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EXCLUSIVE: The Black List and the GM Incubator Fund have set emerging filmmakers Christina YR Lim and Suhashini “Sushi” Krishnan as the recipients of grants through their Writer-Driven Shorts program. Each will now receive a $100,000 grant to shoot a short film based on their feature scripts. Both…

EXCLUSIVE: NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), the Black List, the Redford Center, and the CAA Foundation today announced the recipients of the 2024 NRDC Climate Storytelling Fellowship and the Hollywood creatives who will mentor them. Along with new partner NBCUniversal, the organizations also…

Even as he collected his martini, the burly stranger who introduced himself as “Joe” exuded an aura of belligerence. We were standing on the fringe of a post-screening reception, so, hand extended, I blurted, "Did the movie work for you?" "It was blah,"…

Exclusive: The Georgia List, which highlights the most promising unmade scripts from writers with close ties to the state of Georgia, has opened its second round of submissions (through June 15, 2024). Writers with close ties to the state of Georgia are invited to submit a feature film script, pilot…

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List and WIF have announced the participants of the 2024 Episodic Lab, which focuses on preparing women writers and writers of underrepresented genders for a career in television writing. “Coming out of an incredibly challenging year for our industry, the Black List and WIF are…

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List is opening submissions for six diversity lists in partnership with GLAAD, CAPE, the MPAC Hollywood Bureau, The Salon, the Latin Tracking Board, NALIP, 1IN4 Coalition, and the WGA Disabled Writers Committee, in addition to establishing the Desi List-–a new, curated list that will…

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List and Google today revealed the four writers who were selected as the inaugural Black List x YouTube Originals Black Voices Creator Fellows. The recipients are Beverly Chukwu, Shannon Hawkins, Brandon Hines, and Duchant Johnson. More information about the Fellows is below. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Over three years after The Black List and the then MGM launched their feature film script writing partnership to find and amplify new voices, the team-up has found their fourth and final recipient. Audrey Rosenberg will receive a two-step Guild minimum open script deal with Amazon MGM…

EXCLUSIVE: Transformers Prime actress Tania Gunadi has been awarded a prime Sundance perch. Author of  dark comedy Teddy script, Gunadi is this year's Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellow. In the 11th year of the indie centric collaboration between the Mudbound producer and The Black List…

The Black List and Stowe Story Labs have partnered to create a fellowship for an emerging screenwriter to attend the Stowe Narrative Lab. The Fellow will also either participate in a longform online writing program or a one-on-one mentoring program, depending on their needs. This is the first…

EXCLUSIVE: As they should, the Black List will be celebrating its 20th anniversary with some of Hollywood's most acclaimed artists and a cinema institution next year. Leaning into to two decades of shining a spotlight on Tinseltown's most liked unproduced screenplays, the Franklin Leonard-founded…

CAA and Grandview lead the way in the respective agency and management company rankings for 2023’s The Black List, the annual compendium of the year’s most liked unproduced screenplays. UTA and Echo Lake Entertainment repped this year’s top title, Travis Braun’s Bad Boy, about a rescue dog who…