Call for Submissions: Snarky Elephant Creative Incubator
Snarky Elephant Productions
New York City, NY 11217
Deadline
Posted
*Attention: we are offering 15% off our application fee starting May 1st and ending May 31st in honor of AAPI Heritage Month.
The SEP Creative Incubator is a space for creators within the media and entertainment industry hoping to tell authentic stories that capture underrepresented experiences. The incubator provides support and guidance for each creative in the Incubator’s cohort through the development stage all the way to distribution.
Our support includes: financing their projects (via grant writing, crowdfunding, and/or private investment); finding legal support; assisting with strategic branding and marketing efforts; and more. Our creators are also given access to a wide variety of industry executives and professionals, ranging from film/tv executives, theater artists, agents/management, and award-winning entertainment creatives. For more information about our specific benefits, please go to: https://www.snarkyelephant.com/get-involved
Snarky Elephant Productions is an award-winning production house that works on an alternative model to the industry and aims to break barriers for underrepresented stories and identities. Our content has been a finalist at Sundance, won the prestigious SFFILM Rainin Grant, and our original series INSOMNIA is now on Revry TV, the largest LGBTQ+ network in the world.
Requirements
We are looking for emerging creatives in the film industry whose work embodies the principles of the Snarky Elephant mission.
We accept a wide variety of submissions for content including: scripted or unscripted; narrative; documentary; short form; long form, etc.
We are especially interested in:
• BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+ creatives
• Narratives that capture underrepresented experiences, communities, and outlooks
• Narratives that feature bold and unusual shifts in perspectives that are rarely seen in Hollywood
• Narratives that dare to point out the inconvenient truths and seek to change stigma, alienation, racism, homophobia, and other global sensitivities