Women in Film, Los Angeles and The Black List announced the participants of the 2020 Feature Lab and Residency on Monday.
The program is an expansion of the organizations’ original writing lab, providing mentorship and career opportunities to seven emerging women screenwriters over the course of a year. This year’s intensive script and professional development sessions will initially take place in online sessions to adhere to social distancing regulations. Participants will have meetings and receive feedback from working feature writers, executives and industry leaders.
“I very much look forward to the year that doing two writing labs with Wif with only women participants makes no rational sense, because women represent at least 50 percent of the working screenwriters in film and at every level of television,” Black List founder Franklin Leonard said in a statement. “We clearly have a long way to go, and so until then are committed to our ongoing work with Wif,...
The program is an expansion of the organizations’ original writing lab, providing mentorship and career opportunities to seven emerging women screenwriters over the course of a year. This year’s intensive script and professional development sessions will initially take place in online sessions to adhere to social distancing regulations. Participants will have meetings and receive feedback from working feature writers, executives and industry leaders.
“I very much look forward to the year that doing two writing labs with Wif with only women participants makes no rational sense, because women represent at least 50 percent of the working screenwriters in film and at every level of television,” Black List founder Franklin Leonard said in a statement. “We clearly have a long way to go, and so until then are committed to our ongoing work with Wif,...
- 6/29/2020
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Women and Film, Los Angeles and The Black List unveiled the participants of the 2020 Feature Lab and Residency on Monday. The annual program is an expansion of the original writing lab which is a joint effort between Wif and The Black List.
The program provides mentorship and career opportunities to seven rising women screenwriters over the course of a year. The Lab and Residency will include intensive script and professional development sessions, initially in online sessions to address stay-at-home requirements.
“I very much look forward to the year that doing two writing labs with Wif with only women participants makes no rational sense because women represent at least fifty percent of the working screenwriters in film and at every level of television,” says Black List founder Franklin Leonard. “We clearly have a long way to go, and so until then are committed to our ongoing work with Wif, this year’s Lab,...
The program provides mentorship and career opportunities to seven rising women screenwriters over the course of a year. The Lab and Residency will include intensive script and professional development sessions, initially in online sessions to address stay-at-home requirements.
“I very much look forward to the year that doing two writing labs with Wif with only women participants makes no rational sense because women represent at least fifty percent of the working screenwriters in film and at every level of television,” says Black List founder Franklin Leonard. “We clearly have a long way to go, and so until then are committed to our ongoing work with Wif, this year’s Lab,...
- 6/29/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
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