The Sundance Institute has set 10 fellows for its inaugural Producers Intensive, taking place virtually from October 21-22.
The artists and projects selected on the nonfiction side are Rachel Dickinson (Let the Little Light Shine), Alba Jaramillo (La Flaca), Rajeswari Ramanathan (The 1980 Civil Case), Chris Renteria (Chain of Rocks) and Shannon Sun-Higginson (You Lucky You Got a Mamma). Those chosen for the Fiction fellowship are Beverley Gordon (Experience), Lauren López de Victoria (forward), Breanne Thomas (In the Jackpot), Jesy Odio (Molokai’ Bound) and Ashley Chrisman (The Homesick).
“Jesy Odio is an independent creative producer from Costa Rica, based in Los Angeles. Most recently, she was selected to participate in the 2021 Gotham Week Project Market with the feature Moloka’i Bound. Jesy is the founder of the production company Teenager and the film journal The Cosmophage.”
Molokai’ Bound
“Kainoa De Silva is on parole and committed to reconnecting with his family including, most importantly, his son Jonathan. But acclimating to the normal life in Hawai’i is harder than it seems and Kainoa tends to do all the wrong things for the right reasons.”
The Sundance Institute has set 10 fellows for its inaugural Producers Intensive, taking place virtually from October 21-22.
The artists and projects selected on the nonfiction side are Rachel Dickinson (Let the Little Light Shine), Alba Jaramillo (La Flaca), Rajeswari Ramanathan (The 1980 Civil Case), Chris Renteria (Chain of Rocks) and Shannon Sun-Higginson (You Lucky You Got a Mamma). Those chosen for the Fiction fellowship are Beverley Gordon (Experience), Lauren López de Victoria (forward), Breanne Thomas (In the Jackpot), Jesy Odio (Molokai’ Bound) and Ashley Chrisman (The Homesick).
“Jesy Odio is an independent creative producer from Costa Rica, based in Los Angeles. Most recently, she was selected to participate in the 2021 Gotham Week Project Market with the feature Moloka’i Bound. Jesy is the founder of the production company Teenager and the film journal The Cosmophage.”
Molokai’ Bound
“Kainoa De Silva is on parole and committed to reconnecting with his family including, most importantly, his son Jonathan. But acclimating to the normal life in Hawai’i is harder than it seems and Kainoa tends to do all the wrong things for the right reasons.”