Harvardwood introduced its Writers Competition winners and award for Most Staffable TV Writers. Now in its 18th 12 months, the famend competitors has skilled thrilling progress in submissions to the Feature class.
Notably, final 12 months’s characteristic winner has returned to win as soon as extra with a brand new mission. The TV class is headlined by writers from the Harvardwood Writers Program, which has doubled for the reason that starting of the pandemic and has expanded its international participation. The writers will likely be mentored by main TV and movie professionals, learn by high producers, and regarded for illustration at established companies and administration corporations.
“We are proud to raise these gifted writers and to construct on our monitor report as a supply of and useful resource to numerous and compelling artists of all expertise ranges,” says Harvardwood founder Mia Riverton Alpert.
The winners of the Harvardwood Writers Competition in every class are:
FEATURE Category Winner:
Fisher of Men by Anthony Zonfrelli
A self-sabotaging addict navigates an inner transformation, confronting faith, love, intercourse, and previous trauma whereas settling her drug debt with a cruel mortgage shark.
TV Category Winner:
King Of The B’s by David Aguilar-Rodríguez & Jamie Holt Aguilar-Rodríguez
In the Nineteen Fifties Golden Age of Hollywood, ROGER CORMAN––a genius Stanford-educated engineer––is hell-bent on making a reputation for himself in showbiz. But when the mainstream studios reject him, Roger decides if he can’t make it IN Hollywood, he’ll must make it AROUND Hollywood… by getting down and soiled on the planet of B-movies.
Harvardwood’s Most Staffable Writers: David Aguilar-Rodríguez & Jamie Holt Aguilar-Rodríguez (King Of The B’s). David and Jamie had been awarded the extra honor of “Most Staffable Writers” as a result of their TV pilot was incubated within the Harvardwood Writers Program.
These writers had been chosen by a panel of industry professionals in a blind judging course of. Each author will obtain one-on-one mentorship in addition to a money prize.
This 12 months’s mentors embody:
Naomi Funabashi (President of Film & Television at Hillman Grad—Beauty & the Beast, The Chi, Wonder) and Chris Salvaterra (Senior Vice President of Original Programming at HBO—American Pie, Gone, The Visitor)
In current years, individuals within the Harvardwood Writers Program and Competition have seen success with pilot gross sales to ABC, the CW, Disney+, Jim Henson Company, Netflix, Showtime, Sony, Syfy, and TV Land, along with blind script offers at ABC Studios and Warner Bros. with Harvardwood writers have been staffed on over two dozen reveals to incorporate: Almost Paradise (WGN), American Dad (Fox), Animaniacs (Hulu), Awkwafina is Nora from Queens (Comedy Central), Billions (Showtime), and Bridgerton (Netflix). Participants have secured illustration at 3 Arts, Apostle, Benderspink, Brant Rose Agency, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, CAA, Circle of Confusion, Echo Lake, Gersh, ICM, Madhouse Entertainment, Management 360, Mosaic, Original Artists, UTA, WME, and others.
To contact this 12 months’s awardees, and for extra details about the Harvardwood Writers Competition and the Harvardwood Writers Program, please contact Laura Yumi Snell, Programs Director, at admin@harvardwood.org.
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