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The Black List is partnering with The Media Access Awards, Easterseals Disability Services and the Writers Guild of America Writers with Disabilities Committee for the 2020 Disability List, a curated list of the most promising unproduced scripts featuring at least one lead character with a disability. Submissions will…

EXCLUSIVE: The inaugural Latinx TV List has been revealed! On Monday, during the NALIP Media Summit, NALIP executive director Ben Lopez joined Franklin Leonard and Kate Hagen of The Black List alongside Gloria Calderon-Kellett (One Day at a Time) and Tanya Saracho (Vida) of the Untitled Latinx Project to announce the…

Women and Film, Los Angeles and The Black List unveiled the participants of the​ 2020 Feature Lab and Residency on Monday. The annual program is an expansion of the original writing lab which is a joint effort between WIF and The Black List. The program provides mentorship and career opportunities to seven rising…

The Black List is partnering with IllumiNative and Sundance Institute for its latest collaboration: The Indigenous List. The inaugural list highlights the very best Indigenous screenwriters from both feature films and television — and submissions are open starting today. Filmmakers and content creators are invited to…

As Asian Pacific American Heritage Month comes to a close, Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE) and The Black List have unveiled the 10 features and 10 pilots for the second annual CAPE List, a survey of Hollywood executives’ favorite unproduced screenplays. The CAPE List includes a curated list of…

EXCLUSIVE: Hulu is looking to elevate Latinx writing talent. The Black List has teamed with the premium streamer for the 2020 Latinx List, which focuses one-hour and half-hour original pilots written by at least one Latinx writer and featuring a Latinx or Latin American character in a prominent role. The inaugural…

The Black List is partnering with The Latin Tracking Board, NALIP, Remezcla and The Untitled Latinx Project for the inaugural Latinx TV List. Interested writers and creators who are interested can submit to blcklst.com between now and March 18. The Latinx List will focus on one-hour and half-hour original pilots…

EXCLUSIVE: During Sundance, Jeremy Blacklow, Director of Entertainment Media at GLAAD and The Black List's Kate Hagen revealed the second annual catalog for the GLAAD List which is a roster of the most promising unmade LGBTQ-inclusive film scripts. From stories about Tennessee Williams to the bohemian '80s arts scene…

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List Podcast will debut on the new premium podcast subscription service Luminary in March of this year. Co-hosted by Black List founder Franklin Leonard and Kate Hagen, the podcast will feature unproduced scripts as contemporary radio plays, as well as thoughtful, in-depth conversations with…

The Black List was revealed Monday, the annual breakdown of the year’s most-liked unproduced screenplays culled via voting by more than 250 film execs about their favorite scripts that did not go into production during calendar-year 2019. This year, Ken Kobayashi’s Move On topped the list, with UTA his agency and…

UPDATE with final ranked list: The 15th annual Black List was released Monday, with Ken Kobayashi’s romance screenplay Move On leading the coveted rundown of unproduced screenplays in Hollywood with 29 votes. The screenplay follows Teddy, who thinks he's the only living person left in a world where humanity is frozen…

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List latest and F. Gary Gray’s Fenix Studio will partner to create a new screenwriting opportunity focused on identifying writers interested in writing a smart, elevated action script for the company. Starting today and continuing through February 1, 2020, screenwriters who are interested in this…