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

Filipe Coutinho, a Portuguese man with a brown crew cut, is in a white t-shirt with a bear design, wearing headphones around his neck, and talking while gesturing with his hand on a film set.

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.

Zayre Ferrer, a Panamanian American with a buzz cut, stands on their film set surrounded by cast and crew in the background. They are wearing glasses, a duckbill face mask a green t-shirt and green jumper.

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, a white woman with long, wavy hair and wearing glasses, stands with a joyful expression on a film set. She's wearing a headband with pink pig ears and a light-colored t-shirt featuring an illustration of a pig.

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.

Alys Murray, a white woman with shoulder-length hair and glasses, is smiling while standing in front of a house's porch. She is holding a clapperboard, wearing a striped sweater, a pearl necklace, and has a pair of headphones around their neck.

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 Lucas, a Puerto Rican woman with chin-length brown hair, wearing a cap and a headset with a microphone, is seated on set inside a house. She is staring off at something being filmed.

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.

Thank you to Netflix’s Fund for Creative Equity for their exclusive support of the Visionary Fellowship.

Thank you to the following companies, who generously provided pro-bono equipment and services to support the Visionary Fellowship: Keslow Camera, Greenslate, Hula Post, International Digital Centre, and Quixote.

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