PURPLE LIST - From Script to Screen

Inspired by the Hollywood Black List, and by their professor Robert Warren's challenge to find new ways to link students with potential film investors, thesis students Ash Bhalla and Shandor Garrison founded The Purple List with the support of the faculty and Professor John Tintori.

The Purple List’s objective is:
To bring vetted, production-ready feature screenplays from the NYU Grad Film community to the attention of industry professionals and potential investors.

How the list is formed:

  1. Faculty members sponsored student/alum feature screenplays that they deem to be production-ready, and of the highest standard.
  2. An outside panel of film professionals gave a blind-read to these faculty-selected projects. We asked them to sift through these excellent scripts and pick our list. We didn't start out with a maximum or minimum number of projects. Our primary criteria: is this script ready to be made, and will it make a good movie?


Numerous Purple List selections have been finished as accomplished feature films which have played top tier film festivals and gone-on to enjoy successful theatrical releases.

SKIN OF YOUTH by Ash Mayfai
In The Land Of Brothers by Raha Amirfazil
MUSTACHEby Imran J. Khan. 2020 Purple List. Premiered at SXSW. Winner of Audience Award for Narrative Feature.
THE STARLING GIRL by Laurel Parmet. 2019 Purple List. Premiered at Sundance.
EYIMOFE
Noah Land
The Third Wife
Yomeddine
Dead Pigs filmstill
Film Still from It Had to be You, a woman looking through an opened door.
Film Still from Those People, image of two men hugging.
Film Still from The Adderall Diaries
Film Still from Yosemite, image of 3 boys running through the desert.
Film Still from My Brothers Taught Me, image of a young woman with a couple hugging in the background.
Film still of Manos Sucias, two men sitting on a boat.
Film Still from Appropriate Behavior, a woman watching a couple kiss.
Film Still from Newlyweeds, photo of a couple.