Exclusive: New Yorker video producer Christopher Hwisu Kim is heading to the Sundance Film Festival this week as an all-expenses paid guest of The Black List and Cassian Elwes.
“It’s an immense honor to be the recipient of the Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship, especially because E.S.L. is a deeply personal story centered on a family that looks and sounds like mine,” the Brooklyn-based filmmaker told Deadline. “It’s long been a dream of mine to add to the rich but underappreciated legacy of Asian American filmmakers—and now, thanks to Mr. Elwes and The Black List, that dream feels more possible than ever before,” Kim added.
Submitted late last year for consideration for the 10th consecutive fellowship program, Kim’s E.S.L. feature script tells the tale of a Korean-American woman in a hurry to relearn the language of the peninsula in an effort to...
“It’s an immense honor to be the recipient of the Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship, especially because E.S.L. is a deeply personal story centered on a family that looks and sounds like mine,” the Brooklyn-based filmmaker told Deadline. “It’s long been a dream of mine to add to the rich but underappreciated legacy of Asian American filmmakers—and now, thanks to Mr. Elwes and The Black List, that dream feels more possible than ever before,” Kim added.
Submitted late last year for consideration for the 10th consecutive fellowship program, Kim’s E.S.L. feature script tells the tale of a Korean-American woman in a hurry to relearn the language of the peninsula in an effort to...
- 1/18/2023
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
For a 10th consecutive year, the Black List and Cassian Elwes will bring an Independent Screenwriting Fellow to join them at the Sundance Film Festival.
The Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship is an annual program designed to encourage and identify new talent in the field of indie cinema by awarding up to two screenwriters with an all-expenses paid trip to the Sundance Film Festival under the aegis of producer Cassian Elwes.
Beginning Monday, unrepresented feature writers whose work features an independent sensibility and have made less than 5,000 in aggregate in their film or television writing careers will be able to opt into consideration via the Black List website until November 13. At that time, the Black List will choose 10 finalists, whose work will be shared with Elwes, who will decide the fellowship recipients before calendar year’s end.
Previous fellows include Leslie Nipkow, Aemilia Scott,...
The Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship is an annual program designed to encourage and identify new talent in the field of indie cinema by awarding up to two screenwriters with an all-expenses paid trip to the Sundance Film Festival under the aegis of producer Cassian Elwes.
Beginning Monday, unrepresented feature writers whose work features an independent sensibility and have made less than 5,000 in aggregate in their film or television writing careers will be able to opt into consideration via the Black List website until November 13. At that time, the Black List will choose 10 finalists, whose work will be shared with Elwes, who will decide the fellowship recipients before calendar year’s end.
Previous fellows include Leslie Nipkow, Aemilia Scott,...
- 8/1/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Hey, "NCIS: New Orleans" fans. We hope you guys enjoyed tonight's premiere episode 1. Now that it's officially in the can, it's time to take a look at a few plotlines that are set to take place in the new, upcoming episode 2. Thanks to CBS, we do have a few teaser descriptions for episode 2 via their official press release. So, with no further ado, we're just going to jump right into it. For starters, episode 2 does indeed have a title, It's officially called, "The Terminator Conundrum." That is indeed a very unique title. It sounds like episode 2 will feature some pretty interesting, intense and possible dramatic scenes as the NCIS team investigates a private plane crash. Agent Pride suffers from insomnia and more! We'll go ahead and start off this spoiler session with the plane crash investigation situation. It turns out that the NCIS crew will be dealing with claims...
- 9/25/2019
- by Chris
- OnTheFlix
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