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If Istanbul Independent Film Festival\u2019s collaboration with the Sundance Institute for screenwriting workshops comes with a more extensive program this year. Guests evaluate the process for the H\u00fcrriyet Daily News<\/h4>\nIf Istanbul Independent Film Festival\u2019s collaboration with the Sundance Institute for screenwriting workshops comes with a more extensive program this year. Guests evaluate the process for the H\u00fcrriyet Daily News<\/h4>\nIn its second year IF\u00a0IstanbulIndependent Film Festival\u2019s collaboration with the Sundance Institute for screenwriting workshops comes with a more elaborate program under the title of Sundance Labs.<\/p>\n
Alesia Walton, associate director of the Feature Film Program at the Sundance Institute, who is also to give a panel on screenwriting, directors\u2019 labs and future film programs of the institute in the second day of Sundance Labs workshop program, told the\u00a0H\u00fcrriyet Daily News\u00a0she hoped the program would turn into a self-sustaining body, and therefore they were reinforcing the infrastructure of what they began last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur first year of this program was wonderful and unique, in that it combined a mini screenwriter\u2019s lab, screenwriting panel, a Film Forward screening series and a case study of a previous lab project: Amreeka. We were fortunate to have a group of diverse, smart advisors and an inaugural class of writing\/directing fellows who represented a wide variety of Turkish filmmakers, selected by our partners at IF,\u201d she said, adding although it took a long time to gain a deep understanding of a culture and its history, particularly a place as rich, vibrant and complex as Turkey, she believed the lab offered an unusually insightful and personal point of entry via the projects of the filmmakers and the conversations surrounding their work.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of our programs have changed a great deal over time, and with each year we expect that this program will grow and eventually take on an evolving identity and form. This will be determined by the place\u2019s individual culture and the specific needs of the local film world, and we look forward to seeing how this will take shape in subsequent years,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u2018Write the film\u00a0in your heart\u2019 Speaking to the Daily News, El Hosaini said what impressed her most about the Sundance Institute Labs was the way they were structured around individual needs. \u201cThe labs are basically a series of one-on-one meetings with creative advisors. But these advisors don\u2019t force their views upon you or hold the answers to making your script better. Screenwriting is too subjective for black and white answers anyway. Instead the sessions were more of an informal discussion. An opportunity for you to go deeper into yourself and to examine the reasons you wrote what you did and a chance for you to hold a mirror up to your script, yourself and your own process. This journey of self examination was incredibly illuminating.\u201d<\/p>\n She added that it was always up to the participant to decide what direction he or she wanted to take things. \u201cIt does not matter whether you agree or disagree with a certain creative advisor. The more open you are to this kind of process the more you get out of it. Ultimately, we are each on our own paths; there is no right or wrong route. The labs helped me focus my project and to really understand what story I wanted to tell and why. I was able to get rid of the unnecessary elements and achieve more depth in the areas I wanted to dig deeper into,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n On being asked what she would suggest to future participants of the filmmaking workshops in\u00a0Turkey\u00a0within the scope of If Istanbul, El Hosaini said, \u201cWrite the film that\u2019s in your heart. The story that you\u2019re most passionate about and that you need to see brought to life. That\u2019s the only secret.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n H\u00fcrriyet Daily News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If Istanbul Independent Film Festival\u2019s collaboration with the Sundance Institute for screenwriting workshops comes with a more extensive program this year. Guests evaluate the process for the H\u00fcrriyet Daily News In its second year IF\u00a0IstanbulIndependent Film Festival\u2019s collaboration with the Sundance Institute for screenwriting workshops comes with a more elaborate program under the title of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":51150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2939,89],"tags":[102,7044,7982],"class_list":["post-51149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultureart","category-turkey","tag-istanbul","tag-istanbul-film-festival","tag-sundance-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThe first event of the Sundance Labs will be a screenwriting panel with the participation of renowned independent filmmakers Audrey Wells, Athina Rachel Tsangiri and other Sundance experts. On the third day of the program Sally El Hosaini will attend the Sundance Case Study Lab with her film \u201cMy Brother the Devil,\u201d which has also undergone the Sundance Lab process.<\/p>\n