BRIC Foundation, in partnership with the California Workforce Development Board (CWDB), is honored to announce the inaugural Arts, Media, and Entertainment High Road Training Partnership (AME-HRTP). This initiative is the first of its kind to bridge training and education programs with employment, and drive economic mobility for underrepresented arts, media, and entertainment (AME) workers in Film/Television, Animation, VFX, Games, Music/Audio, Live Entertainment, and Design. 

In an industry that requires you to stand out, winning a fellowship can have an enormous impact on a writer’s career.

If you are interested in becoming a working screenwriter, most likely, at some point or another you’ve heard about “The Fellowships.” Usually this means the TV writing fellowships offered by CBS/Viacom, Disney, NBC, or Warner Brothers. Occasionally other programs, such as Sundance Episodic Lab or Universal Writers Program, will get lumped into the discussion. These programs are well-known within the writing community and are considered excellent opportunities for the writers who are chosen. The networking, mentorship, and training offered have helped many of today’s upper-level writers get their start.

Diversity in gaming is poised to be big business.

Even before lockdown, gaming was setting new records, like the $10.9B spent by Americans in Q1. Over the last 10 weeks, gaming has continued to dominate, showcasing the power of digital communities and entertainment experiences that can be shared from a distance, such as the 27.7M fans who watched Travis Scott’s in-game Fortnite concert.

One of the most consistent ways to get your name out there is to win one of the four big writing fellowship (NBC, CBS, Disney, the WB). Thousands of people enter every year for less than a dozen spots in each program.

But other fellowships are now appearing, usually focusing on helping in a specific, underrepresented group. The Disruptors fellowship is just one of those programs. Jacquelyn Revere is one of the ten inaugural fellows.

The world is a quite different place than it was just a few months ago. Social distancing has halted not only our lives but also the way we create content. But what if we looked at this time as an opportunity to stretch our creativity and challenge ourselves to create within the boundaries of this new reality?

That is what THE SIX FEE APART EXPERIMENT is here to encourage, testing its participants’ imagination, storytelling ability, and character development as they create and submit radically sincere content that celebrates the human spirit in the age of COVID-19.