Humanitas Opens Submissions Process for 2025 Awards, Expands Documentary Prizes (EXCLUSIVE)

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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Humanitas has started accepting submissions for its 2025 Humanitas Prizes, as well as its New Voices Fellowship and College Screenwriting Awards.

A nonprofit that seeks to “honor and empower writers of film and television exploring the human experience,” Humanitas last year honored projects including “Hacks,” “Fellow Travelers,” “Black Cake” and Ava DuVernay‘s “Origin” in nine juried categories, including TV, film and documentary fields.

The Humanitas Prizes are for to film and television writers across nine categories — including drama teleplay, comedy teleplay, limited series teleplay, children’s teleplay, drama feature film, comedy feature film, family feature film, documentary and short film.

For the first time this year, the Humanitas Prizes will include two awards in the documentary category instead of one (one to a documentary feature and another for docuseries episode).