The Purple List 2022

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 2022: Tara Sheffer

  • Alyssa Loh

    CHARIOT by Alyssa Loh

    HISTORICAL DRAMA

    1958. In a purported attempt to “redeem” nuclear weapons, the American government embarks on a plan to blast a new harbor into the Alaskan coastline using five thermonuclear bombs — one of them 10 times the size of the weapon dropped on Hiroshima. A Native village next to ground zero must join forces with a young American scientist to face down the government and save their home from destruction. Inspired by true events.

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  • Amir Mosallaie

    EAST OF WESTWOOD by Amir Mosallaie

    COMEDY-DRAMA

    When his best friend kisses him the weekend before he is moving away, a timid Iranian-American teenager fends off a sexual awakening as he helps his dutiful immigrant mother plan his own elaborate graduation party.

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  • Adel L. Morales

    GOING TO MEET THE DEVIL by Adel L. Morales

    DRAMA / THRILLER

    When William and Vanessa are assaulted by a White woman in their small Southern town, they decide to fight back against the local racist Police Chief and his badge-wearing minions that have abused their Black community for generations.

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  • Nicholas Colia

    producedGRIFFIN IN SUMMER by Nicholas Colia

    COMEDY / COMING OF AGE

    Griffin is the most ambitious playwright of his generation. He's also fourteen-years-old, still living with his parents in the bland suburb of Whitewood. But when Griffin meets handsome twenty-five-year-old handyman Brad, his life (and play) will never be the same.

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  • Joseph Sackett

    POLLINATOR by Joseph Sackett

    QUEER / SCI-FI / ROM-COM

    A queer sci-fi rom-com about an alien on a mission to introduce his DNA into the human gene pool; things get complicated when he falls in love with the man who knocks him up.

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  • Hasan Hadi

    THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE by Hasan Hadi

    COMING OF AGE / DRAMA

    1991. While people struggle daily to survive under sanctions in Saddam's Iraq, nine-year-old Saeed must use his wits to gather the ingredients for the required cake to celebrate President Saddam Hussein's birthday or face the consequences alongside his family.

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