Apply Now: WIF Applications for Writers, Administrators, & Cinematographers

Pay attention up, writers, administrators, and cinematographers! Girls in Movie (WIF) is now accepting candidates to 4 of its filmmaking applications uplifting girls and non-binary business newcomers. The group introduced in a press launch that purposes are open now for 4 of its profession acceleration applications for the 2023 12 months: the Episodic Lab, the Function Residency, the Director Fellowship, and the Cinematographer Fellowship.

WIF acknowledges that “attaining equal cultural illustration inside our media narratives requires a consultant variety of expert storytellers.” To this finish, the collective has collaborated with The Black Listing, a platform the place scribes can have their writing showcased and evaluated, to create the WIF Writing Labs, which embody the Episodic Lab and Function Residency.

The Episodic Lab selects “six to eight promising non-professional tv writers who’re of underrepresented genders“ for its four-week in-person program with periods on script growth and pitching. The Lab additionally features a mock writers’ room and roundtables with skilled scribes and business execs. Advisors and masterclass instructors have included scribes from sequence akin to “Watchmen,” “Brokers of S.H.I.E.L.D,” and “Parenthood.”

Candidates can submit as much as three TV pilot scripts for consideration, for which they’re the only and unique writer. The applicant should not have obtained greater than $25,000 in mixture up to now as compensation for TV writing work.

Recipients of the in-person Function Residency will obtain one-on-one mentorship with screenwriters, peer workshopping periods, and business recommendation. Throughout the 12 month program, “writers shall be supported via extra occasions as properly organized conferences with illustration, manufacturing firms, and fellow writers to raise their initiatives and profession trajectories,” per program particulars. Residency mentors have included screenwriters of movies akin to “Legally Blonde,” “Deliver It On,” and “Wadjda.” 

Candidates can submit as much as three function screenplays, for which they’re the only and unique writer. The applicant should not have obtained greater than $100,000 in mixture up to now as compensation for movie or TV writing work.

As of 2023, all individuals of WIF’s discipline-specific profession applications, together with the Episodic Lab and Function Residency, can even be WIF Fellows of their respective specialties. 

The Director Fellowship and Cinematographer Fellowship are a part of WIF’s sequence of Fellowship applications. Offering yearlong govt mentorship, group constructing, and networking help, WIF Fellowships are “dedicated to advancing the careers of ladies and all folks of underrepresented genders.” Fellows throughout applications can even obtain entry to business consultants and particular occasions. All fellowships shall be held just about till additional discover.

Submissions should embody a press release that articulates a transparent profession focus. Candidates have to be native to the Los Angeles space.

Since its inception in 1973, WIF has “[advocated] and [advanced] the careers of ladies working within the display industries — in entrance of and behind the digicam, throughout all ranges of expertise—to attain parity and rework tradition,” per the organization’s website.

Head over to WIF for extra data on the Writing Lab or Fellowship applications. Click on to use to the Episodic Lab, Function Residency, Director Fellowship, or Cinematographer Fellowship.

The deadline to use to all of those applications is November 7, 2022. All purposes require a price of $40 for non-members whereas WIF members can apply for membership charges.

Purposes for WIF applications supporting different positions in leisure, together with producers, enterprise roles, craft, and below-the-line roles, will open December 12.