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Film Independent Sets Episodic Lab Participants For 2024


Film Independent has unveiled its set of Episodic Lab participants for 2024.

L-R: Azza Malik, Catherine Durickas, Desdemona Chiang, Giovanni Maldonado, Ioana Uricaru, Myles Hawthorne, Robert Cohen and Robert ToTeras Danté J. Bailey; Jasper Lewis; Peter Hurley; Myles Clifford Hawthorne; Annette Hornischer; Ali Pickard; Claudia Cooper; Shelley L. Reece EXCLUSIVE: Film Independent has named the eight writers selected for the seventh edition of its Episodic Lab, designed to provide individualized story and career development for writers with original pilots for television. Cohen and Uricaru have been set to receive this year’s $20,000 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant, awarded to projects with science or technology themes and characters, to support the development of their pilot Overcast through the Lab. This year’s two-week, in-person Lab will help to further the careers of Fellows by introducing them to industry veterans — including experienced showrunners, creative producers and executives — who can offer guidance on both the craft and business of writing episodic content.

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