Adobe Fellowship.| Adobe Fellowship. Elizabeth Ai (“A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem”), Deidre Backs (“Little Chief”), Aisha Bhoori (“Ms. Marvel”), Zandashé Brown (“Horror Noire”), Joie Estrella Horwitz (“Alejandro & Miguel”), screenwriter Miciana Hutcherson, writer-director Meghan Ross, and Jin Yoo-Kim (“Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust”) comprise this year’s cohort, per a press release.
Fellows also receive a $6250 cash grant and access to industry introductions and skill building workshops. Additionally, they are referred to career development opportunities. Each fellow has participated in a Sundance Institute Lab program or program that is relevant to their career path.
“Any artist can speak to how practical support paired with a nurturing community makes all the difference – this is especially true for women filmmakers, who are notoriously underrepresented in the industry. Providing multi-faceted assistance to our fellows as they develop their creative practices is our goal,” said Adella Ladjevardi, Sundance’s Associate Director for Women. “Our collaboration with Adobe has had a profound impact on the careers of so many talented storytellers in the past – we’re very excited to see how the new group advances with this customized and robust support.”
Past fellows include Jiayan “Jenny” Shi, whose documentary “Finding Yingying” won the Special Jury Award at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival.
Below are bios for 2022 Sundance | Adobe fellows are below, courtesy of Sundance Institute.
Elizabeth Ai She is a documentary and fiction film maker, show creator, and fellow at Berlinale Talents. She’s currently in post-production with her documentary feature New WaveCurrently, the series adaptation is in development.
Deidre Backs worked at Alexander Payne’s development company before transitioning to independent producing. She was an associate producer. Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, then served under Daniel Lupi on Spielberg films and Jordan Peele’s Us. She produced Little ChiefSundance 2020, premiering at Sundance 2020.
Aisha BhooriThis is a Pakistani-American writer, who has written on MS. MARVEL(Disney+). THE STAIRCASE (HBO Max). She is a 2021 Sundance Episodic Lab Fellow. She graduated from Harvard and was a three-time winner of the Edward Eager Memorial Fund Prize Prize for Best Creative Writing.
New Orleans is the base of this company. Zandashé BrownIs a writer/director, born and raised in southern Louisiana. Her work explores the axis between catharsis and spirituality in Black southern experience. She recently participated in the Sundance Directors and Screenwriters Labs.
Joie Estrella Horwitz Los Angeles-based filmmaker, writer, producer. Her work combines fieldwork and collaborative filmmaking techniques to explore the spaces between fact and fiction at intersections of physical and emotional boundaries.
Miciana Hutcherson’s feature script, Nancy’s GirlsThis led to the 2019 Sundance Institute Indigenous Program Fellowships. Her second feature is Fancy Dance(co-writer), received support from the 2021 Sundance Screenwriters Lab. The 2021 SFFilm Rainin Grant was awarded. The Indigenous List hosted by The Black List was featured on the 2022 Scripted Cinéma Screenplay List.
Meghan RossAustin-based writer/director and Sundance Episodic Lab Fellow. Her shorts were featured in The New Yorker’s Best Shouts of 2020 and nominated for The Webby Awards 2021. Her writing has been published by Reductress, VICE’s Broadly, TV Without Pity, The Toast, and other defunct but beloved sites.
Jin Yoo-KimIs producing Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust. She directed and produced. Take Out with Lisa LingHBO Max and is currently in development for her docuseries. Cult Foods. She was a Sundance Producers Fellow and a Firelight Media Impact Producing Fellow. She also participated in the Film Independent Doc Lab.
Source: Women And Hollywood