Easily the best summer camp for auteur filmmakers seeking guidance on what will be their first or second feature film projects, we have now learned the identity of lucky thirteen projects and fellows selected for the 2022 Oxbelly Screenwriters and Directors Labs. Among them we find several Rotterdam Labs participants and filmmakers who’ve for the most part, established a short film filmography that have wowed A-grade film fest programmers. Recent folk that participated include Soudade Kaadan, Payal Kapadia and Sofia Bohdanowicz.
Established by Faliro House’s Christos V. Konstantakopoulos and under the artistic direction of a person who needs no introduction on this site in Athina Rachel Tsangari. The advisors have not yet been divulged — but trust us it’s a who’s who in the film world. Here are the fellows:
Carissa: Devon Delmar & Jason Jacobs (South Africa) Prometheus: Giorgos Fourtounis (Greece) Bajo Risco: Helena Girón and Samuel M. Delgado (Spain) 40 Days: David Gutnik & Assol Abdullina (Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, USA) Drama Queens: Alexis Langlois, Carlotta Coco and Thomas Colineau (France) The Last Tears Of The Deceased: Beza Hailu Lemma (Canada, Ethiopia) Filipiñana: Rafael Manuel (Philippines, UK) Shibboleth: Alexandra Matheou (Cyprus, Greece) Elephants In The Fog: Abinash Shah (Nepal) More Perfect: Jeannie Sui Wonders (USA) Molly & Alpha: Aliki Tsakoumi (Greece, Sweden) Impersonator: Andrew Norman Wilson (USA) Almost There: Baer Xiao (China, France)
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).
