As a celebration of our commitment to diversity and equity, SeriesFest has partnered with the Royal Bank of Canada to launch opportunities to make our festival more accessible to all…
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Sponsored by the Anna & John J. Sie and Global Down Syndrome Foundations This fund began in 2024 with a pledge of $10,000 to direct financial support toward television projects that include talent with intellectual disabilities in front of and/or behind the camera. The intent of the fund is to identify and elevate promising inclusive projects that showcase the contributions of individuals with intellectual disabilities to the process of creating innovative, new episodic storytelling.
Creators that meet the eligibility requirements, and wish to be considered for this opportunity, can simply indicate such when submitting their project to SeriesFest Season 11 and will automatically be considered for the Disabled Creators Fund.
Applicant’s projects will be reviewed by the Anna & John J. Sie & Global Down Syndrome Foundation and fund recipients will be announced at the SeriesFest Season 10 Awards Ceremony.
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Sponsored by Caz Matthews This fund supports independent television artists who are telling stories about diversity and inclusion, and whose creative teams support these values behind the scenes. Selected projects are presented with a donation from the Caz Matthews Fund. Caz seeks to identify and financially support independent filmmakers who have important stories to tell and the desire to both create work as well as find distribution opportunities that further promote tolerance, acceptance, and understanding of all cultures and persons.
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Submissions are closed. Sign up for our newsletter to be notified about upcoming opportunities. View selected projects here and the mentors below. SeriesFest is looking for emerging episodic writers to…
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We are elated to announce, in partnership with our friends at Shondaland, that the winner of the 2024 Women Directing Mentorship competition is writer/director Shelby Blake Bartelstein. The Women Directing Mentorship, which first launched in 2018…
Read MoreActor and Producer (Stay Ahead Media) Jocko Sims visits Denver Colorado for a panel on Black representation in medicine. Watch to learn more.
Watch VideoDENVER — Actor Jocko Sims and Dr. Nia Schwann Mitchell joined forces at SeriesFest: Season 10, an annual TV festival in Denver to participate in a panel on the importance of Black doctors.
The event included a screening of the TV show “New Amsterdam” followed by a panel discussion on representation in medicine on the big screen and in real life medical settings.
Sims, who played Dr. Floyd Reynolds on the show “New Amsterdam,” said the role taught him about the impact he can have on future generations who watch the show and see a Black man playing the role of a doctor.
“Being on New Amsterdam, I had parents reach out to me to say, ‘Thank you for the role that you’ve played… My Black son or daughter now want to be doctors because of Dr. Reynolds.’ And that was very inspirational,” Sims said. “I think it was about that time where I started to realize, well, this show and this role that I have is making a greater impact than I realized. And I started to look and I started to learn about the disparities in health care.”
Sims said those disparities recently hit close to home.
Read the ArticleSeriesFest is thrilled to announce award winners for Season 10!
Read the ArticleInternational television festival and non-profit organization SeriesFest revealed the winners of its Season 10 Independent Pilot Competition at an awards presentation on Sunday in Denver, capping off the 2024 event. Jurors screened 45 pilots from creative voices around the globe at this year’s milestone celebration and selected winners in categories including “Independent Pilot,” which receives $25K in-kind post production support from Company 3, “Digital Short Series,” “Late Night” and “Pitch-A-Thon.”
Read the ArticleAll weekend long tv-stars filled Denver for ‘SeriesFest!’
It’s a nonprofit and international festival celebrating the art of independent TV series creation.
It’s a chance to learn about and see new shows, meet the best talent in the tv industry and so much more.
This year, series fest celebrated 10 years and GDC’s Spencer Thomas had a chance to check it out over the weekend and chat with some of the iconic cast of Grey’s Anatomy.
For the past five years, Beers, alongside Shondaland founder Shonda Rhimes and Head of Creative Production Tom Verica, have partnered with SeriesFest to offer on-the-rise female directors the opportunity to shadow Shondaland productions with the Women Directing Mentorship (…) As for the SeriesFest leadership team, they have nothing but praise for Beers and her Shondaland team, as they continue to work together with the Women Directing Mentorship program, which was awarded this year to writer/director Shelby Blake Bartelstein.
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