Sundance Instituteannounced today the fellows selected for the 2024 Directors, Screenwriters, and Native Labs.

Four fellows were selected: three who are U.S.-based, and another from Canada.

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Don Josephus Raphael Eblahanis a filmmaker from the Philippines.

His filmThe Headhunters Daughterwas awarded the Short Grand Jury Prize at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.

An avid basketball and audiobook enthusiast, Knight lives and works in Oakland and Los Angeles, California.

Sundance’s Directors, Screenwriters, and Native Lab Fellows for 2025

She co-produced the 2024 Sundance Film Festival short docWinding Path.

She teaches film at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Keisha was named one ofFilmmakermagazines 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2020 and is a 2022 USA Fellow.

She is co-founder of Third Horizon Film Festival.

[Screenwriters Lab only].Gerolagais a Filipina American filmmaker and actor.

Peralta was featured inFilmmakermagazines 25 New Faces of Independent Film.

Hanna Gray Organschi(Writer-Director) withRubber Hut(U.S.A.): Rhode Island, 1992.

An entrepreneurial exPan Am stewardess opens a drive-thru condom shop in her Italian Catholic town.

Her upcoming shortF*ck That Guyis executive-produced by Spike Lee and Riva Marker.

David Rafailedesis a bicoastal (Hudson River/Lake Erie) based writer-director.

He attends New York Universitys Graduate Film Program.

[Screenwriters Lab only].Pathania(she/her) is a writer-director based in Brooklyn.

Her films explore gender, sexuality, and cultural bereavement.

Pathania was selected for the 2023 Sundance Screenwriters Intensive with her featureSkin.

She is also a recipient of the 2023 Sundance Horror Fellowship.

Her shortSalampremiered at Tribeca and won a BAFTA Cymru, and she recently was a director on NetflixsManifest.