Following a robust year of activities in celebration of its 20th anniversary – including a new fiction initiative, the publication of multiple diversity lists, and a Gotham Awards Tribute – the Black List has published its 2024 edition. The scripts recognized on the annual list represent a tally of film executives’ votes for their favorite unproduced scripts of the year. As inclusion on the Black List has become an industry-recognized accolade for screenwriters looking to further their careers and see their scripts produced. Two Sloan grantees appear on the 2024 Black List: Kayla Sun and Alyson Weaver Nicholas.
Read about the projects by Sloan grantees below, and access the 20h edition of the list in its entirety here.
BOY, GIRL, FIG by Kayla Sun
Aden was born with a rare condition where he becomes invisible to those who love him. He struggles when he falls in love with his childhood best friend.
Earlier this year, it was announced Sun had won a 2023 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting for the same project. In 2020, she won a Sloan Production Award at USC for her short film THE CODE OF FAMILY, which is available to stream here on scienceandfilm.org.
LITTLE BLACK DRESS by Alyson Weaver Nicholas
While on hiatus from filming BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S, international movie star Audrey Hepburn is recruited by the CIA to hunt down a Nazi criminal hiding in Buenos Aires with ties to her past.
Alyson Weaver Nicholas also became a Sloan grantee while at USC, earning a 2017 Sloan Screenwriting Grant for her script THE MARS GENERATION.
In 2018, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation partnered with the Black List to create the Sloan Foundation Fellowship. Screenwriters applying to the Black List’s annual Writer’s Lab with a science or technology-themed script can opt in for fellowship consideration. The selected fellow receives mentorship opportunities throughout the year, beyond the duration of the lab itself. As reported by Deadline in October, the six 2024 Writer’s Lab participants were selected from a pool of over 1,700 submissions. Science & Film can announce that scientist-turned-screenwriter Danny Hogan has been named the 2024 Sloan Foundation Fellow. Read more about Danny’s winning script below.
THE PRESERVE by Danny Hogan
An AWOL soldier is hired to guide a conservation expedition deep into the treacherous post-war jungles of Cambodia in search of its last remaining tiger, but they encounter a vicious animal trafficking operation that is after the same prize.
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