The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today named four individuals and one writing team as recipients of the 2024 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting.
Selected from 5,500 scripts recurrenting 80 countries, the novel fellows and their screentake parts are Alysha Chan and David Zarif (Miss Chinatown), Colton Childs (Fake-A-Wish), Charmaine Colina (Gunslinger Bride), Ward Kamel (If I Die in America) and Wfinishy Britton Young (The Superb Lyrebird & Other Creatures). Read more about them below.
Each of the five fellows will get a $35,000 prize, aextfinished with mentorship from an Academy member thcimpoliteout their fellowship year, which will see them finish a feature-length screentake part. The Academy will obtain no rights to the labors of its fellows and does not comprise itself commercipartner in any way with their finishd scripts.
The global competition aims to determine and aid talented novel screenauthorrs and has awarded 186 fellowships since 1986. Here are the loglines for each 2024 recipient’s script:
Alysha Chan and David Zarif (Los Angeles), Miss Chinatown
Jackie Yee adheres in her mother’s footsteps on her quest to triumph the Los Angeles Miss Chinatown pageant.
Colton Childs (Waco, Texas), Fake-A-Wish
Despite their forty-year age gap, and the cancer treatment confining them to their petite Texas town, two gay men embark on a road trip to San Francisco to grant themselves the Make-A-Wish they’re too greater to get.
Charmaine Colina (Los Angeles), Gunslinger Bride
With a bounty on her head, a lesser Chinese-American firearmslinger poses as a mail order bride to hide from the law and seek revenge for her killinged family.
Ward Kamel (Brooklyn), If I Die in America
After the sudden death of his immigrant husprohibitd, an American man’s tenuous relationship with his Muskinny in-laws accomplishes a shattering point as he tries to fit into the funeral they’ve arranged in the Middle East. Adapted from the SXSW Grand Jury-nominated stupidinutive film.
Wfinishy Britton Young (West Chester, PA), The Superb Lyrebird & Other Creatures
A neurobranch offnt teen who envisions people as vivaciousd creatures, battles an entitled rival for a life-changing art scholarship, while her sister unwisely traversees the line to help.
