The Program is Universal’s first talent initiative to be headquartered internationally.
Universal and Working Title have selected four UK-based writers for the first edition of its Global Writers Program, the studio’s first internationally-run talent initiative.
The four selected writers are: Thomas Blackman, Hannah Kelso, Mary Waireri and Andrew Wong.
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The writers will work on the one-year paid Program within the Working Title team. The Program includes professional development through workshops, seminars, executive and creator-led roundtable discussions, as well as an in-depth, immersive look at the Studio’s production process.
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Universal and Working Title have selected four UK-based writers for the first edition of its Global Writers Program, the studio’s first internationally-run talent initiative.
The four selected writers are: Thomas Blackman, Hannah Kelso, Mary Waireri and Andrew Wong.
Scroll down for details on the selected writers
The writers will work on the one-year paid Program within the Working Title team. The Program includes professional development through workshops, seminars, executive and creator-led roundtable discussions, as well as an in-depth, immersive look at the Studio’s production process.
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- 1/4/2024
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Mary Waireri’s series “Exiles” has been selected for development via EbonyLife Media and Sony Pictures Television’s Alo, an initiative offering a platform for writers of African heritage.
Nairobi-born, London-bred screenwriter Waireri’s script follows a Kenyan-born British doctor returns to the country she fled as a young girl to find her twin brother who goes missing while investigating a government cover-up. Soon, she finds herself drawn into a dark conspiracy.
Waireri originally wrote “Exiles” as a feature-length project while completing the screenwriting certificate at the U.K.’s National Film and Television School. The screenplay won the FilmarketHub 2020 screenwriting competition and was shortlisted for the 2020 BBC Scriptworks and Thousand Films screenwriting competition.
The writer is an alumna of the inaugural Realness Institute and Netflix Africa Episodic Lab, where she developed a Swahili folk horror concept and has also worked on treatment commissions for Studiocanal U.K. She was...
Nairobi-born, London-bred screenwriter Waireri’s script follows a Kenyan-born British doctor returns to the country she fled as a young girl to find her twin brother who goes missing while investigating a government cover-up. Soon, she finds herself drawn into a dark conspiracy.
Waireri originally wrote “Exiles” as a feature-length project while completing the screenwriting certificate at the U.K.’s National Film and Television School. The screenplay won the FilmarketHub 2020 screenwriting competition and was shortlisted for the 2020 BBC Scriptworks and Thousand Films screenwriting competition.
The writer is an alumna of the inaugural Realness Institute and Netflix Africa Episodic Lab, where she developed a Swahili folk horror concept and has also worked on treatment commissions for Studiocanal U.K. She was...
- 1/24/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Films and episodic projects from Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Uganda have been unveiled in the final selection of North American streamer Topic and Statement Films’ program to support, develop and finance projects from female African filmmakers.
The features and episodic projects span a range of genres including thriller, sci-fi, suspense, mystery and crime from a variety of African countries and telling a range of diasporic stories.
The selected projects are: Big Fish (Victoria Thomas), Brace Yourself (Thati Pele & Cait Pansegrouw), Eziko (Jenna Bass & Babalwa Baartman), The Legend of Madam Koi-Koi (Melissa O. Adeyemo & Chioma Onyenwe), Nexus (Mary Waireri), The Rain Queen (Nonzi Bogatsu), The Stone That Was Moved (Patience Nitumwesiga), 2065 (Carmen Sangion & Carol Kioko), Sister Nancy (Amirah Tajdin & Wafa Tajdin), and You Never See It Coming (Nelisa Ngcobo).
The program was revealed exclusively by Deadline in June as a co-partnership between First Look Media’s SVoD...
The features and episodic projects span a range of genres including thriller, sci-fi, suspense, mystery and crime from a variety of African countries and telling a range of diasporic stories.
The selected projects are: Big Fish (Victoria Thomas), Brace Yourself (Thati Pele & Cait Pansegrouw), Eziko (Jenna Bass & Babalwa Baartman), The Legend of Madam Koi-Koi (Melissa O. Adeyemo & Chioma Onyenwe), Nexus (Mary Waireri), The Rain Queen (Nonzi Bogatsu), The Stone That Was Moved (Patience Nitumwesiga), 2065 (Carmen Sangion & Carol Kioko), Sister Nancy (Amirah Tajdin & Wafa Tajdin), and You Never See It Coming (Nelisa Ngcobo).
The program was revealed exclusively by Deadline in June as a co-partnership between First Look Media’s SVoD...
- 3/16/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
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