{"id":10720,"date":"2018-02-05T09:31:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T14:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abff.com\/?page_id=10720"},"modified":"2018-05-16T15:27:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T19:27:30","slug":"turner-tv-pilot-contest-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/abff.com\/archive\/2018\/turner-tv-pilot-contest-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"ABFF Turner TV Writing Contest 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abff.com\/archive\/2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Turner-Writing-Contest-page-art-v1.jpg\" alt=\"Turner Writing Contest\" width=\"814\" height=\"610\" \/>\r\n\r\n<p>ABFF is excited to announce the launch of the very first American Black Film Festival Turner TV Writing Contest designed to shine a spotlight on new diverse writers who are invited to submit an original pilot script in comedy or drama categories.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Together, Turner and ABFF will select five TBS\/comedy finalists and five TNT\/drama finalists, and one winner in each category will receive a trip to the 2017 American Black Film Festival in Miami from June 14-18, 2017, where they will receive an award before the festival audience which will include a cash prize of $500, and the opportunity to meet with Turner Original Programming executives.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Please review general submission guidelines below, along with the official rules.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"instruction-subheads\">Entrants must:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Be members of a diverse or underrepresented community <\/li>\r\n\t<li>Not have had any prior professional TV writing experience<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Submit an original pilot script (drama or comedy) suitable for adaptation into a television program, and a plot summary<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Submit headshot photo and bio<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Read, complete, and sign the submission agreement<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Submit within the submission period: <strong><span class=\"blue\">February 22, 2017 to April 5,  2017<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Please note: only the first 200 submissions will be accepted for review.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.turner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abff.com\/archive\/2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Turner-Banner-300x250.png\" style=\"margin-bottom:0px; padding-bottom:0px;\" alt=\"Turner\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABFF is excited to announce the launch of the very first American Black Film Festival Turner TV Writing Contest designed to shine a spotlight on new diverse writers who are invited to submit an original pilot script in comedy or drama categories. Together, Turner and ABFF will select five TBS\/comedy finalists and five TNT\/drama finalists, [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-pagebuilder.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-10720","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abff.com\/archive\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abff.com\/archive\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abff.com\/archive\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abff.com\/archive\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abff.com\/archive\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abff.com\/archive\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11504,"href":"https:\/\/abff.com\/archive\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10720\/revisions\/11504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abff.com\/archive\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}