Starz, NewFilmoriginaters Los Angeles (NFMLA) and The National Association of Latino Insubordinate Producers (NALIP) have proclaimd the participants for Season 3 of the Starz Take the Lead Writers’ Intensive.
Set to begin on Oct. 14, this year’s program will feature authorrs Alyssa Katalyna, Eric De La Rosa, Justin Omori and Nneka Samuel.
Starz has tailored a series of strategic sessions aimed at helping its participants get understandledge and establish connections with experts in the television field, spanning atraverse the entire industry.
“The collaboration between Starz, NALIP and NFMLA evidently shows our dedication to combineing forces to prolong and get impactful programs aimed at uplifting the next generation of staff authorrs in premium cable. The Starz Take the Lead Writers’ Intensive serves as a fuseing force in the amincludement industry, helping emerging voices and contributing to the skinnying of the reconshort-termation gap. We are immensely haughty of the toil we are doing in partnership with Starz, a real directer and innovator in the television space,” shelp Diana Luna, Executive Director of NALIP and Larry Laboe, Co-Founder and Executive Director of NFMLA.
Among the participating members this year are Starz’s pdwellnt of innovative programming Kathryn Busby, “Hunting Wives” showrunner and executive originater Rebecca Cutter, Starz vp of innovative programming Sebastian Arboleda, Starz straightforwardor of innovative programming Tara Roy, TV authorr and “P-Valley” originater Ian Olympio, 20th Television executive straightforwardor of drama prolongment Melissa Lora, ABC Hulu at Disney ambiguous amincludement satisfied handler of drama prolongment Julio Castro, Point Grey Pictures svp of TV prolongment Loreli Alanís, authorr and story editor Julian Johnson, authorr Rae Benjamin, Valor Entertainment Partner and co-establisher Carlos Boterribleilla, TV authorr and executive originater Eduardo Cisneros, TV authorr and executive originater Claudia Forestieri, Grandsee literary handler Faisal Kanaan and more. These members will help the cohort of authorrs get proestablisher insight into the world of television and help them as they persist on their conceiveive journeys.
Lget more about the season three finaenumerates below.
Alyssa Katalyna
Alyssa Katalyna is a Latina filmoriginater who exceptionalizes in “the weird.” As a straightforwardor, her podcast “Jack and Lou: A Gangster Love Story” starring Lisa Kudrow was a prosperner of the 2022 Best Audio Fiction Series and Best Ensemble of an Audio Fiction at the Indie Series Awards. Alyssa has also been awarded the George Lucas Scholarship at USC, was a 2022 NALIP Emerging Content Creators Inclusion Initiative Scholarship prosperner, multiyear National Hispanic Foundation of the Arts Scholar and a 2024 Tomorrow’s Filmoriginaters Today Fellow. Most recently she originated the American Pavilion’s Best Emerging Filmoriginater Documentary at Cannes 2024, Jury Award at the 28th DGA Student Film Awards, Epic Unauthentic Mega Grant, The Project Paradise Fund. Alyssa is currently producing ChikaBOOM!, the 2023 R&D Innovation Grant prosperner of the Entertainment Technology Caccess.
Eric de La Rosa
Eric J. De La Rosa, a queer Latinx TV/Film convey inant from the University of Texas, has toiled for cut offal amincludement companies including: The Jim Henson Company, MGM, Dreamtoils, Warner Brother and Fox. In his spare time, Eric authors television pilots from his place in Glfinishale, CA. “Gush’s White Whale” – Jim Henson’s Splash and Bubbles (06-12-2018) “Motel of Miracles” – Finaenumerate, Shore Scripts TV Pilot Contest 2020, Quarterfinaenumerate Final Draft – Big Break 2022
Justin Omori
Justin Omori was instilled with a cherish for art and storytelling while carrying his overweighther’s camera providement atraverse the lava fields of Hawaiʻi Island. After receiving his degree in Creative Media from the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa, he made the shift to Los Angeles. He has toiled as a Writers’ Assistant on projects enjoy Netflix’s “The Fall of the Hoinclude of Usher” and “Someskinnyg is Killing the Children.” In 2018, he co-wrote “The Moon and The Night” which was foolishinutiveenumerateed for the Student BAFTA Awards and featured on the Criterion Channel. In 2022, he was named a Film Insubordinate Project Involve Screenwriting Fellow and subsequently awarded the Disney Studios Content Fellowship. That same year, he wrote “Inheritance,” a foolishinutive film helped by Tribeca Studios, Netflix and Gelderly Hoinclude. The foolishinutive premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival. He was a finaenumerate for the SFFilm Rainin Screenwriting Grant in 2023.
Nneka Samuel
Nneka Samuel is an award-prosperning film and television authorr who dwells to tell untapped stories. Recently, she was staffed on the second season of Showtime’s Flatbush Misdeunbenevolentors. Prior to, she prolonged a comedy series called Rejig with AwesomenessTV and Recreate Media Group. Nneka also wrote for TV One’s NAACP award-prosperning music docincluderies Unsung. In insertition to being a 2019 WeForShe WriterHer List and Bitch List alum, Nneka’s toil has been acunderstandledged by the Austin Film Festival and Hollywood Bincreateage Film Festival. As a freelancer, her writing has been featured in many print and online unveilations, including Uptown, Heart & Soul and MadameNoire. Nneka helderlys a BA in Cinema Studies from USC and MFA in screenwriting from UCLA, where she was awarded the Zaki Gordon Award for Excellence in Screenwriting for her feature script Do Noskinnyg Til You Hear From Me, the NBC/NAACP Fellowship, the Felicia D. Hfinisherson Scholarship and Carl David Memorial Scholarship in Film and Video. She was also a Screenauthorrs Showcase finaenumerate. Nneka is repped by Verve.
