Finish the Script

We brought our winning filmmakers together in sunny Los Angeles for a three-day creative workshop. They got to meet each other and team Dolby, exchange ideas in the writers’ room, bond over dinner in Hollywood, and oh yeah, workshop their scripts with award-winning director, writer, and producer Carlos López Estrada (Summertime, Raya and the Last Dragon). Get to know this year’s filmmakers.

“I pushed myself this year to be more creative and challenge myself. I feel like I’m ready to make something that the world can see and put it on stage for everybody and share my ideas and thoughts as a creative person. And it means the world to me, and that Dolby is ready to give me access to the tools really big filmmakers use.”

“I feel like film spreads awareness about certain social and political issues. It has such great power to impact people's thoughts and perceptions of things. You can walk out of a movie theater and just have a completely changed perspective on life, on people. And I just loved that element of film creating shock, creating love, creating anything, and maybe even educating some people about certain things.”

“I think that's kind of what I wanted to focus on: the hidden gems that are in LA that sometimes folks who have not grown up here don't see. At the core of every story I like to tell is friendship, but also aspects of family, film, illness — in parts of the city that are typically not showcased.”

“I wanted to make a film about a story that was close to my heart, but also so other people would feel less isolated. I think we all can get in these moments where we really put ourselves down and we hide some of our truths. And I wanted to make a story about a character who is doing that and who summons the courage to stop and to just be themselves and be free of that, because that's when we start living too.”