The foundation is focused on fostering real relationships and connections between its Fellows and mentors that will last well beyond the initial program.
Inevitable Foundation, the nonprofit organization building a content development and staffing pipeline for disabled screenwriters, has launched its Pipeline Program, a broad coalition of industry-leading individuals and organizations working together to identify promising disabled screenwriters and fast-track them for consideration by showrunners, creative executives and the foundation's Screenwriting Fellowship program. Inevitable has lined up a growing roster of over 25 creative and development executives from studios, streamers and networks and more than a dozen showrunners who will be working with the foundation's Screenwriting Fellows and other finalists to mentor them and prepare them to sell their work. The foundation is focused on fostering real relationships and connections between its Fellows and mentors that will last well beyond the initial program.
Founding members of the coalition brought together by the Inevitable Foundation-which is supported by WarnerMedia/AT&T Foundation and a number of other foundations- includes the Sundance Institute, The Black List, Easterseals, Deaf Talent Collective, Words Uncaged, Pillars Fund and the Writers Guild Foundation, including the WGA's Veterans Writing Project and Writer's Access Support Program, with more Pipeline Program partners to come soon. "Partnering with organizations that are on the front lines of developing up-and-coming writing talent allows the industry to quickly discover more incredible disabled screenwriters," said Richie Siegel, co-founder of Inevitable Foundation. "The Pipeline Program empowers our partner organizations to pass the baton so we can continue advancing the careers oftalent they have already invested in and get their work on screen, further driving the impact of their efforts as well." "For too long, the stories we've seen on screen have failed to reflect the diversity of human experience, particularly for people with disabilities who are often tokenized, infantilized, or villainized," said KATIE Buckland, executive director of the Writers Guild Foundation. "As a Pipeline Partner with the Inevitable Foundation, we are striving to close the gap in representation for disabled writers in the writers room and beyond by supporting access to financial and creative freedom to share authentic stories via their Screenwriting Fellowship."Videos