Chamber’s ‘The Lads’ Makes The Women’s List
DEGANZ member and 2022 Incubator alum Mary-Lyn Chambers‘ in-development series The Lads has made The 2024 Women’s List.
The Women’s List is an American screenplay competition to bolster women writers in the screen industry. The selected screenplays receive promotion from The Women’s List on their website and social media. Additionally, the selected writers gain access to exclusive development and networking opportunities.
The Lads is a one-hour drama series set in 1981, Wellington. Amidst the violent anti-apartheid protests against the Springbok rugby tour, a former rugby champion’s daughter goes missing, revealing a buried secret about his involvement in the suicide of a young gay violinist. This revelation and disappearance unravel his marriage, friendships, and everything he thought he knew about his glory days on the rugby field.
Mary-Lyn began working on The Lads during her time in the DEGANZ Emerging Women Filmmakers Incubator in 2022. Since then, she’s developed the project further in Keren Green’s Five in a Room writers programme, a writing residency at the Château de La Napoule on the Côte d’Azur in France, and an Auckland Table Reads. She’s now gearing up to present the project to producers for an international co-production.
Congrats Mary-Lyn; we look forward to seeing where The Lads goes next!
Last updated on 31 July 2024
