EXCLUSIVE: The Black Record will open submissions for the 2025 Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences’ Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting by way of its web site at 9 a.m. PDT on Could 15.
The extensively recognized business platform for promising writers serves as the general public portal for Nicholl submissions and can obtain as much as 2,500 eligible entries. From these submissions, The Black Record will advocate as much as 25 eligible characteristic screenplays, primarily based on the energy of the scripts, to the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting.
Writers, and writing groups, can submit a most of 1 screenplay. Scripts have to be hosted on The Black Record web site for submission and will need to have no less than one analysis hooked up to the script that’s being submitted. Submissions can be open till June 15, 2025, or till the utmost variety of 2,500 eligible submissions is reached — whichever happens first.
Along with The Black Record, different official Nicholl companions — together with the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Leisure, NYU Tisch Faculty of Arts, UCLA’s Screenwriting Program and plenty of others — may also submit scripts for fellowship consideration.
Based in 1986 as a world program to nurture up-and-coming scribes, the Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting introduced again in March its partnership with international college applications, screenwriting labs and filmmaking organizations to pick out Nicholl fellows. Every associate will vet and submit scripts for consideration for an Academy Nicholl Fellowship, and The Black Record will function a portal for public submissions. All scripts submitted by companions can be learn and reviewed by Academy members.
Nicholl fellows obtain assist from AMPAS and mentorship from an Academy member all through their fellowship yr. Additionally they take part in per week of digital seminars, a web-based meet-and-greet with the Nicholl Fellowships committee and in-person networking occasions. These fellows then obtain ongoing profession mentorship by way of the Gold Alumni Program, which supplies continued entry, alternative, skilled improvement and training for alumni of the Academy’s expertise improvement applications.
