Producer Cassian Elwes and Black List founder Franklin Leonard have launched the second year of the Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship, which is awarded to one unrepresented writer whose lifetime writing earnings have not exceeded $5,000. The writer's screenplay must feature an indie sensibility in order for them to win an all-expense paid trip to the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and mentorship from Elwes himself. Inaugural fellow Matthew Hickman was a retail employee at the Ups store in Santa Monica when he was selected on the basis of his script “An Elegy for Evelyn Francis.” He's now represented by Circle of Confusion.
- 7/28/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Indie producer Cassian Elwes and The Black List chief Franklin Leonard have chosen screenwriter Matthew Hickman to attend the 2014 Sundance Film Festival as the recipient of the inaugural Cassian Elwes Screenwriting Fellow. Elwes, whose producing credits just this year include Dallas Buyers Club, All Is Lost, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints and Lee Daniels’ The Butler, hatched this plan in October for aspiring scribes who are agent-less and haven’t made more than $5000 writing. The scripts were chosen from among those displayed on the Black List service. The winner gets their trip paid for, and will be mentored by Elwes as he makes his way around the slopes for the films he will undoubtedly be talking up at Sundance. Hickman was chosen from among 10 finalists for his script An Elegy For Evelyn Francis. That work was described by the Black List’s evaluation as “a script that never lets...
- 12/19/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
The Black List and Cassian Elwes have announced the winner of their first Independent Screenwriting Fellowship. Unrepresented screenwriter Matthew Hickman will attend the upcoming Sundance Film Festival with the hit producer behind 2013 awards contenders Lee Daniels' The Butler, All Is Lost, Dallas Buyers Club and other films. Photos: Making of 'Lee Daniels' The Butler' Hickman was chosen based on his script An Elegy for Evelyn Francis, which was hosted on the Black List website. He beat nine other scripts with indie sensibilities from unrepresented writers with lifetime earnings of less than $5,000. “I work at a regular
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- 12/18/2013
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Black List and producer Cassian Elwes have selected Matthew Hickman as the first Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellow, they said on Wednesday. They will pay Hickman’s way to the Sundance Film Festival, where he will stay with them, go watch movies and meet people who can advance his career. He will also be mentored by Elwes, an agent turned producer, financier and sales agent. Hickman earned the fellowship based on his script “An Elegy for Evelyn Francis.” “It’s a story about a girl who is uncertain about her place in the world,” Hickman told TheWrap. “Her mom just passed away and.
- 12/18/2013
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
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