The Black List partners with the Writers Guild of Great Britain
From the Black List:
The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) today announces that they have entered into partnership with The Black List to increase the prominence of UK-based writers in the worldwide film industry.
The Black List began as a survey. In 2005, Franklin Leonard surveyed almost 100 film industry development executives about their favorite scripts from that year that had not yet been made. The results were compiled and sent out to all who responded, and the process repeated every year.
Over 225 Black List screenplays have since been made as feature films. Those films have earned over $19bn in worldwide box office, have been nominated for more than 175 Academy Awards, and have won 30, including Best Pictures Slumdog Millionaire, The King’s Speech, and Argo, and seven of the last 14 screenwriting Oscars.
The Black List also offers a membership site for industry professionals that functions as a real time screenplay recommendation engine, allowing executives across the world to find the scripts that they want to make.
The WGGB partnership with The Black List allows members of Britain’s trade union for writers to list their scripts on The Black List site for free, increasing the prominence of UK writers and helping more films written by UK writers make it into production. The Black List site will also contain information about the support and resources available for WGGB members.
“Great stories have no borders and the ability to access them shouldn’t either. We’re thrilled that this alliance with the WGGB will allow us to further make that the case,” said Black List Founder Franklin Leonard.
“The WGGB is proud to be able to partner with Franklin and The Black List in order to raise the profile of British writers worldwide,” said screenwriter and President of the WGGB Olivia Hetreed (Girl with a Pearl Earring).
As part of the newly formed alliance between the WGAW and the Black List, all WGGB members will be able to add their script titles, loglines, tags, and representative information, as well as monitor their work’s ratings and user traffic, free of charge. WGGB members will also receive a 20% discount on paid Black List services to host their scripts and obtain reader evaluations of their screenplays.
Since its launch, the Black List’s script-hosting website has been responsible for dozens of writers finding representation with major agencies and management companies, as well as more than a dozen script sales.
The Black List website can be found at http://www.blcklst.com/.
Also heard through the grapevine there will be a 2nd annual Black List Screenwriters Lab in Las Vegas in October 2014. Details to come.
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