The 2017 Blue List
Materials and Labor / Wayne Brusseau '15
The Life and Death of Espiritu Perdomo / Mauricio Leiva Cock '13
An Invitation to an Evening of Wonder / Avram Dodson '15
Trying / Hannah Sanderson Buchner '13
Special Adviser / Andrew Duncan Visser '15
28 Days in the Desert / Brandon Zuck '14
The 2017 Industry Panel
Common / Actor/Producer (Selma, John Wick: Chapter 2)
Michelle Ashford / Screenwriter (Masters of Sex, The Pacific)
Jonathan Tropper / Screenwriter/Producer (This is Where I Leave You, Banshee)
Jonathan Sanger / Producer (Chapter & Verse, Vanilla Sky)
Jessica Caldwell / Producer (Electrick Children, AWOL)
Geoff Quan / Producer (Barry, Obvious Child)
John Coles / Director/Producer (House of Cards, Elementary)
Chris McCoy / Director/Screenwriter (Good Kids)
Jenette Kahn / Partner (Double Nickel Entertainment)
Brad Petrigala / Agent (Brillstein Entertainment Partners)
Peter Benedek / Agent (United Talent Agency)
Harry Lengsfield / Manager (LBI Entertainment)
Amotz Zakai / Manager (Echo Lake Entertainment)
James Engle / Manager (Echo Lake Entertainment)
Darin Friedman / Manager (Management 360)
Marina Dompke / Manager of Development (Valhalla Entertainment)
Shelby Stone / President of Production (Freedom Road Productions)
Anne Carey / President of Production (Archer Gray)
Daniel Angeles / Creative Executive (Fair Harbor Productions)
Kelly Edwards / Vice President of Talent Development (HBO)
Adam Dunlap / Manager of Scripted Programming (Full Screen Entertainment)
"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."
Materials and Labor
by Wayne Brusseau
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Ruth McCants, 66, is a successful doctor and recent widow. When the pipes burst in her home, threatening a memorial party for her late husband, Ruth turns to Richard 'Hornet' Catchings, 67, a biker and sometimes sober carpenter, to help her restore the home. These two opposites find an unlikely connection in the shared bond of grief.
The Life and Death of Espiritu Perdomo
by Mauricio Leiva Cock
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To escape the war-ravaged world of the living, Espiritu Perdomo—homeless gravedigger—creates a joyous society of the dead within cemetery walls.
An Invitation to an Evening of Wonder
by Avram Dodson
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A willful heiress partners with an impoverished paleontologist to locate an important fossil find in the Old West, but her dreams of scientific glory are jeopardized when a would-be suitor frames it as a kidnapping.
Trying
by Hannah Sanderson Buchner
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Three 30-something women, pregnant at the exact same time but on drastically different paths through the murky landscape of motherhood, learn the hard way that "having it all" is utter BS and never going to happen—but having one another might be just as good, or even better.
Special Adviser
by Andrew Duncan Visser
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Brenda Martin is the Machiavellian puppeteer behind her sister Harrietta’s increasingly successful political career. But when Brenda is surprisingly promoted from underneath Harriett, it threatens to rupture their hard fought personal and political relationship.
28 Days in the Desert
by Brandon Zuck
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A wise-cracking narcissist checks into rehab thinking it will be a nice vacation from his rapidly crumbling life, but it turns out that this summer camp for damaged adults is just the opposite.
"The Blue List completely changed my career trajectory. As a result of being named to the Blue List, I got a manager and sold my feature script. I currently have three feature scripts in development and hope to make another sale in the near future."