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'Off the Black' writer/director wins Sundance fellowship

posted 17 years ago by larry-411

Introducing Sundance fellow Ponsoldt
Staff report
Oct 9, 2007

Sundance Institute has awarded the the 2007 Lynn Auerbach Screenwriting Fellowship to Refresh, Refresh writer James Ponsoldt. The unproduced feature follows three teenage boys struggling to deal with their fathers' service in the Iraq War. Ponsoldt will receive a cash stipend, a Sundance screenplay reading and the advisory services of scribes John August and Ron Nyswaner throughout his fellowship year. Ponsoldt developed his work at the Institute's Screenwriters Lab in Utah this summer.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i5bde4427b281320fbe2ee91c586f070b

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