Raindance Film Festival and Script Angel Partnership Announced
Raindance Film Festival has announced Script Angel as the Official Script Development Partner on their 2026 Raindance Script Competition. The collaboration will provide emerging writers with tangible opportunities to refine their work and connect with professional development resources. Each Raindance Script Competition category winner will receive a free one-to-one script consultation with a Script Angel […]
Content London 2025 Industry Report
Content London is a development market and conference or, as C21Media founder David Jenkinson describes it, a ‘watering hole’ where creators, producers, commissioners and financiers from across the world come together to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the industry – and right now both are in plentiful supply. While the conference features unscripted and […]
Studio21 announces finalists in Microdrama Script Competition
Studio21 has announced the six finalists for its 2025 script competition, which is designed to uncover a hit microdrama. The finalists were chosen from hundreds of entries to the competition, which set out to find series made up of two- to five-minute episodes, with a total of 40 to 60 episodes across the season. Each […]
Studio21 announces Microdrama Script Competition shortlist
Studio21 International, the C21Media-backed fresh talent development producer, has announced the 21 strong shortlist of projects bidding for a £2,000 development prize through its annual Script Competition. This year’s competition seeks to uncover a hit microdrama that can appeal to a contemporary audience worldwide. The competition invited entries for series made up of 2-5 minute […]
Studio21 Script Competition Opens to Find Hit MicroDrama
Studio21 International has opened its 2025 script competition with a mission to uncover a hit microdrama that can appeal to a contemporary audience worldwide. The competition invites entries for series made up of 2-5 minute episodes, with a total of 40-60 episodes across the series. Entrants should submit:• The first three episode scripts (of between […]
BBC Comedy Festival 2025 – Jon Petrie’s Keynote Speech
BBC director of comedy Jon Petrie addressed delegates in Belfast – 21 May 2025. Here’s his speech in full. It’s a genuine privilege to be here in Belfast – and in front of so many of the people who actually make this industry work. Not just the faces on iPlayer, but the people behind the […]
Script Angel x Channel 4 New Writers Scheme
We were delighted to work with Channel 4 and 4Skills to help design and deliver part of their New Writers Scheme 2024-25. Our CEO/Founder Hayley McKenzie worked with the group of twenty talented writers drawn from across the UK to help them better understand how to build a successful screenwriting career (including securing representation) and […]
Studio21 Script Competition Finalists Head to Content London
Congratulations to the Finalists in the 2024 Studio21 Scene-by-Scene Drama Series Script Competition as they head to Content London to pitch their shows to the global tv drama business. The Studio21 Scene-By-Scene Script Competition is designed to uncover compelling contemporary stories that can reach a 21st century audience across platforms, with a shortform episodic (micro […]
Emmy nomination for Script Angel alumni Maja Bodenstein
Congratulations to Script Angel alumni Maja Bodenstein who has been nominated for a prestigious Emmy Award for her work as Writer and Narrative Director on The Pirate Queen with Lucy Liu. Actress Lucy Liu brings the charismatic pirate Cheng Shih back to life in The Pirate Queen, a VR experience from Meta and Singer Studios that immerses users […]