Fred Rogers Productions, the enduring youngsters’s media group behind a number of Emmy-winning PBS KIDS collection, has shaped the Writers’ Neighborhood, a five-year initiative targeted on figuring out and supporting new and rising writers from underrepresented racial teams construct careers in youngsters’s media. The eight-week program goals to assist hone the talents and broaden the expertise of gifted creatives who higher characterize the more and more various viewers for the corporate’s personal hit collection, like Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Alma’s Manner, and Donkey Hodie, in addition to that of the broader youngsters’s media trade. Within the wake of its profitable pilot in fall 2022, the applying interval for this system’s second cohort runs Might 1-15.
This system will welcome eight fellows per cohort as they be taught to enhance their intentionality of their writing course of, decide context for a collection when they aren’t on a manufacturing workers, and interpret and take notes, amongst different essential expertise, together with how you can discover and safe jobs within the discipline.
Past the eight-week program, Fred Rogers Productions will provide extra mentorship connections and alternatives to have interaction in trade actions and occasions. Lots of the fellows who participated in final yr’s pilot program now write episodes for collection presently in manufacturing.
The media firm will host an software data webinar on April 27. Potential candidates can discover extra data on LinkedIn. The Writers’ Neighborhood eligibility necessities embody:
- Have to be a citizen or everlasting resident of america.
- Have to be 21 or older as of the entry date.
- Haven’t had in depth media writing expertise corresponding to having written greater than 4 episodes for a United States-based community or cable scripted/narrative collection.
- Determine with an underrepresented racial group (Asian, Pacific Islander, Black, Hispanic/Latinx, Native American/Indigenous, Center Jap/North African, or multiracial).
“Many writers in youngsters’s media are freelancers, so we designed the Writers’ Neighborhood with a twin focus of growing your craft and constructing your profession,” stated Ellen Doherty, Chief Inventive Officer, Fred Rogers Productions. “Understanding how you can write a very good story or develop partaking characters is a totally totally different talent set from discovering work, asking for and understanding suggestions, or cultivating relationships, and we wish to assist our fellows acquire expertise on all fronts.”
Supply: Fred Rogers Productions
Whitney is a contract author specializing in VFX-driven fantasy movie & TV in addition to preschool animation.
