The Blue List Winners 2014

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The 2014 Blue List

The Archer / Casey Schroen '12
Big Girls / Shukree Tilghman '12
A Death in the Andes / Nicholas Greene '10
Gifted + Talented / Hannah Sanderson Buchner '13
Gone, June / Matthew Tyler '12
The Swimsuit Issue / Randall Green '12
 

The 2014 Industry Panel

Peter Benedek / Agent (United Talent Agency)
Joey Chavez / Television Executive (NBC/Universal)
Glenn Close / Actress
Abby Davis / Agent (Preferred Content)
Ross Dinerstein / Producer (Preferred Content)
Dan Halsted / Producer & Manager
Jim Hart / Screenwriter
George Heller / Literary Talent Manager (Apostle)
Jenette Kahn / Producer (Double Nickle Entertainment)
Simon Kinberg / Producer & Screenwriter
Michael Mann / Director
Dan Powell / Executive Producer (Comedy Central)
Tom Wellington / Agent (William Morris Endeavor)

"I have been consistently surprised at the high level of writing that I have judged the past two years. I have been on the Nicholl Fellowships committee of the Motion Picture Academy to judge scripts and I can say that the Blue List entries I have read are in a class with the best Academy scripts."

Jonathan Sanger, Film Producer and returning Blue List industry judge
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The Archer
by Casey Schroen                              
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A gay teenage girl escapes from a sadistic troubled-teen boot camp in the middle of nowhere and must battle the violent disciplinarians who pursue her through the surrounding wilderness.

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Big Girls
by Shukree Tilghman
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In order to save her job as a legendary but aging women’s college basketball coach, Pam Ellis reluctantly enlists Amy Washington, a troubled but highly touted recruit from the hardscrabble, unpaved streets of southern Missouri. Through their tumultuous relationship, they discover that winning games is not about rescuing the program, but saving each other.

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A Death in the Andes
by Nicholas Greene
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In a desperate attempt to save his mother from illness, Carlos, a fiery salt miner from the Bolivian highlands, seeks out his estranged uncle in the city of La Paz, where they try to abduct Charlotte, a headstrong American doctor.

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Gifted + Talented
by Hannah Sanderson Buchner
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In 2003, rival high school valedictorians Emma and Max were on top of the world, their futures bright and limitless. Ten years later, however, both have collapsed under the pressure of their promised greatness, and must return home to seek employment at the one place willing to hire those with almost no practical skills—the local temp agency. A comedy about the unexpected freedom of spectacular failure.

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Gone, June
by Matthew Tyler
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June, 8-months pregnant from a sexual assault, confronts and kills her attacker, only to stumble upon the man’s 10-year-old son as she flees the scene.  Guilt-stricken and desperate, June takes the young boy with her on the road, and her run from the law soon turns into a search for the boy’s mother—and her own redemption.

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The Swimsuit Issue
by Randall Green
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A high school freshman attempts to compete with the yearbook by creating the Westbury High Swimsuit Issue.