THE MOVIE BOOK CLUB AWARD
Sponsored by The Movie Book Club
Description
The Movie Book Club Award adapts your play into a movie or TV show that The Movie Book Club will publish and feature in our monthly book publication so that you can be paid a percentage of each sale and then be pitched to our connects at A24 and other studios and networks.
Qualifications
The playwright must be a person of color or the subject matter must pertain to, or be about people of color.
Methodology
A committee of 5 voters will ascertain if the play is: 1-ethnically cogent, 2-socially aware, 3-culturally provocative, 4-racially insightful and 5-artistically elevated and has literary imagination/innovation/and strong character development.
Reward
The award grants the winner the provision of The Movie Book Club, through it’s nonprofit 501c3 Negritube Media Enterprises Inc., adapting the play into a movie or TV show to be featured in one of our monthly published Movie Books. These are scripts published as physical books featuring burgeoning actors in movie poster style on the cover casted as the leads of the work. These are bought by lovers of the scripted word and sold through a direct sales mechanism wherein the winner (HFF25 playwright)will be paid a percentage of each book sale for perpetuity. The HFF25 winner may also choose to be one of the lead actors on the cover in which they will be paid an additional percentage of each book sale for perpetuity. When enough copies of the book are sold we pitch it to studios and networks for greenlighting opportunities.
