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Mayuran Tiruchelvam & Willem Lee

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2024 First Look Project - Runner-up (TV (Half-hour))

Mayuran Tiruchelvam is a screenwriter and producer of film and television. Their filmmaking is fueled by a vision for a more compassionate and openhearted world. They are the Marcus Endowed Chair of Social Justice Filmmaking at San Francisco State University.

Mayuran’s feature screenplay The Girl is in Trouble (2015) was executive produced by Spike Lee and a critics’ pick from the Village Voice and RogerEbert.com

Mayuran’s producing credits include To Be Takei (Sundance 2014), The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin (Audience Award, SXSW 2017), Across The Sea (Audience Award, Slamdance 2015), The Mend(SXSW 2014), and My First Kiss and the People Involved (LA Film Festival 2016).

Mayuran is a Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellow, Film Independent Documentary and FastTrack Fellow, and a member of the Directors Guild of America.

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Willem Lee is a New York based writer and director. 

He wrote and directed The End of the World – about an analytic boy who befriends a classmate belonging to an apocalyptic cult – screened at the Sedona Film Festival, Napa Valley Film Festival, Vancouver Film Festival, Kustendorf Film & Music Festival (Serbia), and won Best Short at the Korean American Film Festival. He co-wrote the short film The Loyalist – about the relationship of a boarding school student and her father, a North Korean general – which screened at the Sarasota, Boston International, Ojai, and NBC Universal Film Festivals.

Willem was the cinematographer on the documentary North Korea: People Are The Sky, for which he traveled to North Korea twice. 

Willem currently teaches screenwriting to undergraduates at SUNY FIT in Manhattan. He obtained a B.A. in philosophy from Gordon College in Massachusetts and an MFA in Directing from Columbia University.

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