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 March 2027
Everything with a deadline in March 2027, or an event that runs during it. 14 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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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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Garden State Film Festival Screenplay Competition
New Jersey's festival runs a script contest beside its film program, with feature, short and teleplay categories.
closes in 12 days
The FACTory International Pitching Forum
Documentary and factual teams pitch to commissioners, funders, streamers, sales agents and festivals at AIDC in Sydney in March 2027.
closes in 12 days
CPH:FORUM 2027
Copenhagen's documentary festival runs this financing forum for feature-length nonfiction, hybrid and series projects, choosing about 30 from some 900 entries.
closes in 14 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
Omaha Film Festival Screenwriting Competition
A Nebraska festival in its 22nd year that takes feature, teleplay and short scripts alongside films.
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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.
closes in 20 days
Cartoon Movie 2027
Animated features at any phase, from first concept to sneak preview, are pitched to European financiers and distributors at this forum in Bordeaux.
closes in 23 days
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.
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
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.
closes in 35 days
Thessaloniki Pitching Forum 2027
Tied to the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, this forum selects up to 14 documentary features and docuseries, mostly from Southeastern Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa.
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Series Mania Forum Co-Pro Pitching Sessions 2027
Producers carrying a drama series that still needs international money can apply to pitch it at Series Mania in Lille.
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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.
closes in 41 days
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.
closes in 42 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
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.
closes in 45 days
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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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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23. Akbank Kısa Film Festivali Forum Senaryo Yarışması (Akbank Short Film Forum Screenplay Competition)
Writers with a finished short-film script in Turkish can enter this contest run inside the Akbank Short Film Festival.
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2027 Screenwriting Contest (25th Annual Script Pipeline Screenwriting Contest)
Now in its 25th year, this feature contest is judged only by Script Pipeline's own development staff, with no volunteer or intern readers.
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2027 TV Writing Contest (20th Annual Script Pipeline TV Writing Contest)
For original pilots and unproduced indie series, this contest reaches its 20th edition in 2027 and turns away specs of shows already on air. Every round is read by Script Pipeline staff.
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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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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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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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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.
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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
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.
closes in 139 days
AIDC 2027 (Australian International Documentary Conference)
Documentary and factual makers meet in Sydney from March 8 to 11, 2027, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the State Library of NSW and the Botanic Gardens.
starts in 139 days
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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Online Hollywood PitchFest
Over four days in March, up to 50 writers pitch one-on-one by Zoom to agents, managers, producers and studio executives.
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SXSW Film & TV Festival & Conference
Each March in Austin, SXSW runs a film and TV festival next to a conference whose sessions take in writers' rooms, independent financing and distribution, plus mentor meetings on…
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Script Fiesta (15th edition)
A five-day festival built around screenwriters, run in Polish by the Warsaw Film School, with screenings, discussions and workshop meetings.
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Construire un épisode de série policière
Seven days in Paris on building one episode of a crime series, from breaking down the investigation to letting emotion drive the plot.
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Conseiller.ère.s à la scénarisation : les spécialistes du multi-tâches
Writers who want to work as script consultants can spend two days in Montreal, in French, on what the job asks: reading a project with distance, spotting structure problems and giving…
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Euroscript Screen Story Competition
Instead of a full screenplay, this contest asks for the whole story told in a prose summary of up to 750 words plus ten pages of script, and every entrant gets written notes on the summary.
closes in 162 days