Update: Screenwriters Lab Submissions are now closed.
Screenplay invitations will be announced in mid-March.
Do you have a screenplay just waiting to be discovered?
Nicole Perlman helps Jared Goodman see his screenplay in new ways.
The Hamptons International Film Festival’s Screenwriters Lab, going into its 16th year, is an intimate gathering that takes place each spring in East Hampton, New York (2016 dates: April 8- 10). The Lab develops emerging screenwriting talent by pairing established writers and creative producers with up-and-coming screenwriters (chosen by HIFF in collaboration with key industry contacts).
Learn more about recent mentors and projects, and find out how the lab works.
Philip Aceto and Alexander Dinelaris hard at work.
We seek a broad selection of screenplays addressing a wide subject matter. The mentors advise in a one-on-one creative laboratory setting, while additional events bring the participants together with board members, sponsors, the local artistic community, and other friends of the Festival. With scripts from past writers produced year after year, the Lab continues to be an inspiring and safe place for artists to find and hone their creative vision.
A number of recent projects in the Lab have gone on to be produced and distributed and to screen at festivals around the world such as Sundance, South by Southwest, Karlovy Vary, Locarno and the Los Angeles Film Festival. Selected highlights include Destin Daniel Cretton‘s SHORT TERM 12 with Brie Larson and John Gallagher, Jr., which won the Grand Jury and Audience Award at SXSW; Justin Schwartz‘s THE DISCOVERERS, starring Griffin Dunne; Sara Colangelo‘s LITTLE ACCIDENTS, featuring Elizabeth Banks and Chloe Sevigny; Claudia Myers‘s FORT BLISS, starring Michelle Monaghan and Ron Livingston; and 2010 Sundance Film Festival Closing Night film TWELVE, written by Jordan Melamed and starring Ellen Barkin and Emma Roberts.
2015 Screenwriters Lab: Anne Chaisson, Alexander Dinelaris, Stuart Suna, Juna Skenderi, Kendell Klein, Evan Hayes, Isold Uggadóttir, David Nugent, Helen Schulman, Doron Weber, Nicole Perlman, Jared Goodman, Philip Aceto
