EXCLUSIVE: Loretta Ramos has been named Senior Director of Blumhouse and Okay Interval Media’s Screamwriting Fellowship program.
Ramos beforehand served as interim head of the Sundance Institute’s Ladies of Sundance program.
In her function, she can be liable for overseeing this system for the 2 corporations, which is run in partnership with the Sundance Institute.
The invite-only program is accepting suggestions for candidates till Friday.
Stated Ramos, “There are some really electrical new voices in horror. Writers from all sorts of backgrounds are bringing new dimensions to the style, and I’m so excited to steer this initiative to offer equitable alternatives and ensure they really feel supported in bringing their visions to life. It’s been great attending to know the groups at Okay Interval Media and Blumhouse and I’m wanting ahead to working collectively.”
Kimberley Steward, Founding father of Okay Interval Media, and Jason Blum, Founder/CEO of Blumhouse, stated, “We’re thrilled to have Loretta’s management to shepherd the following section of our Screamwriting Fellowship. Her capacity to acknowledge rising expertise and dedication to offering alternative for all can be invaluable as we start getting ready for our subsequent cohort.”
As interim head of the Sundance Institute’s Ladies at Sundance program, Ramos oversees their Momentum, Adobe, and Adelante fellowship packages. Previous to that she was SVP of Artistic Affairs at Halfire Leisure, creating tasks with writers resembling Marie Clements, Angela Kang, Kevin Murphy, and Sherry White, working in each home and worldwide markets with patrons together with Amazon, the CBC, and Netflix, and studio companions together with AGBO, AMC, and Fifth Season. Beforehand she was Bryan Fuller’s producing companion, engaged on such exhibits as American Gods for Starz, and Hannibal and Mockingbird Lane for NBC. She is at the moment producing a documentary about youngsters of Catholic clergymen. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America, and is a graduate of the MFA Producers Program at UCLA’s Faculty of Theater, Movie, and Tv.
Launched in March 2023, the invite-only Screamwriting Fellowship was created in partnership with the Sundance Institute, and was established to offer help and mentorship to underrepresented rising movie and tv writers aspiring to work within the horror style. The fellowship consists of a week-long intensive for contributors adopted by focused mentorship and continued help all year long. Contributors in its first cohort included Geo Bradley, Chelsea Gonzalez, Julien Magnat, Kaushik Sampath, The Spurlock Sisters, Meg Swertlow, Myung Joh Wesner, and Neil Creque Williams, with advisors Karen Joseph Adcock, Simon Barrett, Dwight Caines, Jacob Chase, Bridget Savage Cole, Mike Flanagan, Christine D’Souza Gelb, Alayna Glasthal, Josh Godfrey, Disney Corridor, Walter Hamada, Cindy Holland, Ted Hope, Danielle Krudy, Chris Landon, Nick Lazo, Keith Levine, Damon Lindelof, Crystal Liu, Grant Moninger, Ryan Murphy, Couper Samuelson, Rob Savage, Ryan Turek and Kevin Williamson. The nonprofit program is being run by the Okay Interval Media Basis, a fund of the Leisure Business Basis, and can now be led by Ramos, serving because the Fellowship’s Program Director.
