Call for submissions: five-page scripts
tell us your fredericton cafe stories!
Screenwriters and storytellers: Frictive Pictures is looking for Fredericton stories for an anthology series of short films. We are looking for uniquely Fredericton or indelibly New Brunswick stories and characters all to be set in the same cafe. Eight scripts will be selected, developed and produced as an anthology film series as a part of our New Voices Film Lab working with new directors.
The completed series will be featured on Bell Fibe TV1 and the shorts will be submitted to festivals. Frictive Pictures will provide an honorarium for selected scripts for sole ownership of the one-time production rights.
We are looking for diverse voices, including stories from newcomers, Indigenous peoples, and 2SLGBTQIA+ community members.
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script requirements
We will option scripts and help develop them for this production. Scripts should be
Under five minutes
Any genre
Set in a cafe
Under five characters
No violence
Properly formatted
how to submit
Submit via email in either MS Word (.doc) or PDF format by midnight June 1st, 2025
Guidelines:
All submitted material must be original, and all rights must be wholly owned by the writer(s).
All entries must be the original, and unpublished, un-produced, un-optioned work of the entrant.
The entrant ensures that he or she is the sole author of the work and that it does not infringe on any existing copyright.