Deadline: 20 October 2023
BIPOC TV & FILM has launched the creation of a new professional development initiative for emerging producers and aspiring showrunners working in unscripted, factual and reality series production.
The very first one-week lab-intensive is aimed at emerging BIPOC unscripted producers and showrunners from across Canada.
Following the lab intensive, participants will be matched with a mentor for individual support for six months.
Topics
- Topics to be explored are:
- Unscripted Storytelling: Building the vision for your series
- Building and Leading an Unscripted Team
- The Ins and Outs of Casting
- Production and Post-production
- Financing, Budgeting and Scheduling
- Building Your Relationship with Your Broadcaster/Network
- Building and Evolving Your Career
Eligibility Criteria
- The BIPOC TV & Film Unscripted Producers’ Lab in partnership with Bell Media is open to Canadian residents who are Black, Indigenous, and/or racialized Persons of Colour.
- To be eligible, you must also meet at least one of the following criteria:
- You have/had an unscripted, factual, or reality series in development with a Canadian or US broadcaster or production company; or,
- You have attained a producer-level credit on at least one season of a Canadian or US unscripted, factual, reality or documentary series; or,
- You have a producer credit on a feature-length or broadcast documentary. Note: associate producer credits are eligible.
For more information, visit BIPOC TV & Film.
