The mission of Diverse Voices is to provide a contest that is purely focused on promoting and encouraging diverse voices and stories. The contest’s hope is to find stories told from perspectives – through the author and/or characters – often underrepresented in Hollywood today. We’re so happy to say, once again, the response to this contest was unbelievable.
This Diverse Voices contest has brought together amazing talent and incredible stories. So many strong projects were among the semi-finalists that we’ve increased the size of our finalist group to 36 scripts. However, there were still so many extremely talented writers who did not advance. Selecting our finalists was remarkably difficult and even those that did not advance had fantastic stories. We are confident that some scripts not advancing will bring their writers success in the near future.
We also want to extend a sincere congratulations to everyone advancing. If you are a finalist, it means that, after three reads, your judges agreed that this is a stand out story that needs to be told. Please make sure to congratulate these writers on our Facebook announcement — they deserve it!
And now, the Diverse Voices Finalists:
| A Better Place | Katterina Powers |
| A Brotherhood | Bandar Albuliwi |
| A Consuming Fire | Chris Phillips |
| A View From The Sea | Jonny Pasvolsky |
| Absolute Priority | Rebecca McElroy |
| Alieu the Dreamer | Quincy Ledbetter |
| Buffalo Nation | Alexander Major |
| Californio | Pedro Fernandez |
| Catfish And The Crabs | Sojean Peou |
| Cherry Hill Blues | Shay Ball |
| Chico Grande | Jesus Celaya |
| Children of Pan | Candela Echenique & Ricardo Uhagón Vivas |
| Dark-Skinned Girls | Edith Cheng |
| Daruma | Kelli McNeil |
| Devil River | David Sullivan |
| Dukkha | Rachana suri |
| Enfect | Bo Shim |
| Estevan the Black | Michael Choi & Karl Bauer |
| Evolution | Cara Winter |
| HAZMAT | Capucine Berney |
| Knife to a Gunfight Script | Gemal Woods |
| Kyla’s War – Series Pilot – “Snow Angels” | Hank Isaac |
| Midnight | Jamel Northern |
| Mother Tongue | Ann Rosen |
| On the Wing | Lynn Esta Goldman |
| River | Roderick Stevens |
| Silhouette | Lukas Hassel |
| The Face of the Earth | Amanda Bermudez |
| The Great Pretenders | Jillian Lauren |
| The King’s Crossroads | Alex Reid |
| The Lean | Pearse Lehane |
| The Polish Medallion | Siovonne Smith |
| The Value Shopping Network | Meg Favreau |
| Touch the Fire | Kevin Karp |
| Trinn Begins | Dani Milton |
| White Coyote | Arla Bowers |
