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Thank You & Congratulations to All Applicants!
Hello Wscripted community!
Thank you to all members who submitted their scripts this year! The applications for Wscripted's Fourth Cannes Screenplay List presented by MUBI are now closed, so stay tuned for the unveiling of the list during Cannes. For now, read on to see who is joining Vanessa Kirby on the jury and explore an exciting opportunity from one of our partner organizations.
APPLICATIONS CLOSED
Thank you again to all who sent in their scripts! Wscripted is excited to present the Cannes Screenplay List later this spring.
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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:
MEET THE JURY FOR THE FOURTH CANNES SCREENPLAY LIST!
Wscripted is excited and honored to be working with Vanessa Kirby, Nathalie Álvarez Mesén, and Nathalie Marchak as this year’s jury. Read more about each jury member below!
Vanessa Kirby is an internationally acclaimed actress, known for her BAFTA-winning role of Princess Margaret in THE CROWN and her performance in PIECES OF A WOMAN, for which she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 2020 Venice Film Festival and received nominations from the Oscars, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and SAG Awards. In 2021, Kirby co-founded her production company Aluna Entertainment, alongside former Film4 exec Lauren Dark, with the mission of championing female creatives and stories. Aluna Entertainment secured a multi-year first look deal with Netflix shortly after to create female led cinema and television, who are developing a number of projects alongside the most exciting filmmakers with the same mission. ✒️ 🎬
It is a pleasure to join Wscripted on this brilliant initiative. There is still such a clear disparity between the number of male and female led projects, and I am so pleased to unite with Wscripted to support and elevate the next generation of formidable female talent that I know are going to shape the cinema of the future.
Nathalie Álvarez Mesén is a Costa Rican-Swedish screenwriter/director. Her debut feature film CLARA SOLA premiered in Cannes 2021 in the Directors’ Fortnight section.
She started her career in physical theatre in Costa Rica before pursuing her B.F.A. degree in Mime Acting at the Stockholm University of the Arts in Sweden. Nathalie later graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate Film Program in NYC with an M.F.A. in Film Directing/Screenwriting.
An alumna of the Berlinale Talents, TIFF Filmmaker Lab and NYFF Artist Academy, Nathalie’s shorts have screened at film festivals all over the world. Her short FILIP won Best Film Under 15 Minutes at the 2016 Palm Springs Shortfest, and ASUNDER screened at the 2016 Telluride Film Festival as part of the Calling Cards program. Nathalie also co-wrote ENTRE TÚ Y MILAGROS, winner of the Orizzonti Award for Best Short in the Venice Film Festival 2020. She’s currently developing her second feature, THE WOLF WILL TEAR YOUR IMMACULATE HANDS, that won the Eurimages Co-production Development Award at the Torino ScriptLab 2021. Recently, she directed an episode for Showtime’s “Three Women”, premiering late 2024.
Nathalie Marchak is a French scriptwriter and filmmaker. She is a Harvard Law School Graduate (LL’M 07), with a certificate of filmmaking from New York University. She’s directed several short films (“Happy New Year” broadcasted on OCS and TF1), and she wrote, directed and co-produced the feature film “Par Instinct” (coproducer Les Films d’Ici), released theatrically by Condor Films in France in 2017, broadcasted on Canal +, Cine + and now available on Amazon Prime Video France. She also is the creator, co-writer and director of the miniseries “Les Siffleurs” (international title “@CatCall”), produced by Storia TV/ Mediawan, broadcasted in 2023 on France 2 (France Television), ratings leader. The series was given the Best Mini TV Series Award 2024 by Media Club Elles - the largest association of women media professionals in France.
The script of her next feature film “A Beautiful Journey”, produced by Rosalie Cimino (Federation Anonymous) and Valérie Garcia (Gabman) was selected in the inaugural Wscripted Cannes Screenplay List. Nathalie is also Vice-President of the ARP – a Union which gathers more than 200 European filmmakers of all generations, men and women, representing the diversity and cultural richness of French and European cinema, and fervently fighting for creative freedom and independence.
Wscripted’s partner organization CALLO is putting on a 3-part Masterclass Series on The Making of Film and Television!
The speakers for the series include Louise Oguinnake, Development Executive at Sister (Chernobyl, The Power, Giri/Haji,This is Going to Hurt, Good Grief), Abe Bengio, an agent at WME with expertise in independent finance, and Dani Melia, the President of Local Time and Lulu Wang’s producing partner.
The classes are free for Callo Members, but members of the Wscripted community have access to the class (and the ability to skip the waitlist!) with code CALLOFRIEND at checkout.