FEMME FRONTERA FILMMAKER SHOWCASE
DEADLINES:
Regular: July 10, 2023
Late: July 31, 2023
INFO: The Femme Frontera Filmmaker Showcase is an annual film festival held in El Paso, Texas, which celebrates short films made by women and nonbinary filmmakers from around the world, most especially women of color from border communities. Created in 2016, the festival is run by a collective of six women filmmakers from the U.S.-Mexico border region. Femme Frontera has been featured in Variety Magazine, Texas Monthly magazine, and Remezcla. In 2018, the Showcase was listed as one of the top film festivals for female filmmakers.
The Femme Frontera Filmmaker Showcase, a 1.5 hour program, goes on tour each year and has screened at the following locations:
Echo Park Film Center Los Angeles, CA, Relativity School Los Angeles, CA, Southwestern University Georgetown, TX, Indie Grits Film Festival Columbia, SC, UWM Milwaukee, WI, 516 ARTS Albuquerque, NM, Cine Las Americas Austin, TX, San Diego, CA, Art Theater Champaign, IL and Cine Festival San Antonio, TX.
Though priority will be given to filmmakers who were born, live, and/or created their short films in El Paso, TX, Las Cruces, NM, Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico and their surrounding communities, FFFS welcomes short film submissions made by all women and non-binary filmmakers, most especially BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), Migrant, Mexican, Mexican-American, Transfronterizx, and/or LGBTQIA filmmakers from around the world.
RULES:
Open to shorts under 20 minutes in length.
Projects must be DIRECTED by WOMEN and NON-BINARY filmmakers ONLY. Any genre accepted. Priority will be given to stories told by immigrants, people of color, the LBGTQ community, and most especially films that take place along border regions around the world.
filmfreeway.com/FemmeFronteraFilmmakerShowcase
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LOGHAVEN ARTIST RESIDENCY
DEADLINE: July 15, 2023
APPLICATION FEE: $20
INFO: Loghaven Artist Residency’s mission is to serve artists by providing them with a transformative residency experience and continued post-residency support. The residency is located on ninety acres of woodland in Knoxville, Tennessee. Artists live in five historic log cabins that have been both rehabilitated and modernized to create an ideal setting for reflection and work, and they have access to new, purpose-built studio space. All Loghaven Fellows are awarded stipends to support the creation of new work during the residency.
ELIGIBILITY: Practicing artists of all backgrounds and at any stage of their career are eligible to apply for a Loghaven residency. International artists and artists currently enrolled in a degree-seeking program are not eligible. Artists must be at least twenty-one years old and live more than 120 miles away from Knoxville. This distance requirement is designed to ensure that artists are able to be fully immersed in their residency experience and can take advantage of the retreat-style environment. Please note that all eligibility requirements must be met at the time of application.
We invite applicants in the creation stage of their specified project or work cycle to apply in the following disciplines:
Writing (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting, and journalism)
Visual Arts
Dance
Theater
Music Composition
Architecture
Interdisciplinary Work
DIVERSITY STATEMENT: Loghaven actively seeks to assemble diverse cohorts. Loghaven does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, religion, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, veteran status, medical conditions including HIV, or sensory, physical, or mental disability.
RESIDENCY SESSIONS:
January 8 – 22, 2024 (2 weeks, preference given to alumni/ae)
February 12 – March 8, 2024 (4 weeks)
April 8 – May 3, 2024 (4 weeks)
May 20 – June 14, 2024 (4 weeks)
July 8 – 22, 2024 (2 weeks for teaching artists and faculty artists at the university level)
September 30 – November 8, 2024 (6 weeks)
January 6 – 20, 2025 (2 weeks, preference given to alumni/ae)
APPLICATION TIMELINE & QUALIFICATIONS:
Applications will be accepted annually starting June 1, until July 15, at midnight Eastern Time. Late applications will not be accepted. The application panel will meet in August and September, and applicants will be contacted by November 1.
A national selection committee composed of artist peers and other arts professionals selects artists. Applicants are judged by the same criteria across disciplines. Panelists are looking for artistic excellence, defined by a depth of conceptual content, sustained impact, and boldness of vision. The panel seeks those with sophisticated technical knowledge, whether the applicant displays a high level of traditional skill or, conversely, subverts that knowledge in new or challenging ways. The panel values potential in emerging artists and evidence of commitment and evolution in more established or mid-career applicants.
REFERENCES:
All applicants are required to submit two professional references. Please provide the name, contact information, and a very brief description of the nature of your professional relationship for each reference. Loghaven contacts references only if the application advances. References would be contacted in the fall by either email or phone and would not submit a formal letter.
WORK SAMPLES:
Determine which discipline best fits your work and follow the instructions below to upload the required work samples.
Name all of your submissions using the following naming structure: last name, first name # (Smith, Jane 1).
If the attached work sample is longer than the limits laid out for your discipline, please indicate the section of video or audio you would like the panel to review. If you do not indicate a section, the panelist will review from the start until the time limit is reached.
Note if any submitted work sample is more than four years old.
Provide all submissions in English or accompanied by a translation.
VISUAL ART - Submit eight JPEG images that best represent your work. They can be no more than three MB per image. Each image should contain only one artwork. Two additional optional submissions: Installation documentation (either images or video) or detail shots. If your work is based in video, please submit up to two or three works totaling no more than fifteen minutes of video. Video can be submitted in MP4 or MOV format or by Vimeo or YouTube link.
MUSIC COMPOSITION - Submit two or three audio samples of representative work. Each should be no more than 30MB each and should be in MP3 format or in MP4 or MOV format or by Vimeo or YouTube link. The work samples should total no more than fifteen minutes of video or audio. If available, please include a score submitted as a PDF.
DANCE - Submit two or three works totaling no more than fifteen minutes of video. Each work sample should be submitted in MP4 or MOV format or by Vimeo or YouTube link.
THEATER - Submit either two or three videos or PDFs. If you submit via video, they should total no more than fifteen minutes together in MP4 or MOV format or by Vimeo or YouTube link. If you submit via PDF, they should total no more than 250MB or two or three PDFs of scripts or librettos, totaling no more than twenty pages.
POETRY - Submit eight to ten short poems or excerpts of poems. The total should not exceed 15 pages and should be in PDF format.
FICTION, NONFICTION, & SCREENWRITING - Submit two to three work samples in the genre that you wish to work in during your residency. The total should not exceed 20 pages, be double-spaced, and be in PDF format.
ARCHITECTURE - Submit two to three examples of previous design-based architecture projects in the form of PDFs, video, or a combination of the two. The applicant may submit work samples including but not limited to models, drawings, and images of completed work. The applicant may submit multiple pages for each project, but the total number of pages submitted should not exceed ten and should be in PDF format. If submitting video, work samples can be in MP4 or MOV format or by Vimeo or YouTube link. The total length should not exceed ten minutes. The applicant should include a brief, 250-word description of each project with the other submitted materials. In this description, please include whether this project was ever constructed. Please review the FAQs before applying in the discipline of Architecture for additional application guidelines.
INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK - Submit three to five work samples. The work samples can be in one type of media or a mixture of media including images (jpegs should be no more than three MB each), PDFs, video (MP4/MOV should be no more than 250 MB), Vimeo link, YouTube link, or audio (MP3 should be no more 30MB each).
loghaven.org/residencies/apply/
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THE BLACK LIST
DEADLINE: July 16, 2023
INFO: The Black List will invite six to eight promising non-professional writers as identified by the Black List to a month-long feature program in Fall 2023. The program will begin virtually and conclude at an in-person weeklong, intensive writers workshop in the greater Los Angeles area, from Monday October 2nd through Friday, October 6th. All writers involved in the Lab will workshop one feature screenplay through one-on-one sessions with each screenwriting mentor and in peer workshops. The program will also include attendance at several story-related events with professional screenwriters, executives, producers, lit agents and managers.
THE SELECTION PROCESS:
The selection process will work like this:
Up to 30 writers will be long listed based on the strength of their scripts as determined by the Black List, and will be invited to submit a one-page personal statement and professional resume. From those submissions, up to 15 writers will be selected for the short list. From the short list, select writers will be chosen to interview, via Zoom, and 6-8 writers will be selected by the Black List to participate in the Lab.
TENTATIVE LAB DEADLINES:
Submission Period Closes July 16, 2023
Long List Writers Notified August 14, 2023
Personal Statements Due August 21, 2023
Short List Writers Notified August 28, 2023
Interviews September 5-6, 2023
Final Participants Notified September 7, 2023
Lab Begins (Virtually) September 14, 2023
In-Person Program October 2-6, 2023
* There is no longer a separate evaluation purchase deadline for the Lab. In order for new script evaluations to qualify for consideration for the Lab, they must be purchased by the submission deadline. Please note, purchase of an evaluation is not required for consideration to participate in the 2023 Lab. However, we strongly encourage having your script evaluated.
TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATIONS:
Air Travel (coach class round trip flights within the continental United States (if available and if used)), ground transport to and from the airport in Los Angeles and all Lab events, and accommodations (room and tax only)* will be provided by the Black List. Meals will also be provided. The Lab is a residential program.
If you are accepted into the Lab, you will be required to board in the provided accommodations for the duration of the program and, if air travel is required, must be available to be flown to Los Angeles from a major airport within the continental United States.
Participants must be able to provide proof of vaccination (including boosters per current CDC guidelines) and willing to test for COVID-19 infection prior to arriving at the in-person portion of the program.
SLOAN FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP":
Writers are also available to opt in to the 2023 Sloan Foundation Fellowship.
The Black List’s 2023 Sloan Foundation Fellow at the Annual Black List Feature Lab will be a science- and technology-focused writer with a science-rooted feature screenplay. Mentoring opportunities for the Sloan Fellow will continue throughout the year following the Lab. Writers will have the opportunity to be considered for this fellowship by selecting the “Sloan Foundation Fellow” option during the opt-in process. Writers applying for the Sloan Fellowship are encouraged to have a science advisor for the project. Scripts that are selected for the short list will be asked to submit the name and title of the advisor, a brief description of their scientific area of expertise, and a statement that he/or she has read the script and attests that it is accurate. Writers are encouraged to submit this information in advance of the short list announcement as well.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a New York based, philanthropic, not-for-profit institution that makes grants in three areas: research in science, technology, and economics; quality and diversity of scientific institutions; and public engagement with science. Sloan's program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology supports books, radio, film, television, theater and new media to reach a wide, non-specialized audience and to bridge the two cultures of science and the humanities.
Sloan’s Film Program encourages filmmakers to create more realistic and compelling stories about science and technology and to challenge existing stereotypes about scientists and engineers in the popular imagination. Over the past two decades, Sloan has partnered with top film schools in the country, supported screenplay development programs, and has helped develop over 30 feature films including Michael Almereyda’s Tesla, Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler’s Radium Girls, Thor Klein’s Adventures of a Mathematician, Jessica Oreck’s One Man Dies a Million Times, Logan Kibens and Sharon Greene’s Operator, Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game, and Matthew Brown‘s The Man Who Knew Infinity. The Foundation’s book program includes support for Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures, which became the highest grossing Oscar-nominated film of 2017 and a social and cultural milestone.
For more information about the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, please visit www.sloan.org or follow the Foundation at @SloanPublic on Twitter and Facebook.
REQUIREMENTS:
You are the sole and exclusive author of the feature screenplay submitted for consideration.
You have not received more than $100K in aggregate to date as compensation for film or television writing work.
If selected as one of the up to fifteen writers invited to submit a professional resume and one page personal statement for additional consideration, you will deliver that personal statement by the deadline.
If selected for participation in the Lab program, you are available to participate in the Lab program in person from October 2-6, 2023 (COVID-permitting).
Please read both the Submissions Agreement and the Submissions Requirements before opting in.
blcklst.com/programs/2023-annual-black-list-lab
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Rogers-Black Screen Office Development Fund
Canadian Independent Screen Fund for Black and People of Colour creators
DEADLINE: July 17, 2023 at 8:59 pm PT / 11:59 pm ET.
INFO: The Rogers-Black Screen Office Development Fund supports Black and People of Colour writers to develop original content, from outline to first and second drafts of the pilot episode, with a one-sheet for scripted projects; and from concept to outline, treatment, and character reel for documentaries. Applicants must own 100% of the rights/intellectual property (IP).
PITCH TREATMENT:
The core of the application is a one-page Pitch document that best summarizes the project.
Please do not submit any script bibles, visuals, videos, or URL links. These are not required nor will they form part of your application’s assessment.
ELIGIBLE FORMATS:
SCRIPTED series projects must be 30-min or 60-min episodes, ongoing or limited series.
DOCUMENTARY projects must be 30-min, 45-min, or 60-min, ongoing or limited series, or one-off projects.
INELIGIBLE FORMATS:
Soap Operas, Lifestyle Programs, Short Films, Feature Films, Movies of the Week (MOWs).
ELIBILITY CRITERIA:
one episode of a TV show that has been broadcast
a feature or short film that has been released theatrically or premiered at an international film festival; List of eligible festivals
a full-length produced play.
Writers are not required to have a producer or team attached to be eligible to apply.
Writers are only eligible to apply with one submission to the fund.
Writers who have received funding for either Round 1 or Round 2 are eligible to apply for Round 3.
Writers who have already received two rounds of funding are not eligible to apply to Round 3.
Please note: Applications in this round must be submitted in English OR French only.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA:
Projects will compete for funding according to a selective process. To make its funding decisions, an independent jury will use the criteria noted below to evaluate the pitch document submitted by Applicants. It is important for Applicants to note that revisions will not be accepted once a project is submitted.
Projects will be evaluated by the jury based on the following criteria:
Originality
Premise
Plot
Characters
Structure
Themes
WRITING SAMPLES:
SCRIPTED Writing Samples
A script of a TV hour or half hour series (not including news programming)
Multiple episodes of a web, animation or children series (20+ pages)
A scripted short or feature film
A full-length play.
Scripted writing samples are not required to have been broadcast on TV or released theatrically. We encourage you to submit a sample that best reflects your voice as a writer.
UNSCRIPTED WRITING SAMPLES:
As most documentaries do not have a script, we require a one-page synopsis of a previous documentary film that has been broadcast on TV, released theatrically or premiered at an international film festival. List of eligible festivals.
You must include your credit on the film, dates of broadcast, release, or premiere, and name of broadcaster or exhibitor.
In order for all projects to be fairly assessed, writing samples submitted must NOT be connected to the pitch treatment included in the application.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
Applications must include the following:
Pitch document that best summarizes the project – beginning, middle and end (one-page max)
Completed Application Form
Completed Attestation Form
Completed Questionnaire (with short bios and main credits for lead creatives – clearly identifying their role in the project.)
One Writing Sample
Applicants must:
Self-identify as Black or a Person of Colour,
Have reached the legal age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence
Be Canadian citizens or permanent Canadian residents.
SELECTION PROCESS:
A jury of Black and People of Colour screen content creators will select a minimum of 10 projects in this round.
SELF IDENTIFICATION:
Black people: people who trace their roots to Sub-Saharan Africa including those with origins in the United States, Caribbean and Latin America
People of Colour: people who are from one or more of the following communities:
Latin Americans (Latino, Latina, Latinx)
Middle-Easterns and North Africans
South Asians
Southeast Asians
East Asians
Multiracial (a combination of any of the above categories or any of the above categories with White or European ancestry)
independentfund.org/rogers-bso-fund/guidelines/