A fantastic writing opportunity, courtesy of the BAFTA Rocliffe Forum:
WRITE
YOUR WAY TO
NEW YORK
Rocliffe
and BAFTA are again inviting all comedians, sketch
performers, comedy writers and producers to enter their comedy sit coms
or sketches to our renowned comedy writing initiative and potentially
win the chance to connect you and your
script with producers, talent agents, studio executives and perhaps the
grand
prize a trip to New York (courtesy of
British Airways) to have your work performed at an
extra-special BAFTA
Rocliffe New Writing Forum at the New York Television Festival in
October. Scroll
down for links to Application Form, Terms and Conditions and
Paypal Links.
BAFTA ROCLIFFE NEW WRITING FORUM: ESTABLISHED MAY 2000
The BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum is
a phenomenally
successful event
which has been running for over 12 years; it has had huge significance
for lots of career starters in the film and TV industries. Renowned for
empowering
writers with
exciting opportunities to bring their stories to audiences and industry
leaders such as BAFTA winning and nominated directors and
producers Mike
Newell, David
Yates, John Madden, Christine Langan, Elizabeth
Karlsen, Matt
Greenhalgh, Guy Hibbert and
Oscar winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes,
multi-award winning writer Phil
Rosenthal.
If you have tried
to get commissioned but simply not been able to open those
doors
well now's your chance! Submit your work to this special Comedy BAFTA
Rocliffe New Writing Forum and you could be writing your way all the
way to the New York TV Festival. As long as you haven't had a
TV
Series commissioned (although you may have broadcast writing
credits) we are inviting you to submit a ten minute extract from your
TV sit-com or sketch show for consideration for the scheme.
This
opportunity has been created by BAFTA in partnership with Rocliffe,
together with British Airways and the New York TV Festival,
the first independent television festival. The
package for
successful writers, who will be selected by a leading
jury of industry professionals from the UK and US, will include:
-
A special BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum showcase with professional
actors performing their work at a central New York venue as part of the
NYTVF;
- Feedback during the event from a top TV
industry guest giving writers vital tips and encouragement;
- Before an audience of TV heavyweights
including Comedy Central, FOX, FX, VH1, MTV and IFC amongst others;
- A New York Television
Festival Official Artist pass - access to all festival
premieres, hospitality
events, panels, screenings and special one-on-one meetings with US TV
development executives as well as submission opportunities to NYTVF
Pitch;
- Membership of NYTVF Connect, the
festival’s industry programme that
distributes scripts to executives and networks in advance of the
festival;
- A networking workshop and
one-to-one mentoring sessions with producers and literary agents before
arriving in New York;
- British Airways World
Traveller return flights and accommodation;
The Official
Artist status at the festival, allows writers
comprehensive
access to all festival premieres, hospitality events, panels,
screenings and special one-on-one meetings with US TV development
executives. This year, the three winners will also be part of NYTVF
Connect, the Festival's comprehensive industry track programme serving
artists and top-tier entertainment executives across the creative
development spectrum. As an artist of Connect the winners can have
their scripts distributed to executives and networks in advance of
arriving in New York.
The 2011 script selection
panel led by Andrew Newman included Charlie Hanson (Extras, The
Office), Damon Beasley (The
Inbetweeners), Kevin Cecil (Black Books, Gnomeo and Juliet) and
representatives of BBC and Channel 4. All writers will
receive a
submission report per submission.
In additional to the
prizes this year we are also offering each of the winners one to one
meetings with some of the top UK literary agents currently
confirmed are Casarotto, Dench Arnold and United Agents
(who signed 2011 winner Anne Marie Draycott) before you fly out
giving you invaluable guidance and the chance to learn some key
insights.
This year @BAFTA and @Rocliffeforum will be
holding several online tweetups with #scriptchat to answer any
questions you may have.
As a direct result of being featured at our event - several
writers have had work optioned and produced as well been signed by
agents. Recent success stories include Sitcom Trials alumni Anne Marie Draycott &
Charity Trimm's PREGNANT
PAUSE (signed by United Agents & Pregnant Pause
was optioned by script selection panellist from Bwark (The
Inbetweeners)), James
Dormer's work The Holding was optioned, produced and had a
theatrical release, Claire
Wilson was signed by an agent and has had Rocliffe
featured work optioned. Josh
Appignanesi and
Jack
Thorne showcased their early work.
Entries will be judged on the following criteria:
- The originality and strength of the idea;
- The strength of voice and potential in the writer;
- The suitability of the extract to the theatrical nature of the event;
- Adaptability for a US market.
Entries will be judged through the following process:
- Stage One: All scripts will be read by an experienced script reader and each writer will receive a script report. A shortlist will be drawn up to 25 entries.
- Stage Two: The 25 shortlisted entrants will be reviewed by an industry selection panel and select a short list of up to 12 entrants for interview.
- Stage Three: The short listed entrants will be interviewed between 11 and 13 Sep by a select panel.
In
2011, Phil Rosenthal creator of multi award winning Everybody Loves
Raymond joined the forum as the industry chair, providing feedback and
advice to the three winning writers Anne-Marie Draycott, Greg de Roeck
and Thomas Phipps. The writers have since gone on to forge
contacts in the US, secure UK agents and have their work developed and
optioned in the UK.
To have your script come to life
as there
is time to get
your script in and participate at BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing
Forum ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS carefully read our terms and conditions,
fill in our application
form.
Please complete our Diversity Monitoring Form as
part of your
application [click here]. Please write ROCLIFFE
NEW YORK in the POST APPLIED FOR field. BAFTA and Rocliffe
want to ensure that we are
reaching as many people as possible so that a broad range of people can
benefit from this initiative. We monitor diversity to help improve our
marketing reach but diversity information is not considered as part of
your submission. The form is anonymous. If you prefer not to
provide
this information, please still complete the form but leave the fields
blank.
SCRIPTS must arrive on the day of the deadline
(early bird or final) to
qualify or be post-marked the day before the deadline date or emailed
as per the instructions in the Terms and Conditions.
(Forwarded by The Sitcom Trials)
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