Apply for The Ingmar Bergman Script Award 2024!

29 November 2023

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SF Studios and The Bergman Center want to encourage young filmmakers and scriptwriters to write scripts for feature films with high artistic ambitions, aiming to reach a broad audience. Stories that amuse, touch, challenge and entertain, but above all encourage a dialogue with a big audience.

Please send your script and application to script@sfstudios.se no later than February 26, 2024.

Application Criteria
The Ingmar Bergman Script Award was introduced in 2023 and will be awarded annually at The Bergman Week at The Bergman Center at Fårö, Gotland in Sweden. The selected scriptwriter will receive a financial contribution of 50 000 SEK for his/her work and get the opportunity to be coached by a renowned filmmaker/director/scriptwriter.

The criteria to apply for The Ingmar Bergman Script Award are the following:

- Script (90-120 pages) that is an original story in a feature film format in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish or Finnish with a clear ambition to entertain a wide audience.

- Concept presentation (1/2 page) with the idea, concept and ambition with the film.

- Synopsis (1 page) that presents the prerequisites and overall story.

- CV with relevant film and script experience. The scriptwriter must have a relevant education or written a script for a produced film or TV series.

- Only one script per scriptwriter is accepted.

- Two or more scriptwriters for each script are allowed, but the award and financial contribution will be shared between the scriptwriters.

- A jury will review the scripts and select the winner of The Ingmar Bergman Script Award. The winning entry cannot be appealed.

Read more about the Ingmar Bergman Script Award here.

Please send your script and application to script@sfstudios.se no later than February 26, 2024.