Actors Clancy Brown, Ansel Elgort, Jack O’Connell and Tessa Thompson will perform a live reading of selected scenes from the four winning scripts at the 2014 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards Presentation & Live Read on Thursday, November 13, at 7:30 p.m., at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
For the second consecutive year, the event will be directed and produced by Rodrigo Garcia and Julie Lynn, respectively, whose credits include “Albert Nobbs,” “Mother and Child” and the upcoming “Last Days in the Desert.”
Presenters for the evening’s program include filmmaker and 2010 Nicholl fellow Destin Cretton (“Short Term 12”), filmmaker Ava DuVernay (“Selma”), Academy Award-winning actress Eva Marie Saint (“On the Waterfront”), and screenwriter Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith (“Legally Blonde”).
Three individual writers and one writing team have been selected as winners of the 2014 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition out of a record 7,511 entries.
The winners are (listed alphabetically by author):
- Sam Baron, Cambridge, United Kingdom, “The Science of Love and Laughter”
- Alisha Brophy, Los Angeles, CA, and Scott Miles, Austin, TX, “United States of Fuckin’ Awesome”
- Melissa Iqbal, London, United Kingdom, “The Death Engine”
- Sallie West, Charleston, SC, “Moonflower”
Each of the three individual winners and the combined writing team will receive a $35,000 prize, the first installment of which will be distributed at the event.
Since 1986, 137 Nicholl fellowships have been awarded. Fellowships are presented with the understanding that the recipients will each complete a feature-length screenplay during their fellowship year.
