Grad Film MFA candidate Ana A. Alpizar and alum Reuben Hamlyn were selected for TorinoFilmLab's 2026 ScriptLab.
Ana A. Alpízar is a Cuban director, screenwriter, producer, and editor based in NYC. As a director, her short films Norheimsund (2025), Hapi Berdey Yusimi in Yur Dey (2020), and The Fisherman (2017) have been officially selected at prestigious film festivals, including Venice, Sundance, Clermont-Ferrand, Tampere, Florida, New Orleans, Miami, and LALIFF, among others. For several years, she has worked as an editor in film, television, and advertising. Ana is a recipient of the BAFTA New York Diversity Scholarship and is currently pursuing an MFA at the Tisch School of the Arts.
Reuben Hamlyn is an Emmy & BIFA-nominated NYC-based writer/director & editor from London. His feature debut as a director, ANOTHER BODY (2023) premiered at SXSW and was awarded the Special Jury Prize for ‘Innovation in Storytelling.’ Supported by Impact Partners, the International Documentary Association and Sundance, the film released theatrically in the US (Utopia), UK (Modern Films, BBC Storyville), France and Germany (ARTE/ZDF) and in other territories, before receiving an Emmy nomination in ‘Best Directing-Documentary’ and two British Independent Film Award nominations. Reuben's short fiction film, ROGER (2019), commissioned by the BFI and BBC Arts, aired on BBCFour, and won multiple awards. His most recent short, BITTER WEEDS (2024) was shortlisted for the student Academy Award. As an editor, his work has been selected to premiere at Venice (THREE KEENINGS, 2024) and San Sebastian (WHERE TIME STOOD STILL, 2024). Reuben is an alum of NYU’s Grad Film programme, having been awarded a TSOA Scholarship and a W.T.C Johnson Fellowship.
The program is dedicated to the screenwriting development of feature fiction films at an early development stage, completed by a story editing training course. Out of 773 film ideas submitted, 16 projects were selected for this cycle.
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