13 selected for Sundance Institute’s Summer 08 Session of Directors and Screenwriters Labs

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A little more than 13 directors/screenwriters will be getting a helping hand via the likes of Robert Elswit, Stephen Gaghan, Atom Egoyan and Joan Tewkesbury this summer for the Sundance Institute’s annual summer labs.

Here are the following projects that will sweat it out in Utah this summer.

The projects and participants selected for the June Directors Lab from May 26-June 21 are:

BLOOD ABUNDANCE, OR THE HALF-LIFE OF ANTOINETTE/John Magary (writer/director), U.S.A.
CASA GRANDE/Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa (co-writer/director) & Karen Sztajnberg (co-writer), U.S.A./Brazil
MEADOWLANDZ/Moon Molson (writer/director), U.S.A.
PARIAH/Dee Rees (writer/director), U.S.A.
POLETOWN/Daniel Casey (writer/director), U.S.A.
RETURN/Liza Johnson (writer/director), U.S.A.
SHOCKHEADED PETER/Frank Budgen (writer/director), United Kingdom
TSHEPANG/Lara Foot Newton & Gerhard Marx (co-writers/co-directors), South Africa

These fellows will be joined at the June Screenwriters Lab from June 21-26 by the following projects and

AGUA FRIA DE MAR/Paz Fabrega (writer/director), Costa Rica
ALL FALL DOWN/Jonathan Wysocki (writer/director), U.S.A.
LOOK FOR WATER/Jennifer Phang (co-writer/director) & Dominic Mah (co-writer), U.S.A.
THE WHITE CIRCUS/Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski (co-writers and co-directors), Canada
THAT YEAR WHEN WE WERE YOUNG/Peng Tao (co-writer/director) & Zeng Wenwen (co-writer), China