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 deadlines and events in October 2026
Everything with a deadline in October 2026, or an event that runs during it. 33 of them close for entries this month.
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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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Euro Connection 2027
Short film producers looking for a European co-producer can pitch here during the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market in February 2027.
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Kairos Prize 2026
Movieguide's faith and values prize wants uplifting features and pilots built on biblical principles, with one track for beginners and one for working professionals.
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13th Annual Search for New Blood Screenwriting Contest
A horror contest for features and pilots, run by Stage 32 for the 13th time.
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Trabzon Film Festivali Öğrenci Kısa Film Senaryo Yarışması: Karadeniz'i Sen Anlat! (Trabzon Film Festival Student Short Film Screenplay Competition)
University students in the eastern Black Sea area can send a short script about the region's food and nature to this contest at the second Trabzon Film Festival.
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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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The AFM Pitch Conference
At the American Film Market in Century City, a handful of attendees pitch an original film or series idea to industry panelists on stage and hear their reaction in the room.
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La construction de personnages et de dialogues
Quebec's screenwriters' guild runs this six-day French-language course on building fiction characters for film and TV and on what dialogue does, from function to subtext.
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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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Short Script Lab 2026 (Online)
Writers and writer-directors with an original short screenplay can rework it here with mentors from the Doha Film Institute, online and in English.
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Stage 32 8-Part Screenwriting Lab: Write your Sci-Fi or Fantasy Script in 8 Weeks
Six Saturday classes on Zoom and two private consultations take a writer with a sci-fi, fantasy or supernatural idea from logline to a revised draft.
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CineStory TV Retreat & Fellowship 2027
This pilot contest leads to a five-day retreat in Idyllwild, California, in late April 2027, where the writers invited from the top rounds work one-on-one with industry mentors.
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Fall 2026 WriteMovies Screenwriting Contest
WriteMovies, set up in Hollywood in 1999, runs a fall and a spring round.
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Genre Series Development Workshop (47th Cairo International Film Festival, Cairo Industry Days)
Writers based in Egypt who are shaping a crime, horror, fantasy, thriller or science fiction series can apply to this festival workshop for Arabic genre series.
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Pitch Lab: Develop Your Winning Pitch
Writers and producers with five or more years in the business can spend two days in Toronto at the end of October shaping one project's pitch with WIFT+ Toronto.
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Stage 32 8-Part Screenwriting Lab: Write Your TV Animation
Evan Anglin, who co-heads the animation department at Zero Gravity Management, leads this eight-week Sunday lab on Zoom for writers with an animated series in mind.
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BBC Writers Digital Session for Screenwriting Students
BBC Writers holds this free one-hour webinar, from 1 to 2 p.m. UK time, to explain to students nearing the end of a screenwriting degree what the department does and how TV drama works.
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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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Pitch Filmidee
Before the Netherlands Film Fund accepts a script development request for a feature, animated feature or long documentary, the idea has to win over a five-member panel in a short pitch.
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Rewriting Your Screenplay and Crafting Your Pitch
Writers who already have a full feature draft spend eight weekly Zoom classes revising it with screenwriter Jen Harrington, on Wednesday mornings Pacific time from December into February.
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TIFFCOM 2026
Tokyo's content market runs for three days beside the city's film festival at the end of October.
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Austin Film Festival Writers Conference
A four-day program of panels, roundtables and workshops in Austin for screenwriters, held during the first half of the city's eight-day film festival.
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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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ISA Fast Track Fellowship, Spring 2027 Season
Twice a year the International Screenwriters' Association picks two writers and sets up a week of online general meetings for each, this round in May 2027.
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Pitchcomité voor fictie (single)
Flemish fiction projects of 26 minutes or longer must pass this pitch before the Flanders Audiovisual Fund will take a script, development or production request.
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2026 First Look Project
Unlike Script Pipeline's main contests, this one scores concept and market appeal next to the writing, so it rewards high-concept features and pilots.
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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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Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF)
Held each March alongside FILMART, this Hong Kong forum brings 25 to 30 feature projects to three days of meetings with investors and film companies, with cash and in-kind awards at stake.
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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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Shore Scripts Short Film Fund (Fall)
Twice a year Shore Scripts funds short films from scripts sent in by writers anywhere, with a USD 15,000 production grant for one script and USD 4,000 to help finish a film already shot.
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Spazio Film, Concorso Nazionale Sceneggiature per Cortometraggio
A festival in Campania brings ten Italian film students under 30 to a December writing residency, where each writes a short script on a set theme and place.
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Stage 32 Screenwriting Lab: Write a Comedy TV Pilot in 6 Weeks - From Concept To Completed Script (October 2026)
In this six-week lab, literary manager Spencer Robinson of Art/Work Entertainment gives notes on a comedy pilot's outline, each act and the full draft.
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第4回【ライチャレ】TBS NEXT WRITERS CHALLENGE 2026
This year the TBS project asks for one standalone 60-minute drama instead of a series pitch, written in Japanese by writers living in Japan.
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FRAPA 2026 (Festival de Roteiro Audiovisual de Porto Alegre)
Porto Alegre hosts a five-day festival given over entirely to screenwriting, held in Portuguese at the Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana in early November 2026.
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