Apply for “Boosting Impact” Initiative 2023

The initiative, Boosting Impact, is designed together with Le Groupe Ouest.

Goal

• They ensure a highly collaborative, creative safe space with the goal of boosting each story’s international TV series potential.
• The goal is for your TV series concept to become a strong European series ready for commission. (IP to be shared in good faith).

Program Details

• 6x teams of established writers, journalists/documentarists/scientists, producers and broadcasters.
• 6x documented and investigative stories, in development, for scripted TV series.
• 2x one-week camps.
• 2x months in-between the camps where you are expected to further develop your project with deliveries prior to the 2nd camp.
• 1x concluding two-day pitch conference where broadcasters and other industry decision makers will be invited.

Remuneration

• The selected writer will receive a fee of €6.000 (covering the whole session period: from the 1st camp to the final presentation in Copenhagen).
• The journalist, scientist or documentarist will receive a fee of €3.000 for participating in the 1st camp (5 day stay).
• The consultant writer will receive a fee of €3.000 for participating in the 2nd camp (5 day stay).
• The emerging writer will receive a fee of €1.500 per month for a total of 3 months.
• The producer will not receive any remuneration, but will be invited for 2-3 days for each camp.
• All expenses (including travel and accommodation) will be covered by EWC for all of the participants.

Conditions

• The concept team must constitute of a writer, a producer and a journalist, scientist, documentarist, etc, on whose research the idea is based upon.
• The journalistic or scientific research, the story is based on, must be accessible for the selection committee. If already published book, podcast, documentary, etc, link to be attached.
• The team must be in development with the concept (not in script stage) when applying.
• The applying creator/writer must have at least one creator’s credit on a TV Drama-series or have written a min. of 2 episodes on a TV Drama-series, which has been aired in more than 2 countries in EU (inclusive of the country of origin).​
• The project must come recommended by a broadcaster and/or a producer with a recommendation letter.​
• The writer or the producer must apply on behalf of the whole team.​
• All legal shall be proven clarified prior to applying.
• Only EU citizen are eligible for applying.

For more information, visit European Writers Club.