We’re thrilled to introduce our 2025 Feature Fellowship winner, Alana Saab, whose screenplay JAANEM (MY LOVE) impressed us with its emotional resonance and layered characters. In JAANEM (MY LOVE), a woman’s world crashes down when her transgender husband dies and she must plan a traditional Islamic funeral with her religious in-laws while trying to […]
We’re thrilled to introduce our 2024 Feature Fellowship winner, Judith Posey, whose screenplay THE BELLS impressed us with its complex characters and insightfulness. Taking place on an island off the coast of Maine over a late summer long weekend, THE BELLS tells the story of three sisters as they struggle to find common ground after […]
We’re thrilled to introduce our 2023 Feature Fellowship winner, Kimberly Dilts, whose screenplay BREW impressed us with its brilliant voice and wit. About beer, BREW is a Satirical Allegory condensing 200 years of Goode and Evyl, Concerning the Making of Ale, Witches, General Patriarchal Fuckery, and Three Sisters. Kim says of the script, “Humans have […]
We’re thrilled to introduce our 2022 Feature Fellowship winner, Timothy Ware-Hill! In his Fellowship-winning script, A TASTE OF CHOCOLATE – THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO COFFEE, after an unarmed Black man is killed by police, a poet/preacher’s kid is asked to lead a peaceful protest, but he’s afraid that if his father and community discover he’s […]
We’re thrilled to introduce our 2021 joint Feature Fellowship winners, Laila Ujayli and Zaina Ujayli! In their Fellowship-winning script, FOUR FLOORS IN RAQQA, which is is based on a true story, a headstrong woman braves bombs and execution in ISIS-occupied Raqqa to protect her neighborhood and the home she built with her siblings. As this […]
We’re excited to introduce the 2020 Feature Fellowship winner, Susan Brunig. In her Fellowship-winning script, THE SURVEILLANCE OF ORDINARY THINGS, a middle-aged, suburban housewife decides to run away and end it all until she stumbles upon an unplugged community of creative misfits and rediscovers the artist she once was. As this year’s Feature Fellowship winner, […]
Congratulations to Kerry Kolbe, our 2019 Feature Fellow, whose fellowship winning script, SWALLOW, won second prize in the Feature Film category of the prestigious UCLA Extension Feature Film and Television Writing Awards. The UCLA Extension Feature Film and Television Writing Awards provides winners with one-on-one mentorship as well as entertainment industry exposure. For more information […]
We are thrilled to introduce Kerry Kolbe, this year’s CineStory Feature Fellowship winner. Kerry’s winning script, SWALLOW, impressed all the judges with its humor and nuanced insights into 17-year-old Lola, who’s desperate to study particle physics at Cambridge like her hero Stephen Hawking but trapped playing parent to her dysfunctional family of twitchers (a/k/a bird […]
We’re thrilled to introduce the 2018 CineStory Feature Fellow, Travis Opgenorth, whose winning screenplay THE POACHER swept us away with its tense, dramatic turns.
We’re pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Feature Fellowship prizes!