The Black List Announces Feature Lab Participants & Mentors, Launches Musical Film Fellowship

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The Black List has finalized the names of the six writers that will be part of their 2022 Feature Lab and will partake in a hybrid workshop that will include virtual sessions culminating in an in-person weekend intensive in Los Angeles.Each writer will workshop one screenplay through peer groups and one-on-one sessions with working professional screenwriting mentors, including Kiwi Smith (Legally Blonde), David Rabinowitz (Blackkklansman), Jonathan Stokes (El Gringo), Natalie Krinsky (The Broken Hearts Gallery), Phil Hay (The Invitation), Guinevere Turner (American Psycho), Michael Mitnick (The Current War), and Scott Myers of Go Into The Story.The Black List has also selected a fellow for the first-ever Black List Musical Film Fellowship.

The Fellow will receive mentorship from professional screenwriting mentors with expertise in the musical world.The 2022 Feature Lab participants and their projects are:A young female intern at a top Silicon Valley tech company vies for the full-time job offer.

She decides to take extreme measures when another female programmer threatens her chances.Yeon Jin Lee is a Korean-American writer of suspense thrillers centered on women in tech.

Yeon Jin is informed by her experience of navigating between worlds, including first and later-generation American dynamics, Asian and American identities, female identity in male-dominated environments, and technical and artistic personalities in Silicon Valley and Hollywood.Hired by an orphan to avenge her parents’ murders, a taciturn bounty hunter barrels into a mystery of white supremacists and land grab conspiracies only to face the most difficult question — can the strong silent type learn how to communicate?Justin Geldzahler is a writer and