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A Shondaland directing mentorship, a $60,000 short film grant, a free trip to Sundance and more. Here is what is open right now for Black storytellers across the diaspora. I'm almost three weeks into my writers' season with the AuthenticA Series Lab, where I was accepted to develop my TV series. Being on this side of a development program has reminded me how much these opportunities can change a career, and I wanted to make time to talk about them. This list is for the young

Four writers from Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa and Cameroon are a week into a six-month program turning original series ideas into pilot scripts, with a pitch at Series Mania waiting at the finish line. Official AuthenticA 2026 cohort photo | From L-R Lindsey Addawoo, Sahndra Fon Dufe,Phumi Morare, Lateefah Mayaki | Black Film Wire The Realness Institute has named the four screenwriters selected for the 2026 AuthenticA Series Lab, and for the first time since the program laun