2026-27 New Voices Fellows
ALANA SAAB
PRONOUNS: she/her
PROJECT: Jaanem (My Love) | Feature
LOGLINE: When her transgender husband dies, a woman must meet her conservative Afghan in-laws for the first time to plan an Islamic funeral for the son they refused to accept.
BIO: Alana Saab is a Portuguese-Lebanese-American screenwriter and author. Her debut novel, Please Stop Trying to Leave Me, was published with Vintage Books, Penguin Random House in 2024. For screenwriting, she is a recipient of the CineStory Feature Fellowship. Saab has an MFA in fiction from The New School, a Master’s in psychology from Columbia University, and a BA in storytelling from NYU. She lives in New York City with her wife and son.
CHRISTINA INGRALDI
PRONOUNS: she/her
PROJECT: Sorta Rican | One-hour Pilot
LOGLINE: When a whitewashed Puerto Rican teen returns to the island after a decade away, she’s caught between cultures and boys as she juggles an unexpected love triangle with a White tourist and her Puerto Rican neighbor.
BIO: Christina Ingraldi is a Puerto Rican writer/producer based in LA, though she swears she remains a New Yorker at heart. She loves exploring themes of identity and found family, often highlighting characters who don’t quite know where they fit, and is especially interested in crafting diverse YA dramas and swoon-worthy romances. Christina loves bridging the creative and business sides of the industry to bring stories to life.
FINN WAGSTAFF
PRONOUNS: he/him
PROJECT: Glenn Vs. The Filthiest Woman Alive | Feature
LOGLINE: Glenn, a timid gay boy from Baltimore, hitches a ride straight to superstardom with the help of his sexy, nasty, and outrageous drag persona DIVINE.
BIO: Finn Wagstaff is a Los Angeles-based writer and performer with a passion for comedy. Growing up immersed in the Chicago improv scene, he developed a love of storytelling, a flair for the dramatic, and a soft spot for high-concept theatricality. He is a BFA graduate of Emerson College. Finn writes and performs in a sketch comedy show at The Elysian Theater with his team, Same Great Taste.
KEITH WALKER
PRONOUNS: he/him
PROJECT: Greenwood | One-hour Pilot
LOGLINE: A man carrying physical and emotional scars after returning home from World War I struggles to save the family business in turn-of-the-century Tulsa, Oklahoma.
BIO: Keith Walker is a two-time cancer survivor from Oklahoma who had a lot of time on his hands during chemotherapy. After losing his hair and realizing he would never make it as a bald model, he turned his attention toward writing dark comedies and family dramas, often asking: Why can’t men just go to therapy? Keith was a 2024-2025 Stowe Story Labs Fellow.
LEON LEE
PRONOUNS: he/him
PROJECT: Unsutured | Feature
LOGLINE: A celebrated Chinese transplant surgeon is sent to London to undermine a tribunal investigating forced organ harvesting. When his attempt to defect fails and deportation looms, he must choose between telling the truth and condemning himself, or keeping silent and living with blood on his hands.
BIO: Leon Lee is a Peabody Award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter drawn to character-driven stories about ordinary people facing extraordinary moral choices. His work explores the collision of conscience, survival, family, and political power, often through characters navigating authoritarian systems and impossible compromises. His films include Human Harvest, Letter from Masanjia, and the narrative feature Unsilenced.