Fall Intensive 2024
This 8-week Fall Intensive is designed to support and connect filmmakers who are actively at work on a project. By bringing pitch decks, scripts, treatments, or rough cuts to one another and to professional mentors in a nonrivalrous space, participants receive deep and meaningful feedback and encouragement and leave with a renewed sense of their capacity to complete the project with excellence and effectiveness.
Each filmmaker commits to joining 8 weekly, 2hr group sessions engaging in one another’s projects and 1 60-minute one-on-one mentoring session.
The next Fall Intensive will take place virtually in the Fall of 2024. Filmmakers everywhere are encouraged to apply.
FAQ
What is the cost?
unRival is committed to preventing cost from being a barrier. The 2024 Fall virtual program will be free for all participants.
Who is an ideal candidate?
If you are asking the question: how you can better contribute to lasting peace and justice as a filmmaker, you probably fit! The program is designed to be especially useful to those who are currently working out a story—in treatment form or in post-production— or who are at a crossroads or in their career.
It was designed to respond to feelings of isolation, ‘stuckness,’ and burnout that we heard in our research conversations with peacebuilders and artists. It is meant to be an opportunity for connection, renewal, and growth.
Lastly, if you’re looking for a space to collaboration, share, and be curious with diverse and different others, we believe that you will find that here.
When and Where?
The Film Lab’s next Cohort will meet virtually from from Sept-Oct 2024 (scheduling subject to change to best suit the group.)
Justice Film Festival is scheduled for February 2025 in NYC with various venues including FIT’s Katie Murphy Amphitheater in Chelsea and DCTV’s Firehouse in Chinatown.
Who is leading it?
Friendship has provided a fertile ground for creative endeavors throughout Billy’s career. Many of his proudest professional accomplishments, from building an iPhone app to producing and directing film work, have been collaborative efforts with cherished friends he would just as readily spend a celebratory Sunday afternoon with.
Billy’s commitment to creativity in the context of bondedness bears itself out in his approach to the Film Lab, a collaboration with Justice Film Festival where participants celebrate the power of transformative, nonviolent storytelling together. His vision for the film labs is to cultivate a community of filmmakers dedicated to justice and peace and innervate uprising of films from diverse and mutually empowering voices.
What can I expect from it?
To come together in nonrivalrous community for mutual accompaniment,
curiosity, and exploration
To ease, empower, and amplify your unique voice and creativity
To provide the sort of feedback that helps projects get funding, reach completion, and be seen.
To creatively overcome rivalry, scarcity, and be an ongoing community for one another