Create a scene in which two people from different backgrounds must negotiate a misunderstanding. Establish the characters and their points of view, provide a clear conflict, and show us what happens.
Create a scene or sequence in which two people from different backgrounds must negotiate a misunderstanding. Establish the characters and their points of view, provide a clear conflict, and show us what happens.
You can craft this scene in script form or as a video in any genre. Eligible work must meet the challenge criteria with scripts no more than 10 pages in length and videos no more than 8 minutes in running time.
All entries are reviewed and ranked by Sundance Co//ab jurors who will select a winning entry. (To give jurors more time for this process and to ensure complete fairness and consistency, jurors will no longer be providing individual feedback, but we encourage the community to continue to provide their valuable contributions to the creators who submit work.)
The winner will have their work featured on the Sundance Co//ab site and receive:
One-year Sundance Co//ab Membership
One-on-one mentorship session with a Sundance Advisor
Free Master Class of their choice
Sundance Co//ab Members are welcome to submit their works-in-progress through our Share Your Work section of the site, where feedback is provided by Sundance Co//ab Advisors and other community members. Your work-in-progress submission can include your Challenge entry, following the announcement of the winner.
SUBMISSION LIMITS
Your written work cannot exceed 10 pages and short films should be under 8 minutes.
Deadline to submit: September 30, 2019 at 12PM/Noon PT
CHALLENGE RULES
Our monthly challenges are open to everyone in the Sundance Co//ab community. One entry per person, per challenge. All submissions will be viewable to the community. All submissions will be given equal consideration and the final winner will be determined by the consensus of the designated Sundance judges.
Only those submissions that meet the criteria outlined in the submission guidelines can be selected as the winner.
The challenge closes on September30 2019 at 12PM/Noon PT.
PRIZE
The winner will receive a Sundance Co//ab subscription for one year, a one-on-one mentoring session with a Sundance Advisor, a free master class of their choice, and will be featured prominently on the site.
Jurors
Peter Biegen
Juror
Peter Biegen is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright, film maker and wanna-be alchemist. He co-wrote the screenplay THE LAST LULLABY (with Max Allan Collins) and wrote and directed the short film CEREMONIES OF THE HORSEMEN (starring Richard Schiff and Josh Zuckerman). The short was selected to be part of the permanent archive at the Visual Center of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. He adapted the Spanish film TODAS LAS MUJERES with acclaimed writer/director Rodrigo Garcia (NINE LIVES/ALBERT NOBBS) to direct. Peter is a Fellow from the inaugural Episodic Lab at the Sundance Institute. His television credits include the series adaptation of THE MIST (Dimension Films), FOUR EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN (Lifetime), and is the creator of a new series for ABC-Signature based on his Sundance developed pilot SMALL CHANGE. He’s currently developing another original television series based in Morocco with Producer Bob Cooper and Academy Award winning director James Marsh.
C. Wrenn Ball
Juror
Hailing from North Carolina, C. Wrenn Ball exchanged life as a music venue Camera Operator for work as an additional PA on NBC’s The Office, before working as a Writer’s Assistant for Robert Munic. He directed several web series pilots in Los Angeles before completing an M.F.A. at USC’s John Wells Division of Writing for Screen and Television. There, he worked as a development intern for Suzanne Todd, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, and for Thunder Road. He is a 2018 Sundance Institute Screenwriting Lab Fellow for the upcoming feature film Katie Wright, and works tirelessly in the development of both feature and television projects.
Amman Abbasi
Juror
Amman Abbasi is a Pakistani-American writer-director, editor, and composer from Little Rock, Arkansas. Filmmaker Magazine listed him among the 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2016. His film Dayveon premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and was an Official Selection of the 2017 Berlin Film Festival. Prior to narrative films, Abbasi had worked in documentary for several years, traveling the world and discovering undocumented stories. In 2011, while working with the Renaud Brothers, Abbasi traveled to Haiti to cover the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake for The New York Times for a documentary piece, which went on to win the prestigious duPont Award. Abbasi also worked as an editor on Last Chance High in 2015, which received an Emmy nomination for outstanding editing. He has also worked for acclaimed filmmaker David Gordon Green as director’s assistant on Manglehorn and Our Brand is Crisis. As a music composer, Abbasi’s music compositions have appeared in several commercials, films, and documentaries. In 2008, he and his brother’s debut album, “Something Like Nostalgia,” topped the charts in Japan.
Emma Fletcher
Juror
Emma Fletcher began her career in feature development and documentary film. She then transitioned to writing and worked on TV shows such as NBC’s PARKS AND RECREATION, Amazon’s RED OAKS, and Cartoon Network’s SUMMER CAMP ISLAND. On the feature side, she has two projects in development: an Untitled feature for Disney+ and SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR, which was selected for the 2016 and 2017 Sundance Screenwriting Labs and was also included on the 2017 Blacklist. She is currently writing on the second season of Netflix’s TRINKETS and is also an in-house writer for Illumination.