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 The Cartel in the fall of 2016 as a manager/producer.
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.
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.
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.
Sola Fasehun
Sola first began working in the film industry in development with Academy Award-winning producer Michael Phillips (Taxi Driver, The Sting) at Lighthouse Productions and soon after launched her own production company, Fasehun Films (Street Food, The Agitator).