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The Black List and Cassian Elwes have selected Aemilia Scott as the 2021 Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellow. She will join them at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Splitting her time between Los Angeles and Chicago, Scott is a writer/director whose first short film, Best If Used By  won a BAFTA LA award…

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List is partnering with the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) for the Black List New Zealand Project (BLNZP). The new initiative is a one-off fund script development workshop designed to foster the creative relationship between writers and producers and stimulate international opportunities for…

UTA leads all agencies with the most screenplays 2020’s The Black List, which was announced Monday. The agency had a total of 17 scripts on the annual list of the year’s most-liked unproduced screenplays. It was followed by Verve, which had 8.5 scripts on the list. Verve was No. 1 last year with 10.5 screenplays…

The 16th annual The Black List was announced this morning by Desus Nice and The Kid Mero, and below are the rankings of the year’s hot unproduced (or on the verge of being produced) screenplays. Leading this year’s list with 29 votes is Sophie Dawson’s Headhunter, which follows a high-functioning cannibal who selects…

Desus Nice and The Kid Mero of Desus & Mero fame are set to announce 16th annual Black List. Yup, you heard that right, The Bodega Boys are set to blow our minds as they host the unveiling of The Black List, which is a collection of Hollywood’s best unproduced scripts written by the most talented screenwriters that…

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List, along with IllumiNative and the Sundance Institute have selected the nine scripts for the inaugural Indigneous List, which spotlights some of the best (if not the best) Indigenous film and television writers living and working within the U.S. Submissions for The Indigenous List kicked off in…

Continuing its effort to bolster stories from historically underrepresented communities, The Black List is teaming with MGM to launch a two-year feature film script writing partnership to discover new voices. The initiative is committed to identifying new writers who want to tell original stories with universal appeal…

EXCLUSIVE: The selections for the 2020 Disability List were unveiled Thursday night at the Media Access Awards. The Black List teamed with Easterseals Disability Services, the Writers Guild of America Writers with Disabilities Committee and Media Access Awards for the annual curated list of the most promising…

The Black List has teamed with Google Assistant to launch the inaugural Storytelling Fellowship. The Black List & Google Assistant Storytelling Fellowship will provide financial and creative support to five writers in the development and execution of a new original feature film script or television pilot that…

EXCLUSIVE: In May, The Black List unveiled the 10 writers for the inaugural Latinx TV List. To mark the conclusion of Hispanic Heritage Month (which is today), three of the writers from the list have been selected to receive blind script deals with Hulu:  Dominic Colon, Juan Carlos Fernandez and Anna…

The Black List is partnering with the Writers Guild Initiative (WGI) and the King Family Foundation for the annual Michael Collyer Memorial Fellowship in Screenwriting. This marks the 13th year for the fellowship and the fifth year being hosted on blcklst.com. Submissions are being accepted starting today through…

The Black List and WIF (Women In Film, Los Angeles) have unveiled the participants who have won spots in their fifth annual Episodic Lab as well as the annual Feature Lab. The Episodic Lab provides mentorship and career opportunities to six rising women television writers over the course of a year. The Lab runs twice…