Screenwriters Association announces winners of Script Lab 2022

Winners were selected by a panel of mentors including Abhis

Submitted by Shreshtha Verma on Thu, 04/14/2022 - 16:09

Mumbai: Screenwriters Association (SWA) on Thursday announced the top six winners of Script Lab 2022. The winners will get further opportunities to work with eminent industry names, it said.

SWA announced Script Lab 2022 back in September 2021 for feature-length screenplays, both original as well as literary adaptations. It is a unique platform by SWA where emerging screenwriters get an opportunity to be mentored by professionals.

According to a statement, SWA received six hundred and one entries this year. "The top six winners were selected by a panel of filmmakers and mentors - Abhishek Chaubey, Alankrita Shrivastava, Sudip Sharma, Shakun Batra, Smita Singh, and Vikramaditya Motwane," it said.

The top six winning scripts include "13 Days" by Sindhu Sreenivasa Murthy & Gaurav Krishna, "Kashi Kothi Ka Kul" by Akshay Asthana, "A Dinner at Khan's" by Syed Shadan, "Meiktila" by Nimish Tanna, "Dev Dikshit" by Sandiip N Patil, and "Kriya Karam" by Nipun Angrish and Gundeep Kaur.

SWA’s event sub-committee chairperson Mitesh Shah said that with the Script Lab SWA aims to connect emerging screenwriters with eminent makers who have successfully navigated the industry with their distinct body of work and help them mentor their first drafts. “It has been a truly humbling experience selecting six scripts out of six hundred entries through a rigorous and transparent selection process. We hope this helps them get a meaningful perspective on their drafts and simultaneously get their foot in the door,” added Shah.

"SWA is happy to announce six sets of writers with Six complete scripts, mentored by six brilliant and acclaimed writers/directors. It's a sixer. All the way," said SWA president Robin Bhatt.

Congratulating the winners, SWA general secretary Zaman Habib said, “With our first-ever Script Lab we aim to nurture the new writing talent by providing them an opportunity to meet the writer-directors and get their scripts mentored. SWA also plans to make it bigger in the future and provide these six winners with a platform to pitch their scripts directly to the production houses through our upcoming Pitch Fest.”

Habib further thanked all the six mentors for supporting the initiative.