NRDC, The Black Listing, The Redford Heart, The CAA Basis Announce Recipients of Local weather Storytelling Fellowship
LOS ANGELES — NRDC, The Black List, The Redford Center and The CAA Foundation are thrilled to announce the three recipients for the 2022 submission cycle of the NRDC Local weather Storytelling Fellowship, a program to assist writers in growing compelling, constructive and inclusive local weather tales.
We’re thrilled to announce the 2023 fellows for our Local weather Storytelling Fellowship in partnership with @theblcklst, @redfordcenter, and @caafoundation. Congrats to @Marlee_Fox (AND AWAY), @thequinngm (THIS LIGHT OF MINE), and Joshua Ravenwood (S.O.S. SCOUNDRELS OF STATE)! pic.twitter.com/d3AinyBJA0
— NRDC 🌎🏡 (@NRDC) February 17, 2023
This system acquired a document 348 submissions on The Black Listing’s web site this cycle, a rise from 240 the 12 months earlier than. Of the characteristic screenplays and pilots submitted, Marlee Fox (AND AWAY), Quinn Garrett Martin (THIS LIGHT OF MINE) and Joshua Ravenwood (S.O.S. SCOUNDRELS OF STATE) had been chosen for his or her distinctive and fascinating portrayals of the local weather disaster.
Every fellow can be paired with an leisure trade skilled who will mentor and advise them on making their local weather tales extra partaking and impactful. This 12 months’s mentors embrace Emmy® Award-winner Pamela Adlon (BETTER THINGS), Emmy® Award-nominee and WGA Award-winner Dorothy Fortenberry (EXTRAPOLATIONS, THE HANDMAID’S TALE), and best-selling creator Roxane Homosexual (WORLD OF WAKANDA, BAD FEMINIST).
Along with their inventive mentorships, every fellow will obtain a $20,000 grant to assist carry their tales to life in addition to a possibility to have their work reviewed by outstanding studios, companies, and manufacturing corporations together with Hyperobject Industries, Madica Productions, Participant, United Expertise Company and WME.
“Investing in tales that present the varied faces and impacts of a climate-altered world is essential for us to course of the disaster and transfer towards motion,” notes Katy Jacobs, Director of Leisure Partnerships and Founding father of the NRDC Local weather Storytelling Fellowship. “We’re thrilled to assist these scripts which creatively interact with the local weather disaster on a human and emotional stage and discover characters grappling with their local weather realities.”
The NRDC Local weather Storytelling Fellowship is part of NRDC’s Rewrite the Future program that works alongside leisure trade consultants to remodel the on-screen portrayal of local weather change.
Final summer season, The Black Listing and NRDC’s Rewrite the Future produced a digital occasion, “Writing for a Sustainable Future: Local weather Storytelling Suggestions for Movie and Tv,” a dialog about challenges and alternatives in writing local weather narratives in addition to details about making use of for the fellowship. 2021 fellow Elise Greven and her mentor, trade playwright and producer Sarah Treem, additionally shared their experiences with the Local weather Storytelling Fellowship. The occasion was hosted by Jacobs and Megan Halpern, Senior Vice President of The Black Listing, and included programming from NRDC, The Black Listing, CAA Basis, Doc Society Local weather Story Unit, and The Redford Heart.
2023 Local weather Storytelling Fellows and Tasks:
AND AWAY by Marlee Fox
AND AWAY is ready within the midst of a world occasion by which Earth’s gravity slowly begins to reverse. A younger lady returns dwelling to research her father’s disappearance, all whereas navigating a tenuous relationship together with her mom and a society whose perspective on weight is actively in flux.
Marlee Fox grew up in Annapolis, Maryland and skilled a childhood and early training inextricably linked to the Chesapeake Bay that continues to encourage her writing and environmental advocacy.
“I’m so excited to be taught and take inspiration from environmental consultants, trade professionals, and my cohort of fellows who consider not solely within the beliefs we’re striving in the direction of, however in our energy to attain them and within the worth of storytelling as a software in that endeavor.”
THIS LIGHT OF MINE by Quinn Garrett
THIS LIGHT OF MINE is an afro-surrealist exploration of environmental and non secular exploitation as a biracial teenager reconciles along with his lineage and id.
Quinn Garrett Martin is a filmmaker from Los Angeles whose work strives to make trendy mythology about our time.“I’m excited and grateful to be part of this fellowship whereas honoring private heroes like local weather activist Hazel Johnson, the mom of environmental justice. I consider as storytellers and tradition makers, we should discover our time’s existential and looming inquiries to enact change for a greater and extra sustainable future.”
S.O.S SCOUNDRELS OF STATE by Joshua Ravenwood
S.O.S. SCOUNDRELS OF STATE is a comedy set within the 1970s, and options an ageing fixer who’s fired from one among D.C.’s most ethically-flexible regulation companies. The fixer vows to take revenge in opposition to his outdated agency by teaming up with a bunch of younger environmental activists who’re making an attempt to avoid wasting the world.
Joshua Ravenwood is a author and filmmaker who grew up on a small lake close to Detroit that was typically condemned, all through his childhood, for holding harmful ranges of poisonous waste.
“I’m honored to have been chosen for the fellowship, and am excited for the chance to be taught, to enhance my craft, and to collaborate with good individuals who have information and experiences that I could not have. I really consider optimistic local weather storytelling issues, and to work with others who share that zeal is an actual blessing.”
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