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The Women's List is bypassing industry gatekeepers, giving filmmakers direct access to great scripts written by women and vetted by women professionals. Submissions are open. TheWomensList.org
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The Surveillance of Ordinary Things – Susan Brunig Feature A middle-aged, suburban housewife in the midst of a dark, existential crisis decides to run away and end it all. But when she stumbles upon an unplugged community of creative misfits, she rediscovers the artist she once was. #Scriptsky

Raisinets? RAISINETS? 🤮

You had to have seen the Oscars in 2003 to understand it. #IYKYK

Former Secretary of State, Former First Lady, first woman to be major party's nominee, but, yeah, I guess you could demean a woman's accomplishments and call her a rival. Just in case anyone was wondering if HuffPost has become douchebro misogyny rag.

Jenny Jacobs: Unlicensed – Victoria Gallant One-Hour Dramedy Series Contact: [email protected] In the middle of a millennial mid-life crisis and searching for meaning, Jenny Jacobs uses her superior internet sleuthing skills to become an alternative investigator in her hometown. #TVsky

The Stratford Wife – Sarah E. Sinclair Feature In Elizabethan England, a playwright enters into a devil's bargain with her fame-hungry husband to write plays under his name, but as the legend of William Shakespeare grows, she must fight him for creative control. #Scriptsky

There's snakes... and there's MOTHER FUCKING SNAKES. In a tunnel... On a train... In a famously shaky city... Check it out! #scriptsky #TheGreyList25

#BlueCrew - Quote of the Day

Thrilled to be included on this year's Grey List alongside so many other talented writers! 🥰

I'm thrilled and grateful that my latest feature DEEP AND DARK, a home invasion thriller, made it on the Grey List! A HUGE thank you to @bradmjohnson.com and team for the time and effort they put into assembling this list of market-ready specs and uplifting writers. 🙏 Check out the whole list!

Los Angeles friends who lost homes in the fires & are now furnishing new places: Spear auction house has multiple auctions right now from a prop house that's liquidating. That means furnishings galore: sofas, chairs, tables, shelving, lamps, etc. Could be useful. spear.prod2.maxanet.auction/Public

The Seahorse – Susan Brightbill Feature A successful businesswoman’s well-ordered life is thrown into disarray when she’s forced to care for her estranged father, a notoriously difficult, acclaimed author in the early stages of dementia. #Screenwriting

And fast!

So pumped (and honored) that my first feature, THE OPEN AIR, was selected for the Grey List this year! 🥳 Congrats to all the amazing writers who were selected! Click to request/read THE OPEN AIR here: www.bradmjohnson.com/tgl-scriptre... Logline below! 👇🏻

Congrats, @phoenixblack.bsky.social! 🥂

WOWIE! Brad offers a yearly curated list of chosen scripts by over age 40 writers! My adapted script from a bestselling suspense novel, NECESSARY DETOUR made the list In such amazing company Thank you Brad and the readers for this 😍 #scriptsky #writerslife www.bradmjohnson.com/the-grey-lis...

Kudos to Nicole Kidman. Imagine if more industry people with influence took the same initiative. Likewise working with PoC and disabled artists. You make a difference by being the difference. Link here: m.imdb.com/news/ni65140... #ScriptSkyUK #ScriptSky #FilmSky #WritingCommunity

So pleased to see Leah on the #TheGreyList25 - PRO LIFE sounds frightening and all too timely...

too bad we eliminated USAID: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

I'm thrilled my script, White Buffalo, is included on the 2025 Grey List. Please check it out!

UAP – Jackie Zabel and Bryce Zabel A Naval aviator who may have been abducted by aliens, a president new to office, a staff director for the Senate Intel Committee, and the leader of the government’s new UAP investigation — face the reality that UAP are a significant threat. #TV

The Man from Elsewhere – Alli Rock One-Hour Sci-Fi Series A washed-up Private Investigator must dive into a multiverse of historical what-ifs to track down his new client — but the deeper he goes, the more he questions the case, and the closer his personal demons get to catching him. #TVSeries

The Mercury 13 – Maria Burton Feature The Mercury 13 tells the story of little-known heroes of the early days of the Space Race: the women who tested to be astronauts at the same time as the Mercury 7 male astronauts - people with the Right Stuff at the wrong time. #Screenwriting

Switch Track – Jenna Macari and Logan L. Russell Feature A lone wolf photographer heads west on Route 66 toward the life she’s always wanted after a fatal diagnosis numbers her days. Along the way she picks up an unlikely travel buddy - a suicidal young graduate. #scriptsky

Summer of Diva Loca – Monika Moreno-Lapp Feature When Avalon’s mom leaves her at the projects for the summer, Avalon (15) is determined to find a way out. In navigating this new world, Avalon didn’t count on meeting Gilberto (17) — a first love with complications. #Screenwriting

Whatever else emerges in time about the Delta crash in Canada, one thing is certain: the importance & amazing professionalism of flight attendants who safely evacuated the plane in a matter of seconds.

The Lads – Mary-Lyn Chambers One-Hour Drama Set in Wellington, New Zealand, amidst the chaos of the 1981 Springbok tour, Jonno's daughter disappears. Desperate for answers, he delves into his high school past, confronting his role in the suicide of a teen violinist. #TV

Priceless – Betsy Nagler One-Hour Drama Series While searching for the legendary Amber Room, Sotheby’s Worldwide Head of Antiquities and her team take on spies, thieves, cutthroat competitors, and personal demons, as they confront the question of who owns history. #TV #TVSeries

Yup. Generative AI is shady, thieving shit that's also environmentally-destructive. Kick it to the curb with vigor and disdain.

Seasons of the Dragon – Brusta Brown and John Mitchell Todd Four Chinese sisters survive the Japanese attack during the Nanking Massacre. A Shaolin Master trains them to avenge their family; but on a journey of revenge, you must dig two graves. They will dig more than two.

Pagans – Catherine McGrotty Feature Whilst planning her escape from the ‘Alcatraz’ of Magdalene Laundries, a pregnant teen uncovers an unholy secret about the order of Nuns watching over her. #Screenwriting #scriptsky

The Women's List is now open for submissions. We look forward to reading your work. writers.coverfly.com/competitions...

Pilgrimage - Danielle Evenson and Heather Huntington Half-Hour Comedy Series What if the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of 1620s England got stuck with the OGs of the patriarchy - the Puritans? #TVSeries #TVsky

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Higher Ground – Maggie Greenwald A nun with a gambling addiction agrees to foster the baby of a teen mother incarcerated in the prison where she works. This infuriates the warden, upsetting the status quo and transforming the lives of everyone involved. #TVSeries

Pfizer’s cancer drug commercial was beautiful, but their breast cancer drug Ibrance costs $10k per month and their prostate cancer drug Xtandi costs $22k per month. Beautiful commercials don’t change the fact that 42% of cancer patients exhaust their life savings in 2 years.

The CFPB was dismantled over the weekend, with all activities suspended, its funding reduced to zero, and its headquarters temporarily closed—removing a crucial layer of oversight for consumer-facing financial companies. Staff members ordered to cease all ‘supervision and examination activities.

I think we might know where all the missing Dem ballots went This is Ethan Shaotran. He's one of Musk's DOGE takeover hackers 2 yrs ago he won the Berkeley AI Hackathon But in 2000 won the HackGT7 with a ballot altering program called BallotProof Here's the deep dive that he couldn't scrub....

We need professional women to help us read this year’s awesomest scripts! WGA, DGA, SAG, we need you! Write to us at [email protected] and we’ll tell you how it works.

Over The Hill – Laura Kemp Feature When two women ride into the Montana wilderness to scatter a loved one's ashes, they must face their damaging past and death itself to earn a new shot at living. #Screenwriting #Scriptsky

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Only about 25% of screenwriters were women in 2024. Help us change those statistics! Send your best script to the Women’s List — submissions open on Galentine’s day. Find out more at thewomenslist.org

Natalia Rising - Donna Bonilla Wheeler Feature When a teen prodigy composer is squelched by her overprotective dad, she creates a new style of music with a vivacious singer and her psychic dog, in a win/lose battle for her autonomy. #scriptsky

5 Mics – Raqiyah Mays One-Hour Contact: [email protected] An ambitious student secretly accepts an internship at a music magazine where she fights to survive the seductive world of hip hop as she ascends the ranks to become the most powerful Editor-in-Chief in the industry.

WTF! Trump allowed Alex Karp access to our entire NHS data systems. CEO Alex Karp, Palantir $PLTR just days ago talking to retail shareholders “when it’s necessary to scare enemies & on occasion kill them” x.com/stockmktnewz...

Can’t wait!