The Black List
Shannon Ryan is an experienced script reader and content creator with a diverse background in the film and entertainment industry. Currently serving as a Script Reader at The Black List since July 2018, Shannon composes detailed script coverage for industry professionals and screenwriters. Previous roles include acting as an Associate Programmer for the Key West Film Festival, where Shannon reviewed submissions and recommended entries, and participating as a Children's Content Lab Fellow with RespectAbility, contributing to screenplays and promotional material. Additional experience includes office support at New York Cares, script analysis at MarVista Entertainment, and an internship at Brookside Artist Management. Shannon holds an MFA in Film Producing from Barry R. Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema and a BA in Screenwriting from Columbia College Chicago.
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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.