The Sundance Institute has named the screenwriters and projects set for the 2025 edition of its Episodic Intensive, taking place virtually on April 10th. Among the selected include Irish writer and director Patricia Kelly for her project Humdrum.
The other fellows selected include Jaclyn Backhaus (As Far as the Eye Can See), Aaron Baumann (The Darkness Inside Us), Summer Benowitz (blob), Liz Femi (Butter Baby), Liz Maynes-Aminzade (The Grapevine), Tom Richard Santos (John of Sherwood), and Kulap Vilaysack (POP).
During the intensive, fellows will be paired with either showrunners, writing producers, or development executives for feedback on scripts and pitches. The fellows will also take part in a half-day writers’ room, where they will help in adapting a previous Sundance-premiering indie into a series, under the direction of an experienced writer and executive producer.
Advisors for the intensive include Alissa Nutting (Teenage Euthanasia), Bruce Evans (25 Stories), Desta Tedros Reff (A League of Their Own), Javier Grillo-Marxauch (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance), Jennifer Yale (Dexter), Kesila Childers (Monkeypaw’s No Drama), Michael Grassi (Brilliant Minds), Pia Chikiamco (Former Vice President of Comedy Development, HBO), Rae Sanni (A Black Lady Sketch Show), Kira Snyder (The Handmaid’s Tale), and Rochée Jeffrey (Grown-ish).
Fellows will also receive access to Sundance’s development track, Elevate, among other benefits.
According to the synopsis, Patricia Kelly’s project Humdrum is about: “A heartbroken court transcriber inappropriately interferes in the cases she types to try to find justice for victims, but quickly loses sight of what’s right and what’s very wrong”
Patricia Kelly’s debut feature, Verdigris, was nominated for five IFTA awards and has won 12 festival awards. Founder of MnáMná Films, she has two features in development with Screen Ireland and is a member of Ireland’s Writers Guild, Screen Directors Guild, Screen Producers Guild, and Women in Film and Television.
