The Black List
Mary Ashley Burton is an experienced professional with a diverse background in education, film, and administrative roles. Currently serving as Office Manager and Registrar at The Riviera Ridge School, Mary Ashley also fulfills the roles of Executive Assistant to the Head of School and Special Projects Coordinator, along with being a long-term Spanish Substitute Teacher. Concurrently, Mary Ashley mentors students in filmmaking at the Latino Film Institute and contributes as a script reader for The Black List. With a wealth of experience as a freelance writer, producer, and director since 2011, notable projects include directing medical videos for Massachusetts General Hospital and overseeing the production of Catholic Central at Family Theater Productions. Mary Ashley holds several degrees, including a Master of Arts in Spanish Language and Literature from Miami University and a Certificate in Filmmaking from Bluegrass Community and Technical College.
The Black List
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The Black List is where moviemakers find great scripts to make and scripts find moviemakers to make them. It began as a survey. In 2005, Franklin Leonard surveyed almost 100 film industry development executives about their favorite scripts from that year that had not been made as feature films. That first list - many of which have been made since - can be viewed here. Since then the voter pool has grown to about 500 film executives, 60% of whom typically respond. Over 200 Black List screenplays have been made as feature films. Those films have earned over $16BN in worldwide box office, have been nominated for 148 Academy Awards, and have won 25, including Best Pictures SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE and THE KING'S SPEECH and five of the last ten screenwriting Oscars. A complete list of Black List films is below. In September 2012, we launched a membership site for industry professionals that functions as a real time Black List and screenplay recommendation engine. You can learn more here and sign up for membership here. In October 2012, we extended our mission further by allowing screenwriters from the world to, for a small fee, upload their scripts to our database, have them evaluated by professional script readers, and subject to that evaluation and our recommendation algorithm, sent to our - at present - over 1000 film industry professionals. You can begin the process of being discovered here.