Hi Guys, Here is a note from one of our members about screenplays. I don't know if we've got any one who can contribute what he's asking for but I thought his concept was a strong one. Though most of us don't get a chance to read many scripts or screenplays, we can still answer the question--what are we wanting to see on the big screen? What are we interested in writing about?
Suzie
A message to all members of e-Scension.com
Earlier today I read with interest a story discussing Hollywood's "Black List," a list of the 10 most preferred/liked unproduced screenplays the industry has to offer, as determined by some of the top agents, managers, and studio executives in Hollywood. The list, begun in 2005 by one of Leonardo DiCaprio's Development Executives, has proven highly successful in determining movies which get made. What it hasn't done, according to the LA Times, is find a way to demonstrate what the "common man" wants to see. Instead, it is a list comprised of projects which have an attractive quality to graduates of some of the most prominent (read as "fancy") film school over-achievers in the country.
And so, today, I decided what we really needed was a list of the 10-most anticipated projects as determined by the other end of the spectrum: the blue collar, working-class faction so well represented by the membership of this little community we call e-Scension.com.
No Ivy League papers are required. We simply want your opinion. Share this email with your friends, co-workers, and peers. All we ask is that they represent a common-man's perspective. Then send us YOUR list of the 10 best screenplays you've read in 2009. Who's gonna make it? Who's gonna shine the brightest? What projects do you, the blue-collar crews that get those projects done, want to see on the Big Screen in 2010-11?
We'll be compiling your answers/responses, and divulging all the dirty-little details of our list at our February 24, 2010 Awards Season Edition of Ascent-Hollywood, "Makin' It." (Including a Panel Discussion moderated by Romell Foster-Owens, and including Director Milicent Shelton. Remaining panelists to be announced soon!)
To participate, simply send us an email to
10-for-10@e-scension.com before January 15, 2010 along with the following information:
1) Name
2) Phone
3) Email
4) Profession/Career Discipline (ie Writer, Director, Actor, etc)
5) Years experience in the industry
6) Company for whom you worked while reading the scripts you're nominating
7) Your ranked (1-10 in ascending order) list of the 10 best screenplays (unproduced) you read in 2009, along with the name of the writer(s) for each.
Now's your chance to shine, and to help recognize "the little guys (and gals)" in the industry that struggle to make ends meet while crafting their great Masterpiece. Let's show Hollywood what they can do, even without a "fancy piece of paper" from one of those Ivy League campuses.
Best,
Robert
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