
This year the reading included selections from five films from 12 featured filmmakers. Well-known and up-and-coming actors, cast by casting director Emer O’Callaghan, performed scenes from each film with Paul Schneider directing.

Shawn Snyder, a NYU Tisch School of the Arts film student, co-wrote TO DUST the best-of-the-best screenplay selection from the winning scripts submitted by Sloan’s six U.S. film school partners.