14º Laboratorio de Creación de Series de Televisión 2027
Six television series projects are chosen for this free lab run by Fundación SGAE in the first half of 2027.
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Screenwriting fellowships and labs
A fellowship or lab picks a small group of writers and works with them on a project for weeks or months, with mentors and advisers. Many cost nothing to apply to, and studio programs often pay a salary. The application is the hard part: expect to send a sample script and a statement about yourself.
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15º Laboratorio de Escritura de Guion de Cine 2027
The foundation of Spain's authors' society picks up to six feature projects for a free writing lab in the first half of 2027, mixing sessions in Madrid with online work.
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Estímulo a la Creación Audiovisual en México y Centroamérica para Comunidades Indígenas y Afrodescendientes (ECAMC) 2027
IMCINE's yearly support for Indigenous and Afro-descendant filmmakers from Mexico and Central America starts at the writing stage: Stage 1 backs research and writing or rewriting a feature…
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First Nations Feature Development
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander screenwriters with drama credits can ask Screen Australia's First Nations Department for money to write the next draft of a feature.
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First Nations TV Drama Development
Telemovies and drama series by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers can get development money here for scripts, a series bible, research and work toward finance.
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Senaryo ve Diyalog Yazımı Desteği, 2027 support year (Screenplay and Dialogue Writing Support)
Turkey's Ministry of Culture and Tourism pays writers to write feature fiction screenplays through this state grant, and the writer, not a producer, is the applicant.
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Bill Warnock Talent Accelerator Initiative 2026
One Western Australian writer spends a year on staff at Picking Scabs, the See-Saw Films label run with showrunner Samantha Strauss, working in development from the company's Sydney office.
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Escalate: Feature Focus Writers Initiative
Six Queensland writers are hired to each draft a 3D animated feature built on a premise from the Queensland producer Like A Photon Creative.
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FILM BRIDGE - UKRAINE
Ukrainian directors and writers can join this free, months-long course from Poland's Wajda School, mixing online classes with workshops in Gdynia.
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Screenplay Development (Established Talent)
Screen Ireland's development loan lets an Irish writer who already has a produced feature or TV drama credit spend time on a new film script with an approved script editor.
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Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship
Producer Cassian Elwes chooses one unrepresented feature writer from ten scripts the Black List shortlists, then takes the fellow to the Sundance Film Festival for meetings and events.
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Kreativní vývoj první verze scénáře pro celovečerní hraný film (call 2027-A-1-1-2)
The Czech State Audiovisual Fund pays screenwriters directly to write the first draft of a Czech feature fiction film.
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WIF x The Black List Episodic Lab
Women in Film and the Black List run a four-week, in-person TV lab in Los Angeles each March for six to eight writers with a pilot, working on the script, the pitch and a practice writers'…
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Bolsa Paradiso: TFL ScriptLab e ScriptLab Story Editing 2027
Brazilian screenwriters and story editors accepted into TorinoFilmLab's 2027 ScriptLab can get one of two grants from Projeto Paradiso toward taking part.
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ScriptLab 2027
For writer-directors at the idea or treatment stage, this nine-month lab develops a feature story in small peer groups led by script consultants.
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FeatureLab 2027
Aimed at director and producer teams with a first or second feature already in script form, this lab works on rewriting, financing and the route to market.
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Nordic NEST 2027
Ten established writers, five from Germany and five from the Nordic countries, spend five January days with Le Groupe Ouest on early ideas for features or high-end series, then pitch them…
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2027 Creative Launchpad
Queensland writers, producers and directors chosen for this program sit down with visiting screen professionals in small roundtables while the AACTA Awards and Festival run, February 3 to…
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BBC Comedy Liverpool Script Development Project
Growing out of the 2026 BBC Comedy Festival in Liverpool, this scheme wants a returning half-hour sitcom from writers who come from or live in the Liverpool City Region.
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Writers Campus 2027
Writers without a producer yet can bring a first-season series idea to this five-day campus in Lille, held just before Series Mania Forum.
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Sélection Annuelle 2027
Based on the Finistère coast in Brittany, this French program picks eight feature projects a year for coaching with consultant screenwriters from March to November.
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Docustart 2026
For Israeli filmmakers on a first or second feature documentary, this evening lab in Tel Aviv takes a project from early synopsis to a package ready for funds and broadcasters.
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Soutien au scénario : aide à l'écriture et aide à la réécriture (long métrage)
France's national film center gives writers a grant to draft or rework a feature screenplay, judged first by reading committees and then at a hearing before the commission.
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Stowe Story Labs 2027 Narrative Labs, Writers' Retreats and Fellowships
A Vermont nonprofit runs four-day, in-person labs where screenwriters and filmmakers work on a project, with two 2027 sessions in Stowe and writers' retreats online and in Europe.
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Sundance Institute Graton Fellowship
Two film artists from California tribes, recognized federally or not, each receive USD 25,000 and a year of backing from Sundance Institute's Indigenous Program.
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Stoffentwicklung für Autor*innen (script development for writers)
Writers living in Austria, or citizens of the EU, EEA or Switzerland, can ask the Austrian Film Institute for a non-repayable grant to write a cinema screenplay or a documentary concept.
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Screen Australia x Australian Children's Television Foundation Kids IP Incubator
Aimed at children's content made for FAST channels and YouTube (Made for Kids), this second round picks up to eight teams for a Melbourne workshop, online modules with overseas platform…
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ComedyLab 2027
Comedy is the whole subject of this lab, which takes writers and directors with a comic film project and also comedians who want to learn screen storytelling.
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BBC Writers Open Call
Rather than taking scripts all year, the BBC reads unsolicited work in one annual window and uses it to find writers to develop, not projects to make.
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Sundance Institute Episodic Alfred P. Sloan Grant
Sundance Institute's Episodic Program gives this grant to one original half-hour or hour-long series that centers science, technology or a historical figure or event.
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Green Narratives 2027 - Feature Films
This online lab helps feature writers and directors build climate and social awareness into a story while it is still a treatment.
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Tan Ean Kiam Foundation-SGIFF Southeast Asian Short Film Grant (SEA-SHORTS) 2026
Singapore's festival funds six new Southeast Asian short films in this round, at SGD 10,000 each. It suits writer-directors from the region with a short film project.
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Leading Lights
Newcomers to documentary get a subsidized pass to their first Australian International Documentary Conference, held in Sydney in March 2027.
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Jurybasierte kulturelle Treatment- und Drehbuchförderung (jury-based treatment and script funding)
Germany's federal jury funding pays authors, not producers, to develop a treatment or a feature screenplay, with up to EUR 40,000 for a script across two phases.
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Talents Buenos Aires 2027 (22nd edition)
South American screenwriters and other film professionals with some festival, feature or film school experience can apply for five days of closed sessions held alongside BAFICI in April…
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SeriesLab 2027
Writers with a producer and an early series idea spend six months here building a concept, a pilot draft and a pitch.
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Yaddo Artist Residency (winter application cycle)
Yaddo, the artists' community in Saratoga Springs, New York, offers residencies with room, board and a studio, and screenwriters apply through its Film & Video category.
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Documentary Films: Development Track, 2026 round (הגשת סרטי תעודה: מסלול פיתוח - מועד 2026)
Open all year, this Gesher track pays for early development of feature documentaries, animated documentaries and documentary series made by Israel-based teams.
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HaSipur HaIvri (The Jewish Story): Development track, 2026 round
Writers in Israel developing a Hebrew-language film or series rooted in Jewish culture can ask for development money here at any point in the year.
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Drehbuch- und Stoffentwicklung für Autor:innen (script development and work grants)
Experienced screenwriters with at least two years of tax residence in the Canton of Zurich can apply in their own name for script development money or a work grant.
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Käsikirjoitusapuraha, spring 2027 round (script grants for fiction and documentary)
The Finnish Film Foundation's spring round of script grants supports professional writers working on Finnish fiction or documentary films and series.
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Hambidge Creative Residency
A residency center on 600 wooded acres in Georgia's northern mountains, where screenwriters apply under Writing with a 10 to 15 page sample.
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Jeonju Lab (19th JEONJU Project)
Aimed at new filmmakers, this development lab from the Jeonju festival takes six feature projects and up to two shorts, pays development or production money, and pairs each with mentors.
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Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Artist Residency
In Taos, New Mexico, the Wurlitzer Foundation hosts artists, screenwriters among them, in a furnished casita at no rent for one of three 2028 sessions of ten to twelve weeks.
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Shore Scripts Script to Screen
A Shore Scripts program for writers who want to direct: send the opening 5 to 20 pages of a feature, pilot or short, and eight winners join a nine-week directing course on Zoom with a…
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39. Drehbuchwerkstatt München 2027/2028
The HFF Munich screenwriting workshop gives selected writers a year of mentoring to take a feature idea to a ready-to-shoot script, or a seat in a series writers' room run by a…
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WIFV Narrative Script Development Fellowship 2027
Members of Women in Film & Video, the Washington, DC area membership group, can apply with a feature or a pilot to a small cohort that works toward production rather than another draft.
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MacDowell Fellowship (Fall 2027 to Winter 2028 season)
MacDowell, the artists' colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, takes screenwriters under its Film/Video discipline and charges nothing for a residency.
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Global Fellowships
Screen Australia runs one round a year that pays established Australian writers, producers, directors and development executives to work inside a screen company abroad for up to a year.
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Advanced Mentoring Script Labs 2027
Ticket holders for the 2027 London Screenwriters' Festival who have a finished script can apply for one of five small mentoring labs held over Zoom.
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Serial Eyes (SE#15)
A full-time postgraduate year in Berlin for working series writers who want to run writers' rooms, taught in English at the dffb film school.
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Sundance Institute Development Track (Screenwriters Lab, Screenwriters Intensive, Sloan Fellowship and Commissioning Grant)
One application to Sundance Institute's Feature Film Program puts an unfinished fiction feature up for the January Screenwriters Lab, the online Screenwriters Intensive in March, and the…
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Talent LAB
Emerging teams making a first or second low-budget feature can apply to this two-stage program from the Austrian Film Institute and Filmfonds Wien.
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