The Circuit

The Hamptons fest fest has picked four projects for its 8th annual Screenwriters' Lab.  From May 9-11, filmmakers will be mentored on their scripts, after which the festival will connect them with "friends of the Festival, including industry producers, agents, and development executives."

This year's projects:

ALEX R. JOHNSON - LA SOBRINA
Cookie Rodriguez had just started driving the night shift for a Brooklyn car service when her niece turns up dead in the Williamsburg waterfront. Frustrated with the police investigation, she starts one of her own and finds that her niece was caught up in a corrupt world of gentrification, bribery, and Brooklyn real estate.

JAMES PONSOLDT - REFRESH, REFRESH
Three teenaged sons of Marine reservists fighting a distant war must prove to themselves their worth as men. In measures of heartbreak, brutality, and humor, REFRESH, REFRESH takes an honest, unflinching look at the unforeseen repercussions of violence and how we inherit a war at home.

BRADFORD TATUM - BOOK OF WATER
BOOK OF WATER combines historical fact with a vibrant magical realist style to tell the story of the life of Leonardo da Vinci. An Alfred P. Sloan supported script.

AVI WEIDER - ZEROES AND ONES
In creating an intelligent machine out of discarded computer parts, a young woman uncovers her grandmother's long-buried secret of her survival from Auschwitz and finds a release from her own haunting memories. An Alfred P. Sloan supported script.

The 2008 Screenwriters’ Lab Mentors are filmmaker Maria Maggenti, filmmaker Ira Sachs, producer Jeffrey Sharp, and filmmaker Whit Stillman.