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.
closes today
Screenwriting deadlines and events in February 2027
Everything with a deadline in February 2027, or an event that runs during it. 10 of them close for entries this month.
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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.
closes in 7 days
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.
closes in 9 days
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…
closes in 16 days
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.
closes in 16 days
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…
closes in 17 days
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.
closes in 20 days
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.
closes in 24 days
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.
closes in 27 days
Expertiser un scénario de fiction (cinéma ou série)
La Fémis runs this part-time course in Paris for experienced readers, consultants and writers who want to sharpen how they assess and give notes on feature and series scripts.
closes in 28 days
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.
closes in 41 days
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.
closes in 41 days
Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition
Features are ranked in seven genres, from family to historical, and a separate shorts track has lower fees.
closes in 42 days
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.
closes in 51 days
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.
starts in 83 days
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…
starts in 85 days
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…
closes in 91 days
Del guion a la dirección, la fotografía y el montaje
In this first edition of a two-week course at Cuba's international film school, writers follow a fiction script as it is reshaped on set, behind the camera and in the cutting room.
starts in 104 days
Residential Writing Course: Screenwriting
Script editor Kate Leys and screenwriter Olivia Hetreed, who first collaborated on the film Girl with a Pearl Earring, lead a residential week for writers of feature films and single dramas.
starts in 104 days
TV Drama Vision 2027
Nordic and European drama series are the focus of this two-day conference and market at the Göteborg Film Festival, which draws around 850 delegates and shows about 50 series in…
starts in 105 days
Feature Film Lab
Writers with a feature idea meet online every Wednesday evening for ten weeks to turn it into a four-page treatment and a finished first act, reading each other's pages along the way.
starts in 106 days
Scriptwriting for Film and TV
A six-day course at the NFTS campus outside London for writers who want film or TV drama commissions.
starts in 106 days
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.
closes in 111 days
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.
closes in 113 days
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.
closes in 114 days
Emder Drehbuchpreis
A prize for unfilmed German-language feature screenplays, decided by a jury appointed with the Grimme-Institut and presented at the June festival in Emden and on the island of Norderney.
closes in 118 days
Online Writing Day: Screenwriting (The fundamentals of writing for TV)
Playwright and screenwriter Ishy Din spends a Friday on Zoom testing whether an idea can carry a television series: its world, characters who generate plot, and a structure that keeps…
starts in 122 days
Développer un dossier de présentation convaincant en long métrage de fiction
For screenwriters preparing a fiction feature for producers and development funders, this one-day French-language class covers what funders ask for, a short synopsis, a five-page synopsis…
closes in 129 days