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| Four Columbia Film Screenplays on the 2012 Black List By StudentFilmmakers.com posted Dec 22, 2012, 21:59 |
The screenplays of four Columbia Film alumni or students have been selected for the 2012 Black List. The Black List began in 2005 as a survey of film executives about their favorite scripts which hadn't been turned into features. Since then, over 200 Black List screenplays have been made as feature films. Those films have been nominated for 148 Academy Awards, and have won 25, including Best Pictures Slumdog Millionaire and The King's Speech and five of the last ten screenwriting Oscars.
This year Harry Kellerman ('07 SOA), Shane Atkinson (5th year Screenwriting), Jack Paglen ('06 SOA) and Roberto Bentivegna ('10 SOA) were all named to the Black List for their screenplays. Murder of a Cat by Christian Magalhaes ('10) and Robert Snow ('10) was named to the Black List in 2010 and is now in pre-production. Chris Galletta's ('10 SOA) script Toy's House also appeared on the Black List recently—the film, now in post-production, was selected for the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance 2013.
Who Framed Tommy Callahan?
Harry Kellerman ('07)
An elementary school student searches for the truth behind the candy bar ring
conspiracy that got his brother expelled.
Penny Dreadful
Shane Atkinson (5th year Screenwriting)
Desperate to hang on to his pregnant girlfriend, bumbling Dennis gets caught
up in a kidnapping scheme gone awry, leaving him saddled with a sociopathic
little girl who seemingly calls the shots.
Transcendence
Jack Paglen ('06)
An epic love story set in a time where a dying scientist is able to upload his
consciousness into the internet and, facing its global implications, must fight
against the forces who are actively working against the existence of a singularity.
The Eel
Roberto Bentivegna ('10)
An escaped convict is ensnared in a plot by a corrupt Sheriff to kidnap the
young heiress to an oil fortune, complicating his quest for freedom.
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