Sponsored by Canva—This award acknowledges the creativity and skill necessary to build the perfect Series Format Deck. In celebration of this unsung craft, we will award the most Outstanding Series Format Deck with a $5,000 cash prize.
Read MoreSponsored by Canva—This award acknowledges the creativity and skill necessary to build the perfect Series Format Deck. In celebration of this unsung craft, we will award the most Outstanding Series Format Deck with a $5,000 cash prize.
Read MoreThe National Mobile Cinema Lab brings film and television education programs into schools and community centers acros the United States. The program features full cinema packages, with instruction by professional filmmakers and educators, and a fully developed curriculum in writing, production, post-production and more. While the education mission of SeriesFest is to inspire the voice inside every student, the Mobile Cinema Lab brings real-world film and episodic storytelling technology to all schools in an effort to break down the barriers that limit access for students in under-resourced communities.
Read MoreWe 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…
Read MoreIt 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…
Read MoreWe 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…
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