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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…

Mark your calendars because we’ll be back for SeriesFest: Season 9 in Denver May 5—10, 2023! That means it’s our favorite time of year… Submissions for Season 9 are OPEN!  Read on to learn all about our different competitions and submission requirements! INDEPENDENT PILOT COMPETITION Sponsored by Company 3 Provides a platform for the most innovative…

Congratulations to the Recipient of the 2022 Jan Marino Scholarship: Gwen Ogle!  Gwen Ogle is a storyteller, screenwriter, academic, mother, and wife. She has a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism, was a NASA Fellow, and received an M.A.Ed. and Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. She ran an educational consulting business for 12+ years followed by several years in…