Mentors

IOANA URICARU

Director and Middlebury College Professor

MFA in film production and PhD in critical studies from the University of Southern California.

Ioana Uricaru directed and cowrote the feature Lemonade, which premiered in the official selection of the Berlin Film Festival in February 2018 and was selected in numerous other festivals (including in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival). She previously directed the short film Stopover (2011 Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival) and codirected the omnibus feature Tales from the Golden Age (2009 Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival). Uricaru was a fellow at the Sundance Screenwriting and Directing Labs and a resident of the Cannes Cinefondation. She is currently in development with the feature Paperclip (recipient of the Sloan Sundance Commissioning Grant and the Berlin Prize). Uricaru is also a script consultant (Beyond the Hills, by Cristian Mungiu, Best Screenplay Award, Cannes Film Festival).

MFA in film production and PhD in critical studies from the University of Southern California.

DAVID MIRANDA HARDY

Middlebury College Professor

BA from the University of Chile and MFA in filmmaking from Temple University (as a Fulbright Scholar).

Assistant Professor of Film and Media Culture David Miranda Hardy is a Chilean filmmaker and sound designer with an MFA in film from Temple University in Philadelphia, where he resided for five years on a Fulbright Scholarship. He has taught sound for film, screenwriting, and directing in Chile, Cuba (EICTV), and the U.S.

Miranda Hardy is the head of the Contents Department at Filmosonido Chile, where he was the showrunner for Bala Loca (Stray Bullet, 2016), a 10-episode miniseries broadcast by Turner-owned Chilevision. The show was nominated for Best Series at the Platino Awards 2017 and for a Peabody in 2018. You can watch it on Netflix.

BEN FRAHM

Screenwriter (The Discreet Pleasures of Rejection) and script consultant (How to Train Your Dragon), assistant professor of screenwriting at Syracuse University. Ben leads the Script Lab’s structure and pitching workshop.

Jeff Rush

Teacher of screenwriting, adaptation, scene analysis and is the director of the Screenwriting Program in the Department of Film and Media Arts at Temple University. He has written extensively on screenwriting, literature, serial long-form television, television ethics, video games, narrative theory and the philosophy of metaphor, and has published in major film, literature and video game journals including The Quarterly Review of Film and Video; Wide Angle; The Journal of Film and Video; The Journal of Screenwriting; Studies in American Jewish Literature; and Games and Culture. He is the co-author of Alternative Scriptwriting (Taylor & Francis, 2013). A script doctor, he recently consulted on a mini-series for Mega Television Network in Chile and has a forthcoming chapter on international script consulting entitled, “Doctoring La Cacería, las niñas de Alto Hospicio: Issues in Cross-Cultural Script Consulting,” for the forthcoming Palgrave Handbook on International Script Development. He is currently finishing a paper on post post-modern docudrama entitled, “Reconstructing the Uncertain Past: Cracked Docudramas That Question Their Own Authority” and one on double-voiced screenwriting called, “Contrapuntal Screenwriting: Embracing Paradox,” for the Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies.

ANDREW PETERSON

Producer (Howl, Thin Ice), executive director of Film North, director of programming at Provincetown Film Festival.

Dana Yeaton

Playwright, lyricist and director who teaches dramatic writing and speaking at Middlebury College. He’s the recipient of the New Voice in American Theatre Award, the Heideman Award, and the Moss Hart Award. His two-person show, Swing State, was a featured selection at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, and his full-length drama Redshirts, was nominated for the Helen Hayes Award. Dana is founder of Vermont Young Playwrights, and faculty director of Oratory Now, which he founded in 2014. He’s now writing a play about the relationship between Aristotle and Alexander the Great, co-authored with Cole Merrell ’21.

RYAN KOO

Writer-director (Amateur), Web series creator (The West Side, Webby Award for Best Drama Series); founder of the filmmaking website No Film School.

LAURENCE ANDRIES

Graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. In 1994, Laurence wrote, Kangaroo Court. Starring Gregory Hines and Michael O'Keefe, the short film marked actor Sean Astin's directorial debut. Kangaroo Court was nominated for a 1995 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. Laurence has written, produced and directed over 15 US drama series -- an eclectic mix of hour drama television, among them, Six Feet Under, Alias and HBO’s The Pacific, the companion miniseries to Band of Brothers. Most recently, Laurence served as co-executive producer of Shonda Rhimes’ How to Get Away with Murder. Currently he is a writer and coexecutive producer of the long-running, CBS police/family drama, Blue Bloods. Laurence Andries also serves as VP of Programminmg of the Writers Guild Foundation.

HAWK OSTBY

Academy Award nominated screenwriter (Children of Men, Iron Man, Cowboys and Aliens)

ALEX SMITH

Writer-director (Walking Out, Winter in the Blood, The Slaughter Rule), script consultant, former creative director of the University of Texas Film Institute.

LIA LANGWORTHY

Writer (The Shield,Young and the Restless, Soul Food).

JULIE LIPSON

After graduating from Middlebury with a joint BA in English and Film and Media Studies, Julie went on to get an MFA from USC's Writing for Screen and Television program, and afterwards was promptly commissioned to write Rust Creek - a film that spent over a week in the Netflix Top 10. For the film, she was nominated for Best Screenplay on the Women In Film Oscars Ballot, alongside the writing talents of Greta Gerwig and Lorene Scafaria. Julie went on to collaborate with and sell pilots to E! Network, Universal Cable Productions, Superdeluxe, Audible, and other major studios.

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