Mentors
bringing talent, knowledge and experience to our labs
Jessica BendingerWriter, Director
Bring It On
Stick It
Aquamarine
First Daughter
Susan CartsonisProducer
What Women Want
Where the Heart Is
Aquamarine
Isabel CoixetDirector, Writer, Producer
The Secret Life of Words
My Life Without Me
The Bookshop
Lisa CortesProducer, Director
All In: The Fight for Democracy
The Apollo
Precious
Amy FoxWriter
Equity
The Conners
Heights
Shruti GangulyProducer
Already Gone
Initials SG
Inside You
Valeria GolinoActress, Producer
Rain Man
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
The Invisible Thread
Pamela GrayWriter
A Walk on the Moon
Conviction
Music of the Heart
Agnieszka HollandDirector, Writer
Spoor
Mr. Jones
Three Colors: White
In Darkness
Rita HsiaoWriter
Mulan
Toy Story 2
The Mighty Ducks
Lisa JonesWriter
Disappearing Acts
The Wedding
Angela KangWriter, Producer
The Walking Dead
Terriers
Meg LeFauveWriter
Captain Marvel
Inside Out
The Good Dinosaur
Maria MaggentiWriter, Producer
Before I Fall
Motherhood: Fort Salem
Supergirl
Riva MarkerProducer
Beasts of No Nation
The Kids Are Alright
Gina Prince-BythewoodWriter / Director
Love and Basketball
Secret Life of Bees
Beyond the Lights
Access to experts who know the film industry
Knowing that there’s no replacement for industry experience, each lab gathers together some of the industry’s most talented and hardworking screenwriters, producers and directors. Each will have their own compelling story to tell and will share with lab participants the nuances of this competitive field that we all love so much. All mentors are women-identifying filmmakers, so the relationships will be be based on shared lived experiences.
Tanya QureshiProducer
I May Destroy You
Crackanory
Flowers
Lynne RamsayDirector
We Need To Talk About Kevin
You Were Never Really Here
Morvern Callar
Ratcatcher
Dee RyderProducer
MCQUEEN
RISING PHOENIX
Tracey Scott WilsonWriter / Producer
Respect
The Americans
Fosse/Verdon
Amber SealeyProducer
Already gone
Initials SG
Inside You
Mary Jane SkalskiProducer
American Animals
Wilson
The Cobbler
The Station Agent
Robin SwicordWriter / Producer
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Memoirs of a Geisha
Little Women
Kirstin SmithWriter, Producer, Director
Trinkets
House Bunny
10 Things I Hate About You
Frida TorresblancoProducer
Pan’s Labyrinth
Disobedience
Magic Magic
Assassination of Richard Nixon
Guinevere TurnerWriter, Actress
American Psycho
Go Fish
Pat VerducciWriter / Director
Smoked
True Crime
Promised Land
Jasmila ŽbanićDirector / Writer
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
On the Path
Women writers needed
The annual Celluloid Ceiling study found that, from 1998 to 2019, the percentage of women writers employed in the film industry increased just 6%.
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