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Sundance Sets Fellows For 2025 Screenwriters Lab & Intensive

Sundance has named its Screenwriters Lab fellows for 2025, along with those set to participate in the Screenwriters Intensive.

Lab fellows include Leo Aguirre( Verano), Chheangkea( Little Phnom Penh), Andrea Ellsworth& Kasey Elise Walker( The Dispute), Roberto Fatal( Electric Homies), Diffan Sina Norman( Sitora), Alexandra Qin( Thirstygirl), Chloe Sarbib( Trou Normand), Yelizaveta Smith( In Vacuo), Katla Sólnes( Eruption) and Lana Wilson( Back Seat). The Intensive fellows are Bethiael Alemayoh( I Didn’t Forget You), Sammi Cannold& Safi Rauf( The Homecoming), Karishma Dev Dube( Strangers), Nate Gualtieri( Queerbait), Ward Kamel( If I Die in America), Shehrezad Maher( Theory of Colors), Joanne Mony Park( The Windiest Day), Alisha Tejpal& Mireya Martinez( For the Eyes Are Blind to the Stairwells), Catalina Torres( Anoche Creí Que Nadaba) and Melina Valdez( Saca Tu Lengua (Stick Out Your Tongue)). This year, two projects supported by the program will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival — which is pressing ahead, in-person and online, amid the L.A. wildfires — Rashad Frett’s Ricky and Isaiah Saxon’s The Legend of Ochi, along with Gregory Nava’s El Norte i n the From the Collection section.

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