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Once again, we're very excited to announce that Diverse Voices raised $2,712 for the Books for Kids Foundation! Thank you to everyone who entered for helping this cause; we're extremely excited to support this amazing organization. We encourage everyone to check out this program and all they're doing.
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 that are told from perspectives – through the author and/or characters – that are often underrepresented in Hollywood today. We're so happy to say that once again the response to this contest was unbelievable.
This Diverse Voices contest has brought together so much amazing talent and so many incredible stories were among the semi-finalists that we've increased the size of our finalist group to 32 scripts. However, there were still so many extremely talented writers who did not advance. The competition was fierce and just because a project may not have advanced doesn't at all mean that it isn't a fantastic story. In fact, we're certain that some scripts not advancing will bring their writer success in the very near future.
We also want to extend a sincere congratulations to everyone advancing. If you are advancing 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 the Facebook announcement — they deserve it!
And now, the Diverse Voices Finalists:
D. T. written by Ken Comer |
BEAVER, LAS VEGAS written by Elise D'Haene |
Bombers written by Darren Sand |
Buried written by Karen Frank |
Carla Margo written by Amelia Phillips |
CHERRY HILL BLUES written by Shay Ball |
Darkness Never Forgives written by Gary Hanna |
Downward Departure written by Jay Adams |
Flux written by Gus Avila |
Flynt written by Malcolm M. Mayes |
Language of Life written by Helen Kenyon |
Little Bird written by Thomas Downs |
Mad Like Me written by Melinda Maerker |
MARASCHINO written by Kincaid Jones |
Mary Tries To Get a Piece written by Eric Vasallo |
Periwinkle Square written by Avery Lee and Bobby Richards |
Plan B written by Paige Gresty |
Prodigal written by Chris Courtney Martin |
Prodigal written by Yvonne Hana Yi |
Sitting written by Jade Daugherty |
Song of Cheer Again written by Jeza Belle |
South of the 10 written by Davina Willett |
The (Beautiful) Game written by Chloe Weinberg |
THE CURMUDGEONS written by Shiv Sudhakar |
THE GREEK DETECTIVE written by Janet Ritz |
The Last Fall written by Cate Honzl |
The Lean written by Pearse Lehane |
The Saudi written by Moutaz Jad |
The Savage Land written by Jesus Celaya |
The Skins Game written by Justin Neal |
Transfer to the Express written by A. Chris Gajilan |
Wrong Number written by Devin Mainville |