Sundance Institute and Time Warner Fellows

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Tearrance Chisholm

Chico Colvard

Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.

Reinaldo Marcus Green

Paola L zaro

Jhane Myers

Jesi Nelson

Shawn Peters

Tayarisha Poe

Sharyn Steele

Amelia Winger-Bearskin

Los Angeles, CA - Eleven diverse independent artists have been selected to receive support from the 2017 Sundance Institute | Time Warner Foundation Fellowship. These Fellowships and accompanying grants are part of the non-profit Institute's year-round efforts to discover and support independent artists from diverse backgrounds in getting their work made and seen by a wide audience.

The program includes support for Fellows working in new media, documentary and narrative film, theatre and film music as well as from the Institute's Native American and Indigenous Program. Fellows receive year-round support from the Institute ranging from attendance at an annual Lab, mentoring, strategic granting, attendance at the Sundance Film Festival and participation in screenplay readings, work-in-progress screenings and related programs and events.

Now in its eleventh year, the program has supported more than 70 artists, including Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station), Sydney Freeland (Drunktown's Finest), Aurora Guerrero (Mosquita y Mari), Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate) and Yung Jake (I Dont Remember).

Keri Putnam, Executive Director of Sundance Institute, said, Since 2007 the careers of talented and diverse artists supported by our program with the Time Warner Foundation have flourished. This years gifted class of Fellows bring boundless creativity and potential, and we look forward to continuing to help them develop their craft.

Lisa Garcia Quiroz, President of Time Warner Foundation, said, We remain very proud of our innovative partnership with Sundance Institute. With Sundance's trailblazing work of identifying, nurturing and celebrating talented storytellers in Hollywood and beyond, we are working together to promote a more inclusive artistic landscape. The Time Warner Foundation looks forward to watching these rising talents in the coming years.

The 2017 Sundance Institute | Time Warner Foundation Fellows are:

Tearrance Chisholm (Theatre Program) - As a playwright Tearrance Chisholm has held residencies at The Bay Area Playwrights Festival, The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Djerassi Resident Artists Program and The Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. He received two of the 2016 National KCACTF awards, the Rosa Parks Playwriting Award and the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award. Tearrance is currently in the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard and is an upcoming 2050 Fellow at New York Theater Workshop.

Chico Colvard (Documentary Film Program) - Chico is an award-winning filmmaker whose documentary, Family Affair, premiered in competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. He is a former Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellow, WGBH Boston Filmmaker-in-Residence, Flaherty Fellow and Firelight Media Producing Fellow. He is a frequent film festival panelist, moderator, juror and organizer and is often invited to speak at colleges and universities. Chico teaches Social Justice Documentary courses at Massachusetts College of Art & Design and the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he curates the UMB Film Series.

Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. (Native American and Indigenous Program, Time Warner Foundation Native Story Fellow) - Lyle Mitchell Corbine, Jr. (Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe) is a filmmaker whose most recent short film, Shinaab, premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. He has been a recipient of several grants and fellowships from Sundance Institute, Time Warner Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board.

Reinaldo Marcus Green (Feature Film Program) - New York native Reinaldo Marcus Green is a writer, director and producer. A recent graduate of NYU Tisch Graduate Film School, he was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2015. His short film, Stop, premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Reinaldo attended the 2017 Sundance Institute Directors and Screenwriters Lab as well as the 2016 Screenwriters Intensive in Los Angeles with his project Monsters and Men. He is currently in pre-production on the film.

Paola L zaro (Theatre Program) - Paola L zaro is a playwright and actress born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She holds a BFA in Dramatic Writing from SUNY Purchase College and an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University. Her play, Tell Hector I Miss Him, was nominated for a Drama League Award for Best Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play and was also nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for the John Gassner Playwriting Award. Paola is Atlantic Theater Company's 2016/2017 Tow Playwright-in- Residence. She was a member of the Public Theater's 2015 Emerging Writers Group and was selected as Playwright-in-Residence for the 2016 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab in Morocco.

Jhane Myers (Native American and Indigenous Program, Time Warner Foundation Native Producer Fellow) - Jhane Myers (Comanche, Blackfeet) is the Film Programmer and Special Projects Director at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She also developed an award winning Native Youth Film Camp for the museum now in its fourth year. She is on-camera talent for the America Re-discovered series on the Comanches and is Supervising Producer on the Emmy award winning American Masters series documentary on Pulitzer prize-winning author N. Scott Momaday.

Jesi Nelson (Film Music Program) - Jesi Nelson is a Los Angeles-based composer, raised in Wisconsin, whose music can be heard in a variety of television and film. After receiving her Masters from Columbia College Chicago, she interned for Danny Elfman and soon after started

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