Have you ever heard of Black list?
No, I’m not talking about the old Hollywood variety — though one might arguments that the blacklist is still alive and well and targeting conservatives instead of the military.
This particular blacklist is a website where you can upload movie scripts (for a small monthly fee of course) so that industry professionals can read it and hopefully make all your dreams come true. your reality by turning it into a movie.
Do not laugh. That is the way Daily Wire’s “Shut In” tested from the spec script to the silver screen.
So while the Black List may seem like a giant pile, there can actually be gold in those pages—as long as your story is good, your writing is clear, and you defy the odds. somewhere in the Powerball winning area on the same day Gal Gadot calls you for a date.
However, since hope arose in the writer’s heart forever with a gas-like ferocity that spewed out of Eric Swalwell’s pants, I decided to go back for a while to try it out for myself and skip a scenario that could have titled “Slasher Camp”—a spooky horror comedy that follows a group of college-age video game enthusiasts to an island where they can play a real-life version of the horror game. their favorite survival.
The Mayhem that followed, there was laughter, bloody flies, and crushed popcorn. I even got a few good reviews – although, sadly, no offers were made.
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Still, writing a screenplay is a fun experience and an opportunity to try my hand at a genre that I love. It also put me on the Black List mailing list, which can be a valuable resource if you are looking for a scholarship to write screenplays and other things.
That’s how I ended up with the following in my mailbox:
Black List is excited to announce that it has once again partnered with the NRDC’s Rewrite the Future (Natural Resource Defense Council) program, the Redford Center, and the CAA Foundation to launch the second iteration of the program. NRDC Climate Storytelling Scholarship.
The scholarship will grant $20,000 each to three writers to assist in modifying a climate change-related film or pilot script in a meaningful way through events, actions, characters, feelings, emotion, plot and/or setting.
Now before you roll your eyes, think about it for a moment: Someone out there is willing to spend twenty thousand dollars on a screenplay… about Climate Change!
This is perhaps the most boring, romantic, polemical subject in human history – a man has been beaten to death by the laughable efforts of the likes of Roland Emmerich and Adam McKay—And the activists at NRDC are ready and willing to part with some serious coins because they can’t have enough of that global warming thing.
It’s confusing! But you know what’s even more bewildering?
Conservative groups do not do the same.
To be sure, there’s a new attempt at creating content that’s both entertaining and not hostile to conservative values — witness the aforementioned Daily Wire, and also Breitbart’s push into feature film and television — certainly a good start.
But where are groups like The Heritage Foundation or The Claremont Institute when it comes to funding scholarships that can have a real cultural impact, rather than just producing scholarly articles that most of the public would never see. now see?
How organizations like the Petroleum Institute can fight climate change propaganda if they fund entertainment production efforts that showcase how fossil fuels have lifted millions out of poverty. poor?
Part of the reason the Left is so hostile to pop culture is that they are organized, motivated, purposeful – and well-funded. Another part is that the Right didn’t respond in kind, and that’s when we did.
If we want to build a conservative nation, we cannot ignore culture. Maybe it’s time we took a page from the opposition’s books and started building it ourselves.
Marc D. Giller is the author of the novel HAMMERJACK and STORY (Bantam Spectra) and a contributor to the STAR TREK . anthology SEVEN DEADLY SINs (Simon & Schuster). His current thriller CONTENT Z available from Amazon.
