David Rafailedes
Grad Film MBA/MFA alum David Rafailedes has been named as one of the 2025 Film Independent Fiction Producing Lab Fellows for his project, Satoshi. In the program, each Fellow will pair with a Creative Advisor, workshop with experienced producers, and gain real-world business and editorial guidance designed to help their projects across the finish line. David also received The Sloan Producers Grant, a $30,000 grant awarded to a project whose screenplay integrates science or technology themes and characters into dramatic stories.
David Rafailedes is a Detroit-based writer, director, and producer. He is a 2024 Sundance Screenwriters/Directors Lab Fellow and the co-recipient of the NYU/Sloan Feature Film Prize with Satoshi. Rafailedes is the co-playwright of the hit off-Broadway play, Cellino v. Barnes, which was awarded Time Out New York’s Best Comedy of 2024. His debut short film, Never Been Kissed, premiered at the Cleveland International Film Festival and won the audience award at the SOHO International Film Festival. Rafailedes is a recent alumnus of the NYU Graduate Film Dual Degree program, receiving an MFA and MBA in producing.
Logline: After her family loses everything in the 2008 financial crisis, a teenage anime-obsessed hacktivist realizes money isn’t fair, so she sets out to reinvent it with a new currency called Bitcoin.
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