The Purple List 2024

Inspired by the Hollywood Black List, NYU Grad Film presents The Purple List: the top production ready feature screenplays written by students or recent alums of the Grad Film Program.

As determined by our faculty and voted on by an outside panel of industry professionals.

Purple List coordinator 2024: Ifeyinwa Arinze

  • Vincent Lee Accettola

    BLUE COMEDY by Vincent Lee Accettola

    DRAMATIC COMEDY

    A recently uncloseted celebrity comedian returns to the Boston stand-up scene to mentor an aspiring straight comic for whom he’s hastily developed feelings.

    Read More.
  • Chheangkea

    LITTLE PHNOM PENH by Chheangkea

    DRAMA

    Spanning two ever-changing decades and continents following the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, a Cambodian woman in Phnom Penh grapples with her own deep personal desires and her evolving familial roles as a hopeful daughter, a watchful wife, and eventually, a single mother in America.

    Read More.
  • COMEDIC DRAMA

    RUBBER HUT by Hanna Gray Organschi

    COMEDIC DRAMA

    Rhode Island, 1992. An entrepreneurial ex-Pan Am stewardess opens a drive-thru condom shop in her Italian Catholic town. Overnight, Emanuella DelVecchio becomes the local lightning rod, a radical hero to the neighborhood teens and an unlikely threat to her tight-knit community.

    Read More.
  • Sara Crow & David Rafailedes

    SATOSHI by Sara Crow & David Rafailedes

    COMEDY

    The potentially true story of a teenage anime-obsessed hacktivist who, after losing her scholarship to Stanford, returns home to Arizona to become the mysterious inventor of a new digital currency called Bitcoin.

    Read More.