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In its second year, the Writers\u2019 Guild of South Africa in collaboration with the Cape Town International Film Market and Festival will once again present a scriptwriting pitch program. A two-day pitching forum for feature film scripts and projects will take place at the Cape Town Film Market, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, October 10-13.<\/p>\n
After the success of the WGSA Pitch Program 2017, the Writers’ Guild is again seeking developed and production-ready\u00a0projects from both experienced and emerging\u00a0South\u00a0African writers. The forum is open to both WGSA members and non-members.<\/p>\n
Selected projects will be pitched to local and international experts over two sessions. Pitches will be narrowed to a final round, where international festival programmers and consultants will award prizes, including production sponsorship to the value of R200,000, script and project consultancies and international festival strategy consultations.<\/p>\n
Writers of the selected projects must take part in a WGSA Pitch Readiness Session, which will be held in major cities prior to the Market. This session is external to the Cape Town Film Market and carries a nominal cost of R300 for non-members and R150 for WGSA members. All attendees of the WGSA Pitch Readiness Session will receive two complimentary Cape Town Film Market Badges, worth R1000.<\/p>\n
Applicants must submit the following materials to have their project considered for selection for the Scriptwriting Pitch Program:<\/strong><\/p>\n Materials are to be submitted via email to ctpitch@writersguildsa.org<\/a> The WGSA and the Cape Town International Film Market and Festival are committed to transformation and empowerment within the industry.<\/p>\n Applicants may apply for a waiver of payment for the Pitch Readiness Workshop, which will be considered on a case by case basis.\u00a0 Please supply a one page letter of motivation for the waiver.<\/strong><\/p>\n From 10 -19 October, 80 Feature Films, 20 documentaries and 66 short films will be screened at various venues at the V & A Waterfront. Full schedules and ticketing information can be found\u00a0 on the the website, www.filmfestival.capetown<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Cape Town International Film Market and Festival is proudly hosted by the City of Cape Town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In its second year, the Writers\u2019 Guild of South Africa in collaboration with the Cape Town International Film Market and Festival will once again present a scriptwriting pitch program. A two-day pitching forum for feature film scripts and projects will take place at the Cape Town Film Market, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, October 10-13. After… Continue reading Cape Town Film Market: The WGSA Pitch Program – Entries Open<\/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":[4],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-7524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workshops","tag-ctifmf","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524","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=7524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nDeadline 14 September.
\n<\/span>Projects selected for the WGSA Pitch Program will be \u00a0announced on 21 September 2018.<\/p>\n