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.
The participants and projects are Desdemona Chiang (ZHIZHA! (紙紮!)), Giovanni Maldonado Chinea & Myles Hawthorne (The Machetero), Robert Cohen & Ioana Uricaru (Overcast), Catherine Durickas (Beige Is Not Dead), Azza Malik (Dear Azza,) and Robert ToTeras (Jourdain).
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.
Dear Azza,‘s Malik, meanwhile, will receive a $10,000 grant from the MPAC Hollywood Bureau, an organization working to elevate stories by and about Muslims in entertainment.
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