The Black List Unveils Inaugural Georgia List; 10 Scripts From The Peach State Make The Cut
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Georgia has been one of the top Hollywood production spots in America for years, and now the Black List are putting some of the Peach State’s finest front and center. “I grew up in Columbus, Georgia,” Black List founder Franklin Leonard said Thursday of the new effort to amplify unproduced scripts. “My father grew up in Columbus, Georgia.
His parents grew up in Columbus, Georgia.” “This one’s personal for me, so it’s appropriate that it’s our first such partnership,” Leonard added.
In conjunction with DEI consultancy firm Collective Moxie and the sprawling 700-acre Trilith Studios, the Black List has chosen 10 screenwriters and their scripts (see the full Georgia List below). “After more than two decades in the industry, it’s clear to me that the access issues that exist for folks in Georgia and places like it are formidable, and that there’s a wide variety of incredible talent there and elsewhere that the industry would benefit from tremendously if it did something substantive to go looking for that talent where it is,” Leonard stated today. “This is one attempt to do that.
I look forward to many more arriving in the coming years.” Now in its 18th year, the 2023 Black List will be released on Dec.
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