The Black List
Shelby Kovant is a seasoned professional in the entertainment industry, currently serving as the Manager of Writer Development at The Black List since April 2022. Prior experience includes a role as Deputy Program Director (Freelance) at #Startwith8Hollywood, where Shelby co-led efforts to enhance a mentorship program focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. Previous positions include an Executive Search Team Researcher in Talent Acquisition at The Walt Disney Studios and Project Coordinator for the Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment at UCLA. Shelby has held various roles in development and production, working on notable projects with companies such as Bold Films, Caviar, ICM Partners, Gotham Inc., and Havas Worldwide. Shelby's educational background includes a degree from Duke University.
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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.