Stowe Story Labs Mentors
We are honored to work with a stellar pool of mentors. The list of mentors is constantly expanding and shifting so please check this page often. Further, because our mentors are top-tier working professionals in the industry, schedules and obligations can shift quickly. Given that, those slated for a particular program may change with little or no notice. (We take this risk because we believe it valuable to participants to work with mentors who are tremendously busy with film and TV work given they are deeply active in the industry today.
Corey Trent Ackerman
Corey was the driving force behind FreshMaker Media, a literary management and production company, before joining Evoke Entertainment (formerly The Cartel) as Manager/Producer in the fall of 2016. He represents TV writers, screenwriters and filmmakers in all media.
Eszter Angyalosy
Eszter is a Hungarian screenwriter, story editor, and writing tutor working with Hungarian and international talents alike.
Ciara Appelbe
Ciara works for World 2000 Entertainment, the company responsible for The Tudors (Showtime) and Vikings (MGM).
Emily Best
Emily is the founder and CEO of Seed&Spark, an entertainment platform built to increase diversity and inclusion.
Effie T. Brown
Effie T. Brown is a prominent advocate for diversity and inclusion in the film industry, currently serving as the CEO and majority owner of Gamechanger Films.
Liz Cardenas
Liz Cardenas is a 2022 Independent Spirit Award winner for Duplass Brothers Productions’ 7 DAYS (Tribeca ‘21 | Cinedigm)
Shari Lynette Carpenter
Shari, an award winning writer/director, made her episodic television directing debut for Queen Sugar.
Scott Collette
Scott is a screenwriter with a background in pre-sales film financing and international distribution.
Melody Cooper
Melody is writing the feature adaptation of the best-seller fantasy novel Beasts of Prey for Netflix.
Stacey A. Davis
In twenty words or less, Stacey is a mother, a wife, an advocate, a little blue dot in a big red state and a filmmaker. In various producer roles, her films include Bird in Hand (Tribeca 2025); McVeigh (Tribeca); Jockey (Sundance); Sword of Trust (SXSW), Little Sister (SXSW, named by “The New Yorker” as the best film of 2016); and 1985 (SXSW). She’s currently producing the documentary feature, SHOW ME THE LINE, which has garnered support from the following organizations: New Orleans Film Society Southern Producer’s Lab (Producing Fellow), Filmshop Docshop South, BendFilm: Base Camp (Fellow) and rePROFilm & Peace is Loud's Collective Lens.
Caroline Couret-Delègue
After working in feature film production in Hollywood on movies starring Rob Schneider, David Carradine, Jennifer Morrison, Winona Ryder, Wes Bentley, Steve Buscemi, to name but only a few, Caroline chose to come back to Europe and relocate to London in 2008 as Director of Development & Marketing at Seven Arts Pictures.
Bob Edwards
A graduate of Stanford University’s MA program in documentary film, Bob has been a working screenwriter for 21 years.
Kristin Fairweather
Kristin Fairweather is an award-winning, independent filmmaker whose experience in politics, advocacy, and women’s empowerment creates a unique lens for her critically-acclaimed work.