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The Black List & Cassian Elwes Name Natalie Baseman As Their Independent Screenwriting Fellow For 2025
Natalie Baseman is this year's Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellow, The Black List and Elwes have announced.
This year marks the 12th consecutive partnership between the Black List and Elwes to support a promising writer with independent sensibilities with in-person mentorship and exposure to the indie film world. While the fellowship typically sees Elwes accompany a writer to the Sundance Film Festival, the producer this time around offered Baseman an an all-expenses-paid trip to shadow him on the set of Dead Man’s Wire, a crime drama from Gus Van Sant shooting in Kentucky. Previous fellows include Tania Gunadi, Christopher Hwisu Kim, Leslie Nipkow, Aemilia Scott, Claire Ayoub, Emily Tomson, Heather Faris, John C. Hoffler Jr., Keely Lewis Wise, Terrell Garrett, Kristina Zacharias, Mike Harden, and Matthew Hickman.
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