Seven women and minority writers have been selected to take part in the inaugural New York Screenwriters Workshop
, a New York City-based producer, financier and distributor of independent films and television.
Each will receive a screenwriting mentor and an industry executive mentor while they complete a feature length screenplay during the run of the program, culminating with table reads of their works. Throughout the program, they’ll also be instructed on the business of entertainment by various screenwriters and executives representing various New York City-based film companies.
The former business strategist is an L.A. transplant living with her partner in N.Y.C. where she is the Screenwriting Teaching Artist for the kids at the Ghetto Film School, a published opinion writer on matters of film, race and culture, and a Feature Programmer for the Bushwick Film Festival. The Directors Guild of America honored Kiara with the Grand Jury Award for writing and directing her debut feature, Christmas Wedding Baby 2015, She collaborated with Oscar winning Writer, Geoffrey Fletcher as the US winner for the Bombay Sapphire Imagination Series . Her screenplay, BROKER was selected for NYU Graduate Film’s coveted “Purple List” of best screenplays 2016.
She won a place on the 2019 Channel 4 Screenwriting program and the 2019 Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman sponsored Writers Lab. She has also been a part of the Royal Court Theatre’s studio group, and been shortlisted for Bafta Rocliffe and Sundance Labs. She is currently writing on the Netflix series, “Atomic Bazaar”, developing projects with Euston Films , InterTitle Films and RedRiding Productions .
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