Paramount Global has chosen the nine writers who will participate in the Paramount Writers Mentoring Program for 2024-2025. Selected in the program’s 20th year are Jamil Akim O’Quinn, Wei Ling Chang, Adrian Colón Jr., Jai Franklin Sarki, Seth Harrington, Natalie Higdon, writing team Dijorn Moss & Trinea Moss and Nick Spates.
The Paramount Office of Global Inclusion helms the program. It is an eight-month-long program that provides mentorships, career development, support and personal access to executives and the decision-making processes for new writers in television. The program’s end goal is to prepare them for a television career.
For 16 weeks, participants will attend small workshop-style meetings with showrunners, executive producers, agents, managers and development and current executives to better understand how the writing and television business works. The writers are paired with an executive from the Paramount studio brands for regular meetings, fostering discussions about their work and receiving valuable...
The Paramount Office of Global Inclusion helms the program. It is an eight-month-long program that provides mentorships, career development, support and personal access to executives and the decision-making processes for new writers in television. The program’s end goal is to prepare them for a television career.
For 16 weeks, participants will attend small workshop-style meetings with showrunners, executive producers, agents, managers and development and current executives to better understand how the writing and television business works. The writers are paired with an executive from the Paramount studio brands for regular meetings, fostering discussions about their work and receiving valuable...
- 1/17/2024
- by Diego Ramos Bechara
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Women’s advocacy organization WeForShe has revealed its 2020 list of top unproduced, female-written TV scripts. Scroll down for the list in full.
According to organizers, the sixth WriteHer List came from hundreds of nominations by network and studio execs, showrunners, producers and directors.
Submissions of comedy scripts surged this year, the org said, with almost half the list being comprised of half-hour dramedy, or multi-cam scripts. Ya, procedural, sci-fi and family drama were also popular.
Some projects are already being set up, the firm said. Bliss is with Participant, CBS TV Studios is attached to Coma Girl from actress and writer Liz Vassey (who starred in and got a writing start on CBS’s CSI) and Rocket Jump is attached to produce Space Trash.
WeForShe created the annual list to aid executives in their search for women writers. All scripts must be written by a woman (or writing team...
According to organizers, the sixth WriteHer List came from hundreds of nominations by network and studio execs, showrunners, producers and directors.
Submissions of comedy scripts surged this year, the org said, with almost half the list being comprised of half-hour dramedy, or multi-cam scripts. Ya, procedural, sci-fi and family drama were also popular.
Some projects are already being set up, the firm said. Bliss is with Participant, CBS TV Studios is attached to Coma Girl from actress and writer Liz Vassey (who starred in and got a writing start on CBS’s CSI) and Rocket Jump is attached to produce Space Trash.
WeForShe created the annual list to aid executives in their search for women writers. All scripts must be written by a woman (or writing team...
- 2/12/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
There's a flurry of excitement in the room where I am about to speak with director Wei Ling Chang about her first feature, The Unlikely Girl, a few hours prior to its world premier at the Vancouver Film Festival. Chang's background in film and television production and years spent directing reality television provided a solid foundation for this surprisingly noir indie thriller, set in France. So too, did her French husband and the extended period she spent living in Paris. "I speak French," she says with mild hesitation, "but I wouldn't say that I am fluent."A day after seeing the film, I am still perplexed by the film's curious prologue, which reads:The sentence below is true.The sentence above is false."It's a version of the liar's...
- 10/13/2012
- Screen Anarchy
After its world premier at the Vancouver International Film Festival last week, director Wei Ling Chang's first feature film The Unlikely Girl is set to have a Us premier at the Woodstock Film Festival in Woodstock, NY.Shot entirely on location in France, the film is a tricky, taut and subtly sexy thriller - think (a refreshingly far less clichéd) Wild Things by way of Swimming Pool. The film stars Hande Kodja and Pierre Boulanger, and marks the feature film debut of Shane Lynch (90210), the daughter of actress Kelly Lynch. Check out this exclusive clip of The Unlikely Girl. This suspenseful film noir(ish) will be having its final screening at Viff on October 11, and can be seen at the Woodstock Film Fest on October 12 and...
- 10/11/2012
- Screen Anarchy
With the Venice, Telluride and Toronto trifecta of film festivals over, but New York and London gearing up, fall is the time when the very best cinema has to offer gets rolled out. But among all the buzzworthy titles reaching for Oscar gold, there are plenty more films just looking to find an audience. And while they may not boast big names and budgets, they may offer up something unexpected for the adventurous viewer, and one movie hoping to make a splash is Wei Ling Chang's debut feature "The Unlikely Girl." The film stars Hande Kodja, Pierre Boulanger and Shane Lynch, and follows an American exchange student spending the summer in France who becomes embroiled in a romantic triangle. This exclusive first clip from the movie gives a hint at the suspense and sexual tension that seems to be boiling beneath the surface. Here's the official synopsis: The sexy...
- 9/25/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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