The Circuit

Ella Taylor got to sit in during January's Sundance Screenwriters Lab and has this weighty article in this week's LA Weekly.  A must-read for the thousands that apply to the Labs.

The one thing they will not do in this cocooned Shangri-La is write. Though one or two Fellows tell me they’re itching to get back to work after a conference with an adviser or a conversation with a peer, most appear pleased to get a break from the solitude of writing — including the advisers, who are especially happy to be kept busy during the ongoing WGA strike. Over lunch, [Michelle] Satter and her young lieutenant, Illyse McKimmie, lay out the rationale for the informal no-writing rule. “We want them to stay fluid,” says Satter.