8th Annual Native American TV Writers Lab Opens Call For Script Submissions

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The Native American Media Alliance, a Native American advocacy organization, in partnership with A+E Networks, US Bank and One Small Planet, announced today they are accepting applications for the 8th Annual Native American TV Writers Lab.

The Native American Media Alliance (NAMA) advocates for Native American representation in the entertainment industry. This initiative functions as a resource for industry personnel to work with Native Americans who have an authentic voice for film, television and new media.

The Native American Media Alliance is a project of the Barcid Foundation; a non-profit organization that focuses on multimedia programming in indigenous communities. “We are excited to bring in the New Year with this incredible initiative that has pro-pelled several Native American writers on their artistic journeys.” announced Ian Skorodin (Choctaw), Barcid Foundation CEO and NAMA Director of Strategy. “As always, we foresee great things for our next cohort of talented and emerging indigenous writers.” The Native American TV Writers Lab is an intensive virtual TV writing work-shop that prepares Native Americans for writing careers at major television networks.

This lab is designed to address the lack of Native American writers in primetime network TV. The lab boasts numerous successes that has had several fellows go on to staff on current series on Netflix, CBS, HBO, Hulu and others.