The 9th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival Screenwriters’ Lab will take place April 3 - 5, 2009 in East Hampton, New York. Submit your script via Withoutabox beginning December 1.

The Lab develops emerging screenwriting talent by pairing mentors (established writers and creative producers) with up-and-coming screenwriters. The mentors advise in a one-on-one setting while additional daily events bring the participants together with board members, sponsors, the local artistic community, and other friends of the festival. The lab allows accepted screenwriters the chance to improve their script and meet with industry professionals to help find ways to get their scripts made. Recent mentors include Ira Sachs (40 Shades of Blue, Married Life); Jeff Sharp (Producer, You Can Count on Me, Boys Don’t Cry); Maria Maggenti (The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love); Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, The Last Days of Disco); Sabrina Dhawan (Monsoon Wedding, Cosmopolitan) and Lawrence Lasker (Sneakers, War Games). The regular submission deadline is January 9th, and the extended Withoutabox deadline is February 6th.

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