Rising local directors meet with industry experts to finesse future films.
Déjà Cresencia Bernhardt, Paloma Hernandez, and Barbara Cigarroa, the three filmmakers selected for this year's Austin Film Society Artist Intensive retreat.
After a two-year hiatus due to Covid, Austin Film Society is bringing back its annual Artist Intensive Program. The three up-and-coming filmmakers selected will meet with industry mentors to gain invaluable feedback, rehearsal opportunities, read-throughs, resources, and excitement for their projects.
Also on the participant list is Barbara Cigarroa, a South Texas native who currently teaches a screenwriting class at Columbia University and New York University. Her debut feature,, follows Lucy, a 17-year-old who must learn to navigate the world and her dysfunctional father-daughter relationship. Life as she knows it comes to a head when her two brothers leave an immigrant shelter to move into their already crowded home.
was selected for the 2019 Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Lab, and the BlackList included the script in its inaugural 2020 Latinx list., the feature version of her short film of the same name. Taking place in 2016 during the last few days of Hawaii’s ‘Big Sugar’ production, the feature follows Nua, a 15 year old whose social worker with good intentions but problematic decision-making places her in an abusive shelter.
The three join a list of artist and projects to have benefitted from the program that includes SXSW and Sundance selections including Morrisa Maltz’s (
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