EXCLUSIVE: Film Independent has selected six writers for its episodic laboratory 2025. In person this year from August 11 to 22, the Laboratory participants are Bryce Cracknell, Spencer Jamison, Rom Lotan, Lilian T. Mehrel, Leah Sarbib and Ida Yazdi.
The episodic independent film laboratory is designed to provide individualized stories and career development to writers with original television pilots. Thanks to personalized comments of experienced showrunners, creative producers and executives, who will serve as advisers, scholarship holders will receive aid to revise and refine their drivers, as well as advice to sail in an industrial changing landscape. As a founding sponsor, Netflix will offer the possibility of specifically learning from showrunners who direct their series. A final networking and pitch event will offer scholarship holders the opportunity to present themselves and their work to studio and network leaders.
Creative Advisors and Guest Speakers Will Include Christian Alvarez, Kj Booze, Wendy Calhoun, will be Gamble, Emmeline Yang Hankins, Eric Heisserer, Anil Kurian, Marvin Lemus, Kyle Lau, Felischa Marye, Dani Melia, Caroline Mak, Marc Mounier, Adriana Nassar, Van B. Robbie Pickering, Erica Rosbe, Jasmine Russ, Eddie Quintana, Loretta Ramos, Gina Reyes, Beth Schacter and Ellen Shanman.
“In the midst of the evolution of the television landscape, we are honored to have the opportunity to raise such daring and innovative voices in the episodic laboratory,” said DEA Vazquez, associate director of the film fiction programs Independent. “We are delighted to work with these writers in the program where we will maintain the development of their projects and careers and we are looking forward to continuing to support them as they progressed in the television industry.”
Film Independent also announced today that the participant in the Mehrel laboratory will receive a subsidy of $ 20,000 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support the development of their pilot, Wicked.
Find out more about the projects of this year’s participants below.
Title: Wicked
Writers: Lilian T. Mehrel
Logline: A series of comedy (romantic) on the team working at Baddies – a dating application using behavior science to cancel their bad rap, beat competition, oh and help people find love. If they can first understand it for themselves.
Title: Cycle four
Writers: Leah Sarbib
Logine: In the field, where nobody dies or birth, Miriam’s visions prove to be memories of an erased past that can no longer be ignored.
Title: Golden
Writers: Ida Yazdi
Logine: a rebellious and rebellious Iranian immigrant shakes family traditions and becomes a sugar baby for women rich in Tehrageles. In a whirlwind of wealth, desire and eccentric customers, he walks his own path to the American dream.
Title: Gap
Writers: Bryce Cracknell
Logine: A haunted soldier is enlisted in a secret mission inside the gap, a surreal and perilous kingdom where the myths are real, time is unstable and his past awaits.
Title: Lower
Writers: Spencer Jamison
Logne: After a public crisis, an LPGA golfer in disgrace returns to the house, where the training of the golf team in difficulty of his half-sister could be his only redemption.
Title: Zer0 Trust
Writers: ROM LOTAN
Logine: When high -power companies are hacked and every second costs millions, the Elite Amelia Hayes elite cybersecurity expert and her response team are called to contain the violation. However, the most dangerous vulnerabilities are not in the code – they are in people’s blind spots.
