Film Independent's 9th annual Directors Lab will include Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) as a mentor!
“It’s exciting to have a group of filmmakers in the Directors Lab that not only have such varied artistic backgrounds, but also can bring a diverse slate of projects to the table,” said Director of Talent Development Josh Welsh. “We’re also so grateful to have Catherine sharing... expertise and guiding them through the directing process.”
Some of the awesome films being created through the project this year include thrillers like SarahN_12 by Sasie Sealy and The Prettiest Girl by Sasha Isaac-Young. Read on for detailed descriptions of these awesome new films...
SarahN_12 – Obsessed with finding her boyfriend’s murderer, Sarah takes her investigation into the virtual world where she discovers his online doppelganger was murdered just two days before his real life murder.
Sasie Sealy is a writer/director, and alumna of the Nyu graduate film program,...
“It’s exciting to have a group of filmmakers in the Directors Lab that not only have such varied artistic backgrounds, but also can bring a diverse slate of projects to the table,” said Director of Talent Development Josh Welsh. “We’re also so grateful to have Catherine sharing... expertise and guiding them through the directing process.”
Some of the awesome films being created through the project this year include thrillers like SarahN_12 by Sasie Sealy and The Prettiest Girl by Sasha Isaac-Young. Read on for detailed descriptions of these awesome new films...
SarahN_12 – Obsessed with finding her boyfriend’s murderer, Sarah takes her investigation into the virtual world where she discovers his online doppelganger was murdered just two days before his real life murder.
Sasie Sealy is a writer/director, and alumna of the Nyu graduate film program,...
- 2/12/2010
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
- Rodrigo Garcia, Keith Gordon, Catherine Hardwicke, and Alfredo De Villa to Serve as Lab Mentors -
Los Angeles (February 10, 2010) - Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, has announced the filmmakers and film projects for its 9th annual Directors Lab, sponsored by Kodak. Taking place in Los Angeles from now until the end of March, the Directors Lab is an intensive nine-week incubator designed to assist directors with strong, original voices develop new narrative feature films, improve their craft, and advance their filmmaking careers in a nurturing yet challenging creative environment. This year's Lab Mentors include Rodrigo Garcia (Mother and Child), Keith Gordon (The Singing Detective, Waking the Dead), Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight, Thirteen), and Alfredo De Villa (Adrift in Manhattan, Washington Heights).
"It's exciting to have a group of filmmakers in the Directors Lab that not only have such varied artistic backgrounds,...
- 2/11/2010
- by maint
- Film Independent
Sasie Sealy's short The Elephant Garden won a Student Visionary Award at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008. In fact, it was Sealy's second win of a Student Visionary Award, one she also took in 2005 with her short Dance Mania Fantastic (about an out-of-work guy who spends his days playing Dance Dance Revolution; it looks wonderful). The Elephant Garden is gorgeously shot (Sealy's biography mentions work with photographer Gregory Crewdson; you can see that influence here) in a color-soaked North Carolina, and it follows an eleven-year-old girl, Chloe (Kelley Mack), whose world of childhood slowly fractures as her beloved older sister Elisabeth (Elise Couture) gets a boyfriend (the spooky-eyed Billy Magnussen) and shuts her out of their universe. Sealy captures the hazy feel of childhood, and how it conflicts with the burgeoning mysteries of the world; you feel, greatly, for Chloe's newfound loneliness, and you get in her head. Sealy's...
- 12/8/2009
- TribecaFilm.com
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