First impressions can make or break an opportunity. Craft a true or imagined story about an important meeting gone bad. Set a scene with high stakes, establish the characters, select a protagonist with a clear want, and create a turn in the scene where the character must respond to a worst case scenario. Tell this story in any genre (comedy, drama, horror, sci-fi, thriller) and in any medium (scripts, video, audio/podcast).

SUBMISSION LIMITS
Scripts – 10 page limit; Video – 10 minute limit; Audio/podcast– 10 minute limit

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. Each person who participates will receive a completed feedback form on the work they submit by one of our Sundance judges. 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 will be able to be selected as the winner. 

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, and will be featured prominently on the site.

One entry per person, per monthly challenge.  The limits for monthly challenge submissions are the following:  scripts – 10 page limit; video – 10 minute limit; audio/podcast– 10 minute limit;

Videos: Accepted video file formats: AVI , FLV, MOV, MP4 or MPEG-2. Note: If you choose to upload a .MOV file make sure that it is not using the Apple ProRes compression. We do not support reading Apple ProRes files or raw camera formats like ARRI and RED at this time.

Scripts: PDF format only, please

Other: If your file format fits outside of the video, pdf, audio file category, please contact us and we will see if we can accommodate it.

(Please do not use copyrighted material without permission as part of this monthly challenge.)