BlackScreenplays.com
Title
BlackScreenPlays.com
Description
This web site comes about because one day we were looking for some information about writing screenplays about the African-American community. We had an interest in African-American movies, and had thought about one day writing a screenplay. We hit all of the major web search engines with the simple inquire: African-American screenplays. To our surprise nothing returned. We tried "Black screenplays", again nothing returned. We could not believe that in the entire web universe their was not one site on writing screenplays about the African-American community. We ended up doing a general search on screenplays and found several websites on screenwriting, but none had the information we were looking for. The idea for this site was born that day.
As you are probably aware, African-Americans are underrepresented in Hollywood today. To try to remedy this situation, we decided to place all the information we have found on screenwriting on this web site. Their are a number of reasons why Blacks are underrepresented in Hollywood; We didn't want a lack of knowledge about screenwriting to be one of them. Remember, Great Black movies start with Great Black Screenplays!
WHAT IS A BLACK SCREENPLAY? We define a Black screenplay as a screenplay that is either about the African-American community, or has African-Americans as the main characters. Other than those two things a Black screenplay is the same as any other screenplay; All of the rules of screenplay formatting, character development, dialogue, and story development are the same. You do not have to be Black to write a great Black screenplay (check out the movie "Nothing But a Man" (1964) by Robert M. Young and Michael Roemer ), but it does help sometimes. Some Black writers find being classified as a Black screenwriter as limiting, and somewhat constraining. Our response to this is that a Black screenwriter is limited only by their imagination, because their are still so many more African-American stories to be told.
