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Film Independent Sets Six For 2024 Episodic Directing Intensive

Film Independent's Episodic Directing Intensive has locked in six participants for 2024, Deadline can exclusively reveal.

EXCLUSIVE: Film Independent has named the six filmmakers selected for its third annual Episodic Directing Intensive: John Gutierrez, Lorena Lourenço, Alfonso Morgan-Terrero, Huriyyah Muhammad, Kelsey Taylor and So Young Shelly Yo. Notables set to appear this time around include Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Johnson Cheng, Gloria Fan, Georgina Gonzalez, Liz Kelly, Shari Page, Jeremy Podeswa, Alysia Reiner, Beth Schacter, Nancy Schreiber, ASC, Yira Vilaro, Rina Varughese and Daniel Willis, among others. An American filmmaker with a deep interest in the global, John’s films powerfully merge themes of family, mental-health, and psychic collapse through the genres of thriller, drama, and fantasy.

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