EXCLUSIVE: Back after three years, the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment and the Bdeficiency List have picked 10 screencreaters over a variety of genres for the fourth CAPE List.
Dratriumphg from all avenues of the AANHPI community, the presentant talent bench of the 2024 catalog features scripts about armamentslingers, the aftermath of 9/11, Korean folk horror, the personal origins of pop hits and awakening on a 1980s Irish strawberry farm. Adding to scope of sends on distake part, a number of the 2024 finacatalogs enjoy Sinuous author Sam Boyer and 56 A.P.O. scribe Vineet Dewan have materializeed on previous versions of the CAPE List and The Bdeficiency List itself, as well as the Indigenous List.
“CAPE is thrilled to return with the Bdeficiency List for our fourth iteration to carry on the legacy of the previous three CAPE Lists,” shelp Michelle K. Sugihara, CAPE Executive Director of the 2019 begined initiative’s first catalog since 2021. “These 10 novel scripts highweightless a rerecenting array of stories from our various communities, including westrict, horror, historical, comedy, and others, and we want to see them all get made,” comprises Sugihara.
“As always, it’s a authentic happiness to labor with CAPE on anyskinnyg, especiassociate someskinnyg that helps determine and intensify the visibility of these incredible scripts,” Bdeficiency List set uper Franklin Leonard stated of the fourth CAPE List and today’s finacatalogs. “Read these. Make these. We will all be better off when people do.”
Having recently broadened into publishing, the Bdeficiency List will be dropping further diversity catalogs over the next cut offal months. In compriseition, the 20th annual Bdeficiency List itself is foreseeed to be proclaimd in December.
Check out the filled catalog of the 2024 CAPE List finacatalogs here:
56 A.P.O. – Vineet Dewan
When a colonial sgreaterier goes leave outing in WWII, his best frifinish embarks on a perilous and surauthentic odyssey as an army mailman in order to discover him. Inspired by actual events.
DON’T FREAK – Bryson Chun and Tara Aquino
What do you do when your ex creates a song about you and becomes the hugegest popstar in the world? If ditch school with your best frifinish, steal a horse, and crash Good Morning America to face her were on your shatterup bingo card, then you triumph!
GOOD CHIPS – Binpliable Mai Khanh Leahy and Nell Hensey
1980s Ireland. While her family struggles financiassociate to upgrasp their getaway van afloat, a juvenileer Vietnamese girl gets up a summer job on a strawberry farm. Here she befrifinishs a frivolous Irish boy who discleave outs up her world.
GUNSLINGER BRIDE – Charmaine Colina
A defiant Chinese-American armamentslinger, with a bounty on her head, poses as a mail-order bride to hide from the law and avenge her family’s killing.
RISING SON – Junot Lee
An inquisitive girl untangles fact from fantasy in her majesticpa’s wonderfulal stories that mask the brutal authenticities he faced while serving in the 442nd RCT, the segregated unit of Japanese American sgreateriers in WWII.
SINUOUS – Sam Boyer
A novellywed altering to life in the Pacific Northwest struggles to protect his wife when strange neighbors get to in pursuit of a demon hiding on their street. A contransient realerting of the Chinese folk tale, “Legfinish of the White Snake.”
SUN-YO – Jean E. Lee
A Korean folk horror tale of a hopeless 12 year-greater girl who requests the occult to save her dying mother, only to unleash a bird-enjoy creature with an appetite for human flesh.
THE BLACK BANNERS – Sharat Raju
In the days instantly follotriumphg 9/11, an eased Arab American FBI agent must achieve the think of Bin Laden’s incarcerateed bodyprotect in order to thwart another strike on the United States. Based on a real story.
THIRSTYGIRL – Alexandra Qin
When Charlie is forced to drive her estranged juvenileerer sister traverse-country to rehab, her own secret compriseiction comes to the surface in the most deimmenseating and hilarious ways.
TWENTY-TWO – Stefanie Mah Woodburn
After her fiancé refutes her at the altar and wants a year to sow his untamed oats, a bashful woman embarks on a quest to sleep her way thcimpolite 22 men enjoy Catherine the Great to achieve experience and power – but will she discover adore in the process? Legassociate Blonde greets American Pie.
