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Exclusive: Paradigm has a new TV literary agent.

Adam Van Dusen has joined the company from Gersh after spending over a decade there.

Van Dusen is bringing over a number of his clients including Sylvia Alcalá (A Man On The Inside), Jeffrey Wang (Silo), Brooke Roberts (The Terminal List), Alex Maggio (FBI), Ben Dubash (Shantaram) and Tiffany Shaw Ho (The Night Agent).

Others joining include Lauren Barnett (The Flash), Ashley Skidmore (Glamorous), Samantha McIntyre (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist), Jessica Lamour (Minx), Maggie Bandur (Community), Michael Gemballa (S.W.A.T.), Anya Meksin (High Potential), Taylor Santiago-Berger (Twisted Metal), Dan Liu (For All Mankind), and Ayoka Chenzira (A League Of Their Own).

Van Dusen is the latest lit agent to join the company.

Last year, Jonny Gutman, who was VP of Original Series for Idw Entertainment, joined as a TV lit agent, while former Verve CEO Bill Weinstein and his former Verve colleague Devon Schiff...

Plot: Based on Georgia Hunter’s New York Times bestselling novel, the television adaptation of “We Were the Lucky Ones” is a limited series inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of WWII. The series follows them across continents as they do everything in their power to survive and to reunite. “We Were the Lucky Ones” demonstrates how, in the face of the twentieth century’s darkest moment, the human spirit can endure and even thrive. The series is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds.

Review: One of the most important lessons of history is never to forget it. In recent years, as political strife has shifted around the globe from one region to the next, entertainment has always been an outlet to tell stories of inspiration as well as the stark horrors of what happens when...

Members of the WGA West’s Middle Eastern Writers Committee are urging the film and television industry to be more inclusive and less stereotypical in its storytelling.

“Reach out to us. Get to know our work. And most of all, take more chances on us to both tell our own stories and contribute to the ones being crafted in writers rooms all over town,” they wrote Monday in an open letter to the industry. But they noted: “How can we get in the rooms to tell other stories if we’re not even being hired to tell our own?”

The group said they formed the committee “primarily on the basis of one disappointing fact. As reported in the Wgaw Inclusion Report of 2020, Middle Eastern writers are dead last, making up only 0.3% of employed writers. You read that right. 0.3%. That’s pretty close to 0%. Because of this, we find ourselves at a cultural inflection point,...

The Black List and Women In Film, Los Angeles (Wif La) revealed the participants in their 2019 Feature Residency program as well as their Annual Feature Lab.

The collaboration between the organizations provides mentorship and career opportunities to six rising women screenwriters over the course of a year, the Feature Residency kicked off with a three-day intensive this past weekend in a Los Angeles and included mentors Haifaa Al-Mansour (Wadja), Jessica Bendinger (Bring it On), Andrea Berloff (The Kitchen), Aline Brosh McKenna (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Scott Myers, Liz Hannah (Long Shot), and Kiwi Smith (Legally Blonde). The participants will continue in mentorship, script work, and career development for the next twelve months. The Residency is supported by Airbnb and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

For the Annual Feature Lab, six writers were selected from over 1,000 submissions via the Black List website...

Film Independent announced today the six screenwriters selected for its 21st annual Screenwriting Lab. Mikki Crisostomo, Billy Luther, Haitham Dabbour, Anya Meksin, Sontenish Myers and Andrew Huang will all received story and career development from the non-profit organization’s annual program for their first fiction screenplays. Notes Find in a press release, “One hundred percent of this year’s participants are from communities underrepresented in film and half the participants are women. This year’s projects, selected from 550 submissions, explore a range of compelling fictional topics from ancient magic to widespread pandemics and tiger spirits.” More from the press release: “Being a […]...

Film Independent announced today the six screenwriters selected for its 21st annual Screenwriting Lab. Mikki Crisostomo, Billy Luther, Haitham Dabbour, Anya Meksin, Sontenish Myers and Andrew Huang will all received story and career development from the non-profit organization’s annual program for their first fiction screenplays. Notes Find in a press release, “One hundred percent of this year’s participants are from communities underrepresented in film and half the participants are women. This year’s projects, selected from 550 submissions, explore a range of compelling fictional topics from ancient magic to widespread pandemics and tiger spirits.” More from the press release: “Being a […]...