Submission Info

HUMANITAS recognizes that film and television are collaborative art forms. HUMANITAS trophies will be given to producers, directors & story editors, as well as the production companies, studios and networks of the winning entries.

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• 2008 HUMANITAS Application (PDF)
• 2008 Sundance Application (PDF)

Entry Guidelines

• To qualify, a teleplay must have been written and produced in the English language for U.S. television. News and documentaries are not eligible. Material adapted from another medium may be eligible if, in the opinion of the judges, the adaptation is extensive.
  
  
• Such a program must have had a national telecast.
  
  
• To qualify, a screenplay for an English language feature film becomes eligible in the year in which it receives a national release.
  
  
• In the Sundance Feature Film Category an English language screenplay becomes eligible in the year in which the film is screened at the Sundance Film Festival. A feature length screenplay accepted into the Sundance Filmmakers Lab becomes eligible the year that the film is produced as a feature film.
  
  
• Submissions for the David & Lynn Angell Student Comedy Fellowship are submitted through Universities only. For more information, contact your school or the HUMANITAS prize.
  
  
• For HUMANITAS, the season runs from April 2 to April 1 of the following year. All entries must be postmarked by April 1.
  
  
• There is no entry fee or limit to the number of submissions.