The Black Listing Proclaims Characteristic Lab Members & Mentors – Deadline

The Black List has finalized the names of the six writers that can be a part of their 2022 Characteristic Lab and can partake in a hybrid workshop that can embrace digital classes culminating in an in-person weekend intensive in Los Angeles.

Every author will workshop one screenplay by peer teams and one-on-one classes with working skilled screenwriting mentors, together with Kiwi Smith (Legally Blonde), David Rabinowitz (Blackkklansman), Jonathan Stokes (El Gringo), Natalie Krinsky (The Damaged Hearts Gallery), Phil Hay (The Invitation), Guinevere Turner (American Psycho), Michael Mitnick (The Present Battle), and Scott Myers of Go Into The Story.

The Black Listing has additionally chosen a fellow for the first-ever Black Listing Musical Movie Fellowship. The Fellow will obtain mentorship from skilled screenwriting mentors with experience within the musical world.

The 2022 Characteristic Lab contributors and their tasks are:

SILICON VALLEY GIRL by Yeon Jin Lee

A younger feminine intern at a prime Silicon Valley tech firm vies for the full-time job supply. She decides to take excessive measures when one other feminine programmer threatens her possibilities.

Yeon Jin Lee is a Korean-American author of suspense thrillers centered on girls in tech. Yeon Jin is knowledgeable by her expertise of navigating between worlds, together with first and later-generation American dynamics, Asian and American identities, feminine id in male-dominated environments, and technical and inventive personalities in Silicon Valley and Hollywood.

THE QUIET KIND by Justin Geldzahler

Employed by an orphan to avenge her mother and father’ murders, a taciturn bounty hunter barrels right into a thriller of white supremacists and land seize conspiracies solely to face probably the most tough query — can the robust silent kind discover ways to talk?

Justin Geldzahler is a author and filmmaker from Virginia primarily based in New York Metropolis presently working as a marketing consultant on HBO’s Succession. He just lately wrote, directed, and produced his first function, a horror/cringe comedy referred to as Glue Lure, and would like to be paid to make the following movie.

THE SKY WE LOOK UPON by Ali Imran Zaidi

On an in a single day prepare by the agricultural Pacific Northwest, a newlywed couple returning residence to feuding households is trapped in a bloody high-wire battle — the place they have to select a facet to outlive.

Ali Imran Zaidi is an LA-based author of thrillers, sci-fi, crime and alt-history, and a Florida escapee who’s lived on three continents. A 2022 fellow in Riz Ahmed’s Pillars Fund Artist Fellowship sponsored by Amazon and Netflix, he’s presently writing an unique narrative audio sequence alongside Hillman Grad Productions, with Janina Gavankar and Hasan Minhaj connected to co-produce and star.

WHITE TOOTH by Cody Pearce

A pregnant nice white shark makes a deadly journey throughout the ocean to present beginning, whereas an expectant mom makes use of shark-fishing to repay her playing debt. Jaws meets Uncut Gems.

Cody Pearce is an LA-based screenwriter specializing in style options, principally horror, science fiction and motion/journey. He has labored as a park ranger, a producer of on-line academic content material and presently works at Nickelodeon Animation Studios.

FORTY-EIGHT STEPS by Amy Huckabay

Callie, the black sheep of her household, reveals up at her father’s marriage ceremony prepared to aim a relationship with him. Issues get difficult when she hooks up with a thriller man within the rest room, solely to seek out out he’s her soon-to-be stepbrother, Nate.

Amy Huckabay is a author, director, comic, and educated dramatic actress who realized she was humorous and hasn’t seemed again since. She’s devoted to telling female-focused tales the place the characters don’t essentially should be likable, they only should be actual.

THE CHICKEN MURDERS – Nadia Osman

Based mostly on true occasions, a dysfunctional Armenian household flees the Lebanese Civil Battle to open a sequence of profitable rotisserie rooster eating places in Los Angeles, solely to see ambition, greed, and generational trauma tear the household aside, resulting in betrayal, revenge, and homicide.

Nadia Osman just lately wrote animated episodes slated for Netflix and extra literary work for BET, in addition to writes and performs on the Upright Residents Brigade in Los Angeles the place her work was featured in Leisure Weekly, Bustle, and extra. The Rooster Murders was a Script Pipeline finalist this 12 months, whereas her pilot and internet sequence Depressed was a Vimeo Workers Decide, praised by Vulture, and positioned at Sundance Labs and AFF.

The 2022 Musical Movie Fellow and his venture are:

NO TE OLVIDES by Nerris Nevarez-Nassiri

When a timid closeted Chicana takes her rambunctious dying grandmother again to their ancestral Mexican village, they each get greater than they bargained for once they every begin uncommon romances that can reveal long-held secrets and techniques.

Nerris Nevarez-Nassiri is a first-generation Mexican-MENA filmmaker & musician, and a proud UCLA Movie & TV grad. His mixed-race upbringing compels him to put in writing coming-of-age and fish-out-of-water musical movies.

Submissions for the 2023 Characteristic Lab are actually open with extra particulars on The Black List website.