STAGE ONE – VIDEO TUTORIALS – Open to all eligible registrants
Registrants will be sent a link and a password to access a series of video tutorials. Check your eligibility for Stage One with this information sheet.
Registration for Stage One – Open Now
STAGE TWO – MENTORING – Up to 12 teams selected to take part
Application Requirements:
Eligibility Requirements:
Applications for Stage Two Open Now
Applications for Stage Two Close: 3 August 2021, 11:59pm
STAGE THREE – DEVELOPMENT LAB – Up to four teams selected to take part
The teams who took part in Stage Two are invited to apply for a Stage Three – a three-day residential development lab. Up to four teams will be selected to travel to Auckland where they will develop their project even further, receiving tailored script feedback, directing mentoring, and producing advice from industry mentors. The Lab is designed to get the team ready to finance and make their project. Application requirements will be available soon.
Applications for Stage Three Open: September 2021
Applications for Stage Three Close: 3 November 2021, 11:59pm
Development Lab: February / March 2022
Applications open: Monday, 2 October 2023
Applications closed: Monday, 13 November 2023, 11:59PM
We will notify shortlisted applicants in early December. Selected applicants will be contacted in February 2024.
The residential development lab will take place 6-9th May 2024.
Story Camp Aotearoa is a residential feature film lab that fosters craft, voice and vision. Eight selected screenwriters or creative teams workshop their projects with exceptional international and local advisors in a rigorous four-day experience designed specifically to meet the development needs of their feature film project. Story Camp can also serve feature documentaries depending on the stage of the project and the teams’ requirements.
Eligibility:
We accept applications for feature films projects in both Script Development and Advanced Development. The submission requirements are different for the two stages.
Advanced Development means the film is nearly production-ready: the script is well-developed, there is a writer, director and producer attached, there is a realistic plan in place for financing your film, and you are very close to market-ready or already have market partners attached.
If you are not at this stage, then you are in Script Development. If you are a writer without other team members attached, you are eligible to apply under Script Development.
Who applies?
Who attends?
Submission requirements – Script Development
If you wish to preview the Script Development application questions click here.
We will notify shortlisted applicants in early December. You will need to provide within 48hrs of being notified:
If you are shortlisted for Story Camp, you will have the opportunity to resubmit your draft if it has progressed since submission.
Submission requirements – Advanced Development
If you wish to preview the Advanced Development application questions click here.
We will notify shortlisted applicants in early December. You will need to provide within 48hrs of being notified:
📸 Photograph captured by Evie Mackay
After 10 years of support from Foundation North we are proud to open applications for the 2025 South Shorts Script Mentorship programme. This programme will continue to support new and emerging screenwriters from the South Auckland community* to enhance their screenwriting capabilities. Take the leap and submit your story ideas to be a part of this unique development opportunity. South Shorts will help you develop your story idea/s (short film or web series), write a script, share your unique perspective, and advance your screenwriting career within a supportive framework.
During this mentorship programme (May-September 2025), you will attend a series of one-day Saturday hubs alongside like-minded creatives, be led through focused script development and receive one-on-one feedback under the guidance of writer, and director Briar Grace-Smith (Cousins, Waru). Briar has mentored the past 7 years of South Shorts, and she brings considerable experience and knowledge from her own projects.
The hub days are shaped based on your needs and involve script read-throughs, writing exercises, and hearing from guest speakers about their experiences making films. We also look forward to adding sessions around pitching ideas, funding, working with actors and further development tasks to the programme as required.
On completion, you will leave South Shorts with new skills and tools to develop your work, a great new network of like-minded practitioners, a completed script, and greater confidence in yourself as a screenwriter.
We also welcome applications from past participants of the South Shorts programme, who wish to develop a new script idea.
Submission Requirements:
Opens: Monday 16th December 2024
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Applications Close: 1 pm, Monday 10th March 2025
Closes: 1 pm, Monday 3rd March 2025
Notification of outcome: Mid-April
WATCH THE WEBINAR RECORDING BELOW:
Information Webinar: 5 pm – 6 pm, Monday 1oth February 2025
Webinar: 5 pm – 6 pm, Tuesday 11th February 2025
2025 Programme Dates:
Dates to be confirmed; likely May-September 2025
Who is eligible?
What you will need to submit:
About you: (A written application or video submission outlining the below.)
About your project: (Written)
Optional material:
Video Submission Requirements:
Video submissions should be no longer than 5min.
**Applicants need to submit at least one short film concept and it can be at any stage – it may simply be a new idea (synopsis) that the writer is pursuing for the first time, or the writer may have already written multiple drafts. Applicants can submit more than one short film idea in their application.
The South Shorts Mentorship Programme is made possible thanks to generous support from Foundation North.
Information Published on Monday 16th December 2024
Script to Screen, in collaboration with Te Puna Matarau, has developed this new initiative for screen creatives in Waitaha Canterbury wanting to advance their career.
We are seeking applications from originators of feature films, TV series, and narrative driven video games. The programme is suitable for emerging and mid-career practitioners. To be eligible, applicants must have a strong connection with the Waitaha Canterbury region.
Four projects will be selected, and their originators will attend three one-day workshops held July to September 2023. Creative teams will receive personalised advice to develop their project, and hear from experienced industry practitioners chosen to meet the needs of the teams.
The purpose of this programme is to support the development of IP in the region and support creators to get their work closer to funding and production. Participants will increase their contacts in the industry and connect with other creators.
For Feature Film:
For TV Series:
For narrative driven Video Games:
Applications opened: 15 March 2023
Applications closed: 1pm, 19 April 2023
Participant Announcement: week commencing 29 May
Workshop dates: