Elevating Women Screenwriters
Over 40
- Women + Experience =
- Complexity
- Tenderness
- Hilarity
- Wrath
- Subtlety
- Inspiration
- Elegance
- Drive
- Compassion
- Change
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The Writers Lab provides practical tools and spirited encouragement for the work of screenwriters whose point of view, fruit of their age and gender, has been consistently undervalued in the marketplace.Meryl Streep
Actor -
The more women’s stories we see, the more women are empowered.Nicole Kidman
Actor
Our supporters
The Writers Lab is made possible through the generosity of individuals and organizations committed to the art of screenwriting.
Meryl Streep
Nicole Kidman
Oprah Winfrey
The Cornelia T Bailey Foundation
Dirty Films
Lynch Hall Charitable Foundation
The Meg & Alex Weidner Family Foundation
Who’s doing the writing?
Only 12.6% of produced projects in 2022 were written by women over 40 — who are 25% of the world’s population.
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