The Black List Interview: Diego Lanao
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by Kate Hagen
1w ago
Today, we chat with Diego Lanao about his journey as a writer and how the Black List website became a part of his story… What do you write? I’m usually drawn to writing comedic scripts for television, especially romantic comedy stories. As someone from New York, you hear a lot of love stories. Plus, my father is a hopeless romantic and my mother is the realist in their relationship, so I was able to write down several hilarious scenarios that would occur between them. That being said, for plays and films — I’m a huge fan of creating dramas. I always like to pitch myself that for TV ..read more
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The Sundance Diaries Part III: Tania Gunadi
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by Kate Hagen
1M ago
Read the final installment of our series with 2024 Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellow Tania Gunadi below! Day 5 Monday Jan 21 GOODBYE SUNDANCE, HELLO NEW BEGINNING On our last day at Sundance, we had one more meeting with an investor. Of course, we chose Don Gallo again, as it proved a perfect spot for meetings and coffees. It was another highly informative meeting with an investor who had a slightly different take and point of view on the industry and the types of projects he wanted to make, and so I watched and listened as Cassian navigated the conversation and tos ..read more
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The Sundance Diaries Part II: Tania Gunadi
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by Kate Hagen
1M ago
Read the next entry in our series with 2024 Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellow Tania Gunadi! Day 3 Saturday Jan 19 PROFESSIONALISM I awoke to the enchanting sight of fresh snow outside my window. Growing up in Indonesia and living in Los Angeles, I don’t get to see much snow. What a lovely treat! Breakfast joints were all packed with wait times stretching beyond an hour wherever we went. But Sundance knows that filmmakers like their coffee. So, they have “Coffee Lines” that are very efficient and fast. Just what Cassian, Tom, and I needed. I should mention that ..read more
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The Sundance Diaries Part I: Tania Guanadi
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by Kate Hagen
1M ago
Cassian and Tania at the 2024 Sundance Film FestivalThis week, we’re sharing reflections from Tania Gunadi, the 2024 Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellow about her experience at the festival in Park City. We’ll be posting more thoughts from Tania throughout the week — make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss anything! Before I start my journal, I’d like to share with you a little bit about my background. I was born and raised in Java, Indonesia, and moved to Los Angeles when I won a green card lottery as a teenager. I learned English by working at Pizza Hut, so some of my first ..read more
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The Black List Interview: William Han
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by Kate Hagen
2M ago
Today, we chat with William Han about his journey as a writer and how the Black List website became a part of his story… What do you write? I write lots of specs, so I’ve tried my hand at many genres. Sci-fi is probably the genre I’ve written in the most, but I’ve also done action, horror, drama, thriller, biopic, more specific sub-genres like legal thriller and action comedy, and one or two that I might call genre-defying. A question I like to ask myself in coming up with ideas is, “What if a genre A type story happened in a genre B world”? Some recent specs include a female-ce ..read more
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The Sundance Diaries: Christopher Hwisu Kim
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by Kate Hagen
1y ago
Christopher + Cassian in Park CityToday, we‘re sharring reflections from Christopher Hwisu Kim, the 2023 Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellow about his experience at the festival in Park City. Five Lessons I Learned from the Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship Lesson 1: Making a film and getting a film made are two entirely different things. I’ve spent most of my adult life learning how to do the former, and after spending Sundance with Cassian Elwes I’ve realized how little I know of the latter. A little about me. I’m a new father, I just bought a ..read more
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Reflections on the Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship from Leslie Nipkow
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by Kate Hagen
1y ago
With the opening of submissions for another year of the Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship, we’re pleased to bring you reflections on the remote 2022 Sundance Film Festival experience from last year’s Fellowship recipient, Leslie Nipkow, writer of SALT OF THE EARTH! When I answered the phone to hear Cassian Elwes say, “You are the winner of my fellowship,” I went from invisible to seen. I dumped a thousand-pound backpack of doubt. I sat up straighter. I probably also said some ridiculous things because, eighteen months into the global pandemic and five months after Hurrica ..read more
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The Black List Interview: Ximena García Lecuona on ANYTHING’S POSSIBLE
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by Kate Hagen
1y ago
Today, we talk with Ximena García Lecuona about her first feature as a screenwriter, the 2020 annual Black List and 2019 GLAAD List script ANYTHING’S POSSIBLE (fka WHAT IF?) Ximena tells us about the script’s journey from page to screen, what it was like working with Billy Porter on his directorial debut, and much more! What was the genesis of ANYTHING’S POSSIBLE? Ximena García Lecuona: ANYTHING’S POSSIBLE started out with a Reddit post that I saw. Basically, it was this kid saying that he liked a trans girl, didn’t know what to do, didn’t want to be insensitive, didn’t want to be ju ..read more
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The Black List Interview: Lauren Hadaway on THE NOVICE
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by Kate Hagen
2y ago
Today, we Kate talks with Lauren Hadaway about her debut film, THE NOVICE, which is now nominated for five Independent Spirit Awards including Best Feature, Best Female Lead, and Best Director. Lauren discusses how the film came together, her personal background as a rower, how the Black List has factored into her journey, and much more. I loved this film, I think it’s an incredibly accomplished debut — you’ve created such a vivid and immersive world around this kind of central queer POV that we really haven’t seen in a sports movie before. I’m wondering how THE NOVICE first started takin ..read more
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Why We Write: Jennifer Lucic
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by Kate Hagen
2y ago
Writing…my escape. The answer to the question “why we write” is a million different things to a million different people. Some of us write to live, others write to maintain our sanity, or even as we watch it slowly slip away. Yet, in all these examples, writing ultimately serves as an escape. Since before the days of the Nickelodeon, when patrons would submit their nickel for a chance to sit in a theater and watch the flashing pictures move in front of them, escapism has been alive and well. The chance to leave the monotony of everyday life, and all the suffering that goes along with it ..read more
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