Diversity Programs

Links to entertainment industry diversity programs and scholarships throughout the U.S.
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1 LinkDisney/ ABC Talent Development & Diversity
Whether your sights are set on writing, directing, acting or production, Disney?ABC Television Group
2 LinkFOX Entertainment Group: Diversity Development
We invite submission of original television pilot scripts in the multi-camera comedy, single-camera comedy, animation and drama formats. Writers selected will be invited to attend a six-week session at Writers Boot Camp and subsequent consultation with WBC mentors during which their scripts will be rewritten and improved. The goal is to execute scripts at a level of professional quality equal to those purchased by Fox in the course of its normal television development.
3 LinkThe CBS Diversity Institute
The Institute has five components which are designed to provide program participants with access to the decision making process in network television both in front of and behind the camera. Each component offers a unique approach to professional relationship building and career development in Hollywood.
4 LinkNickelodeon Writing Fellowship Program
Developed to broaden Nickelodeon's outreach efforts, the Nickelodeon Writing Fellowship is designed to attract, develop and staff writers with diverse backgrounds and experiences on Nickelodeon Network productions.

Operating in a three-phased structure, the Fellowship provides a salaried position for up to one year and offers hands-on experience writing spec scripts and pitching story ideas in both live action and animation television.
5 LinkWarner Bros. Television Writers
Every year, the Workshop selects up to 10 participants out of almost 1,000 submissions and exposes them to Warner Bros. Television
6 LinkNBC Diversity Initiative for Writers
NBC is proud of the existing diversity within the writing staffs of its Primetime Series. In order to further encourage diversity among our writing staffs, NBC provides funding for a diverse Staff Writer position, open to all scripted NBC Primetime Series. These positions are filled with writers selected and hired by the Showrunner/Producers of each show, with the guidance of the network and studio(s).
7 LinkThe Writers Guild of America
The WGAW's Diversity department works with producers, studio and network executives, and writers to increase employment opportunities and the availability of writing assignments for writers who are Asian/Pacific Islander, American Indian, African-American, Latino, women, over 40, gay, lesbian, or disabled.
8 LinkFilm Independent, Project Involve
Project:Involve is Film Independent's signature diversity program, dedicated to increasing cultural diversity in the film industry by cultivating the careers of under-represented filmmakers. The program, which runs from October through June, selects filmmakers from culturally diverse backgrounds and filmmaking tracks. The Fellows are paired one-on-one with a mentor from the film industry, attend filmmaking workshops and community screenings, and receive career development assistance.
9 LinkFOX American Indian Summer Institute
In order to increase the talent pool of those most severely under-represented at FOX (and the industry throughout), Diversity Development designed this residential immersion program (the first of its kind) in 2002 and partnered with UCLA in its launch in that same year. Topics include broad entrainment exposure with the emphasis on production process from story concept to final image onscreen. Activities also include site visits, workshops led by industry professionals including but not limited to FOX employees.
10 LinkNALIP Latino Writers Lab
The Latino Writers Lab
11 LinkNational Hispanic Media Coalition Writers Program
This program is not for beginners. It is for those writers who can write at least one half-hour comedy or one-hour dramatic television script in English within a five-week period of time. The program will take place in Los Angeles, CA from November 7th to December 12th. Each participant is expected to complete at least one script by the end of the five-week session, which will then be read by network executives. Those writers whose scripts show promise will be interviewed and mentored by the network executives with the idea of placing them on a show.
12 LinkOutfest Screenwriting Lab
What began as a screenwriting competition has expanded into a dynamic three-day, mentor-led workshop in Los Angeles for selected screenwriters. The authors of five screenplays will be invited to participate in an intensive laboratory during which they will work closely with Lab Mentors
13 LinkSundance Institute's Native American & Indigenous Program
The Sundance Film Festival hosts the annual Native Forum
14 LinkWomen In Film Internship Program
WIF/Fulfillment Fund Summer Internship Program provides an opportunity for college-age women from diversified backgrounds to work in the entertainment industry. The Fulfillment Fund is a non-profit organization that assists promising, but economically disadvantaged students from the Los Angeles Unified School District. The Fund
15 LinkWomen In Film Mentoring Program
The mission of the Women In Film Mentoring Program is to nurture emerging talent in the entertainment industry by connecting individual WIF members with established professionals for a period of one year during which they benefit from one-on-one mentoring. Matches between mentors and mentees are made according to career interest and compatibility.
16 LinkWriteGirl
WriteGirl is a nonprofit organization for high school girls centered on the craft of creative writing and empowerment through self-expression. Through one-on-one mentoring and monthly workshops, girls are given techniques, insights and hot tips for great writing in all genres from professional women writers.
17 LinkEmma L. Bowen Foundation Work/Study Program
The Emma L. Bowen Foundation was created in 1989 to prepare minority youth for careers in the media industry. The Foundation
18 LinkInner City Filmmakers
The mission of Inner-City Filmmakers is to provide free year-round artistic, technical, business and life skills training with high quality instructors and mentors for diverse disadvantaged youth, ages 17-22 of Los Angeles County, and to successfully place them in entry-level jobs behind-the-scenes in the entertainment industry, where they aspire to build careers but have little access, thus reshaping their lives and changing their futures.
19 LinkNAACP Diversity Fellowship Program
As part of on-going efforts to the diversity of emerging talent in Hollywood, the NAACP has united with CBS and NBC to create Master Degree Writing Fellowships. These partnerships are an effort to support, encourage and educate new voices within the industry. Each year, the Fellowship is awarded to a graduate student whose work offers a fresh perspective on ways in which minorities are represented. In addition to providing students with financial assistance with their studies, they are mentored throughout their academic program.
20 LinkThe Guy Hanks and Marvin Miller Writing Program
The Guy Hanks and Marvin Miller Writing program was established by Drs. Bill and Camille Cosby in 1993, at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. It was named in honor of Camille's father, Guy Alexander Hanks and Bill's producer, Marvin Miller.

The fifteen-week intensive workshop was designed with a two-fold purpose:
* To assist writers in the completion of a film or television script.
* To deepen the participants appreciation for and comprehension of African American history and culture.
21 LinkNATPE Diversity Fellowship Program
The NATPE Diversity Fellowship Program provides a small group of emerging television and video content creators of color with the next step in their career development. The Fellowship offers a series of mentoring meetings, workshops, networking and educational opportunities and kicks-off during the week of NATPE
22 LinkWorkplace Hollywood
Workplace Hollywood (WH) is a non-profit, community-based organization formed by the entertainment industry to ensure that individuals from historically under-represented communities in Los Angeles can successfully compete for, and gain access to, jobs and business opportunities in that industry.
23 LinkHollywood CPR
Hollywood CPR offers vocational training in the trades and skills required for careers in the Artists, Crafts and Technicians departments of the entertainment industry to primarily underserved and under-represented populations.
24 LinkStreetlights
STREETLIGHTS is a nonprofit job training, job placement and mentoring program which provides opportunities for employment in the entertainment industry for economically or socially disadvantaged young minority men and women.
25 LinkDGA Student Film Awards for African-American, Asian-American, Latino and Women Filmmakers
Each year the Directors Guild of America announces the winners of its annual Student Film Awards for African-American, Asian-American, Latino and women filmmakers. The awards, which bring the winners prizes of $2,500 from the DGA, are designed to honor, encourage and bring attention to outstanding minority and women film students in film schools and other select universities.


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