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The Austin Film Festival has announced its 2025 Script and Film Competition Award winners. Selected from a pool of more than 17,000 submissions across 112 countries, 35 writers and filmmakers were recognized this year for their outstanding work.

The Gotham announced its Series Creators to Watch, recognizing eight film and TV writer-directors for their bold, risk-taking voices that push the boundaries of serialized storytelling. The creators selected were Lanre Olabisi...

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Melissa O'Neil: We spent a lot of time collaborating, especially with our wonderful director Lanre, trying to figure out how can we make sure that, in the blocking of this intimate moment, it's something that happens to them incidentally because of proximity and because of their irresistible connection, and not because she's been vying to get there since she saw him at the gala.

Film Independent has set Lanre Olabisi (A Storybook Ending), Sari Arambulo (Family Style), Sanford Jenkins (Joy and Pain), Rob Connolly (Lavender Country), Elise H. Greven (Silent Spring) and Phumi Morare (There is Salt in the Water) as the participants and projects for its 2022 Screenwriting Lab.

Disney General Entertainment’s directing program is putting its money where its Mouse is: on the actual screen. For the first time, participants in the Disney Directing Program will be given guaranteed slots to direct episodes of some of the studio’s biggest shows, including ABC’s “Black-ish,” Freeform’s “Good Trouble” and FX’s “Snowfall.”

HBO has selected the ten winning emerging directors to participate in the newly revamped 2020 Directing Fellowship. The ten directors will take part in a series of masterclasses with top industry speakers.

Lanre Olabisi is an independent filmmaker whose films have screened in over 70 festivals, including SXSW and the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Below, he shares how a retired African-American tennis player inspired his short film A Storybook Ending.

HBO is also delaying selecting three fellows from the 10 fellowship finalists to produce pilots with the company until the second year of the program.

Olabisi manages to craft something that feels fresh and unique and plays with our understanding of cinema in how we view individual scenes compared to how we view a complete movie.

Already well-traveled and prized on the U.S. fest circuit, dramatically satisfying pic transcends ethnic pigeonholing to emerge as a fine calling card for frosh helmer Lanre Olabisi.

Just a quick update on a Kickstarter film project campaign I featured about a month ago. I highlight it especially, because the campaign did something that very few others have been able to do - raise over $100,000.

Olabisi’s script is well-mapped out; the storylines of each character is thoroughly engaging and cleverly intersect with a precision that’s clean and elegant.

Lanre Olabisi’s first feature offers an intricate portrait of relationships and individuals, histories and hopes.

Shot with a gentle naturalism in long, loose hand-held takes, Lanre Olabisi’s Gotham Award-nominated August the First recounts the college graduation party of Tunde…