Congrats to Tanya Lemke (NSI Diverse TV Director) on winning WeScreenplay’s Diverse Voices best short screenplay for her project Emery.

In Emery, Addy, a young teen raised by her morally-flexible stepfather in an isolated rural landscape, is forced to use some of the tricks she learned at his side when their tenuous peace is threatened.

The winners will participate in the Diverse Voices Lab, a five-day Los Angeles lab where they’ll workshop their script with working writers, meet with managers, development executives and producers, and network with fellow winners.

Diverse Voices is a screenplay contest and lab that strives to encourage stories told from perspectives often underrepresented in Hollywood today. This includes projects from writers of colour, women writers, writers with disabilities, writers over 40, writers in the LGBTQ+ community and any other voices historically ignored by Hollywood.