The 2021 TV-Series Lab call for entries is closed.
About
The Gotham TV-Series Lab (formerly the IFP Episodic Lab) annually selects 10 narrative series projects — all in development and written/created by first-time series creators —and provides the creative teams behind these projects with key support through the strategy, marketing, and exposure of their work.
The TV-Series Lab participants will convene two times in the year. First during a week-long virtual lab in the spring (TV-Series Lab), then pitching their project at the Gotham Week Project Market in September. See here for more information.
Gotham Week – September 2021
As part of the participation in the TV-Series Lab, selected projects are pitching in the Project Market at Gotham Week, which takes place in Brooklyn each September. At Gotham Week, Lab Fellows can connect with key industry members — producers and EPs, production companies, management companies, platforms and more — to help move their projects forward.
Please read carefully before applying.
Key Dates
- Application opens: February 4, 2021
- Application Deadline: March 12, 2021 (11:59pm Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone)
- Extended to March 16, 2021 (11:59pm Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone)
- TV-Series Lab: May 24 – 28, 2021
- IFP Week: September 2021
All submissions will be notified of their status at the end of May 2021
Questions? Please contact Gotham Senior Manager, Gabriele Capolino ([email protected])
Eligibility Criteria
The Gotham is looking for 10 outstanding debut or “breakthrough” series creators working independently on fiction episodic projects in development created for TV and digital platforms. The series project submitted to the Lab is not necessarily the Creator’s first work on a series, but displays a bold and innovative talent whose unique vision suggests significant future accomplishment. Series Creators who have won or been nominated for significant episodic awards (Primetime Emmys, Golden Globe, Gotham Awards, etc.) for other digital and/or television episodic works are ineligible. Series Creators who have created prominent web series will be judged on a case by case basis. Series Creators with prominent experience in the TV Industry looking for Industry connections and exposure of their project are invited to directly apply to Gotham Week.
After participating in the program, past Gotham TV-Series Lab alumni have gone on to, among other successful stories: find partners and executive producers; connect and sign deals with production companies; work in writer’s rooms; find representation with top management companies; have their project acquired by television and streaming companies.