Eligibility

• Applicants must be at least 18 years old at the time of their application.

• Applicants to the workshop need not be from a particular country or background – we encourage anyone with Asian and/or Pacific Islander voices or stories to apply.

• Applicants must have a strong proficiency in English. 
• Applicant’s participation in the 2-day workshop (and lab, if applicable) must not violate any other obligations applicant may have at law, pursuant to contract, or otherwise.
• To participate in the development lab, applicants must be legally authorized to live, work and participate in the lab in the United States.
• Applicants must be available to participate in the 2-day workshop and lab (if applicable): Workshop is currently scheduled for June 11, 2022 and June 18, 2022, for approximately 8 hours each day with hours based on the Pacific Time Zone. Confirmed dates and time will be provided. 
•  If selected for the development lab, applicant must execute a standard writer agreement, and other required documentation, in order to participate.
• Writing teams can be no more than 2 writers. Each writer must submit a separate application. 

WORKSHOP APPLICATION PROCESS

1. Submit Short Bio (200 words or less): Tell us about yourself. 
2. Submit Personal Introductory Video: a 2–3-minute video introducing yourself and why you would benefit from the Thousand Miles Project.
3.  Short Essay Question (250 words or less): What about you, your experiences and/or story ideas align with an Asian Pacific Islander community?
4. Pre-existing Writing Sample: The writing sample can be an excerpt from a pre-existing script, short story, narrative essay, memoir, play, graphic novel, poem, or novel. 10 pages maximum. Please remove all identifying markers (name, phone, email, address).
5. Sign and date the NBCU Submission Release Agreement
6. Are you applying as part of a team? If yes, please write in name of other applicant. If no, please write N/A. 
7. Which discipline of writing do you mostly work in? (optional)
8. How did you hear about us? (optional)

Application Submission Guidelines

1. Submissions are accepted via electronic submission through Coverfly only.
2. Writing Samples should be no more than 10 pages. Files should be in PDF format and labeled as follows when submitted:  LastName-FirstName-Writing Sample
3. Each applicant must submit an application and sign the NBCU Submission Release Agreement.
4. Each member of a writing team must submit an application and sign the NBCU Submission Release Agreement. For the application, each member must provide their own bio, but should submit the same personal introductory video, short essay answer, and writing sample. Both members are encouraged to appear in the same video, but do not need to be physically together. 
5. Entries must be received on or before the deadline dates by 11:59PM Pacific Time.
6. All submitted material must be owned by the writer/writing team.
7. Substitutions, corrected pages, or new drafts of submitted material will not be allowed once the application has been submitted.
8. Please do not include any personal information (including contact information) on written materials. The Thousand Miles Project uses Coverfly to manage submissions and automatically removes cover pages before writing samples are read by the evaluators.
9. You must comply with additional guidelines and requirements as set forth in the NBCU Submission Release Agreement.
10. Eligible and complete applications to the workshop and development lab will be evaluated by industry professionals, primarily from the Asian Pacific Islander community and/or employees of UCP and its parent, subsidiary and affiliated companies and, in UCP's sole discretion, others designated by UCP. For each of the workshop and the lab, the first round of consideration will consist of review of video and/or written materials (as applicable) submitted in the application. The second round of consideration will include a virtual interview that will be scheduled via video call.

Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice describes how Universal Content Productions LLC ("we", "us" or "our") collect, use and disclose the personal information you provide to us in this application form and in connection with The Thousand Miles Project ("the Program"). 

We collect your personal information directly from you through this form and your participation in the Program.  We will use it to review and process your application to join the Program, for Program administration purposes and to send you communications and updates.  We will also use it to comply with the law, to seek legal advice or in connection with litigation with a third party, and to ensure compliance with policies, guidelines and contracts.  We will keep your personal information for up to 2 years.

We will not sell your personal information.  We will share it with relevant internal teams and with service providers that have been engaged to support the Program.  We may also share personal information when required to do so by law, regulation or court order, in response to a request for assistance by a law enforcement agency, or to seek legal advice from external lawyers or in connection with litigation with a third party. 

We maintain organizational, technical and physical safeguards to protect your information.  These safeguards vary depending upon a variety of factors including the sensitivity of the information we collect and use. Despite all reasonable practices, no security method is infallible.

If you would prefer not to be contacted by us or would like us to correct or delete your personal information, please let us know by emailing privacy@nbcuni.com and inserting The Thousand Miles Project” in the header.