Summary: On the isle of Jura, George Orwell fights a losing battle with time & tuberculosis as he wrestles with the dark dystopian visions of Nineteen Eighty-Four.ĪPHRA by Jessica Lambert (Independent Talent Group) THE LAST MAN IN EUROPE by James Roblin (Unrepresented) Summary: How far will Liv – wife, mother, daughter and overlooked scientist – be willing to go in order for her ground-breaking research into chimpanzees behaviour to be heard? Seeking her independence she challenges the status quo of 1970’s British, male-dominated academia, stealing her (Alpha-male-of-primate-research) husband’s spotlight, and throwing her family, reputation and self into an upheaval that quickly spirals out of her control. Summary: A portrait of love, loneliness and loss, MAPS is a soulful sci-fi about a woman who secretly assumes a false identity working in the interstellar mines of the Kuiper Belt to save her family from ruinous debt.ĪNIMALS by Laurence Coriat (Independent Talent Group)
Set in present-day North-West London, Obeah is inspired by the indigenous spiritual practices from the Caribbean and its clash with the descendants of practitioners. Summary: When the bodies of young people start showing up across the country, an angsty woman finds herself on the hunt for a serial killer acting out a very ancient revenge. The Brit List’s sponsors include Kinetic Content, Final Draft, the Film Distributors’ Association and ScreenSkills.
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Last year’s Brit List was topped by Headline Pictures’ TV comedy-drama The Jude Problem. Since its launch 13 years ago, 70 Brit List screenplays have been produced, including Oscar-winner The Favourite, Ewan McGregor starrer Salmon Fishing In The Yemen and indie thriller The Survivalist. Three of the top four scripts have a female protagonist. One third of the scripts are features, and 65% are by female writers - more than ever before. Of nearly 300 scripts put forward, 18 made it onto the list.
In 2021, the bar for inclusion moved higher, with scripts needing a minimum of seven recommendations for inclusion. Brit List 2020 Revealed: London Crime-Drama & Philadelphia Newsroom Story Among Lineup Of Best Unproduced Film & TV Scripts