The Purple List 2019
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 2019: PRASHANTH KAMALAKANTHAN
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DRY SUMMER by Lakshmi Simhan
Coming of Age
An Indian teenager moves to the Columbia River Gorge and falls in with a group of Ukrainian teenagers. As her parents’ marriage disintegrates, she’s caught up in a world of guns, religion and mounting acts of petty violence.
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THE STARLING GIRL by Laurel ParmetDrama/Coming of Age
It’s a sweltering summer in rural Oklahoma and all 16-year-old Jem can think of is her handsome youth pastor, who’s well-loved in their fundamentalist community and doesn’t seem to mind that she’s something of an outcast. But when they enter into an affair, Jem’s chaste life is thrown into turmoil, jeopardizing her place in her family and the only world she’s ever known.
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TWO SISTERS by David Moragas
Comedy
Six years after their mother dies, three siblings struggle to navigate their everyday problems over the course of one summer in New York.
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