Aloha!
We hope this note finds you well, happy and thriving!
In this newsletter...
- Meet our Fellows & Coaches for the 2019 Web-Series Immersive, Writers Immersive, and Producers Immersive programs.
- Indigenous Storytellers Weekend Ideation Program - Update.
- VidCon 2019.
- In The News: Creative Lab Hawaii Graduate Fellows updates.
- Upcoming programs - information and registration links.
- Mahalo: Becker Communications, Manaola, and State of Hawaii - Creative Industries Division.
As always, should you have any questions, recommendations and/or concerns, please feel free to reach out to us.
Mahalo!
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Web-Series Immersive
Our fifth Web-Series Immersive program will be taking place at the
Aholihani Resort Waikiki Beach, our new hotel partner on Oahu, from Monday, June 3, 2019 to Friday, June 7, 2019. The program focuses on creative entrepreneurs whose projects' initial distribution platform is online via companies such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, and others.
Below, please find the names and bios of our Web-Series Immersive fellows as well as the names and bios of our award winning coaches.
Free Panel Discussion Open to Public
Interested in learning about creating stories for the web? Join our coaches for a public discussion on
Wednesday, June 5, 2019, from 6pm to 7pm. Registration for the program is free and can be done
here.
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Charleston, SC and graduated from Clemson University with a BFA in Visual Arts.
She works at the Applied Research Laboratory at University of Hawai'i as a media specialist collaborating with engineers to conceptualize multi-media projects.
Her project, in which she is partnered with Stacy Fukuhara-Barclay, titled
Like Maddah
, a family comedy about a thirty-something-year-old child psychologist who moves back to Hawai'i, despite her reservations about her meddling family. Once there, she ends up taking a job as a school counselor at her daughter Ella’s school, much to Ella’s horror.
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Stacy Fukuhara-Barclay
is an
attorney
specializing in child-advocacy.
She and her husband co-wrote
HI Conflict
, a dramedy about a child advocate that cannot stand children.
They were 2017 Creative Lab Hawai'i Writers Immersive fellows, and represented Hawai'i at the 2017
American Film Market
,
where they pitched
HI Conflict
to an audience of over 400 people.
Stacy's present project is
Like Maddah
, a family comedy about a thirty-something-year-old child psychologist who moves back to Hawai'i, despite her reservations about her meddling family. Once there, she ends up taking a job as a school counselor at her daughter Ella’s school, much to Ella’s horror.
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Jeff Katts
was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai'i and has worked in TV/Film industry for over 22 years.
He is currently employed as the studio/media manager at the
1013
fantasy/action/adventure web-series that chronicles the adventures of a local girl named Jackie Claxton who has the power of teleportation and
uses it in her everyday life to fight evil and save lives throughout the Hawaii Islands.
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She wrote, acted, and produced the gothic horror short,
M.E.R.C.Y.
and
On weekends you can catch her tossing glitter, paint, and happiness on people though her party entertainment company,
Island Girl Face Art.
Her project,
The Entertainers,
is a
dark-comedy web-series that follows the quirky, surrealistic, sometimes
inappropriate and often, mis- understood secret lives of those you hire to “bring the party.”
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Mitchel Viernes
is an independent filmmaker currently based in Honolulu, Hawai’i.
His passion for storytelling through film was fostered through his involvement with the media program at Moanalua High School. He continued his education at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, majoring in film studies.
His project, titled
Obake
(working title) is a dramatic horror web-series that follows Kalena Arakawa, a young college student who learns about her Hawaiian/Japanese heritage when she moves to Hawai’i to live with her Uncle and cousin. There, she uncovers some interesting truths about her family legacy and their connection to the supernatural.
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Web-Series Immersive - Coaches
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Bernie Su
is a two-time Primetime Emmy award-winning interactive storyteller, creator, and showrunner.
His previous works include
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
, a ground breaking interactive adaptation of Jane Austen’s
Pride and Prejudice
. The series spawned 70 million views across 160 videos and 35 social media accounts. The series won the first Primetime Emmy Award for a YouTube distributed series and was adapted into a novel, thus becoming the first novel based on a web series based on a novel.
He won his second Emmy for
Emma Approved,
an interactive re-imagination of another Austen novel,
Emma
. This grand series spanned five media platforms, featuring a video series, fashion blog, music experience, and social media interactivity. The series also featured partnerships with Samsung, Modcloth, and Nordstrom. The franchise has recently released an interactive mobile gaming experience through the Moment: Stories App where players can be a part of Emma's world.
He is currently the creator and showrunner of
Artificial,
the first live science fiction series to debut on Twitch. This Peabody Award winning audience-interactive series is a fully scripted serialized story about an Artificial Intelligence being that is trying to become human with the help of the audience. The series recently debuted its second season on Twitch.
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She is currently writing the comedy feature
Jade Palace
for New Line Cinema and was most recently the creator and showrunner of
I Ship It,
an original musical romcom series on The CW this summer.
She was nominated for a 2019 WGA Award for her work on
Love Daily,
a romance anthology series for AwesomenessTV (now streaming on Hulu).
Previously, Yulin created two YouTube channels -
YulinisWorking
and
Shipwrecked Comedy
- that have each amassed over 2 million views per channel, for original scripted webseries (
Kissing in the Rain, A Tell Tale Vlog
) and short films (T
he Perils of Growing Up Flat-Chested, Angie + Zahra
).
Her work has been featured on Nerdist, Huffington Post, IndieWire and Buzzfeed.
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Tony E. Valenzuela
is an award-winning filmmaker and the founder of BlackBoxTV, a genre entertainment studio and YouTube channel dedicated to original series, short films and immersive VR/360 experiences.
In 2008, Tony wrote and directed
2009: A True Story
,
a dystopian drama that was nominated for Best Dramatic Web Series at the first-annual Streamy Awards and was featured by legendary horror director, Wes Craven during his Halloween 2008 YouTube Takeover.
By 2010, Tony had directed three high-profile web series and in August of that year, he launched his own YouTube channel -
BlackBoxTV
along with its signature horror anthology BlackBoxTV Presents. In 2012, he partnered with YouTube Originals to create and produce a slate of programming for BlackBoxTV that included a collaboration with C.S.I. Creator,
Anthony E. Zuiker
and the anthology series
Silverwood
, which Tony co-produced with Wes Craven’s long-time producing protegee,
Carly Feingold.
In 2014, Tony directed and co-wrote the supernatural drama,
Versions of Elloise
in collaboration with Oscar-winning director
Guillermo del Toro,
Legendary Entertainment and YouTube Space LA. His next project was directing the pilot episode of the YouTube Red reality competition series,
Fight of the Living Dead,
which Valenzuela executive produced and distributed through BlackBoxTV from 2015-2016. Later that year, Valenzuela was recruited by
New Form
- the digital studio co-founded by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, to create, write and direct
The Fourth Door,
starring Joey Graceffa and High School Musical star Monique Coleman.
In early 2016, BlackBoxTV launched the virtual reality series
BlackBoxTV Presents: 360\Horror.
Tony directed nine episodes of the series’ first season, which included collaborations with IFC, Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema. The next year Tony's work in VR and 360 filmmaking earned him the inaugural Streamy Award for "Best Immersive Storyteller” (which he would win again in 2018.) Tony’s feature-length directorial debut,
The Axe Murders of Villisca
premiered at the LA Film Festival in June, 2016 and was acquired for both theatrical and VOD distribution by IFC Midnight and then Netflix in 2017.
In 2018, Serial Box acquired the rights to produce
Silverwood: The Door
, a scripted audio series and eBook based on Tony's 2012 Silverwood web series. Tony's second feature film as a director will be released in 2019.
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Writers Immersive
Our sixth Writers Immersive program, composed of creative entrepreneurs whose screenplays target the television and motion pictures platforms, will begin on Monday, June 10, 2019 at the
Kauai Marriott Resort & Beach Club. This is the property's third year as a sponsor and we are grateful for their support.
Mahalo to Tery Lopez, Director of Inclusion & Equity at the
Writers Guild of America, West, for continuing to be our partner since our program's inception.
Free Panel Discussion Open to Public
Interested in learning about creating stories for motion pictures and television? Join our coaches for a public discussion on
Monday, June 10, 2019, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm. Registration for the program is free and can be done
here.
Meet our program fellows and coaches below.
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Writers Immersive Fellows
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Diana T. Black
lives in Kaneohe, Hawai'i, and works full-time as a spec writer of features, teleplays, and theatrical plays. She’s a professional actor in film, theater and the corporate sphere.
She has also written, directed, edited and produced her own short film,
The Shoes
.
One of her features,
Going Alone
, is optioned by
Asian Entertainment Television
.
In addition to her Bachelor of Creative Arts degree, she studies extensively with ScreenwritingU and has been mentored by award-winning Writer/Producer,
Larry Brody
.
Her project, titled
Saving Keylan Millar,
is a one-hour drama/limited-series exploring the dual themes of loyalty and living with the consequences of one’s own actions.
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Originally from the U.K.,
Chris Gibbon
first moved to Hawai'i in 2004 after graduating with a Master's Degree in chemistry from the University of Sheffield.
Eventually settling on the North Shore of Oahu, however, he was inspired to begin writing creatively, learning the craft with a first novel.
He immediately connected with the art and process of story, but having always had a deep love of film has since focused on screenwriting.
Breakwater
, his fifth full length motion picture feature, is a romantic drama set against the raw beauty of Hawai'i.
Chris is based out of Waialua.
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Jessica Hayes
is an emerging writer, actress, and exactly one half of the genius mind behind
Bea’s Bakery
,
the one-hour drama project they are bringing into the program. The character driven fantasy-drama limited series presents elements of a childhood fairytale wrapped in a grounded, salt of the earth, adult package.
Jessica’s journey into writing began with a challenge from her brilliant Acting Professor/Mentor. The challenge was to stop wondering why there aren’t more diverse roles for minority actresses and instead start writing the roles she wanted to play. Challenge accepted!
A few years, city and country changes later here she is. Jessica is based in Los Angeles, California.
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While residing in Los Angeles for over 12 years, she honed her natural-born skill for writing and was inspired to co-create, with Jessica Hayes,
Bea’s Bakery,
an original fantasy-drama limited series set in the 19th century.
Ku’ulei recently completed a “commanding performance” (as reviewed by John Berger, of the Honolulu Star Advertiser) at the Manoa Valley Theatre, portraying Olivia in the production of
Shipment Day.
The experience of reenacting a piece of Hawai’i’s history inspired her to return home to Hawaii full time with a commitment to tell stories of her
homeland.
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Cheyenne Lawes
is a filmmaker, actor, and dancer from Kaneohe, Hawai’i.
Her creative expertise is in broad to dark comedies with a focus on incorporating strong female characters and diversity. She uses comedy to challenge the stereotypes of women, different ethnic groups,
people with tattoos, and other underrepresented or misrepresented people in the entertainment industry.
Her project,
Focus Groupies
, is a feature length comedy that follows a group of seven friends from Hawai’i as they try to stop the demolition of the last park in their town.
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Alexandria (Alex) Spell began her career in comedy, acting, and writing in her hometown of Reno, Nevada.
While working as a nurse and raising two children, Alex began to do standup, first as a hobby, then as a paid local act.
Alex moved to Hilo, Hawai'i to pursue a degree in Physics, and found her outlet in a fulfilling creative partnership with Orit Tashman.
Alex and Orit have written a half-hour television comedy titled
Hella Poor.
The show hopes to buck the normal trends of television with a diverse cast and biting wit.
Hella Poor
offers irreverent honesty about poverty, women, and the dream of upward mobility.
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Orit Tashman lives in Hilo, Hawai'i and has a varied background in engineering, book publishing, baking, and theater.
Together with her creative partner, Alex Spell, they have co-written the pilot for a half-hour television comedy,
Hella Poor.
The story follows the friendship and struggles of college students who are single mothers and deal with systemic poverty, racism, and the patriarchy.
Orit and Alex have also created their own production company and are building a portfolio of content.
She believes that television is a major medium of influence and communication in this era, and is committed to producing comedic, throughful, and important content with which to help foster social change.
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Writers Immersive Coaches
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Liz Alper
is a Hapa 1-hour television writer and current writer/producer on the ABC series
The Rookie
.
She has worked for such auspices as Dick Wolf (
Law & Order
and
Chicago
franchises), Peter Lenkov (
Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver
), David Shore (
House, The Good Doctor,
) and David E. Kelley (
Big Little Lies
and every other show that came out in the 90s).
Originally from Rhode Island, Liz grew up with dreams of performing on Broadway, except she couldn't act or sing and had such bad stage fright that she couldn't even write personal bios in the first person. She has a deep love for musicals, cartoons, baking shows and inclusion in the writer’s room.
She most recently created the
#WGASolidarityChallenge
and 2019 Comprehensive Staffing grids as part of a grassroots effort to lift up and promote writers during staffing season.
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Chuck Hayward
writes things. Occasionally they’re funny. But sometimes they’re just grocery lists or Yelp reviews. Every morning he wakes up and asks, “How can I mine the depths of my dysfunction for the amusement of others?” Every night he goes to sleep and asks, “Is it lame if I get a humidifier?”
Chuck was born and raised in the entertainment Mecca of Wilmington, Delaware in Huxtable-esque splendor. Next stop, Syracuse University where he majored in Television, Radio and Film and minored in Overindulgence
.
Chuck then moved to LA where he worked as an assistant at production companies Spirit Dance Entertainment, and State Street Pictures before assisting on the hit shows
Everybody Hates Chris
and
Entourage
.
After years of perfecting the arts of scheduling, coffee orders, and lunch runs Chuck landed his first staff writing gig on the NBC series
Bent
.
He then wrote for the Nick at Nite sitcom
Wendell & Vinnie
. In 2014 Chuck became a staff writer on the new NBC series,
One Big Happy
. Then in 2015 he worked on the Fox series,
Cooper Barrett’s Guide To Surviving Life
. In 2016, clearly the best year of his career thus far, he had two movies produced,
Fat Camp
(available on all on-demand platforms) and
Step Sisters
(streaming on Netflix), and sold
The Untitled Urban Pitch Perfect Project
to The Firm and PepsiCo.
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Jim Uhls
wrote
Fight Club,
directed by David Fincher;
Jumper
directed by Doug Limon; and the NBC television film,
Semper Fi,
which he produced with Steven Spielberg.
He recently finished working on the feature script adaptation of
The Destroyer
novel series for Shane Black. Currently, his script,
Leviathan
is in development at 20th Century Fox, and he is writing a TV pilot for Alcon Entertainment, based on the novel,
Survivor,
by Chuck Palahniuk.
A playwright as well, Jim had his play,
The Relative Importance of Jeri
produced in New York, and numerous plays produced in Los Angeles, including
Collections of a Long-Distance Garbageman.
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Previously, she was conference director for the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP.)
Tery began her career in the film industry as an assistant to producers, Moctesuma Esparza and Robert Katz (
Selena,
Gettysburg,
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge). Later, she worked as part of Moctesuma Esparza’s, Maya Pictures development team, producing 13 episodes of the Sí TV comedy series,
Circumsized Cinema.
She also worked as post-production coordinator for the HBO film,
Walkout, and was co-producer of the feature film
Innocent Voices, which was Mexico's official entry to the 2005 Academy Awards.
Tery received her B.A. in Telecommunications and Film from the California State University at Los Angeles.
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Producers Immersive
Our fourth Producers Immersive program, composed of creative entrepreneurs whose projects target the budget of $2 million and under motion pictures platform, will begin on Monday, June 17, 2018 and take place at the
Kauai Marriott Resort & Beach Club
.
Mahalo to Jane Goldenring and Anne Carey, Co-Chairs of the
Producers Guild of America
, Independent Producers Committee, and producer Mynette Louie for providing us with access and recommendations for this year's coaching team.
Free Panel Discussion Open to Public
Interested in learning about producing motion pictures? Join our coaches for a public discussion on
Monday, June 10, 2019, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm
. Registration for the program is free and can be done
here.
Meet our program fellows and coaches below...
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Producers Immersive Fellows
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Zoë Eisenberg is a writer, independent film and performing arts producer located in Kalapana, Hawai’i.
Her previous filmography includes
Throuple (2015),
Aloha From Lavaland (2016) and
Stoke (2018).
Her latest project,
Chaperone, is a feature length delayed coming of age dramedy set in Hilo, Hawai'i.
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Jennifer Marcil has an MBA from Loyola University (Chicago). Her work experience includes strategic planning/worldwide budget implementation (Arthur Andersen); investment research, forecasting and published analysis (Phoenix Duff & Phelps); creating projected budgets (Disney Interactive); and branch managing (Bank of Hawaii).
Jennifer has worked over 30 years in front of and behind the camera.
Moving to Kaua’i in 2010, she started 4Dventures LLC (dba 4Dmedia). She produced documentaries
The Perfect
Song and
Nawiliwili Bay, short films
Ho’ouluwehi and
Hihi’o - screened at the Hawai'i International Film Festival - Pacific Showcase.
Jennifer is executive producer/co-writer for
Within (pre-production) and currently developing her romantic comedy
Sexy Mammas.
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Originally from the island of Hawai
'
i,
Alison Week
is now based in Austin, Texas where she is a writer/director/ producer.
Her latest short film
Petals & Stems
(Or the Impermanent Nature of Beauty, Youth and Love)
is currently on a festival run across the
US. It has recently screened at the Women of Wonders Film Festival in Hawaii (2019) and will be at the DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival in May 2019.
Now, she is developing and seeking o produce her first feature-length motion picture drama,
Waves.
The story is centered on a woman who heads to Hawaii to settle the estate of her great aunt with
hopes of learning more about her recently deceased mother.
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Nadya Wynd
is a writer/producer/ director from Kauai.
Storytelling is her passion, with an emphasis on social issues and indigenous cultures.
She wrote, produced and directed
The Beautiful Illusion
, a short film about the sexual exploitation of an actress. It was an official selection of the LA and NY Independent Film Festivals and also aired on PBS.
Nadya adapted the epic novel
The Physician
and served as a co-producer for the film project in Germany.
Her current project,
Ghosts of the Sinclair Plantation
,
is a supernatural murder mystery set in 1888 on a sugar plantation built on sacred land on Kauai.
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Producers Immersive Coaches
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Mollye Asher
is a New York-based producer and multiple Independent Spirit Award nominee. Most recently, she produced Carlo Mirabella-Davis’
Swallow
(Tribeca 2019) and Chloé Zhao's
The Rider
(Sony Pictures Classics), which premiered in the 2017 Cannes Directors Fortnight and won its top prize. The film went on to be nominated for four Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Picture. It was selected as the 2018 Best Picture by the National Society of Film Critics and won ‘Best Feature’ at the 2018 Gotham Awards.
Other credits include the 2014 SXSW Grand Jury Prize winner,
Fort Tilden
(MGM/Orion), by writer/director team, Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers, Anja Marquardt’s
She’s Lost Control
(2014 Berlinale, SXSW, Monument Releasing), and Chloé Zhao’s debut feature
Songs My Brother Taught Me
(2015 Sundance, Cannes, Kino Lorber).
Mollye is currently in post-production on Zhao’s third feature,
Nomadland
, starring Frances McDormand (Fox Searchlight). She is an alumna of Sundance Catalyst Forum, the Film Independent Producing Lab, IFP’s Narrative Lab, Trans Atlantic Partners (TAP) and the Graduate Film Program at NYU.
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Rebecca Green’s works includes two of the top-grossing and critically acclaimed independent films of 2015,
It Follows and
I'll See You In My Dreams, which generated a combined box office total of $30 million worldwide.
Green most recently produced
And Then I Go, based on the acclaimed novel Project X by Jim Shepard. The film is an unflinching coming-of-age story that humanizes the issue of school shootings. Simultaneously, Green produced the documentary feature,
44 Pages, a portrait of Highlights magazine following the creation of the cultural phenomenon’s 70th anniversary issue.
Prior to producing, Green was the Manager of Producing Initiatives for the Sundance Institute, Vice President of Lynda Obst Productions at Paramount Pictures, and Creative Executive at Lionsgate.
A 2017 Women at Sundance Fellow, Green was named one of Variety’s ’10 Producers to Watch’ and was nominated for the Producer's Award at the 2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards. She serves as the Creative Advisor for the Film Independent Producing Lab, was the Fall 2016 Endowed Chair in Media Professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, and holds a B.F.A. from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Green is the Editor-in-Chief of
Dear Producer
, an online platform where producers share their experiences, celebrate achievements, and provide mentorship for the next generation of filmmakers.
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Together they have made three feature films;
Leave No Trace
(2018), which premiered at Sundance and Director’s Fortnight and was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards. Rosellini was awarded the USC Scripter Award for the screenplay.
Winter’s Bone
(2010), which was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, for which Granik/Rosellini were awarded the Humanitas Prize for their screenplay.
Down To The Bone
(2004), which premiered at Sundance and took Best Director that year and Grand Jury Prize for Best Actress. Rosellini also produced Granik’s first documentary,
Stray Dog
(2014) which had it’s network premiere on the PBS doc series Independent Lens and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.
Rosellini is currently producing Granik’s next documentary feature, which has been shooting in and around NYC for the past four years and is in pre-production on their next narrative feature,
Nickel & Dimed
.
Inspired by the Barbara Ehrenreich novel of the same title. Production is set for the fall of 2019 in New Jersey.
In 1996 Rosellini co-founded the 1 Reel Film Festival in Seattle, one of the largest showcases of short films in the US. She went on to program for the Seattle International Film Festival, Women in Cinema Film Festival and work for Arab Film Distribution. She went on to work in Acquisitions for AtomFilms, a start-up company that was way ahead of its time, before moving to NYC in 2001 to make films.
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Shih-Ching Tsou
is a New York City-based award-winning filmmaker. She co-wrote, co-directed and co-produced
Take Out
with
Sean Baker
, which was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award in 2009 Independent Spirit Awards. The film has a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
After their collaboration on
Take Out,
Tsou executive-produced Baker’s third feature
Starlet
,
the film premiered at the SXSW Film Festival, and had its international premiere in main competition at the Locarno International Film Festival. It was also winner of the Robert Altman Award in 2013 Independent Spirit Awards. Continuing collaborate with Baker, Tsou served as a producer on
Tangerine.
She wore many hats on the project as wardrobe, production designer, continuity, and occasionally the third camera operator. The film won Audience Award at Gotham Independent Film Awards 2015, it was also nominated for Best Feature, Best Director, Best Female Lead and won Best Supporting Actress at Independent Spirit Awards 2015.
Tsou's latest producing work was
T
he Florida Project
,
the film premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and was theatrically released in the United States in 2017, by A24. It was chosen by both the National Board of Review and American Film Institute as one of the top 10 films of the year.
Tsou is currently working on her second feature,
Left-Handed Girl
, a family drama set in a night market in Taipei, Taiwan.
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Weekend Ideation Program - Indigenous Storytellers
November 16 & 17, 2019
Our Weekend Ideation Program focusing on Indigenous Storytellers will be held in Honolulu the weekend of November 16 and 17, 2019. The program will focus on development of narrative projects created by indigenous storytellers. Interested in registering? Please send us an email at
[email protected]
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Web-Series Immersive Fellows to Represent Creative Lab Hawaii
at VidCon 2019
Spencer Hyde, Chad Martin, and Josh Noble will be attending this year's
VidCon in Anaheim, California. Check out their updates below.
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In preparation for VidCon,
Spencer Hyde
is planning informational meetings with potential partners, and refining his pilot script and pitch materials for his web-series
Hawai'i High
, a coming of age story about four high-school friends with island fever.
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Chad Martin i
s currently self-producing the Prologue and First Webisodes of his animated Hawaiian Mythology Series,
Wao Akua
-
Realm of Gods
.
Chad plans to release his content on both YouYube and Instagram before attending Vidcon in July.
To follow the production progress and catch the
Wao Akua
Series release, follow @waoakua on Instagram and Subscribe to the
Wao Akua Youtube Channel
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Josh Noble's
Finessin’
is
s
et in the West Adams area of Los Angeles, and follows two young sisters as they maneuver the legal cannabis industry as women of color.
Currently in post-production for the cold open that was shot a few weeks ago. A pilot script has been written and the pitch-deck and bible are complete.
Josh plans to pitch the show at VidCon to potential production and distribution partners.
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Creative Lab Hawaii - Music Immersive Graduate Fellows Nominated
Congratulations to Creative Lab Hawaii - Music Immersive graduate fellows on their Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards nominations: Kimie Miner for Music Video of the Year, Sean Cleland (Alternative Album of the Year) , Tim Rose (EP Release of the Year), and Imua Garza (Engineering).
Read article here.
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Writer/ Producer
GB Hajim
is working on a horror / comedy,
The Big Pig
, and tween drama,
Fearless Star
, both set in Hawai'i on the Big Island.
He has partnered with Willmountain Films – Shanghai to produce
The Big Pig
on Hainan Island which will allow him to bring the film in for under $1.2m. Co-financing secured and pursuing 20% equity financing.
Fearless Star
,
a
Whale Rider
meets
A Little Princess
story of a Hawaii girl who fights for herself and her friends using the legendary Ka’ililauokekoa as her role model, will be budgeted at $500k and is looking for coproduction partners.
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Producers Immersive fellow
Serge Marcil
will be attending the Toronto International Film Festival this September to pitch
Within,
a sci-fi thriller taking place on the island of Kaua'i 252 years after the Singularity.
Marcil co-wrote the screenplay with Jonathan Melikidse, a fellow in the 2018 Producers Immersive program, and Jennifer Marcil, incoming fellows for the 2019 Producers Immersive program.
Preliminary casting and shooting is scheduled to take place this summer on the Garden Island.
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Jonathan Melikidse
continues to network with production companies for development of his Creative Lab Producers Immersive project,
Amontillado
.
He has signed on with 4D Media to co-write their upcoming Sci-Fi Fantasy
Within
along with Creative Lab graduate Serge Marcil and 2019 Producers Immersive participant Jennifer Marcil.
He also recently completed a micro-budget screenplay entitled
Driftwood.
It is set in Maui and projected to start production in 2020 through his own production company, Grafik Films.
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Congratulations to
Denny Hironaga
and his co-director and wife, Karen Hironaga, on co-directing the play
Da Beer Can Hat
, based on the short story and adapted for the stage by Darrell H.Y. Lum.
The short story is the basis for his Creative Lab Hawaii motion picture project that he plans to produce in 2020. Interested in checking out the show?
Purchase tickets here.
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Gina Surles
comedy web series,
Triple Threat
,
a project in the 2017 Creative Lab Hawaii Web-Series Immersive program, will release its upcoming episode 3 end of May.
Editing is complete and the musical score is being added now.
The project was also the winner of the From The Heart Productions Roy W. Dean 2018 Fall Grant, and won two awards in the Global Independent Film Awards Festival, a gold medal for the Best Web Media award, and a bronze medal for the Diversity and Inclusion award.
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Creative Lab Hawai’i Writers Immersive Graduate
Stephanie Anne Lewis
will be attending NATPE Budapest in June to promote her television series
As You Were
.
Her short film
The Waiting Game
will be available to stream on Amazon Prime June 3rd as part of their All Voices Film Festival.
Her short film
Missin' You
, produced by Weekend Ideation graduate Deborah Glazier, is set to be released by Windward Films online Memorial Day weekend.
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Jill Weiner
of Youth Art of Hawaii facilitated a workshop for International Pinhole Photography Day.
Photographer Dean Wakamoto lead the workshop. This event was supported by the County of Kauai Economic Development Board and Hawaii Arts Alliance as it was recognized as an economic and entrepreneurial stimulus through the arts. Dean, a self-taught amateur photographer, provided a platform to demonstrate his skills that lead to employment by 10,000 Hands Arts.
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Jim Langford
, a Creative Lab Hawaii – Weekend Ideation Program in Animation fellow, is producing the Du Vin Pintor Media Lounge at Sundance 2020 in Park City, Utah. This is the second year that Du Vin Pintor is hosting a Media Lounge on Main Street.
His show,
Into the Lotus,
contains an animated real-time hologram character named DJ Lotus.
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Micky's Summer Resort,
Tony Young
's first feature length film under his own banner, will premiere at the New Dreams International Film Festival, June 1 at the Hyaena Gallery in Burbank, California.
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Register for our Free Public Panels
Web-Series Panel Discussion
Wednesday, June 5, 2019 -
6pm to 7pm
Screenwriting Panel Discussion
Monday, June 10, 2019 - 530pm to 630pm
Motion Picture Producing Panel Discussion
Monday, June 17, 2019, 530pm to 630pm
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