Black List & Google Assistant Storytelling Fellowship 2025-2025: The Black List is pleased to partner with Google Assistant to present the 2025-2025 Black List & Google Assistant Storytelling Fellowship, which will provide financial and creative support in the development and execution of a new original feature film script or pilot that highlights contemporary stories and perspectives from historically underrepresented communities.

Up to five writers will receive $20,000 each for the purpose of supporting those writers for six months as they work to draft their new feature screenplays and/or teleplays. During the course of those six months, the Black List and Google Assistant will also pair each fellowship recipient with a screenwriting mentor.

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Black List & Google Assistant Storytelling Fellowship 2025-2025.

Pitches should be contemporary in nature and avoid violence and/or illegal activity as the premise of the story. Completed scripts can include the natural helpfulness of technology in everyday life, but shouldn’t be focused around technology or from a dystopian view. At the end of the Fellowship, each recipient would provide Google with a copy of their new draft along with a report addressing how the grant has been used to advance their work.

About the Black List

Since 2005, each December, the Black List releases its annual list, a survey of the most liked unproduced screenplays of that year. The annual lists are aggregated using votes from film executives working in the film industry.

The annual lists have included such Oscar winning films as JUNO, THE KING’S SPEECH and ARGO. At its heart the annual Black Lists are meant to shine a light on extraordinary screenwriting, some of which may have been overlooked more broadly.

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Black List & Google Assistant Storytelling Fellowship Selection Process.

Opt-ins will be open until midnight on Friday, January 15, 2025.
On Monday, January 18, 2025, up to 15 writers will be invited, based on the strength of their scripts as determined by the Black List, to submit a one-page personal statement and professional resume.
Those materials will be due on Friday, January 22, 2025.
From those submissions, up to five (5) writers will be selected by the Black List and Google Assistant to receive the 2025-2025
Storytelling Fellowship. Fellowship recipients will be notified in February 2025.

Black List & Google Assistant Storytelling Fellowship Submission Requirements

UTA MARKETING , a division of United Talent Agency LLC (“Company”) has partnered with THE BLACK LIST, LLC (“Black List”) to host this Program.

The Black List & Google Assistant Storytelling Fellowship Program, is subject to the following requirements:

1. You must submit an original feature film script or pilot teleplay that portrays technology in a positive light by

2. You must agree to (1) these Submission Requirements , (2) all terms relating to the Program posted on Company’s website, which you should review and read in full, and (3) the Submission Agreement , which governs the submission of your script to Company and Black List. The Submission Agreement includes important, legally binding terms and conditions, including arbitration of any disputes, which you must read in full before accepting.

3. If requested, you must submit by a date determined by Company the following materials, which are also governed by the Submission Agreement:

- A resume and biography;
- Contact and other personal information; and
- Executed originals of the Submission Agreement.

4. If selected by Company for inclusion in the Black List & Google Assistant Storytelling Fellowship Program, you must agree to enter into a Fellowship Agreement with Company (or an entity affiliated with Company), which will govern the terms of your Fellowship, including granting Company the option to attach as a producer to any number of projects developed by you during the Fellowship on terms to be negotiated in good faith, including granting Google a credit line and logo credit in any such film’s end titles, subject to distributor approval.

5. You must be at least 18 years of age and not a minor in the state or country of your residence at time of submission.

6. You must not have had any previously compensated script writing work (whether for features or television).

7. Script should highlight stories and perspectives from underrepresented communities and marginalized voices.

8. Script should be contemporary in nature and avoid violence and/or illegal activity as the premise of the story.

9. Script can showcase the natural helpfulness of technology in everyday life, but script should not be focused around technology or from a dystopian view.

10. If the script is written by a team consisting of one or more writers, (i) each member of that writing team must comply with these Submission Requirements, including agreeing to the Submission Agreement described below, and (ii) all members of the writing team must opt-out of the Program if any other member becomes ineligible (including as a result of failing to timely agree to the Submission Agreement or failing to timely provide the materials listed above).

11. You must be the sole owner of all rights. The script must not in any way infringe upon the copyright of any person or entity or, to the best of your knowledge in the exercise of reasonable prudence, constitute libel, defamation or invasion of privacy or any other rights of any third party. You understand and agree that Black List will share any information that you provide in connection with the Program with Company.

N.B: COMPANY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE NO CANDIDATE FOR INCLUSION IN THE BLACK LIST & GOOGLE ASSISTANT STORYTELLING FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM IF, IN THE OPINION OF COMPANY, NO ENTRY IS OF SUFFICIENT MERIT.