Our inaugural 1497 Features Lab took place virtually in 2020-2021. 5 Mentees with 4 scripts were selected to move through the Lab. 
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• Toby Fell Holden – White Lies – The lies of a charismatic but troubled teenager living in a coastal town beset with civil unrest, finds herself caught between a fractured community and the allure of a new Muslim student.

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• Sofian Khan – The Ones We Left Behind — An African-American soldier, Cole, struggles to help his friend Shah, an Afghan interpreter who saved Cole’s life, to find safety in the aftermath of war.​

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• Swetha Regunathan – Sundarbans – An adrift young photographer finds an anchor in her father over a sweltering summer in the Sundarbans – a rough-and-tumble delta region in West Bengal, India – after she discovers he’s going blind and battling both human and unhuman forces that threaten to sink paradise forever.​​

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• Kaushik Sampath & Prashanth Vanchy – Qualia — When a 12-year old girl with cerebral palsy discovers that her astrophysicist father had secretly made contact with an extra-terrestrial intelligence, she’s pursued by government agents that lead her to uncover an extraordinary truth, threatening her very existence on earth.​

Click an image for more information on all of our 2020-2021 Lab Mentees, Mentors, Industry Advisors, and Selection Committee members. 

Note, all bios are current as of December 2020