Entrants can reside outside Africa but must be of African heritage, born in any of the continent\u2019s fifty-four countries or have proven citizenship as a native of the country, or be first generation children. The initiative is open to professionals, freelancers as well as up-and-coming writers, and there are no limitations to the story ideas or scripts. Any theme or story is welcome, but submissions must pay homage to Africa\u2019s unique cultures, diversity, heritage and people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Successful candidates will have the opportunity to enter into a series pilot development agreement with SPT and EbonyLife under the \u00c0L\u00d3 <\/a>Initiative to create and write a pilot script. Once completed, the projects will be pitched to major international broadcasters for their consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mo Abudu, Chief Executive Officer, EbonyLife Media<\/strong>, says, “I am really excited about our growing partnership with Sony Pictures Television; from our deal for three scripted series, to our first-look agreement, and now the \u00c0L\u00d3 Writers\u2019 Initiative. The name of this initiative inspires me, as we chose a word which holds so much personal meaning for me. I am particularly thrilled about the Writers\u2019 Initiative because it is in line with our continent-wide vision to harness and grow our creative economy. It is focused on global storytelling that is authentically African and that gives African writers access to the biggest international broadcasters in the world. It is a dream come true for me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Nina Lederman, EVP Global Scripted Development for Sony Pictures Television<\/strong>, says \u201cThe \u00c0L\u00d3 initiative is born out of SPT and EbonyLife\u2019s shared passion for great storytelling. We know from our many, many conversations developing this initiative with Mo and her team at EbonyLife that there are countless stories from across the African continent yet to be told. We hope that this provides a unique platform to writers of African heritage with a story they want to bring to the world.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The \u00c0L\u00d3 Initiative will first open for submissions between September 24th<\/sup> and November 5th<\/sup> 2021, with a further six-week period to be confirmed at a later date. Internationally, the initiative it is open to submissions from the US, Canada, the UK and EU, Australia and New Zealand, and Africa. It hopes to expand to include further regions for future submission periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Full terms and conditions and eligibility criteria can be found on the \u00c0L\u00d3 Initiative website here https:\/\/www.alowritersinitiative.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EbonyLife and Sony Pictures Television (\u201cSPT\u201d) have today announced \u00c0L\u00d3, a brand-new writers initiative offering a unique platform for writers of African heritage. The word \u201c\u00c0L\u00d3\u201d is from the Yoruba language and translates as \u2018once upon a time\u2019. Just like with those words which have opened countless stories for hundreds of years, this is the… Continue reading Ebonylife And Sony Pictures Television Announce \u00c0L\u00d3 – A New African Writers Initiative<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Mo-Abudu-and-Nina-Lederman.jpg?ssl=1\")
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