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Hartbeat & Sundance Institute Name 2022 Women Write Now Comedic Screenwriting Fellows And Directors

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EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat and the Sundance Institute today named Mayanna Berrin (Power Dynamics), Kiana Butler Jabangwe (Night Off) and Danielle Solomon (Hey Boo) as the recipients of this year’s Women Write Now comedic screenwriting fellowship, designed to elevate the next generation of Black women in comedy.The Fellows, whose short film scripts were selected from a pool of hundreds submissions, will now further develop their material under the guidance of Hartbeat’s panel of script mentors and creative advisors including Leigh Davenport (Starz’s Run the World), Kay Oyegun (NBC’s This Is Us) and Yamara Taylor (ABC’s Black-ish).

As part of the development process, each will also participate in an immersive career development lab, where they’ll receive mentorship from creative advisors including Hartbeat’s Head of Film Candice Wilson Cherry and VP, TV Development Tiffany Brown, as well as such industry veterans as Dear White People EP Stephanie Allain, director Marta Cunningham (Transparent), CAA agent Ava Greenfield, producer Codie Elaine Oliver (Black Love), former HBO executive and author Kelly Edwards (The Executive Chair: A Writer’s Guide to TV Development), Management 360 Partner Melissa Breaux, AMC SVP of Content Strategy & Inclusive Programming, Nikkole Denson-Randolph, and Amazon Studios & Prime Video Head of Emerging Audience Development, Janina Lundy.The fellows will subsequently bring their short films to life alongside guest directors Logan Browning (Netflix’s The Perfection), Tika Sumpter (Sonic the Hedgehog) and Nicole Byer (Netflix’s Nailed It), with each set to premiere at a private screening at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.

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