Please note, applications are now closed for this opportunity.
Screen Scotland, working in collaboration with The Gotham as a presenting partner* of The Gotham Week Project Market, is offering four projects the opportunity to participate at the 2023 edition of the market. Gotham Week will be held in New York from September 16-22, with the Project Market running from September 18-22.
About The Gotham Week Project Market
The Gotham Week Project Market is a vital North American meetings-driven forum that will take place in New York from 18-22 September. The market aims to connect new fiction and documentary projects in development, production, or post-production to key industry executives interested in identifying feature-length and episodic projects for development, financing, or distribution.
Screen Scotland will put forward a shortlist of projects including fiction and nonfiction features and narrative series to be considered for participation at The Gotham Project Week Market. Projects that are successfully shortlisted by Screen Scotland will then be invited to make a direct application to The Gotham to participate at the Project Market. Submissions will be assessed by the team at The Gotham, and they will be responsible for making the final selection for participation.
Screen Scotland will offer successful project teams bursary support for travel and accommodation to attend the market. Successful projects will be provided with a curated schedule of meetings during the Project Market.
* Please note: All International (non-US originated) projects must be submitted through one of The Gotham’s Presenting Partners. All submissions from Scottish producing teams are by invitation only and must have been confirmed by Screen Scotland prior to submission or by direct invitation of The Gotham.
Submission Categories
Suited for scripted fiction series, the Narrative Series section welcomes both short-form (under 40 minutes) and long-form (over 40 minutes) projects. Projects in the development stage and in the post-production or distribution stage—including completed, unreleased series— are considered.
Supporting fiction features from producers from around the world, artists and projects must be connected to one of The Gotham’s Presenting Partners and are welcome to submit by invitation only. Submissions must be completed feature-length screenplays, completed after September 2022.
Designed to support emerging and established documentarians, the Spotlight on Documentaries section connects 60+ work-in-progress, nonfiction features with financiers, distributors, broadcasters, sales companies, and festival programmers. Completed films are not eligible for Spotlight on Documentaries. Projects cannot have been screened publicly in any previous event or submitted to festivals prior to June 2023
Who Is eligible to apply?
Screen Scotland invites applications from producers based in Scotland. Your credits may be in scripted or unscripted (documentary), across live action or animation.
How to apply
Screen Scotland is accepting expressions of interest from fiction and nonfiction features and narrative series to be put forward to participate at The Gotham Week Project Market.
To apply, please complete the online form at the link below. Deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday 19 May 2023.
What happens next and how will my expression of interest be assessed?
Once we receive your submission, we will check for basic completeness and eligibility. Your expression of interest will be assessed on the strength of your project and its suitability to participate at The Gotham Project Market. The assessment will also consider your track record including the project team’s relevant recent credits and your reasons for attending the Project Market, including desired outcomes for your project.
If your expression of interest is successful Screen Scotland will contact you to let you know that you can submit your application via The Gotham’s online application portal and will provide you with a waiver code.
Your submission will then be assessed by the team at The Gotham. All final decisions to participate at The Gotham Week Project Market are the responsibility of The Gotham.
If you are successful at this stage, then we will ask for a budget outlining travel and any access costs.
If you have any queries, please email [email protected].
Key Dates
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19 May: Expression of Interest deadline (Screen Scotland)
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Mid-May: Projects shortlisted by Screen Scotland are invited to apply to The Gotham Week Project Market via normal application form (with waiver codes to avoid any application fee)
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Mid-July: Decision notifications (communicated by The Gotham)
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16-22 September: Gotham Week
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18-21 September: Project Market
Data protection
Creative Scotland (CS) requires some personal information about you / your organisation to consider your application. Without this information CS will be unable to process your application.
If you would like to see a breakdown of the personal information CS requires, why it is required, what CS does with that information and how long CS keeps it, please refer to CS’s Privacy Notice available online https://www.creativescotland.com/privacy-policy
CS may share your personal information with third parties to comply with the law and / or for the legitimate interests of CS and / or the third parties concerned.
Where the personal information you have provided to CS belongs to other individual(s), please refer to CS’s Privacy Notice. Please ensure you share this Privacy Statement and CS’s Privacy Notice with the respective individual(s).
You have some rights in relation to the personal information that CS holds about you under data protection law. Information on how to exercise these rights is contained in CS’s Privacy Notice.
If you have any concerns with how CS has processed your personal information, you should contact CS’s Data Protection Officer in the first instance, as CS would welcome the opportunity to work with you to resolve any complaint. If you are still dissatisfied, you can submit a complaint to the Information Commissioners Office.