The 2023 List of Lists powered by Coverfly

One List to Rule Them All

The film industry runs on lists. Lots of lists. Sometimes too many lists. That's why Coverfly's done the legwork and distilled them down into one authoritative list of lists, easily filterable and searchable for your viewing. Happy hunting!

The Industry's Best

Here are the top Industry lists filterable on Coverfly.

View the winners and finalists of Hollywood's most prestigious screenwriting competition.

Nicholl Fellowship

Invite-only program designed to recruit the best diverse writing talent.

Sony Diverse Writers

Coverfly's very own list of the top projects by genre and format, dynamically updated based on a project's performance across major writing programs.

The Red List

NBC TV Writers Program identifies & develops writers whose points of view & diverse lived experiences provide unique perspectives to the writers room.

NBC TV Writers

95% of Hollywood productions use Final Draft screenwriting software-- Big Break is the annual writing competition selecting winners across format + genre and one of the most respected programs in the industry.

Final Draft's Big Break

Apply for the chance to hone your skills, build a professional network, and get your foot in the door of Nickelodeon's writers' rooms.

Nickelodeon Writing

Compiled by nominations from managers, agents, and executives, presenting 30 selections of emerging writers and filmmakers of varying backgrounds, formats, genres, and styles.

The Next List

Celebrating up and coming managers, agents, producers, and executives, who have been successful champions and genuine advocates of emerging + underrepresented voices, perspectives, and projects.

The Next List Industry

Eighteen years of compiling the most liked scripts from over 250 film executives.

The Black List

The New Voices Fellowship is a four-month mentorship program for emerging swriters who explore the human condition in a nuanced, meaningful way.

Humanitas

Coverfly's Best

Did you think we ran out of lists? Nope. We thought we'd flex our data prowess and give you a few more.

The Best Unproduced Projects List highlights the strongest projects of the past year with elements in place for packaging that have flown under the radar in the marketplace. The list was curated by the Coverfly Writer Development Team which previously packaged projects with UTA and CAA that went on to be produced by Netflix and Imagine among others.

Coverfly has helped hundreds of writers sign with managers and agents over the past few years--but some writers do just fine on their own. Nominated by industry professionals + working film/television writers, the Best Unrepresented Writers list highlights the top writers who achieved impressive career milestones of the past year that are currently not signed with a literary manager.

Roughly 2,000 industry professionals use Coverfly to source clients and projects. These ten projects represent the projects downloaded the most by our industry community of managers, agents, producers, and executives.

One of the most popular resources on the Coverfly Industry portal is the search functionality that provides hyper specific results down to the format, genre, subgenre, writer background, representation status, ethnicity, or unique life experience. These ten projects represent the projects most viewed in industry search results from the past year.

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