Annual Black List Feature Lab |
2019
The Black List invites six to eight promising non-professional writers as identified by the Black List to a week-long, intensive writers workshop.
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Official Selections
BROKEN KEYS
Official Selection
Feature
Trying to flee his war-ravaged Middle Eastern neighborhood for Europe, a musician struggles to rebuild his piano after it is destroyed by terrorists.
Empire Waist
Private
Official Selection
Feature
· Comedy
When a shy, overweight teen’s talent for fashion design is discovered by her fat and fabulous classmate, she must choose to put her designs on display for the world to see, or return to a life of sewing in the shadows.
Brooklyn, NY
Claire Ayoub is the writer and director of the upcoming feature EMPIRE WAIST, a heartfelt dramedy about teens learning to love their bodies through fashion design. Starring Rainn Wilson, Missi Pyle, Mia Kaplan, Jolene Purdy, and newcomer Mima Yevu, the film was produced in partnership with Wayfarer Studios, American High, and Procter & Gamble.
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Official Selection
Feature
· Historical
· 116 Pages
An early suffragette and Britain’s first investigative reporter risk everything to expose the trafficking of young women in Victorian London in hopes of changing an unjust law.
Wilmington, North Carolina
LGBTQ+ Buddhist writer and MSW student, Tony Martin turns traditional period pieces into compelling, edgy social justice thrillers. His prestige drama MAIDENS OF BABYLON was named to the Black List Writers Lab, a LaunchPad Top 100 script and Nicholl QF. His latest project NURSE CONFIDENTIAL is a 2021 LaunchPad Top 50 script.
Talbukja (Defector)
Private
Official Selection
Feature
· Drama
· 10 Pages
When a virtuous, rule-abiding mother-to-be is sentenced to a labor camp on behalf of her aunt’s crimes, she is pushed to commit a capital crime of her own: fleeing North Korea.
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The Innocent and the Vicious
Private
Official Selection
Feature
· Drama
· 118 Pages
When a young woman's family is brutally murdered by Nazi officers, she and two friends embark on a dangerous mission to exact personal revenge.
Los Angeles, CA
LA-based writer and producer
THREE SUMMERS
Official Selection
Feature
A coming-of-age story about an entitled English boy who discovers young love and familial values after stumbling through a magical garden—and his corresponding journey to save his surrogate family during World War II.
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