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EXCLUSIVE: Wscripted has unveiled its sixth Cannes Screenplay List showcasing projects by female and non-binary filmmakers and screenwriters seeking producing and financing partners. (scroll down for full-list)
The database is presented successful business pinch MUBI, a long-time protagonist of women successful cinema, pinch caller female-directed acquisitions including Cannes 2026 Un Certain Regard opener Teenage Sex and Death astatine Camp Miasma by Jane Schoenbrun.
The 30 screenplays connected this year’s database see When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar, known for HBO web bid Brown Girls and Ms. Marvel connected Disney+.
Sri Lankan-British filmmaker Chloe Abrahams is besides spotlighted pinch her first communicative characteristic Before nan Echo Makes a Sound, group successful Sri Lanka. She antecedently made waves pinch The Taste of Mango, which won nan British Independent Film Award for Best Debut Documentary and nan Audience Award astatine nan BFI London Film Festival.
Angelique Knights, who won a Canadian Screen Award arsenic shaper of Bria Mack Gets a Life, has besides been selected pinch her directorial debut characteristic Ecdysis, group successful nan world of euphony video models during nan tallness of euphony tv successful 2000s.
In a caller development, nan database was presented to producers connected nan caller integer level Wscripted+ successful a bid to amended matchmake projects
“After 5 years pitching projects from nan Cannes Screenplay List to producers during nan Cannes Film Market, we decided to do things otherwise for 2026 and fto producers observe nan shortlist straight by leveraging Wscripted+’s innovative technology, ” said Ellie Jamen, Founder of Wscripted.
Jamen said Wscripted was hoping to shorten nan lead times for improvement and financing pinch nan caller system.
“We stake connected innovative exertion to region barriers truthful producers tin observe nan correct projects that fresh pinch their imaginative mandate. This is an important portion of our activity to champion nan unthinkable projects by women selected connected nan Cannes Screenplay List”
Recent Wscripted occurrence stories from erstwhile nominees see nan pre-sale of Jumai Yusuf’s Cocoa Doll, which was connected nan Second Cannes Screenplay List. It has since been acquired by world income supplier Fearfolks, while Jake Casey and Jonathan Unger are producing.
Nathalie Marchak’s A Beautiful Journey, nominated connected nan Inaugural Cannes Screenplay List besides announced Shailene Woodley arsenic lead prima pinch Anonymous Federation and Gabman producing.
Wscripted received 300 applications this twelvemonth for this year’s list.
Sixth Wscripted 2026 Screenplay LIst
- Ada and nan Doc, Matison LeBlanc (True Crime Drama, US)
- Adult Batmitzvah, Rachel McKay Steele (Comedy Drama, US)
- Aphrodite’s Shadow, Anoula Cilento (Coming of Age Drama, US)
- Arezou, Sophia Kiapos (Historical Drama, US)
- Arranged, Mithra B. Alavi (Romantic Comedy, US)
- Baby, Chaconne Martin-Berkowicz (Coming of Age Drama, US)
- Before nan Echo Makes A Sound, Chloe Abrahams (Psychological Mystery Thriller, UK)
- But Some of Us are Brave, Jainaba M. Seckan (Historical Drama, US)
- Death and Its Friends, Kudi Maradzika (Family Drama, South Africa)
- Ecdysis, Angelique Knights (Psychological Drama, Canada)
- Evolve, Natascha Sofia Snellman (Drama, US)
- Felt, Ran Jing (Psychological Horror, US)
- Freedom, Astrid Silvain (Psychological Thriller, France)
- Gift Girl, Kyla Simone Bruce (Crime Coming-of-Age, UK/Germany)
- Last Stop connected nan Q, Suhashini Krishnan (Time Travel Romance, US)
- Melt, Jessica Riches (Psychological Horror Thriller, UK)
- Mustang Martha, Jenny Waldo (Comedy Drama, US)
- Party Line, Sarah Stunt (Coming of Age Drama, US)
- Punk Never Dies, Lindsay Stidham (Historical Drama, US)
- Real Men, Jordana Howard and Chris Webster (Psychological Thriller, US)
- She Comes For You, Janet Rose Nguyen (Supernatural Horror, Canada)
- Sliding Home, Karyn Peyton (Sport Comedy, US)
- The Fruit of Our Womb, Marina Shron (Psychological Horror, US)
- The Girl who Cried Wolf, Alicia Herder (Magical Realism Drama, US)
- The Manager’s Wife, Jhanvi Motla (Drama, US)
- The Mesopotamian, Esra Saydam, Ramata Sy (Romantic Noir, US)
- The Mystery Snail Wife, Jiwon Lee (Horror, US)
- This is simply a Metaphor, Maia Henkin (Grounded sci-fi romance thriller, US)
- When we were sisters, Fatimah Asghar (Drama, US)
- Woman Hollering, Lindsey Villarreal (Body Horror, US)
