Visionary Fellowship: The Films

The Visionary Fellowship is a year-long program, exclusively supported by Netflix, that invests in disabled filmmakers with the funding, mentorship and community they need to make a short film and leverage it into their first feature. The program is uniquely designed to cover the transition from short to feature film, ensuring they have ample support to connect the dots between the two. These five filmmakers have worked incredibly hard over the past year to bring these projects to life.

The Films

  • 8 Tracks

    After being dumped, a heartbroken 30-year-old turns to the 8 songs that tell the story of the relationship with the love of his life to confront his self-destructive pattern and prevent it from happening again.

    Behind The Scenes

  • Double Birthday Christmas Wedding

    Twin sisters Gina and Victoria, were born on Christmas Day and have always been attached at the hip. When golden child Victoria gets engaged and sets the wedding for Christmas day, down-on-her-luck Gina refuses to be left behind and competing Birthday Christmas Weddings ensue.

    Behind The Scenes

  • The Hog Queen

    A disgruntled bartender's plans to skip town are disrupted when feral hogs attack a small-town Texas gay bar during a drag show, and everyone inside scrambles to survive the hogs... and each other.

    Behind The Scenes

  • Bembé

    A bandless Merengue bandleader hustles her way through the flourishing Latin Music scene of 1980s New York, and learns the hard way that if you wanna make it, you can’t do it alone.

    Behind The Scenes

  • Beware C*ckblocking Ghosts

    When she finally lands a homecoming date, a grieving teen must escape her haunted house before the ghost of her best friend becomes murderously jealous.

    Behind The Scenes

Meet the Filmmakers

  • 8 Tracks: Filipe Coutinho

    Filipe is a genre-agnostic writer and filmmaker living with OCD who has a passion for character-driven stories. He has been featured on the Annual Black List three consecutive times; has been recognized by the Nicholl Fellowship twice; has optioned his scripts to multiple production companies, and is the writer, producer, and director of several award-winning short films. He is repped by Matt Rosen at Navigation Media Group.

  • Double Birthday Christmas Wedding: Monica Cecilia Lucas

    Monica is a former D.C. insider turned writer, recognized as an Inevitable Foundation Accelerate Fellow, Center for Cultural Power Disruptors Fellow and finalist in the 2025 DET Writing Program, with work officially selected by the Womens List. She is developing an original pilot with the Mentorship Matters program and currently co- writing an original feature through the Moving Picture Institute s First Feature Lab.

  • The Hog Queen: Katherine Craft

    Katherine is an Austin-based filmmaker and educator with low vision, who writes character-driven comedies and offbeat horror that explore complex social issues. She wrote and directed the Audible comedy series Shaky, wrote on Apple TV’s Best Foot Forward, and created the Snap Original series Kappa Crypto. She is represented by Ava Jamshidi of Industry Entertainment.

  • Bembé: Zayre Ferrer

    Zayre was born in Panama and grew up in Brooklyn. After consulting on the Netflix Original Series El Chapo, they went on to create and executive produce the Netflix original series Tijuana, and write on the David Jenkins and Taika Waititi series Our Flag Means Death. They are represented by Granderson Des Rochers.

  • Beware C*ckblocking Ghosts: Alys Murray

    Alys is a screenwriter and bestselling romance novelist from New Orleans. She has written for Hallmark, Lifetime, and ViacomCBS, as well as for the U.K. market. A graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and Kings College London, she writes crowd-pleasing genre fare for the romantic in all of us.