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Storytellers Initiative
Focus on Indigenous Representation in Television
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The Storytellers Initiative is searching for remarkable writers to give voice to the Native American experience in the next best TV pilot competition!

The Storytellers Initiative TV pilot competition seeks unproduced 30-minute sitcoms that have at least one Native American character and/or writer, represent an authentic Native American voice, and are accurate in Native American portrayals; scripts must be void of stereotypes traditionally associated with Native American peoples. 

Three Finalists will participate in a two-day creative workshop with industry experts, which includes sessions on 'how to pitch' and mini writers rooms for all 3 scripts. The goal of this workshop is to further get to know the creators and their skill levels as well as determine the winner!

The winning artists will have the opportunity for an exclusive development deal and commitment from Green Pastures Studiosto finance and produce the pilot episode in Oklahoma.

Benefits

  • 3 finalists will participate in a workshop with industry experts
  • Winning project will have the opportunity to be developed, financed & produced by Green Pastures Studios
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Fuck! Summer's Over
Private
TV Script  · Comedy  · 39 Pages
Nothing screams anxiety like the last week of summer, especially when you’re two best friends determined to reinvent themselves before the start of high school.
Los Angeles, CA
Corey Dashaun is a queer writer and former middle school teacher from Rochester, NY who was most recently a story editor for Amazon’s THE RUNAROUNDS and BAND and a staff writer on Peacock’s ONE OF US IS LYING. In 2022, Corey participated in STARZ #Takethelead writers’ intensive. In 2021, he won the Seriesfest Storytellers Initiative Competition and ...
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Rules

  • Scripts must be tv pilot, approximately 30 minutes long
  • Submissions must be written by or contain at least one Indigeneous character that's authentically represented
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Official Sponsors

Cherokee Nation Film Office
Green Pastures Studios