The Disability List |
2020
A partnership between The Black List, The Media Access Awards, Easterseals, and the Writers Guild of America Writers with Disabilities Committee.
Placement
Genre
Format
Representation Status
Official Selections
CENTS
Private
Official Selection
· Unknown
Frankie––a high school senior with an intellectual disability––sets a penny on the railroad tracks the morning of a freak train derailment. Assuming responsibility, he goes into hiding amidst a citywide evacuation and must survive on his own––a “fugitive” in a ghost town, with the police who “hunt” him, and a pile of combustible train cars looming.
Sam Davis
No bio available.
Official Selection
TV Script
· Comedy
· 27 Pages
Afraid to tell her bubbly best friend about her recent cancer diagnosis, a cranky TV director turns to a cancer support group. There she meets a diverse group of women who help each other through real-life problems that can’t be solved with "good vibes".
Los Angeles, CA
Lily Gwyer-Miller is the Seattle-born child of two hippies whose career in entertainment began in the role of Janet at midnight screenings of Rocky Horror Picture Show. Lily and her writing partner, Janna Taylor, have been featured on the Blacklist Disability List, The Grey List, as American Zoetrope Screenplay Finalists and, most recently, as Harv...
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LOOKING UP
Private
Official Selection
· Unknown
A wheelchair-using twenty-something messes around and messes up in New York City.
Los Angeles, CA
No bio available.
NO ONE IS LOOKING
Official Selection
Unknown
Sam, a physically-challenged highschooler, kills a bully and thinks he got away with it because no one would believe a kid in a wheelchair would be capable of that, but he must find the bully’s missing severed head before anyone finds out about the murder.
PHANTOM
Private
Official Selection
· Unknown
A double amputee combat veteran returns from Afghanistan and faces a new battle she must wage to regain herself.
Jennifer Noonan
No bio available.
Official Selection
Feature
· Thriller
· 108 Pages
A vulnerable, autistic man is taken in by a band of thieves to rob the charity that supports him. They soon discover he has surprising abilities.
A produced writer (Smuggling In Suburbia, Lifetime). SF twice in the Nicholl.
His heist film, Possum, won Easter Seals Year’s 8 Best Scripts. His scripts were optioned by actor Ashton Kutcher, Rachel Winter (Producer, Oscar winner Dallas Buyer’s Club), and Cary Brokaw (Producer, Golden Globes, Angels In America). Ingraham has an MFA in Playwriting...
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Official Selection
Feature
· Drama
· 104 Pages
After struggling for years housebound with severe pelvic pain, a dejected mother takes a risk and pulls her teenage daughter out of school for one day in an attempt to mend their strained relationship.
Los Angeles, California
Sarah Granger crafts narratives that explore how harnessing pain can spur innovation, reshape worlds, and transform lives. She is the recipient of the 2023 Loreen Arbus Fellowship award through the Athena Writers Lab and winner of the 2022 SFFILM Rainin Filmmakers with Disabilities Grant. Her scripts have been on The Black List’s Disability List and...
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Official Selection
Feature
· Western
· 123 Pages
In the midst of New Zealand's bloody land wars and waning gold-rush, a destitute and vengeful widow embarks on a perilous journey to claim the bounty for a reclusive Chinese gold miner accused of murdering her husband.
Waitakere, Auckland, NZ
Born in New Zealand and raised in Australia, Jared studied theatre in Sydney before relocating back to NZ to work on a local feature film. Over the years, Jared’s success in the screen industry continued to expand, working on numerous acclaimed local and international productions.
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