HBO has decided on eight writers for its 2019 HBOAccess Writing Fellowship, an 8-month application that gives grasp lessons and mentorship with a creative government as writers increase a pilot script for the top-class network.
The software, achieved with the WGA, starts off with a week-long intensive workshop protecting tale shape, person development, style writing, getting an agent, and different subjects before the fellows flip to their pilots. Previous individuals have gone on to work on the HBO series, which include The Deuce, The Nevers, and the upcoming Lovecraft Country.
“Selecting our fellows is always a thrilling time for us,” Kelly Edwards, HBO’s SVP of Talent Development, stated in a release Thursday announcing this 12 months’ magnificence, decided on from more than three 000 submissions inside the software’s third year. “This technique introduces us to many distinctly proficient, emerging writers. We know all of them to have vibrant futures ahead of them.”
The HBOAccess writing program runs annually, alternating with HBO’s Directing Fellowship. The subsequent writer utility window opens in February 2021.
Here’s the listing of this year’s writing fellows, in step with HBO:
DARNELL BROWN
The 2019 Turner/ABFF Writing Contest winner for his drama script LYZ, Darnell Brown, started his storytelling profession by publishing an ebook of thought-frightening, socially aware poetry. A native son of Chester, Pennsylvania, and a graduate of The University of the Arts, Darnell writes and directs both comedy and drama.
MELODY COOPER
Writer/Director Melody Cooper is the Winner of the 2018 Grand Jury Award for Best Screenplay at the Urbanworld Film Festival and her mystery NORTHERN CROSS. A sci-fi and horror writer, she has received fellowships from AMC Networks Shudder Labs, NY Stage & Film, and the Writer’s Lab, and she has gained the Tangerine Entertainment Fellowship at Stowe Story Labs. Her supernatural feature script, THE SOUND OF DARKNESS, became a 2018 Athena List Finalist. Her short documentary, DETAINED, became the Winner of the 2018 IndieFest Award of Recognition.
DANIELLE IMAN
Danielle is a graduate of the John Wells Division of Writing for Screen & Television MFA application at USC. She turned into a Grillo-Marxuach Family Fellow and player within the inaugural Development Master magnificence with Brian Grazer. She’s a 2019 Universal Writers Program Finalist, a 2018 Fox Writers Lab Finalist, a 2018 Austin Film Festival Second Rounder, and has made the 2018 Young & Hungry List and Hit List. Danielle has labored as a Writers’ PA on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy and a Writers’ Trainee on Apple drama collection Swagger.
ELAINE LOH
An actor, author, and director, Elaine’s produced works include triumphing the Grand Prize and Audience Vote of the NewFilmmakers LA On Location Project, an Honorable Mention in the NBCUniversal/YOMYOMF Interpretations contest, and movies accepted to Academy qualifying fairs. She is currently writing and starring in the digital collection DOXXED, which has screened at the Women in Comedy Festival and Dances with Films.
LUCY LUNA
Lucy Luna is a Mexican author and director living in Los Angeles. While Lucy’s short film, We’re All Here, is finding success inside the competition circuit, garnering six awards so far, Lucy continues expanding characteristic and television initiatives, focusing broadly on horror, mystery, and drama genres. She’s currently penning a script for Mexican manufacturer Gerardo Gática.
EDDIE MUJICA
Eddie is a Cuban-American writer, actor, and Emmy-triumphing producer from Miami, FEddie, anrida. An alumnus of The Second City in Chas Eddie’s encompass the 2016 CBS Diversity Showcase, the 2017 NBC Late Night Writers Workshop, and the 2018 NBC Spotlight Showcase. He has produced content for Broadway Video’s Más Mejor and curates Heraldo Presenta, a monthly all-Latinx range show. His latest quick movie, Dreamer, became an Imagen Award final and was in every one of Vulture’s Best Comedy Videos of 2018.
JESSICA SHIELDS
Jessica D. Shields is a multidisciplinary author and filmmaker who began in Atlanta. She is the recipient of the 2019 HUMANITAS Prize College Drama Fellowship. Jessica was a Film Independent Project Involve Screenwriting Fellow (2018), throughout which era she penned the fast film Wednesday, currently a finalist for the HBO Shorts Competition at ABFF 2019. She holds an MFA in Screenwriting & Directing from Columbia University and is an alumna of Vanderbilt University.
IVAN TSANG
A local of Toronto, Canada, Ivan Tsang is an MFA graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in Screen and TV Writing. Ivan has written for Wong Fu Productions, KevJumba, Jubilee Media, Jeremy Lin, and ISA TV. His paintings have had over 100 million perspectives. He is also the proud owner of a Pug named Russell.
