What happens when two strangers are forced together, if even for a moment? Create a scene to win the Challenge.
Give us a chance encounter, where two characters are thrown together in any location of your choice and tell us a story about what happens between them, creating a moment when something changes, shifts for your main character. Use your full imagination to write a short scene or sequence, shoot a video, make an audio piece in any genre (comedy, drama, horror, thriller, etc.) in fiction or nonfiction.
Films or Audio Pieces: Up to 10 minutes in length
CHALLENGE RULES
Our Sundance Challenges are open to everyone in the Co//ab community. One entry per person, per challenge. Each person who participates will receive a completed feedback form on the work they submit by one of our Sundance judges, and winners will receive Sundance membership and a one-on-one mentoring session with one of the Sundance curatorial team.
The winning submissions will be featured on the site prominently, but all submissions will be viewable to the community. All submissions will be given equal consideration and the final winners will be determined by the consensus of the Sundance judges.
Only those submissions that meet the criteria outlined in the submission guidelines will be able to be selected as the winner.
Team
Deborah Chow
Filmmaker
Deborah Chow is a Canadian filmmaker of Chinese-Australian descent, who received her MFA in directing from Columbia University. She wrote and directed The High Cost of Living, which won the Skyy Vodka Best Feature award during its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. She has worked as a feature writer on such projects as The Giant and Mulan, and recently attended the Sundance Film Two Lab with her feature screenplay, Low Track. In addition, she has directed extensively in television on such shows as Mr. Robot, Jessica Jones, and Better Call Saul, and is currently in production on The Mandalorian, the first Star Wars television show.
Christian Taylor
Christian Taylor is a Writer, Director, Producer and Showrunner for Film and TV. He is a graduate of NYU Tisch and alumnus of the Sundance Directors lab where he developed his Oscar-nominated short film into a feature. He has worked on Six Feet Under, Lost, Clone Wars, Teen Wolf, Eye Candy, Luke Cage, and recently, Treadstone.