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Sundance Labs: 20 Up-and-Coming Directors and Screenwriters Named for 2021 Fellowship Signature workshops include 12 fellows for directors and screenwriters labs and nine fellows cultivating Native artists Diane Haithman | May 10, 2021 @ 2:55 PM Sundance The Sundance Institute named on Monday the artists and projects for the first group of its upcoming summer labs. The group includes 12 fellows for the directors and screenwriters labs and nine artists participating in the Native and Indigenous lab which focuses on the development of storytellers from those backgrounds through feature film, episodic work and other pursuits. One artist will participate in both labs. Elements of this year’s labs will take place digitally via Sundance Collab.
Share This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Purple List and an important milestone with two of its distinguished alumni, Shaka King and Chloé Zhao, earning 2021 Academy Award nominations for Judas and the Black Messiah and Nomadland, respectively. Both of their debut features—Zhao’s Songs My Brother Taught Me and King’s Newlyweeds—were official selections in the inaugural Purple List in 2012. The annual list was inspired by Franklin Leonard’s Black List, an annual survey of Hollywood executives’ favorite unproduced screenplays. Throughout its 10 year history, the Purple List has selected 44 scripts from 46 screenwriters. Twenty-eight of the 41 screenwriters from the 10 editions of the Purple List are women; 27 are from Black, Asian, or other minority ethnic backgrounds; and seven identify as LGBTQ or have LGBTQ themes in the screenplay.
Shares Kenyan scriptwriter, director and producer, Tony Koros, has made the list as a Fellow for this month’s screenwriters Lab. Tony began his career as a staff writer for Mheshimiwa, a comedy drama series that was aired on KTN. He has also written for acclaimed tv drama series Jane & Abel and One in a Million, both airing on Multichoice’s Maisha Magic East. He has served as both a writer and content producer for corporate entities such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Standard Chartered Bank, the Urgent Action Fund and the Association of Media Women in Kenya. Tony has also worked with