Entries by Colette Sartor

2017 Feature Quarterfinalists Announced

Listed below are the quarterfinalists for the 2017 CineStory Feature Retreat and Fellowship. Congratulations to these writers and thanks to all for submitting.  Stay tuned for the semifinalists announcement here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages! 13 EAST by Enrique Posner 5 DAYS 55 MILES by Tamar Halpern A DEVIL IN PROVIDENCE by Dante Frontani A MEMOIR OF MURDER by Peter Field […]

Meet our 2017 TV/Digital Category Winners

DIGITAL SERIES – COURTNEY HOPE THEROND & EMILY CLAIRE UTLEY Courtney Hope Thérond, creator and co-writer of the digital series Between Us Girls, is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where her short film Sex & German Grammar won awards for screenwriting and cinematography. After graduation she completed a Cinereach Film Fellowship focusing […]

And the 2017 TV/Digital Fellow Is…

From the talented pool of writers, we are excited to announce Chase Pletts as the 2017 CineStory TV/Digital Fellow! Chase was born in a bathtub in New York City. At seven years old, banished to the bedroom during an adults-only holiday party, he discovered a tape of The Exorcist and popped it into the VCR. […]

Meet Michael Begg – Paulist Productions Scholarship Recipient

Michael Begg earned a master’s degree in Communications and English from the University of New Orleans and teaches writing and literature at the high school and college level while pursuing a screenwriting career. When Hurricane Katrina left New Orleans a shambles in 2005, recovery efforts benefitted from a transition school of over 1500 high school […]

Meet the 2016 2nd & 3rd Place Feature Winners

2nd Place Winner SAVION EINSTEIN – SUPERFECUNDATION Savion Einstein was born and raised in Israel. After her military service, she went into advertising and spent the next decade producing award-winning campaigns in Israel, EU and Asia for top domestic and international brands including The Coca-Cola Company, Unilever and P&G. But what Savion really wanted to […]

Meet the 2016 Feature Fellow

AMYN KADERALI – CHOKORA The best word one could use to describe Amyn Kaderali’s background would be: unique. As one of the few Indian-Americans in a Bay Area suburb with parents who were raised in Tanzania and Scotland, it was not unusual for Amyn to hear Swahili spoken at home while his Scottish grandmother made Indian […]