The Sloan TV Writing Workshop The SLOAN TV Writing Workshop Fact and Fiction: Writing One-hour Dramatic Television The Sloan TV Writing Workshop is an intensive, hands-on workshop designed to promote accurate portrayals of science and technology on television. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the American Film Institute have joined forces to create this unique workshop,which serves to bridge the gap between the scientific community and the world of narrative story-telling in order to create compeling, informative, and entertainning one-hour dramatic television. During the Workshop, participants will work directly with top Hollywood writers and producers to develop scripts for current one-hour dramatic television series, engage in staged readings of their work, make site visits to area laboratories and facilities, and meet with leading scientific minds. ELIGIBILITY AND SELECTION The Sloan TV Writing Workshop is designed for writers seriously pursuing narrative television wrting. Participants enter the program with a single speculative screenplay for an existing one-hour dramatic television series, which will be developed throughout the course of the Workshop. Also to be developed, is a treatment for an original television program featuring science and technology in a prominent and unique way. Up to twelve writers will be selected to attend the Sloan TV Writing Workshop by a Selection Committee composed of Workshop faculty, AFI staff, and leaders in the film and television community. The principal criteria for evaluation will be originality, freshness of approach, strength of story structure, and dramatic writing talent. Funding and Support AFI is grateful to the Foundation for its support in the following areas: * Scholarship funding and grants for graduate production and screenwriting projects at AFI's Center for Advanced Film and Television Studies. * The AFI/SLOAN Foundation Seminar on science and technology for AFI Fellows. * The Sloan TV Writing Workshop TIMELINE May 5, 1997 applications must be postmarked May 23, 1997 participants notified June13-July2, 1997 workshop dates Application Guidelines Please attach the following to your signed application(or photocopy of a application) All supporting material must be typewritten and submitted on 8 1/2 x 11"paper. *one spec script in proper format for one-hour dramatic television * an original concept in treatment form for a pilot of a one-hour dramatic television series that features science and technology. Treatment must be no longer than three pages. * a completed and signed application form. * full resume or background and work experience. * $35.00 application fee, payable to American Film Institute. There is no tuition charges to attend the Sloan TV Writing Workshop. However, AFI does not provide housing, meals other than those specified above, office supplies or transportation. Sloan TV Writing Workshop participants MUST be able to afford full-time attendance in the Workshop. For Further Information: American Film Institute The Sloan TV Writing Workshop Education and Training Programs 2021 N.Western Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90027 www.afionline.org Call - (213) 856-7628 ---- To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]