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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Screenwriting deadlines and events in January 2027
Everything with a deadline in January 2027, or an event that runs during it. 19 of them close for entries this month.
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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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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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Screenwriting: Core Elements (Self-paced), November 2026 session
Trey Ellis teaches this nine-week introduction to feature screenwriting for writers starting from an idea or a rough first draft.
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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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Tony Cox Screenplay Competition
Nantucket's festival has judged screenplays since the early 2000s and now takes features, hour and half-hour pilots and shorts.
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Screenwriting: From Outline to First Draft of Your Screenplay (November 2026 session)
Writers who already have an outline, or a draft to rebuild, spend 15 weeks turning it into a complete feature draft of 90 to 120 pages.
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Basic Course in the Art of Screenwriting (Online and Weekend)
On weekends from mid December to mid February, FTII's Centre for Open Learning teaches screenwriting online in English and Hindi, led by Hindi film writer Vikas Sharma.
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Crafting Your Short Film Screenplay (December 2026 session)
Over eight self-paced weeks, writers take one short film idea to a finished script of 5 to 15 pages, with lectures by Asher Jelinsky and written notes from an advisor twice along the way.
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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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TV Writing: Core Elements (Self-paced), December 2026 session
For writers new to television, Angela LaManna's eight-week course works from a series idea to a full outline of the pilot episode.
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TV Writing: From Outline to First Draft of Your Pilot
A ten-week course for taking an original TV pilot from outline to a first draft under 60 pages.
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Television Writing Conservatory
Eight writers spend most of 2027 in this live Zoom class from UCLA Extension, meeting two evenings a week to write two original pilots, each with an outline, a pitch and a bible.
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24th Sofia Meetings
Sofia's co-production market, held inside the Sofia International Film Festival, takes first to third fiction features and series in development, plus works in progress.
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Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition
Features are ranked in seven genres, from family to historical, and a separate shorts track has lower fees.
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Raindance Script Competition
London's Raindance festival judges unproduced scripts in four categories: feature, short, TV comedy and TV drama.
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IbizaCineFest Concurso de Guiones (Script Contest)
Ibiza's independent film festival runs a contest for short scripts in Spanish or English alongside its March program.
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Schreiben im Dokumentarfilm (Von der Idee zur Drehvorlage)
Taught in German in Bern, this three-day course looks at how to write for documentary when the shoot cannot be fully planned.
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2026 Pitch Contest (Fall/Winter)
Writers with an idea and no draft yet can enter here.
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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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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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Getting Started Writing Your Feature Film Screenplay
Oxford's continuing education department runs this ten-week online course for people starting their first feature screenplay.
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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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La direction littéraire
An 18-day program in Paris, spread from mid-January to mid-March, that trains script editors to analyze fiction projects at each stage, find their strong and weak points and propose…
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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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Lecture de scénario
Two Fridays in January in Paris on writing script coverage: judging the artistic and commercial chances of a feature script and shaping the reading report to whoever ordered it.
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De la idea al resultado: guion y dirección documental
Writing and directing a long-form documentary is the subject of this two-week course at EICTV in Cuba, taught in Spanish by Carles Bosch in January 2027.
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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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Cartoon Next 2027
Built around animation properties planned for several platforms, this Marseille event takes projects such as a series that will also become a game, or a book being turned into an animated…
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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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Seriencamp Conference 2027
A three-day trade meeting in Cologne on series storytelling, run next to the public Seriencamp series festival.
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