Harvardwood introduced its Writers Competitors winners and award for Most Staffable TV Writers. Now in its 18th yr, the famend competitors has skilled thrilling progress in submissions to the Characteristic class.
Notably, final yr’s function winner has returned to win as soon as extra with a brand new challenge. The TV class is headlined by writers from the Harvardwood Writers Program, which has doubled because the starting of the pandemic and has expanded its international participation. The writers will probably be mentored by main TV and movie professionals, learn by prime producers, and thought of for illustration at established companies and administration corporations.
“We’re proud to raise these proficient writers and to construct on our observe file 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 Competitors in every class are:
FEATURE Class Winner:
Fisher of Males 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 Class Winner:
King Of The B’s by David Aguilar-Rodríguez & Jamie Holt Aguilar-Rodríguez
Within the Fifties Golden Age of Hollywood, ROGER CORMAN––a genius Stanford-educated engineer––is hell-bent on making a reputation for himself in showbiz. However when the mainstream studios reject him, Roger decides if he can’t make it IN Hollywood, he’ll should make it AROUND Hollywood… by getting down and soiled on the earth 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 business professionals in a blind judging course of. Every author will obtain one-on-one mentorship in addition to a money prize.
This yr’s mentors embody:
Naomi Funabashi (President of Movie & Tv at Hillman Grad—Magnificence & the Beast, The Chi, Marvel) and Chris Salvaterra (Senior Vice President of Unique Programming at HBO—American Pie, Gone, The Customer)
In recent times, individuals within the Harvardwood Writers Program and Competitors have seen success with pilot gross sales to ABC, the CW, Disney+, Jim Henson Firm, 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 exhibits to incorporate: Nearly Paradise (WGN), American Dad (Fox), Animaniacs (Hulu), Awkwafina is Nora from Queens (Comedy Central), Billions (Showtime), and Bridgerton (Netflix). Contributors have secured illustration at 3 Arts, Apostle, Benderspink, Brant Rose Company, Brillstein Leisure Companions, CAA, Circle of Confusion, Echo Lake, Gersh, ICM, Madhouse Leisure, Administration 360, Mosaic, Unique Artists, UTA, WME, and others.
To contact this yr’s awardees, and for extra details about the Harvardwood Writers Competitors and the Harvardwood Writers Program, please contact Laura Yumi Snell, Packages Director, at admin@harvardwood.org.