Is the Nicholl Fellowship home to the most boring screenplays ever written? A perusal of the winning loglines over the years suggest that it is indeed.
-
Wondering which camera, gear, computer, or software to buy? Ask in our Gear Guide.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
Nicholl Fellowship Screenplays
- Thread starter Susan Shapiro
- Start date
The loglines or a link to them would have been helpful...
Anyway, here they are - I actually think some sound pretty damn good:
You're probably aware the Nicholl readers are told to ignore commercial and budget considerations when scoring. They are told to pick the scripts with the best screenwriting (craft, story, dialogue, characters etc) regardless of how commercial or not that script may be, or how expensive or inexpensive it would be to make.
Anyway, here they are - I actually think some sound pretty damn good:
Slingshot
Trapped on a hobbled spacecraft, an astronaut struggles to survive not just the mission, but a crew that's more dangerous than it seems.
Smut
Two men write an erotic novel and employ their female co-worker to front for them as the author. When the book becomes an overnight sensation, a publicity tour threatens to expose their scheme.
Legion
Just days before he is to leave a life of warfare behind him, a Roman Centurion must assume command of a group of misfit soldiers trapped deep within hostile country.
Heart of the Monstyr
Hazel Hopfoot journeys with her little sister into a strange mechanical underworld to recover the heart of the boy she loves from the monster who holds her town captive.
The Cupid Code
A woman invents a matchmaking service based on DNA, but when her business misfires both professionally and personally she learns science isn't the best gauge of love.
Joe Banks
The son of a Nobel Prize–winning novelist via a genius sperm bank is determined to follow in his father's footsteps, but suddenly finds himself on a wild odyssey with his real father, a drinking, man's-man, lothario author of airport novels who was stripped of his own Nobel after a sex scandal.
Lost Children
The sudden disappearance of a 7-year-old mute girl shatters the lives and exposes the desperate secrets of a small New Jersey neighborhood.
Jersey City Story
A basketball star faces his bitter past when he's pursued by a young boy growing up in his old room in the projects.
Queen of Hearts
Inspired by true events, this is the story of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass author Lewis Carroll (aka Charles L. Dodgson) and how his relationship with the real Alice Liddell and her family may have inspired one of the world's most beloved pieces of children's literature.
Sugar In My Veins
When a mutual attraction blossoms between a fourteen year old violin prodigy and her sister's much older boyfriend, it leads to a risky forbidden affair that has both liberating and disastrous consequences for their lives.
Trapped on a hobbled spacecraft, an astronaut struggles to survive not just the mission, but a crew that's more dangerous than it seems.
Smut
Two men write an erotic novel and employ their female co-worker to front for them as the author. When the book becomes an overnight sensation, a publicity tour threatens to expose their scheme.
Legion
Just days before he is to leave a life of warfare behind him, a Roman Centurion must assume command of a group of misfit soldiers trapped deep within hostile country.
Heart of the Monstyr
Hazel Hopfoot journeys with her little sister into a strange mechanical underworld to recover the heart of the boy she loves from the monster who holds her town captive.
The Cupid Code
A woman invents a matchmaking service based on DNA, but when her business misfires both professionally and personally she learns science isn't the best gauge of love.
Joe Banks
The son of a Nobel Prize–winning novelist via a genius sperm bank is determined to follow in his father's footsteps, but suddenly finds himself on a wild odyssey with his real father, a drinking, man's-man, lothario author of airport novels who was stripped of his own Nobel after a sex scandal.
Lost Children
The sudden disappearance of a 7-year-old mute girl shatters the lives and exposes the desperate secrets of a small New Jersey neighborhood.
Jersey City Story
A basketball star faces his bitter past when he's pursued by a young boy growing up in his old room in the projects.
Queen of Hearts
Inspired by true events, this is the story of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass author Lewis Carroll (aka Charles L. Dodgson) and how his relationship with the real Alice Liddell and her family may have inspired one of the world's most beloved pieces of children's literature.
Sugar In My Veins
When a mutual attraction blossoms between a fourteen year old violin prodigy and her sister's much older boyfriend, it leads to a risky forbidden affair that has both liberating and disastrous consequences for their lives.
You're probably aware the Nicholl readers are told to ignore commercial and budget considerations when scoring. They are told to pick the scripts with the best screenwriting (craft, story, dialogue, characters etc) regardless of how commercial or not that script may be, or how expensive or inexpensive it would be to make.
Last edited:
Thanks, IndiePaul. I don't review drama screenplays. It's not my department. My comment was actually meant to poke fun at the drama script consultants at my work, but I don't think any of them saw it. Oh well.