Visionary Fellowship Short Film Showcase: Accessible Digital Program

The Lynnwood Dunn Theater

Nov. 12, 2025

About the Visionary Fellowship

The Visionary Fellowship is a year-long program 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 between making a short and preparing and packaging a debut feature film, ensuring they have ample support to connect the dots between the two.

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Meet the Fellows

Zayre Ferrer Bembé

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. Zayre wrote and directed music-driven drama BEMBÉ.

Katherine Craft The Hog Queen

Katherine is an Austin 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. Kat wrote and directed the campy horror comedy THE HOG QUEEN.

Content Warning: This film contains sequences with flashing lights that may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy or have light sensitivity. It also contains depictions of guns and graphic gore that may be disturbing to some viewers. Viewer discretion is advised.

Filipe Coutinho 8-Tracks

Filipe is a genre-agnostic writer and filmmaker living with OCD with a passion for character-driven stories. He has been featured on the Annual Black List three consecutive times and on 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. Filipe wrote and directed the romantic dramedy 8-TRACKS.

Alys Murray Beware C*ckblocking Ghosts

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 King's College London, she writes crowd-pleasing genre fare for the romantic in all of us. Alys wrote and directed the teen horror-comedy BEWARE C*CKBLOCKING GHOSTS.

Content Warning: This film contains sequences with flashing lights that may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy or have light sensitivity. It also contains gore that may be disturbing to some viewers. Viewer discretion is advised.

Monica Cecilia Lucas Double Birthday Christmas Wedding

Monica is a former D.C. insider turned writer, recognized as an Artist Disruptor for the Center for Cultural Power and finalist in the 2025 DET Writing Program, with work officially selected by the Women's 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. Monica wrote and directed the family dramedy DOUBLE BIRTHDAY CHRISTMAS WEDDING.

Video Transcripts

Visionary Fellowship Program Trailer

Visual Information

[Opening screen shows a series of close up and wide shots of various individual people and groups working on five different film sets.]

[A black and white title card appears with the words Inevitable Foundation Visionary Fellowship and a film burn effect on the right side of the card.]

[Inevitable Foundation President Richie Siegel, a white man with a short reddish-brown hair cut and a similarly colored beard wearing a striped shirt and a blue button up over top it appears. He is sitting in a concrete block room on a director’s chair. As he speaks, a bla card box appears with a black background and the words Richie Siegel, Inevitable Foundation. The screen transitions to a woman with her hair in a messy bun, wearing glasses and holding a small video monitor in her hands while standing next to a camera on a film set.]

[The screen transitions through several shots, including someone at an editing bay cutting video; a person adjusting a camera on set; a stage with a red glitter curtain; the silhouette of somone in an N95 mask walking towards the stage; a pair of hands opening up a notebook; four men, one sitting the others standing in a living room reviewing footage and equipment; two women, one the director wearing headphones, talking on a set; and three people talking as they look at playback footage.]

[Richie reappears on the screen.]






[The screen shows two brown-haired women, one with glasses, looking around on a film set; a shot featuring several people standing and sitting around a dining room table as cameras and crew film; a shot of a camera outside a garage set capturing footage of someone holding a film slate.]

Audio Content

Various Voices: Action. Action. Action. Action. Action.



[Upbeat electronic music begins playing.]



Richie: When you look at the math, it's about one to two percent of all the people in Hollywood in film and television have a disability.












Richie: We really try to approach the work here at Inevitable, really, from being situated in reality and going, where are we now? Where do we want to go? And what is the path there? The Visionary Fellowship, in some ways, is a writers' fellowship, a filmmaking fellowship, a production fellowship, a post-production fellowship, and, in some ways, a distribution fellowship.





Richie: What we spent probably four to five months working on with each of the fellows was because these projects are based on a feature film that they're rewriting in the second part of the program.

Richie: [So] how do we just find that one series of moments that encapsulate the feature and how do we make that the short?