The Black List is a really helpful tool screenwriters can use to get noticed, but are you maximizing your potential within it? Every time I get paid to write a screenplay or TV pilot I think about The Black List website. It was a burgeoning idea back in 2013 when I put my screenplay, Shovel Buddies, on the site. For those of you who do not know, the Black List is a website where screenwriters can post their work and be assessed on their storytelling capabilities. At the time, I invested $250, which got me three reviews and a few months of hosting. Those reviews came back with two 9s and a 10, and a year later I was on the actual Black List in Hollywood—a year after that, my script sold, and the following year we were in production on the movie. My career has zigged and zagged since then. Peaks and valleys, as they say, but the Black List website was a really great entry point for me. Even though I was a Hollywood assistant and had connections, it helped people see my writing as something valuable and got me the support I needed to verify my worth. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 23 November, 2020