Screenwriting Fellowship
Empowering mid-level disabled screenwriters to develop and sell their own content.
BENEFITS
Fund living expenses
A $35,000 unrestricted grant can cover 4-6 months of living expenses so you can focus full-time on your career. Use the money for anything that allows you to live comfortably and advance your projects.
Bespoke mentorship
Rapid script feedback, office hours and dozens of introductions to industry players allow you to sharpen your writing, pitching and branding skills and quickly expand your network.
In-depth workshops
Workshops that span everything from story structure to personal branding to financial planning give you the toolkit you need to build a career that lasts.
A community of peers
Connect with a number of fellow disabled screenwriters both inside and outside of the Fellowship program to build a supportive community that will stay with you as they grow.
Our Fellowships are for mid-level disabled screenwriters who are creating mainstream stories, which may or may not include disabled characters or be about disability.
While increasing the presence of disabled screenwriters in the industry will surely advance representation on screen, disabled screenwriters are capable of writing stories that have nothing to do with disability and should have full freedom to choose how much of their work is about a part of their identity or not.
Studios, steamers, networks and production companies should hire disabled screenwriters to tell stories that are personal and meaningful to them, regardless of the role disability plays in the project.