Award-Winning Filmmaker Moon Molson at Reel Works

Award Winning filmmaker, Moon Molson conducted his first screen writer’s symposium with students from Reel Works on January 12th, as part of the Reel Works Fellows Program.  Fellows work to develop advanced students in film, in the discipline of their choice. Moon is an award-winning filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Princeton University where he teaches undergraduate courses in film production. Molson’s short films Pop Foul (2007), Crazy Beats Strong Every Time (2011), and most recently The Bravest, the Boldest(2014), premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, screened at over 250 international film festivals, and have since received more than 100 awards worldwide, including the Grand Jury Prizes at Palm Springs, South by Southwest (SXSW), and the Student Academy Awards. He has attended the 2008 Sundance Screenwriters & Directors Labs, the 2008 Film Independent (FIND) Directors Labs, the 2015 Warner Brothers Television Directors' Workshop, and 2016 FOX Global Directors Initiative as a Fox Director Fellow. Molson was named a 2017 Pew Foundation Fellow, a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow in Film-Video, and was one of Filmmaker Magazine's “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in Summer 2007. He has received grants from The Jerome Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Sundance Institute. Moon will lead workshops through the Spring, in order to help our screenwriting fellows develop four ten minute short films, that will be part of a narrative anthology series revolving around a gentrifying Brooklyn, and the clash of cultures, as each new group inevitably push up against one another. Look forward to more updates about the 2019 Reel Works Fellows as they enter into the scriptwriting process for their short films!The Reel Works Fellows is made possible through the support of The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.