Help Hollywood Create a Hit TV Show about a Female Engineer
Hot on the heels of the Academy Awards, Hollywood is on the hunt for some new talent, and this is where you can come in.
Award-winning writer, producer and director Lee Zlotoff and the National Academy of Engineering in the US have launched a global crowdsourcing competition seeking ideas for a TV series with a female engineer as the lead character.
The Next MacGyver competition is named after MacGyver, a television show from the ’80s and ’90s about a secret agent who solved problems with engineering skills. Zlotoff was the creator of the hit series.
Inspiring Young Women
The new show will not be a reboot of the MacGyver franchise, more, it’s about finding a series with a strong female character who will inspire a generation of young women to go into engineering and the sciences.
To enter, participants have to fill in an online form that should include a summary of the pilot episode, a description of the main character and some sample episode storylines.
The show can be in any genre and five winners will be selected who will each win a $5,000 prize. They will also be paired with an accomplished Hollywood television producer to develop their pilot script.
Those who take part will keep all the rights to their scripts. According to the contest website: “This competition is just a vehicle to get your script into the right hands. Once your script is sold, you keep all the profits.”
To fire up and enthuse budding writers who may not be too savvy about what an engineer is, the website helpfully points out that just about everything around us – cars, buildings, robots, planes, the internet etc. – is the result of engineering.
For more details about the contest, click here.
Reader Comments
I have an acquaintance who is a 1st engineer aboard the BC Passenger Ferry. She is a Vancouver island hippy from the 60's gal willing to tackle anything.
Let me know if you are interested in her story and , yes, she is still working
Posted by Paul Whalen on February 25, 2015
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