Women In Film & Google Set Fellows For Inaugural Shorts Lab – CB

Girls in Movie and Google have set Kameishia Wooten and Robin J. Hayes (Decisions), Patricia Seely and Alexandra Clayton (Please In Spanish), and Katarina Zhu (Silverlake Cleaners) because the fellows for the inaugural WIF Shorts Lab supported by Google.

As a part of this system, fellows will profit not solely from WIF’s years of experience in nurturing creatives, but in addition from funding assist courtesy of Google, together with grants to finish manufacturing on their quick movies. Extra manufacturing and post-production assist is being supplied to the filmmakers by Warner Chappell Music, Image Store, and Cinelease. The movies might be accomplished by this summer time and might be owned by the filmmakers, who will look to submit them to festivals and for award consideration.

The fellows had been chosen by a jury of business leaders and veteran producers, together with Stephanie Allain, Lake Bell, Margie Moreno and Talitha Watkins. They are going to be mentored within the course of of making their movies by producers together with Kira Carstensen (Insurgent Hearts), Alexandra Perez (Into the Darkish) and veteran line producer Martha Cronin.

“Brief movies are a essential device for advancing filmmakers’ careers, although they could be a problem to useful resource, particularly for individuals underrepresented within the subject,” mentioned WIF Director of Packages Maikiko James. “We’e thrilled to be working with these three stellar tasks and their groups, and grateful for Google’s assist to make it potential.”

“The fellows chosen by WIF and Google for the inaugural Shorts Lab are promising writers, administrators, and producers with a outstanding reward for telling compelling, various tales,” added Google’s Head of Content material & Leisure Partnerships, Elle Roth-Brunet. “Every of those girls are dynamic creatives and the staff at Google is honored to offer them with sources that may assist get their tasks over the end line and elevate extra voices of girls in Hollywood.”

The partnership between Girls in Movie and Google was negotiated by UTA Leisure & Tradition Advertising and marketing, the model consulting division of UTA, which represents Google. Extra data on the 2022 WIF Shorts Lab members and their tasks will be discovered beneath.

CHOICES

Logline: CHOICES is a coming-of-age comedy a couple of class clown, a nerd, and an aspiring promenade queen who await being pregnant check leads to a women’ rest room at their South L.A. highschool.

Kameishia Wooten, author/director: Kameishia Wooten is a passionate director, author, and producer who creates scary, inclusive, socially impactful tales for movie and tv. She has written, directed, and produced 6 quick movies and an internet sequence. Most lately, Kameishia’s proof of idea quick, DESTINY’S ROAD, obtained the Greatest Narrative Brief Movie Viewers Award on the 2021 Moorpark Movie Competition, Greatest Brief Movie Award on the 2020 Black Reality Movie Competition, and has screened in over 20 movie festivals all through the U.S. and overseas.

Robin J. Hayes, producer: Dr. Robin J. Hayes hails from a blended Afro-Latine, Caribbean, and African American household in Brooklyn (earlier than it was artisanal). With the help of tutorial scholarships, she attended St. George’s—an elite New England boarding faculty—and studied at NYU’s Tisch College of the Arts. After graduating, she collaborated with veterans, clergy, and soccer mothers to steer dozens of humanitarian assist missions in Cuba, Mexico, and Nicaragua.

PLEASE IN SPANISH

Logline: Feeling disconnected from her ethnic roots, a younger lady warms to her cultural id after assembly a energetic neighbor.

Patricia Seely, author/director: Patricia Seely is a Los Angeles based mostly multimedia producer whose latest tasks embody THE COCKTAIL PARTY, an official choice on the 2021 Tribeca Movie Competition, written and directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Jessica Sanders, and THE RISING VOICES STORY, directed by Kwanza Nicole Gooden, which featured the tales of BIPOC filmmakers on their journey to create significant, inclusive quick movies underneath the Rising Voices initiative. She was beforehand the VP of Manufacturing for Kobe Bryant’s Granity Studios, producing the ESPN+ sequence Element, the scripted podcast The Punies, the sports activities fantasy audiobooks The Wizenard Collection and Legacy and the Queen, and behind-the-scenes documentation of the Academy Award-winning animated quick DEAR BASKETBALL. Different previous credit embody the function movie LIZA, LIZA, SKIES ARE GREY, written and directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Terry Sanders, and the Emmy-nominated Nationwide Geographic sequence, Onerous Time.

Alexandra Clayton, producer: Alexandra Clayton is a producer and filmmaker whose work leans into the earnest and awkward expertise of being human. UNPACKING is her narrative function debut as a co-writer/director/producer. She lately produced the narrative function IN SILVA, an environmental-horror set within the mountains of Colorado. Different producing credit embody the function docs REFRAME (put up), and FACES OF THE MODERN MAYA (pre-production), two narrative shorts in 2021, two internet sequence, and lots of branded content material. Movies she’s acted in have screened at over 30 festivals together with Karlovy Differ, NYC’s Rooftop Movies, SF’s Cinema by the Bay, and have streamed on Amazon and Kinoscope. A grounded optimist who thrives on the creation of authentic work from the bottom up, Clayton believes the tales we inform create the tradition we reside in. She lives in Los Angeles together with her canine Roo.

SILVERLAKE CLEANERS

Logline: On Hwa-young’s final day of labor earlier than shifting to New York, she has two disparate encounters with the identical native that make her query the choice to depart her household and neighborhood behind.

Katarina Zhu, author/director: Katarina Zhu is a Chinese language-American filmmaker/actress from the suburbs of New York. She graduated from NYU in 2018 with a BFA in Drama. Since then she has gone on to jot down, direct, and act in her personal quick movies. Via her work, she’s all in favour of exploring how cultural divides will be bridged and the way they inform relationships, particularly inside households and throughout generations. Lastly, she’s all in favour of movies that concentrate on characters, usually youthful females, who transcend their circumstances with the intention to declare company of their lives.