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We are proud to share the Jury for SeriesFest: Season 9! Your work is immeasurable and invaluable to the process of uplifting new episodic creators to the forefront of the industry, and we couldn’t make this festival happen without you! INDEPENDENT PILOT COMPETITION: DRAMA INDEPENDENT PILOT COMPETITION: COMEDY INDEPENDENT PILOT COMPETITION: UNSCRIPTED DIGITAL SHORT SERIES…

Putting the final touches on your Season 9 schedule? Here are some of the pilots our programmers are excited for you to see in-person starting Friday, May 5, through Wednesday, May 10! Buckle up for the SeriesFest: Season 9 Programmer Picks! First, let’s meet the full programming team here at SeriesFest. Left to right, top…

Congratulations to Randi LeClair and Todd Fuller for their winning script “Cross X Stitches!” Created by Todd Fuller and Randi LeClair, “Cross X Stitches” is the story of two rag-tag teams of Native baseball players as they travel across Oklahoma and the southwest, playing weekend tournaments, and causing chaos from town to town, and where…

It is our honor to announce, alongside our partners Cherokee Nation Film Office and Green Pastures Studio, the Finalist’s scripts for this iteration of the Storytellers Script Writing Competition.  These Scripts are Liz Stephen’s “Rep,” Todd Fuller and Randi LeClair’s “Cross X Stitches,” and Jake Kelley and Wes Ward’s “Space Race.” For this season of The Storytellers Initiative, SeriesFest was searching…

We are elated to announce, in partnership with our friends at Shondaland, that the winner of the 2022 Women Directing Mentorship competition is writer/director Gia-Rayne B. Harris. The Women Directing Mentorship, which first launched in 2018 in partnership with Shondaland — the prolific storytelling company founded by Shonda Rhimes and long known for inspiring inclusion in front of and behind the camera…