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EARLY BIRD: Wscripted’s Fourth Cannes Screenplay List presented by MUBI
Happy new year!
We would like to give a special thank you to our community and are excited for the continued work in 2024! We are thrilled to kick off the first month of 2024 with the early applications for Wscripted's Fourth Cannes Screenplay List presented by MUBI 🎉
EARLY BIRD APPLICATIONS OPEN
Early bird applications are NOW OPEN for women and non-binary screenwriters and writer-directors with a feature screenplay in English or French language until March 1st. The final deadline will be April 1st.
We are particularly excited to let early applicants who apply before March 1st have the option to request dedicated script notes based on the criteria of the Cannes Screenplay List and resubmit their script for free before April 1st. Our female-led reading committee will consider the second submission of the draft for the Cannes Screenplay List’s selection. If you are interested, you can select the option directly in the application form.
Wscripted's third list was unveiled in Variety and curated by an inaugural jury of female filmmakers, including Mounia Meddour (“Papicha”), Funa Maduka (Waiting for Hassana), Camille Griffin (Silent Night). We are excited for the fourth edition of the list and will announce the jury in March!
“The work of the Cannes Screenplay List is very important to discover more stories by female filmmakers.” There’s “still a long way to debunk misogynistic stereotypes and biais in society so having more women and non-binary writers write their own stories is the best way to help change perceptions.”
WATCH FILMS FROM FEMALE FILMMAKERS ON MUBI
We thank our annual partner MUBI, for presenting the Cannes Screenplay List three years in a row and for offering 60 days free of great cinema to all Wscripted's community. You can redeem the offer below:
FOURTH CANNES SCREENPLAY LIST LAUNCH GIVEWAY
To celebrate the opening of the Fourth Cannes Screenplay List applications, MUBI is offering 3 pairs of tickets to the premiere of HOW TO HAVE SEX in the presence of the filmmaker Molly Manning Walker, on February 3 at IFC New York!
To enter the contest, simply follow @mubiusa on Instagram and tag a friend on @wscripted Instagram post below before the end of the day tomorrow January 30th! Winners will be announced on Tuesday, January, good luck!
HOW TO HAVE SEX is a vibrant and painfully familiar portrait of young adulthood following three British teenage girls on a rite-of-passage summer holiday in Greece. After winning the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes in 2023, Molly Manning Walker's stunning feature debut went on to premiere at Sundance and be nominated for 3 BAFTA awards.
It's "a charged, ecstatic, and star-making debut"
WHAT WE ARE WATCHING ON MUBI THIS WEEK
Director of L’Anatomie d’une chute (5 Oscar nominations, Palme d’Or)
