South Africa, July 10 -- A screenwriters programme from South Africa-based non-profit Realness Institute is six-month programme is delivered in partnership with The StoryBoard Collective, a Swiss non-profit organisation dedicated to holding space for storytellers from underrepresented communities.

The programme opens with in-person sessions in Ethiopia, a first, and then moves through online sessions, which culminate in a two-month residency in Geneva, Switzerland, before the cohort pitches at Series Mania in Lille, France.

The outcome of the programme is that each participant will deliver a pitch deck and a pilot script. The rights to the material developed through the programme will remain with each writer.

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