YOUR questions answered live on the Studio21 Scene-by-Scene Script Competition
With this year’s Studio21 Script Competition being a little bit different, Script Angel will be holding a free live Q&A to answer all your questions.
When: Thursday 8th August at 6pm (BST)
Where: Online Zoom Webinar
With: Hayley McKenzie, Partner & Creative Director, Studio21 International
Hosted by: James Capel, Founder, Scribe Lounge
About the Q&A Webinar
We’ll post a recording of the Q&A after the event, but if you want the chance to put your questions to Hayley, be sure to register for the event and attend live online.
To register for the Webinar Q&A: Studio21 Script Competition Q&A Registration
About the Studio21 Scene-by-Scene Script Competition
Studio21 International has opened its 2024 Script Competition with a mission to find a global scripted series that can be released scene-by-scene on digital and then stitched together to create a traditional longform drama for television.
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 release across digital platforms, followed by a longform window on traditional television.
The script competition aims to find new projects from fresh writers that reinvent the scripted genre, with a view to bringing in new coproduction partners from digital platforms and brands, alongside traditional coproducers and broadcast partners.
They remain open to pilot scripts in any fiction genre, but priority will be given to projects that demonstrate the following:
- Explore progressive themes.
- Engage with the audience in new and innovative ways.
- Deliver scenes that each feel like a distinct shortform episode.
- Create hooks that make us want to watch the next scene-episode.
- Have a driving narrative across the pilot script that creates a satisfying longform episode.
- Can be produced on a reasonable budget.
Entries should be presented as a single script of 30-60 pages, with each scene clearly identified and have a run time of between 1-3 minutes.
The competition connects emerging writers with the global content business, offering the winner a £10,000 prize to option or acquire the script and the unique opportunity to connect with the global drama business through C21Media’s Content London in December.
The winning project will be developed by Studio21, supported by an advisory board made up of the most creative showrunners and television executives in the business. Previous winners now have their shows in development with leading producers, and the raft of new writers and projects taken under the Studio21 wing is commanding the attention of coproducers and commissioners worldwide.
From the pool of submissions, made between 8 July 2024 and 18 September 2024, a shortlist of 21 scripts will be selected and from these six finalists will be chosen to present their script to the global drama business at Content London 2024. Finalists will receive a complimentary pass to all three days of Content London and will receive a free consultancy session from Script Angel.
Shortlisted entries will be announced on 11 October 2024 and the six finalists will be announced on 1 November 2024.
The Studio21 Scene-By-Scene Script Competition is produced in association with C21Media, Content London and Script Angel.
More Info
Read about this year’s competition: studio21.com/script/
Read the submission guidelines: studio21.com/terms-and-conditions/
