees to provide administrative services and oversight to, and assume limited legal and financial responsibility for, the activities of groups or individuals engaged in work that furthers the fiscal sponsor’s mission, in this case, to champion creative independence in visual storytelling and support a community of artists who embody diversity, innovation and uniqueness of vision.
Tags: Professor Doctor: Shamanism in the Anthropocene,

The Sundance Institute Documentary Fund
By: Colin Scott
The Sundance Institute Documentary Fund supports the work of nonfiction filmmakers from around the globe. In a changing media landscape, the fund has been a stable, progressive force in supporting work that has expressed the world in creative, complex, beautiful, and provocative ways, and has created real cultural and social impact around some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Tags: Horse Nations,

MAESTRA recognized by Top Competitions in 2020

By: Susan Polk
After debuting in January 2020, MAESTRA broke into Quarterfinals for the Academy Nicholl Fellowships and the PAGE Awards, the Semifinals for the Austin Film Festival and the Screencraft Drama Screenplay Competition and was was a Finalist for the Tangerine Entertainment Fellowship and Official Selection for the Stowe Story Labs July 2020 Writer's Retreat. MAESTRA is repped by The Muraviov Company.
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Signed with Literary Manager Kathy Muraviov of The Muraviov Company
By: Susan Polk
Shortly following the announcement of the Shopping Agreement with AV1 Productions for Susan's first screenplay, CAROL, literary manager Kathy Muraviov of The Muraviov Company read Susan's second top-award-winning screenplay, SUZY Q WHERE ARE YOU? (formerly known as "Becoming Terpsichore") and has undertaken representation of both Susan and SUZY Q WHERE ARE YOU?.
Tags: SuzyQ Where Are You?,

CAROL enters Shopping Agreement with AV1 Productions and Briley Media Group
By: Susan Polk
Susan's coming-of-age drama CAROL has entered into a Shopping Agreement with Houston-based AV1 Productions in association with Briley Media Group. The Christmas-time story captured the Producers' attention with its focus on LGBT and bullying issues and its message of self-acceptance and hope.
Tags: Carol,

Jordan Friedberg Named 2020 Screenwriting Master

By: Jordan Friedberg
Current Top 50 ISA Fast Track Fellowship winner Jordan Friedberg was named the 2020 Screenwriting Master for his comedy pilot script T-ROLL (screenwritingmaster.com). In addition to the cash prize, now when Jordan screams at random people on the street that he is the "Screenwriting Master," he has a trophy to carry around as further proof following all the awkward, disbelieving stares.

DIVORCE BY COMBAT! to be Produced as Podcast

By: Carl Huebner
Carl Huebner's comedy short  DIVORCE BY COMBAT! has won a spot in the second season of Six-Page Scripts. One episode will be dedicated to the script, with analysis and ratings, and a full cast staged reading.
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