The Black List
Trevor Kaufman is an experienced film industry professional with a diverse background in production and script evaluation. As the founder and executive producer of MOSH PIT Films since 2010, Trevor oversees all phases of production, from script development to securing talent and selecting projects based on entertainment value and marketability. In addition, Trevor serves as a script reader for The Black List, providing written critiques of submitted screenplays. Previous roles include executive assistant at Hopscotch Pictures, where Trevor coordinated communications and worked on the production of "Jesus Henry Christ," and personal assistant/intern at Emmett Furla Films, managing various submissions and office operations. Trevor began the career as a story editor and development assistant at Walker/Fitzgibbon TV & Film, contributing to editing and creating treatment materials. Trevor holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film/Cinema/Video Studies from Columbia College Chicago.
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.