Rage Against the Night
Rage Against the Night
Feature
· Thriller · 106 pages
Status: Spec
A Latino literature professor seeking tenure to remain in the USA agrees to do a poetry workshop in a prison. But when a Black inmate secretly communicates to him through his poetry that he’s innocent, he sacrifices everything to try and stop the inmate's fast-approaching execution. (Inspired by Actual Events)
Written by
Akiva Cohen
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16 Accolades
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Coverfly Top 1% in Genre/Format
Semifinalist,
The Academy Nicholl Fellowship 2020
Quarterfinalist,
Script Pipeline Screenwriting Competition 2022
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Akiva has studied screenwriting under Jacob Krueger (NYC), Scott Myers (Black List Blog), and the Sundance collab program. Rage Against the Night was a Nicholl Fellowship 2020 Semi-finalist and 2023 Quarter-finalist, an Austin Film Festival Screenwriting 2020 second-rounder, and the 2020 winner of the Chicago Social Justice Screenwriting Competiti...
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Nicholl Fellowship 2020 Semi-Finalist and 2023 Quarter-Finalist. Austin Film Festival 2020 Second Rounder. Winner of the Rubenstein Law: Chicago Social Justice Screenwriting Competition 2020 (hosted by the Chicago Film Office), and other placements ...