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.
closes today
Screenwriting events in Europe
Script labs, co-production markets, festival prizes and workshops across Europe. Most of the labs work in English even where the festival does not.
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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.
closes today
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
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.
closes in 7 days
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.
closes in 9 days
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.
closes in 10 days
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.
closes in 11 days
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.
closes in 13 days
VdR-Pitching 2027
Documentary makers with a feature-length film close to shooting can pitch it at Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland, in April 2027.
closes in 13 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
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.
closes in 14 days
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.
closes in 16 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
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
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.
closes in 23 days
Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event 2026
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival's industry week groups several markets and talk strands in mid-November.
starts in 24 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.
closes in 36 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
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.
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
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
Concurso de Guion (Premio DAMA Mejor Guion), Skyline Benidorm Film Festival
Benidorm's short film festival holds a contest for unproduced short scripts written in Spanish or Valencian, with EUR 1,500 for the winner.
closes in 49 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
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.
closes in 54 days
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.
closes in 56 days
SeriesLab 2027
Writers with a producer and an early series idea spend six months here building a concept, a pilot draft and a pitch.
closes in 57 days
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.
closes in 83 days
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.
closes in 85 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
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.
starts in 87 days
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…
closes in 99 days
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…
closes in 103 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
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
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.
closes in 140 days
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.
starts in 148 days
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.
starts in 149 days
Le moteur dramatique d'une série
A two-day class in Paris, in French, on finding the engine that keeps a series going and planning a season around it.
starts in 177 days
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.
closes in 209 days
Écrire pour une série quotidienne
A course in Paris on writing for French daily soaps, taught by the writers, script editors and producers behind shows such as Demain nous appartient and Ici Tout Commence.
starts in 220 days
Seriencamp Conference 2027
A three-day trade meeting in Cologne on series storytelling, run next to the public Seriencamp series festival.
starts in 231 days