In Advisor Studio sessions, Sundance Collab Advisors share field experiences and insights into their specific areas of craft, including writing, directing and producing for TV and film.

For writer/director Nijla Mu’min (JINN, INSECURE, QUEEN SUGAR), infusing personal experience into your craft as a storyteller is essential to finding your signature style as an artist. Personal experience can not only influence the stories you choose to pursue, but can also be used to shape the way in which you tell them. In this intimate conversation, Mu’min guides us through steps you can take to start building your own framework around personal storytelling. We discuss how you can draw from personal experience to write richer worlds with deeper, more compelling characters; how to communicate with your actors to direct stronger scenes and how to establish your visual style. Whether you have an idea for a script, or received a new project and are looking for ways to bring your voice into the work, this conversation will help you think about how personal storytelling can set you apart as an artist.