SBS Comedy – Win $20,000 Comedy Runway Competition
Have an amazing idea for a comedy web pilot? Would $20,000 help make your idea a reality?
open to all comedy writers and/or digital content producers
and production companies in Eligible States
Are you in the process of writing the next big comedy? Are you a producer with too many great ideas and no way to get them off the ground? Would you like to take a crack at helping to shape the future comedy landscape of Australia?
The SBS Comedy Runway is here, a nationwide comedy initiative to find the next generation of comedic talent through our commitment to fund and present a new online pilot once a month, every month.
To do this we’ve partnered with screen agencies from all over Australia. Together, we’re offering funding to each successful applicant to the tune of $20,000 to make their scripts a reality. Or, well… as much of a reality as a fictional web pilot can be … if you win, it’ll get made is what we’re saying.
Successful pilots will be considered for production as a fully funded web series with a view to their potential for television. So applying for the Comedy Runway is your first step on the pathway to television!
Applications for the SBS Comedy Runway must include ALL of the following:
• A filled out SBS Comedy Runway Coversheet
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y0t0puqp9ess961/SBS%20Comedy%20Runway%20Cover%20Sheet.pdf
• A short breakdown of the proposed concept (no more than one page)
• An attached pilot script for a five-minute episode;
• A brief treatment on how this idea would continue through a follow up web series
• A production timeline and detailed budget
• Team profiles
You must have also read ALL of the Comedy Pilot Guidelines (you should do this anyway, there’s important info in there!)
Guidelines
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b43rd2vlhsibt0x/SBS%20Comedy%20Runway%20Guidelines.pdf
Once you have completed your application email it through to: comedyrunway@sbs.com.au
Up to three proposed Projects may be funded in WA
and Tasmania and up to two (2) proposed Projects may be funded in NSW, Queensland, Victoria and SA.
The maximum amount funded per project is $20,000.
*SBS and Your SSA reserve the right to fund
fewer Projects and if no
applications are deemed to meet the requisite
standard, may choose to fund no Projects
In line with the SBS Charter, ideas geared towards
a multicultural audience and containing modern
Australian themes are encouraged
.
Relevant themes that are compatible with the SBS Charter
include (but are not limited to);
social inclusion; immigration; human interest; indigenous Australia;
cultural difference; racial tension and subcultures.
Successful applicants will be required to enter into a
Production Agreement with Your SSA and SBS
.
The contract will specify the terms of accepting the funding and include specific deliveries required to
access payments.
The Production Agreement will contain first options for SBS on picking up the
Project to full web
series and contain an option for
a television adaptation of the Project