TO DISCOVER ASPIRING DRAMA WRITERS
Fox Broadcasting Company has partnered with script site The Black List to help discover aspiring television drama writers for current and future FOX productions.
The Black List will solicit scripts to be evaluated by its community of industry professionals and readers, sharing with FOX a short list of writers to consider for a drama script deal or drama staff position.
Interested writers can submit material starting today at www.blcklst.com/fox.
The submission window will be open now through May 1, 2014 at 11:59 PM PT.
A complete list of rules, additional information and submission guidelines can be found on the site.
The Black List is an online community where content creators can find scripts to make, and writers can find producers, studios and networks to produce their scripts. Since launching in October 2012, The Black List has hosted more than 12,000 screenplays and teleplays and completed more than 16,000 script evaluations. Dozens of writers have found representation, sales and options, via the site since its launch. At any given time, The Black List hosts more than 2,500 screenplays and teleplays for perusal by thousands of film and television industry professionals, ranging from agency assistants to studio and network heads.
“As we build a year-round slate of high-quality programming, we are constantly looking for fresh new voices that break out of the pack,” said Terence Carter, Executive Vice President, Drama Development & Programming. “Given the Black List’s impressive track record in features, they are the perfect partner for us as we seek out new drama talent.”
“FOX is a longtime forward thinker in the broadcast entertainment world. It’s a natural partnership for us, and one that we expect to yield exciting new voices that we can enjoy on a weekly basis,” said The Black List founder Franklin Leonard.
In addition to Fox Broadcasting Company, The Black List is currently partnered with WIGS, the Writers Guild of America, East; the Writers Guild of America, West; the Writers Guild of Great Britain; the Sundance Institute; Warner Bros. Pictures; TNT; and TBS.
About The Black List
The Black List is an online community where moviemakers find scripts to make and writers to write them, and screenwriters find moviemakers to make their scripts and employ them.
Begun in 2005 as an annual survey of several dozen executives’ favorite unproduced screenplays, The Black List has grown to survey over 500 executives each year (virtually 100% of Hollywood’s studio system’s executive corps). Over 250 Black List scripts have been produced into films grossing over $18 billion in worldwide box office. Black List scripts have won 30 Academy Awards – including three of the last five Best Pictures (”Slumdog Millionaire,” “The King’s Speech” and ”Argo”) and seven of the last 12 screenwriting awards (“Juno,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” “The King’s Speech,” “The Social Network,” “The Descendants,” “Argo” and “Django Unchained”) – from 180 nominations.
In October 2012, The Black List launched an online database of every screenplay circulating Hollywood and all those submitted by English language screenwriters from around the world. Since its launch, it has hosted more than 10,000 screenplays and completed more than 14,000 script evaluations. More than 40 writers have found representation at major agencies and management companies and more than 30 writers have sold their screenplays as a direct result of introductions made via the site.
At any given time, more than 2,200 screenplays are actively hosted for perusal by thousands of film industry professionals, ranging from agency assistants to studio and network heads.
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