Founders Letter
As most of you know, the WGAE and WGAW voted unanimously earlier this week to approve a strike authorization if no labor deal can be reached before a May 1 deadline. For many of you, a shutdown of writers rooms and halt to hiring will have little effect on your day-to-day writing, strategizing, and self-starting—but the message is clear: value your work. Make time to tell relevant stories, improve your craft and create a community.
Thank you to the talented women and nonbinary writers who applied to TWL US. For writers in the UK and Europe, check out details below about TWL UK & Europe, currently open.
Write On.
Nitza & Elizabeth
|
|
DISCOUNT!
For writers who live in the UK and Europe who
submitted to TWL US 2023 in February or March,
the application fee is only $10 USD!
You will be required to enter your US submission information
Applies only to your project(s) entered into the US Lab.
|
|
|
|
|
The Writers Lab founders will be at the Cannes Film Festival, speaking on the panel Between Ageism & Equality, on Friday, May 19th. We hope those of you who will be at the festival will attend the panel and stay to meet us afterward.
|
|
Join Miatta Ronca (TWL 2019) at the all-female Wittiest Women, showcasing the funniest female headliners from around the country together with rising comedy stars! Stop by Flappers Comedy in Burbank, CA, to get a refresher on comic timing and snappy writing.
Visit Flappers online for more information and to buy tickets!
|
|
|
Congratulations to Stephanie Bast (TWL 2022) who won the comedy scholarship at CineStory and whose script Wash Your Birdie: 101 Things That Can Crawl up Your Vagina and Kill You placed second in Original Comedy.
Read more HERE.
|
|
|
Peres Owino (TWL 2015) is happy to announce that she was once again a writer on African Queens on NETFLIX. The second installment—narrated by Executive producer Jada Pinkett Smith—has just dropped!
|
|
|
Zuri Rice (TWL 2022) was selected for the WWFC Pilot Accelerator Program with her series Green Hill: a Manhattan socialite and small-town waitress—who share the same deceased ex—team up to save their families from ruin. Read about the program HERE.
|
|
|
|
Krystyna Łoboda (TWL 2019) is producing the Writers Showcase, an evening of virtual staged readings, excerpts of pilots and features from 10 European writers, at the South East European Film Festival on May 1st. For more information, visit the SeeFest WEBSITE.
|
|
|
Watch Arianna Ortiz (TWL 2022) on NCIS Hawaii in the May 1st episode Cabin Fever and also in the short film Last Days of the Lab, EP'd by Lena Waithe, and part of the Rising Voices program. Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival this June.
|
|
|
|
|
SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN!
The NYWIFT Ravenal Foundation Grant is proud to present four grants
that will support a woman feature film director and producer over 40 years of age in the production of a dramatic feature film. Two winners (a director and a producer) will receive $5,000 each and two runners-up (a director and a producer) will receive $2,500. Grant funds may be used for
pre-production, production or post-production. APPLY HERE.
Deadline to apply is by Friday, June 2, 2023 by 11:59pm ET.
|
|
|
|
|
