The Sundance Institute has named the eight directors and six screenwriters who will workshop their projects at the June labs, which start May 30 at Robert Redford's Sundance resort in Provo Canyon.

The eight directors will workshop scenes from their scripts, with real actors and crews, for three weeks. Then, all 14 scripts will be part of an intensive weeklong writers' workshop. All of this happens under the eyes of faculty advisers who include famous Hollywood directors, writers, cinematographers, editors and actors - including Redford himself.

Here are the eight directing projects, with descriptions from the Sundance Institute:

• "Adelaide," Liliana Greenfield-Sanders (writer/director), U.S.A. • "In this dark comedy, an eccentric teenage girl with Munchausen syndrome pushes her medical theatrics to extremes in order to win the heart of a handsome paramedic." Greenfield-Sanders wrote "Ghosts of Grey Gardens," which premiered at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival and aired on PBS.
• "Adelyne," Holden Abigail Osborne (writer/director), U.S.A. • "A woman finds her path living a solitary, monastic life in a forgotten corner of rural America, but a warrior of the woods and a family illness force her to reconcile spiritual living with primal purpose." Osborne's "Solitary/Release," a documentary/narrative hybrid featuring James Franco, premiered last year at SXSW.
• "The American People," Keith Davis (writer/director), U.S.A. • "In the heart of Alabama wiregrass country, a mother haunted by prescient visions of the future struggles to find hope and the strength to live again after the sudden death of one of her children just days before 9/11." Davis, an actor and filmmaker from Ozark, Ala., is the first recipient of the Honda Power of Dreams Fellowship.
• "La Raya," Yolanda Cruz (writer/director), Mexico/U.S.A. • "Destined to follow in the footsteps of the other men in his village, enterprising 11-year-old Papio has his heart set on emigrating north to the U.S.; after an abandoned refrigerator fortuitously appears, he tries to exploit its value to finance his journey, only to find that it may not ultimately be his destiny to leave." Cruz, who is from Oaxaca, Mexico, has produced seven documentaries about native people in the United States and Mexico.
• "Little Accidents," Sara Colangelo (writer/director), U.S.A. • "A small American coal-mining town, rocked by the devastating effects of a mining accident a year ago, must now deal with the mysterious disappearance of a 14-year-old boy." This is an expansion of Colangelo's short film of the same name, which played at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
• "The Storm King," Carlo Mirabella-Davis (writer/director), U.S.A. • "A rural family is plunged into chaos and violence by the return of their unstable daughter 15 years after her mysterious disappearance." Mirabella-Davis' short "Knife Point" premiered at Sundance 2009, and he co-directed and produced the documentary (premiering at this year's Tribeca Film Festival) "The Swell Season" - following musicians Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova's concert tour after the success of their movie "Once."
• "Wolf," Bogdan Mustata (writer/director), Romania • "In this surreal tale, a young boy's dearest wish is realized when his absent father is quite literally reborn and joins the family once again." Mustata's short "A Good Day for a Swim," won a Golden Bear for best short film at the Berlin film festival in 2008.
• "Zero Motivation," Talya Lavie (writer/director), Israel • "A tragicomic look at the power struggles of three female clerks over one year in an administrative office at a remote army base in the Israeli desert." Lavie's short films have screened at many festivals and won international awards.

The scripts chosen for the Screenwriters Lab are:

• "Ajax," Carson Mell (writer/director), U.S.A. • "A band of alcoholic men adrift in outer space become at odds with one another after taking aboard a young woman refugee and discovering the purpose of their mysterious mission." Mell's short films "Chonto" and "Field Notes from Dimension X" have screened at the Sundance Film Festival.
• "Hurt Village," Katori Hall (writer), U.S.A. • "Based on the award-winning play, 'Hurt Village' follows a soldier's homecoming from Iraq to a crumbling housing project in Memphis, Tennessee, that is being demolished by the city. When a haunting secret threatens to tear his life apart, the war abroad may be better than the war in the streets and the war inside his head." Hall's play "The Mountaintop" won an Olivier Award for Best New Play, and will debut on Broadway this fall.
• "Red Olive Tree," Karim Bensalah (writer/director), Algeria/France • "Plagued by divided loyalties following the French-Algerian war, the recently deceased Ahmed miraculously arises to lead his bickering French family to his homeland, where they grapple with the consequences of the choices he made in life and allow him to find peace in death." Bensalah has directed numerous short films, including a segment of the 2005 feature film "Paris La Métisse."
• "Satra," Sheron Dayoc (writer/director), Philippines • "Swept up in the ethnic conflict of war-torn Mindanao, Satra, a tribal fabric weaver, hovers between the spiritual and real worlds, wrestling with the uncertain fate of her village and loved ones." Dayoc's first feature film, "Halaw," received an award at the Berlin International Film Festival, as well as Best Picture at the 2010 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival (known as the “Sundance of the Philippines.”)
• "What He Did," Kyle Burns (writer/director), U.S.A. • "After her estranged son commits a shocking crime, a mother searches for a way forward when the state forces her to care for a child she never wanted." Burns is working on a short film, a preamble to "What He Did."
• "Ad Inexplorata," Mark Elijah Rosenberg (writer/director), U.S.A. • "'Ad Inexplorata' is a multi-media fictional story about Captain William D. Stanaforth, a NASA pilot alone on a one-way mission toward the unknown." Rosenberg is founder and artistic director of Rooftop Films, a New York nonprofit that aims to engage diverse communities through film.