by Team Diaspora | May 3, 2022 | Culture, Media, News
The Disruptors, the annual fellowship for emerging television writers of color who identify as either trans, gender nonbinary, undocumented/formerly undocumented, or disabled, are now open for the 2022 program season. The fellowship will take place from August to...
by Sheila East | Oct 1, 2021 | Culture, News
The Writers Guild Initiative, the King Family Foundation and the Black List have officially opened submissions for the Michael Collyer Memorial Fellowship in Screenwriting. The Fellowship launched 14 years ago and its its sixth year where it will be hosted on...
by Team Diaspora | Jul 20, 2021 | Culture, News
GLAAD and The Black List announced that submissions for the the third edition of the GLAAD List, a curated list of the most promising unmade LGBTQ-inclusive scripts in Hollywood that have been hosted on blcklst.com or were included on the 2020 annual Black List. The...
by Mark Paul | Jun 7, 2021 | Media
Writers Alexandra Dean Grossi and Adrienne Marquand are bringing the pilot episode of Oral to the masses. Now before you get the wrong idea of what this pilot is about, the show is based on Grossi’s real life experience. The hour-long dramedy follows Izzy, a “not deaf...
by Mark Paul | May 12, 2021 | Film, News
The Black List has teamed with the Muslim Public Affairs Council Hollywood Bureau (MPAC) and Pillars Fund for the inaugural Muslim List, which spotlights screenwriters who are practitioners or followers of Islam. There were nearly 200 feature film and pilot scripts...
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