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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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.
closes in 7 days
TIFFCOM 2026
Tokyo's content market runs for three days beside the city's film festival at the end of October.
starts in 8 days
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.
starts in 9 days
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.
closes in 9 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.
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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.
closes in 9 days
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.
closes in 10 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
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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Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship
Producer Cassian Elwes chooses one unrepresented feature writer from ten scripts the Black List shortlists, then takes the fellow to the Sundance Film Festival for meetings and events.
closes in 12 days
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
令和8年度 橋田賞新人脚本賞 (Hashida Award for New Screenwriters, 2026)
Japanese-language writers can enter either a one-hour drama or a 15 to 20 minute short on the theme of family or something mysterious.
closes in 12 days
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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Guionistas del siglo 21: taller intensivo de guión para cine, televisión e internet
Cuba's international film school runs a three-week Spanish-language screenwriting course in November 2026 for up to 12 students, taught by Daniel Tubau.
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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
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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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.
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WIF x The Black List Episodic Lab
Women in Film and the Black List run a four-week, in-person TV lab in Los Angeles each March for six to eight writers with a pilot, working on the script, the pitch and a practice writers'…
closes in 13 days
Bolsa Paradiso: TFL ScriptLab e ScriptLab Story Editing 2027
Brazilian screenwriters and story editors accepted into TorinoFilmLab's 2027 ScriptLab can get one of two grants from Projeto Paradiso toward taking part.
closes in 14 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
Robert McKee's STORY Webinar Series (2026 Fall Program)
Robert McKee's STORY seminar, given as 15 pre-recorded lectures of about 90 minutes, shown on Zoom three afternoons a week for five weeks.
starts 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.
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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
Save the Cat! Beat Sheet Workshop
Playwright and TV writer John Yearley takes up to eight writers from a bare idea to a full 15-beat outline using the Save the Cat method.
starts 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
Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Out of each year's pool the Atlanta festival picks five scripts: three features, one pilot and one short.
closes in 17 days
South Auckland Short Film Workshop 2026
A one-day class at Friendship House in Manukau for people in South Auckland with an idea for a short film, taught by Tavu'i Dr. Marina Alofagia McCartney, whose credits include the feature…
starts in 18 days
BBC Comedy Liverpool Script Development Project
Growing out of the 2026 BBC Comedy Festival in Liverpool, this scheme wants a returning half-hour sitcom from writers who come from or live in the Liverpool City Region.
closes in 20 days
Omaha Film Festival Screenwriting Competition
A Nebraska festival in its 22nd year that takes feature, teleplay and short scripts alongside films.
closes in 20 days
Residential Writing Course: Adaptation
Writers turning a novel, a podcast or a true family story into a TV series, single drama or play can spend Monday to Saturday at Arvon's Shropshire house with Hannah Griffiths, who runs…
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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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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.
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Writing the TV Pilot
Over two weeks on Zoom, writers draft a full 50-minute pilot for an original drama series, writing a few minutes a day and rewriting overnight.
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BlueCat Screenplay Competition 2027
BlueCat has been running since 1998 and returns written notes on every script entered, so a writer gets feedback whether or not the script places.
closes in 21 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
Creative Screenwriting UNIQUE VOICES Screenplay Competition (Season 12)
Only the last tier of this feature and pilot contest is left: scripts are due November 12, 2026, at 79 dollars.
closes in 23 days
Drafting Your Feature Screenplay in Five Days
Kat O'Brien teaches this Monday-to-Friday Zoom intensive on drafting a feature quickly, from 1 to 4 p.m. Pacific each afternoon.
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
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
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
Online Writing Day: Screenwriting (TV Pitch Writing Bootcamp)
A one-day Zoom class with screenwriter and story producer Tolula Dada on writing the documents that sell a TV idea: the premise, the logline, the characters and what keeps a series running.
starts in 24 days
Docustart 2026
For Israeli filmmakers on a first or second feature documentary, this evening lab in Tel Aviv takes a project from early synopsis to a package ready for funds and broadcasters.
closes in 26 days
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.
closes in 27 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
Stowe Story Labs 2027 Narrative Labs, Writers' Retreats and Fellowships
A Vermont nonprofit runs four-day, in-person labs where screenwriters and filmmakers work on a project, with two 2027 sessions in Stowe and writers' retreats online and in Europe.
closes in 27 days
Sundance Institute Graton Fellowship
Two film artists from California tribes, recognized federally or not, each receive USD 25,000 and a year of backing from Sundance Institute's Indigenous Program.
closes in 27 days
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.
closes in 27 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
11th Annual Feature Comedy Screenwriting Contest
Comedy features only, judged by named producers and executives from companies such as Whitewater Films and Shoot to Midnight.
closes in 29 days
WAVES Film Bazaar 2026
NFDC has run this film market in Goa next to IFFI since 2007, and its 20th edition is 20 to 24 November 2026.
starts in 31 days
Online Screenwriting Course for Film & TV
Ten full days of live online teaching spread across five weekends, for at most eight students, each writing a short screenplay of their own with notes from tutors and classmates.
starts in 32 days
Financiación de cine independiente: dossier, pitch, mercados y coproducciones
Writers with a project in hand, even just a synopsis, spend two weeks in Cuba building the paperwork to finance it: a sales dossier, a pitch and a list of labs, festivals and markets to…
starts in 34 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
Screen Australia x Australian Children's Television Foundation Kids IP Incubator
Aimed at children's content made for FAST channels and YouTube (Made for Kids), this second round picks up to eight teams for a Melbourne workshop, online modules with overseas platform…
closes in 37 days
Screenwriting Archives Symposium: Contemporary perspectives on an often-underestimated body of work
A free two-day academic meeting at RMIT's city campus on what screenplay archives reveal, run with Montreal's UQAM and CRILCQ.
starts in 37 days
JAFF Market 2026
The market arm of the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival fills the Jogja Expo Center for three days in late November.
starts in 39 days
Write. Design. Build. The Pitch Deck Masterclass
A one-day online class on putting together a pitch deck for a feature, TV pilot or limited series, taught by filmmaker Fenella Greenfield, who runs Euroscript's annual Screen Story…
starts in 40 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
Lights, Action, Christmas!
Holiday TV movies are the whole subject of these four evening Zoom classes with Karen Schaler and Joany Kane, both of whom have written Christmas films for Netflix, Hallmark and Lifetime.
starts 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
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
第3回StellaJeanコンテスト 青春小説・シナリオ・プロット大賞 (3rd StellaJean Contest: youth novel, screenplay and plot)
Run on BookLive's StellaJean writing platform, this Japanese contest takes youth stories as a screenplay, a novel or only a plot, looking for material to adapt.
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
Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF) 2026
Singapore hosts this TV and streaming content market in early December, pairing a sales floor with a conference and pitch sessions for projects still in development.
starts in 42 days
BBC Writers Open Call
Rather than taking scripts all year, the BBC reads unsolicited work in one annual window and uses it to find writers to develop, not projects to make.
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
Whistler Film Festival Content Summit 2026
The industry side of the Whistler Film Festival runs four days in early December, with panels, masterclasses, case studies and booked one-to-one meetings with executives.
starts in 43 days
Sundance Institute Episodic Alfred P. Sloan Grant
Sundance Institute's Episodic Program gives this grant to one original half-hour or hour-long series that centers science, technology or a historical figure or event.
closes in 44 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
Tan Ean Kiam Foundation-SGIFF Southeast Asian Short Film Grant (SEA-SHORTS) 2026
Singapore's festival funds six new Southeast Asian short films in this round, at SGD 10,000 each. It suits writer-directors from the region with a short film project.
closes in 46 days
Leading Lights
Newcomers to documentary get a subsidized pass to their first Australian International Documentary Conference, held in Sydney in March 2027.
closes in 47 days
Raindance Script Competition
London's Raindance festival judges unproduced scripts in four categories: feature, short, TV comedy and TV drama.
closes in 48 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
Hot Docs Deal Maker 2027
Deal Maker books private pitch meetings at Hot Docs for documentary and factual projects that still need money, wherever they come from.
closes in 51 days
Hot Docs Forum 2027
Documentary teams whose project is already partly financed can apply to pitch it live at Hot Docs in Toronto during the April 2027 industry conference.
closes in 51 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
Introduction to Script Editing for Film and TV
Two days on Zoom with Jackie Thornton, a development script editor who has worked for See-Saw Films and Netflix UK, on reading a script critically and writing notes a writer can act on.
starts in 51 days
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.
closes in 52 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
2026 Pitch Contest (Fall/Winter)
Writers with an idea and no draft yet can enter here.
closes in 56 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
Talents Buenos Aires 2027 (22nd edition)
South American screenwriters and other film professionals with some festival, feature or film school experience can apply for five days of closed sessions held alongside BAFICI in April…
closes in 56 days
JEONJU Cinema Project: Next Edition (19th JEONJU Project)
Jeonju's festival invests its own money in low-budget features through the JEONJU Cinema Project, and this call looks for the next ones.
closes in 57 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
Yaddo Artist Residency (winter application cycle)
Yaddo, the artists' community in Saratoga Springs, New York, offers residencies with room, board and a studio, and screenwriters apply through its Film & Video category.
closes in 61 days
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.
closes in 71 days
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.
closes in 71 days
Documentary Films: Development Track, 2026 round (הגשת סרטי תעודה: מסלול פיתוח - מועד 2026)
Open all year, this Gesher track pays for early development of feature documentaries, animated documentaries and documentary series made by Israel-based teams.
closes in 72 days
HaSipur HaIvri (The Jewish Story): Development track, 2026 round
Writers in Israel developing a Hebrew-language film or series rooted in Jewish culture can ask for development money here at any point in the year.
closes in 72 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
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
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
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.
closes in 87 days
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.
closes in 87 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
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.
starts in 90 days
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.
closes in 90 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
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
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
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.
closes in 140 days
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.
starts in 143 days
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…
starts in 146 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
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…
closes in 150 days
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
London Screenwriters' Festival (LondonSWF)
Three days of talks, pitching and networking for screenwriters at Regent's University in central London, with every session also streamed online.
starts in 164 days
Wisconsin Screenwriters' Symposium 2027
Held each spring on the UW-Madison campus, this three-day gathering brings visiting industry guests to work with writers, with a focus on stories from Wisconsin.
starts in 171 days
Rio2C 2027
Held at Cidade das Artes, this six-day event covers screen, music, games and publishing through a summit, a three-day conference, business markets and a student strand called Festivalia.
starts in 174 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
Sundance Institute Development Track (Screenwriters Lab, Screenwriters Intensive, Sloan Fellowship and Commissioning Grant)
One application to Sundance Institute's Feature Film Program puts an unfinished fiction feature up for the January Screenwriters Lab, the online Screenwriters Intensive in March, and the…
closes in 182 days
SCREEN FOREVER 41
Australia's screen producers hold their 41st annual conference and market at The Star Gold Coast over three days in May.
starts in 196 days
Developing and Pitching Drama
Peter Ansorge, a former head of drama at Channel 4, runs three online days on shaping a drama idea and pitching it out loud.
starts in 197 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
A Practical Guide to Writing Comedy Drama
Screenwriter and script consultant Hannah Robinson, who has worked with Lenny Henry and Russell T Davies, teaches two days in Leeds on writing comedy drama: why audiences laugh, comic tone…
closes in 211 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
ATX TV Festival Season 16
An Austin festival given over entirely to television, back for its sixteenth season over four days in June 2027.
starts in 226 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
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