Stowe Story Labs Mentors

We are honored to work with a stellar pool of mentors. The list of mentors is constantly expanding and shifting so please check this page often. Further, because our mentors are top-tier working professionals in the industry, schedules and obligations can shift quickly. Given that, those slated for a particular program may change with little or no notice. (We take this risk because we believe it valuable to participants to work with mentors who are tremendously busy with film and TV work given they are deeply active in the industry today.

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Corey Trent Ackerman

Corey was the driving force behind FreshMaker Media, a literary management and production company, before joining The Cartel in the fall of 2016 as a manager/producer.

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Eszter Angyalosy

Eszter is a Hungarian screenwriter, story editor, and writing tutor working with Hungarian and international talents alike.

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Ciara Appelbe

Ciara works for World 2000 Entertainment, the company responsible for The Tudors (Showtime) and Vikings (MGM).

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Jennifer Au

Jennifer Au is a literary manager and producer.

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Robyn Greene Arrington

Robin is an award-winning content creator. She serves as Interim Head of Programming & Production at TV One & CLEO TV.

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Blake Avery

Blake Avery is currently a Manager in the Original Film group at Netflix.

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Marcela Davidson Avilés

Marcela is a prominent American essayist, independent producer/writer, attorney, and Latino cultural dramaturg and advisor.

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Conor Barry

Conor is an Irish producer working in Dublin-based Savage Productions.  

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Emily Best

Emily is the founder and CEO of Seed&Spark, an entertainment platform built to increase diversity and inclusion.

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Alex Boden

Alex’s production company Pistachio Pictures launched in London in 1999. 

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Liz Cardenas

Liz Cardenas is a 2022 Independent Spirit Award winner for Duplass Brothers Productions’ 7 DAYS (Tribeca ‘21 | Cinedigm)

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Shari Lynette Carpenter

Shari, an award winning writer/director, made her episodic television directing debut for Queen Sugar.

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Scott Collette

Scott is a screenwriter with a background in pre-sales film financing and international distribution.

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Melody Cooper

Melody is writing the feature adaptation of the best-seller fantasy novel Beasts of Prey for Netflix.

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Chris Deckard

Chris is co-founder of the management/production company Fictional Entity.

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Caroline Couret-Delègue

After working in feature film production in Hollywood on movies starring Rob Schneider, David Carradine, Jennifer Morrison, Winona Ryder, Wes Bentley, Steve Buscemi, to name but only a few, Caroline chose to come back to Europe and relocate to London in 2008 as Director of Development & Marketing at Seven Arts Pictures.

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Ali Doyle

Ali has most recently been leading the Wild Atlantic Pictures (Fastnet Films) development slate across film & TV which includes the upcoming feature from Kate Dolan, Silent Caller.

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Jonathan Duffy

Jonathan is a creative producer & co-founder of Ten Acre Films. 

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Matt Dy

His love for story has now led him to pursue screenwriting while also still continuing to work with writers as a script consultant.

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Bob Edwards

A graduate of Stanford University’s MA program in documentary film, Bob has been a working screenwriter for 21 years.

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