For the fourth year in a row, CAPE is proud to partner with the Black List to create the latest edition of the CAPE List!
The fourth annual CAPE List will elevate the most promising unmade feature film scripts featuring a protagonist with Asian and/or Pacific Islander heritage, and must include authentic, accurate and inclusive Asian and Pacific Islander representation that if removed, would significantly alter or affect the story. Only feature film scripts are eligible for the 2024 CAPE List.
Writers, filmmakers, and creators are invited to submit a feature film script for consideration by uploading it to The Black List website beginning on February 28, 2024. Writers selected for the CAPE List will be notified of their placement in late summer 2024 with a public announcement to follow.
Fee Waivers:
400 fee waivers are available to submitting writers thanks to AMC Networks! When submitting your script for diversity list consideration, you will be able to apply for one fee waiver per submitting writer (which includes one month of hosting and one evaluation). We will approve and reject fee waivers on a weekly basis, so please account for that when waiting to hear back from us.
While a writer may be eligible for multiple diversity lists, only one fee waiver application is necessary, even if submitting work for consideration on multiple diversity lists - writers will only be eligible for one diversity list fee waiver even if they have more than one eligible project to submit, as we hope to provide fee waivers to as many submitting writers as possible. The month of hosting and reader evaluation included in the fee waiver package will allow writers to submit their script to any diversity list (or any other Black List program) for which they are eligible.
Fee waivers will be equally distributed across all 2024 diversity lists and distributed at the discretion of diversity list partners, AMC Networks and the Black List. Please check out our FAQ for more information about how to apply for a diversity list fee waiver. Until your fee waiver application status has been determined, you are not able to apply for another diversity list fee waiver - thanks so much for your patience in the meantime!
OUR 2021 CAPE LIST FEATURES
by alphabetical order of script title
ANGEL ISLAND
by Kevin Shen
In 1920s San Francisco, a Chinese-American interpreter on Angel Island Immigration Station grapples with what it means to be American when he meets a woman facing the country's racist immigration laws.
CITIZEN NOWHERE
by Kevin Ramlal
In 1907, a stubborn Punjabi immigrant sets out to win the American wrestling welterweight title in order to earn the resources and respect necessary for his community’s survival.
GOODBYE, HURRICANE
by The Tao Brothers
An Asian American son must navigate his own personal trauma, as well as a broken and fragmented mental health system, in order to keep his schizoaffective mother alive and safe.
To read this script, please contact Jermaine Johnson at jjohnson@3arts.com, Christina Chou at christina.chou@caa.com, and Jon Cassir at jon.cassir@caa.com.
HONEY
by Wallaine Sarao
When a Filipina girl from a devout Christian family winds up pregnant, she and her two best friends compete for a dance contest prize to pay for her abortion.
JERSEY BOY
by Jaskaran Singh
A Sikh boy growing up in suburban New Jersey must reconcile with his identity after a family tragedy in the aftermath of 9/11.
MOTHER RIVER
by D. Dona Le
A simple Vietnamese rice farmer takes on an international human trafficking ring with just her street smarts and brute strength to rescue her kidnapped teenage daughter.
To read this script, please contact Niki Montazaran at NMontazaran@wmeagency.com and NMontazaran.Assistant@wmeagency.com.
SUPER NOVA by
Sam Boyer & Soma Helmi
In small-town Texas, a young mixed-Indonesian girl and her imaginary superhero friend compete for the chance to go to Comic-Con — and meet her possible biological mother.
THE DEFIANT ONE
by Veialu Aila-Unsworth
Inspired by true events: On a Pacific Island colony, a plucky Indigenous girl awakens to the prejudice against her people after she accidentally reveals her brother’s forbidden friendship with a white woman and must save him from execution.
THE DINING ROOM
by Shawn Parikh
A broke, lonely Indian widow rediscovers her appetite for life when she opens an unauthorized restaurant from her apartment dining room.
WRITTEN IN THE STARS
by Menik Gooneratne
When her horoscope reveals NOW is the time for marriage, a skeptical Sri Lankan Australian woman concedes to her superstitious mother’s whims and agrees to meet 101 suitors in 90 days.
2021 CAPE List Script Requests
Please fill out the form below to make an industry request for any of the 2021 CAPE List scripts:
Please email info@capeusa.org to request CAPE List scripts from previous years.
