The Sundance Institute Episodic program hosts the six-day in-person lab as well as a two-day virtual intensive. Each offers writers the opportunity to develop a pilot script, while growing their pitching skills. Working with accomplished showrunners, non-writing creative producers, and executives, the Fellows participate in one-on-one story meetings, craft workshops, and writers rooms, which together provide an elevated creative strategy for their material from key industry players in positions to advance their projects and careers. From these submissions, one project will be selected and awarded a separate monetary grant provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that spotlights a series with an illuminating emphasis on any subject of science, including but not limited to medicine, energy, technology, and invention.

Deadline: August 25, 2026