The Black List announces fall screenwriters mini-labs
From the good folks at the Black List:
LOS ANGELES (July 20, 2015) — This afternoon, the Black List announced four new weekend-long Screenwriters Mini-Labs which will take place this fall across the US and Canada. The dates and locations are:
September 12–13 at the Toronto International Film Festival
October 3–4 at Columbia College in Chicago, IL
October 17–18 in San Francisco, CA
November 14–15 in Los Angeles, CA
The Black List will invite four promising non-professional writers to each city’s Mini-Lab. The Mini-Lab will consist of weekend-long, intensive peer workshopping and one-on-one sessions with professional screenwriters as mentors, focused on elevating the writers’ best sample as identified by the Black List website and further preparing each writer for the realities of life in the professional trade. Mentors will be announced in the weeks leading up to each Mini-Lab.
The Black List has previously hosted a Mini-Lab in New York, NY and two weeklong Labs in Las Vegas, NV. Previous mentors have included Kiwi Smith, Billy Ray, Max Borenstein, Jessica Bendinger, Beau Willimon, Leslye Headland, Brian Koppelman, Michael Mitnick, Jesse Wigutow and Scott Myers.
The submission period for the fall 2015 Mini-Labs is now open. Writers who meet the criteria detailed on www.blcklst.com can opt their scripts into consideration for the Mini-Labs selection process during the uploading process or the “My Scripts” portion of the website.
Ten writers for each city will be invited, based on the strength of their scripts as evaluated by the Black List screenplay evaluation service, to submit a resume and one-page personal statement. From those personal statements, four writers for each city will be selected by the Mini-Lab screenwriting mentors and the Black List to participate in the workshops.
SUBMISSION DEADLINES
Toronto/Toronto International Film Festival: August 20
Chicago/Columbia College: September 10
San Francisco, CA: September 17
Los Angeles, CA: October 8
Travel and accommodations will be provided for participants in the Los Angeles Mini-Lab. All other Mini-Labs are for local writers. Opt-in deadlines vary for each Mini-Lab. Additional details are available at www.blcklst.com.
CONTACT
Megan Halpern, The Black List, megan@blcklst.com
I have now participated as a mentor in three Black List screenwriter labs and I can attest, they are amazing. For individual writers to receive the depth of analysis and feedback from professionals, then come together to workshop each others’ stories… well, hard to describe how transformational that experience is.
I hope to see you this fall in Toronto… Chicago… San Francisco… Los Angeles…
To learn more, go here.
Once again, the Black List charts innovative ways to create new avenues into Hollywood.
UPDATE: Some folks have asked if I will be a mentor for the upcoming mini-labs and the answer is yes. I am excited to say I am scheduled to be involved in all four sessions.
Onward!