Sundance Institute Awards Bob Byington Annenberg Film Fellowship Grant

By Jennifer M. Wood
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/sundance_institute_bob_byington_annenberg_film_fellowship_grant_20080213/
The Sundance Institute, long heralded for supporting budding moviemakers, has awarded its Annenberg Film Fellowship to Austin-based writer-director Bob Byington. The fellowship grant will help finance Byington’s upcoming film Harmony and Me, to start shooting in Austin later this year. The Sundance Institute also provided mentoring sessions with veteran screenwriters Joan Tewkesbury (Nashville), Jim Taylor (Sideways) and John Gatins (Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story) to guide Byington in fine-tuning his script.