Bad Robot & The Black List To Bolster Underrepresented Writers Through New Partnership

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EXCLUSIVE: J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot is partnering with The Black List on a new initiative that will provide 500 writers from historically underrepresented communities with access to the Black List website, offering them the opportunity to receive feedback on their original work that they might not otherwise be able to acquire.Participating talent will have access not only to one free month of hosting on the site, but also to one free professional screenplay evaluation.

Bad Robot will work with community organizations, including Arts in the Armed Forces, Barcid Foundation, The Black House, Gold House, The Latinx House, Outfest/Outfest Fusion, RespectAbility and Women in Film to distribute 400 of the website fee waivers directly to writers, with The Black List distributing the other 100 to scribes who are already a part of the blcklst.com ecosystem.Fee waivers are being distributed once a quarter starting today, and will expire 30 days after the end of the quarter, so writers should ensure that they are ready to upload a completed screenplay to blcklst.com before requesting one.

Writers who qualify as being a part of an underrepresented community per WGA guidelines, and who are not yet involved with The Black List, are encouraged to contact one of Bad Robot’s partner organizations to receive a fee waiver.Said The Black List’s founder and CEO, Franklin Leonard: “Anyone paying attention to their work knows that Bad Robot is consistently great about quietly creating opportunities for talented folks for whom access is the primary obstacle, and we’re overjoyed to be partnering with them in one of the very many ways they do that.