7/22/2023 0 Comments Tv pilot contest 2016![]() The school aims to provide affordable access to career opportunities in cinema, while simultaneously creating a pipeline of diverse talent prepared to work in New York City’s booming entertainment industry. The Feirstein School, which welcomed its inaugural class alongside Mayor Bill de Blasio, CUNY Chancellor James Milliken, and former MOME Commissioner Cynthia Lopez in fall 2015, is the first public graduate school of cinema in New York City and the only public graduate school in the nation located on a working film lot, at Steiner Studios, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Here is more on the organizations involved, from the press release: We hope that this endeavor will help to broaden and diversify the stories that Hollywood tells.” “The IFP recognizes that women, and particularly women of color, face unique challenges when working in the film and television industry, and we are determined to do all we can to change that. “We are thrilled to work with the Mayor’s Office and the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema on the Made in NY: Series Competition, which seeks to provide creative opportunities to give voices to women and women’s stories,” said IFP Executive Director Joana Vicente. This initiative is a small step towards redressing that inequity and advances one of our core values at Feirstein, which is to educate and create opportunities for diverse new voices in the industry,” said Jonathan Wacks, Founding Director of the Barry R. “The film and television industries have clearly failed to provide opportunities for women and people of color to have their voices heard. I encourage New York’s creative community to get involved with this and other programs from our office to elevate women’s role in the industry.” ![]() “This screenwriting competition will provide up-and-coming writers with a key opportunity to have their work viewed by millions of New York City residents. “We are focused on increasing access and opportunities for women writers, as well as written work about women and their shared experience,” said MOME Commissioner Julie Menin in the press release. Details and the application can be found here. IFP, publisher of Filmmaker, is facilitating the contest in partnership with Feirstein and MOMA, and the application deadline is January 13. The scripts - which must be “by, for and about women” - will be selected by a panel of industry leaders, says the press release, and will be produced by graduates of the Feirstein School “under the mentorship of Jonathan Wacks and Jamie Zelermeyer, former Vice President of Physical Production at Focus Features/Rogue Pictures.” There’s also a $15,000 cash grant. One of the two winners will see their pilot be developed into four further episodes. The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) and Brooklyn College’s Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema have launched a contest that will award two New York City screenwriters the development and production of their scripts as pilots to be aired on NYC Media.
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