EXCLUSIVE: Wscripted has unveiled the initiatives and skills chosen for its fourth Cannes Screenplay Record supporting scripts by ladies and non-binary writers.
This 12 months’s listing, which is introduced in collaboration with long-standing accomplice, was curated by a world jury that includes Bafta-winning and Oscar-nominated actress Vanessa Kirby (The Crown, Items of a Lady), Costa Rican-Swedish director.Nathalie Álvarez Mesén (Clara Sola) and actress and author Nathalie Marchak (Out of Instinct, @Catcall).
Marchak was a nominee on the inaugural Cannes Screenplay Record of 2021 along with her second function A Stunning Journey, which is produced by Nameless Federation and Gabman Movies.
The 2024 listing options 10 feminine filmmakers and screenwriters on the lookout for producing and financing companions from the U.S., Canada, Australia and India.
They embody Nominees embody Cuban-American filmmaker Marissa Chibás, a 2022 Sundance Screenwriting Fellow who obtained the inaugural Sundance/Gold Home Accelerator Grant, for her immigrant household drama 1972; Indigenous Australian filmmaker and three-time Australian Director’s Guild Award nominee Darlene Johnson for her historic drama Obelia; and American actress and author Christine Garver for her biographical script on pioneering photographer Sonya Noskowiak, The Pepper, which gained her the Chinonye Chukwu Rising Author Award on the Athena Movie Pageant. Scroll down for full listing.
Along with pitching the listing to producers in the course of the Cannes Movie Market, the 2024 choice was additionally highlighted on the first version of the Produced by Visionaries occasion, co-presented by Forbes, Wscripted and start-up Callo.
World streaming platform, manufacturing firm, and distributor Mubi has been championing feminine filmmakers since its inception and has labored as a presenting accomplice of the Wscripted’s Cannes Screenplay Record since 2022.
Wscripted’s Fourth Cannes Screenplay Record Choice:
- 1972 by Marissa Chibás
- Afterwards by Lauren Grant
- Blueprint by Brianna Holt
- Gyopo by Christina YR Lim
- Kismet by Giovanna Molina
- Mallie Adams is a Dyke by Janey Feingold
- Obelia by Darlene Johnson
- The Pepper by Christine Garver
- To the Moon by Sunaina Bhatnagar
- Typhoid Mary by Rachel Ward