Bailey Foundation, dedicated to the promotion of the arts, education, and initiatives that seek to better our world utilizing nature and the sciences, will provide funding for The Writers Lab to provide additional resources for its 72 alumni, including its first CharacterFest Pitch Session for the class of 2020 with agents and managers planned for Spring 2021. Four Lab projects have been optioned or moved into production, one is in post-production, and the Lab will see the emergence of its first completed project in 2021, Alyson Richards’ horror film The Retreat.Īs The Writers Lab enters its seventh year, it continues to emphasize the importance of community, advocacy, and support for its now six seasons of alums. The Writers Lab alumni have gained recognition post-Lab: Six landed writer-for-hire jobs, five were signed by managers or agents, two won The Academy Nicholl Fellowship. The Lab is produced by co-founders Elizabeth Kaiden and Nitza Wilon and New York Women in Film & Television, and supported by Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, and Oprah Winfrey. Launched in 2015, the program is the only lab in the world devoted exclusively to script development for women writers over the age of 40. The desire for more women-led storytelling is clear, and the expansion to include pilots in 2021 will only serve to further The Lab’s mission of amplifying the oft-unheard voices of women over 40. The Writers Lab 2020 welcomed its most inclusive class to date, with half of the selected participants identifying as diverse, and half of the projects identified as “genre.” In its first-ever fully virtual experience, the 2020 Lab, which saw a 25% increase in submissions, sought to address the extraordinary circumstances of the historic global moment. Meet The Writers Lab UK & I 2021 Participants About The Writers Lab 2020 The Lab is supported by Dirty Films, as well as Screen Scotland, Screen Skills Ireland, Northern Ireland Screen and Ffilm Cymru & BFI NETWORK with funding from the National Lottery. TWL UK & I will be produced with UK Partner Untamed Stories, the creative production hub helmed by seasoned development producers Julia Berg and Ruth Spencer in association with Birds’ Eye View, the not-for-profit which champions the female perspective in film and headed by Mia Bays. In April 2021, The Writers Lab announced the launch of The Writers Lab UK & Ireland (TWL UK & I) with the first script development programme of its kind for women over 40, in partnership with Untamed Stories and supported by Dirty Films, the independent film and television production company headed by Cate Blanchett, Andrew Upton and Coco Francini with leading development producer Georgie Pym, and in association with Birds’ Eye View. L to R, TWL Mentor Shruti Ganguly and Writer Kenyetta Raelyn The Writers Lab Across the Pond LEARN MORE ABOUT THE 2020 SELECTED SCREENWRITERS Mentors and writers engage in a rigorous process of intensive script development through one-on-one meetings, panel discussions, peer workshops, and at group meals, Interactions are designed to inspire the artists to prompt creative exploration and, through revision, to cultivate first-rate cinematic stories. Supported by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, The Lab is a four-day writers workshop that gives women screenwriters over the age of 40 the opportunity to work intensively on their feature film scripts with the support of established film professionals. It creates a springboard for scripts to reach the next stage of production and expands the diversity of narrative film The Lab was launched in 2015 By Kyle Stokes, Founder, and is presented by New York Women in Film & Television and Co-founders Elizabeth Kaiden and Nitza Wilon. The Writers Lab provides script development for women writers over the age of 40. Meet The Writers Lab 2021 US Participants Feature and pilot writers selected for the October 2021 retreat will work one-on-one and in group sessions with acclaimed screen industry leaders to develop their scripts and their craft, and to build tools and strategies to achieve success, thus expanding the diversity of new content. With demand for content from diverse voices skyrocketing, the Lab expands its call this year to include pilot scripts as well as narrative features.
Participants spend four days at a retreat outside New York City working on their screenplays and their craft in one-on-one sessions with mentors, and gaining valuable tools and information in panels and workshops to achieve success for their projects and their careers.
The Writers Lab selects 12 promising writers each year, from a competitive pool of submissions, to work with accomplished women mentors from the film industry.
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