The Wellcome Trust Pitch
Come and pitch your science documentary idea to the Wellcome Trust for a 10k prize!
The Wellcome Trust and Sheffield Doc/Fest have joined forces to bring an exciting new pitching event to this year’s festival: the Wellcome Trust Broadcast Development Awards Pitch, part of Science Saturday on 8th November.
Film makers have been offered the chance to pitch a science idea (documentary, online or games formats) to a panel of Wellcome Executives and Science Commissioning Editors, for a 10k grant.
Wellcome’s Broadcast Development Awards support the development of broadcast proposals in any genre that engages the audience with issues around biomedical science in an innovative, entertaining and accessible way. The funding will enable these ideas to be developed into high impact, well-researched proposals to be utilised in securing a broadcast platform and/or further funding.
This event is a special round of Wellcome’s Broadcast Development Awards, and every idea will be considered for funding on its own merits; funding will not necessarily be limited to one idea. So there could be more than one winner!
The list of those pitching is:
Lisa J Fairbank, Lambent Productions Ltd "Brighton to Lusaka"
Nerina Villa, Endboard Productions "Liar Liar"
Simon Aeppli, Mandrake Films "Superpigs"
Kate Vines, Renegade Pictures "Supersurgeons - on a knife's edge"
Michelle Coomber, Mortal Coil Media "Amazing Face"
Winners will be announced at the evening drinks event on Science Saturday, 8 November, at Sheffield Doc/Fest.