A pair of friends from Anchorage, now living in Los Angeles writing scripts for movies and TV shows together, recently won a screenwriting award at the Sundance Film Festival.
Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch received Sundance’s Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for “On the Count of Three,” a dark comedy directed by and starring Jerrod Carmichael, with whom Katcher worked on the Carmichael Show.
Katcher says he had never actually heard of the award, and while he was honored to receive it, the writing partners really just hope it helps open more doors to future screenwriting projects. And, Katcher says, it’s really been like that all along, with no singular moment that they’ve “made it.”
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