Continuing its effort to bolster stories from historically underrepresented communities, The Black List is teaming with MGM to launch a two-year feature film script writing partnership to discover new voices.
The initiative is committed to identifying new writers who want to tell original stories with universal appeal for the big screen.
The Black List founder Franklin Leonard revealed the news on CNBC on Thursday.Every six months over the next two years, The Black List will deliver a shortlist of new feature film writing candidates to MGM for consideration.
MGM will then look to select one writer from each six-month cycle to receive a two-step Guild minimum blind script deal and the opportunity to work with the iconic studio.
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