For a 10th consecutive year, the Black List and Cassian Elwes will bring an Independent Screenwriting Fellow to join them at the Sundance Film Festival.
The Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship is an annual program designed to encourage and identify new talent in the field of indie cinema by awarding up to two screenwriters with an all-expenses paid trip to the Sundance Film Festival under the aegis of producer Cassian Elwes.
Beginning Monday, unrepresented feature writers whose work features an independent sensibility and have made less than 5,000 in aggregate in their film or television writing careers will be able to opt into consideration via the Black List website until November 13. At that time, the Black List will choose 10 finalists, whose work will be shared with Elwes, who will decide the fellowship recipients before calendar year’s end.
Previous fellows include Leslie Nipkow, Aemilia Scott,...
The Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship is an annual program designed to encourage and identify new talent in the field of indie cinema by awarding up to two screenwriters with an all-expenses paid trip to the Sundance Film Festival under the aegis of producer Cassian Elwes.
Beginning Monday, unrepresented feature writers whose work features an independent sensibility and have made less than 5,000 in aggregate in their film or television writing careers will be able to opt into consideration via the Black List website until November 13. At that time, the Black List will choose 10 finalists, whose work will be shared with Elwes, who will decide the fellowship recipients before calendar year’s end.
Previous fellows include Leslie Nipkow, Aemilia Scott,...
- 8/1/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Butler producer Cassian Elwes and the Black List have chosen Mike Harden to receive the Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship in the award’s second year of making Hollywood dreams come true. The Cinderella honor grants a worthy new (and agent-less) voice in screenwriting with a whirlwind trip to the Sundance Film Festival under the mentorship of indie film veteran Elwes and the Black List staff.
Eligible writers can’t have earned more than $5,000 to date from their projects, and Harden fits the bill: The East Bridgewater, Massachusetts native was working as a part-time real estate agent, in the shipping department of a wholesale retailer, and writing corporate videos and small films while building his writing career on the side. He landed on the Black List’s radar with his script A Good Man, a violent crime thriller set in Brockton, Mass. A Good Man was one of...
Eligible writers can’t have earned more than $5,000 to date from their projects, and Harden fits the bill: The East Bridgewater, Massachusetts native was working as a part-time real estate agent, in the shipping department of a wholesale retailer, and writing corporate videos and small films while building his writing career on the side. He landed on the Black List’s radar with his script A Good Man, a violent crime thriller set in Brockton, Mass. A Good Man was one of...
- 12/10/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
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