Vikramaditya Motwane, Sujoy Ghosh, Abhishek Chaubey, Alankrita Srivastava, Sudip Sharma, Smita Singh to mentor budding screenwriters

Screenwriters' Association

(SWA) Script Lab 2022 receives 601 entries. The competition will see acclaimed screenwriters Vikramaditya Motwane, Sujoy Ghosh, Abhishek Chaubey,

Alankrita Srivastava

, Sudip Sharma and

Smita Singh

mentoring young screenwriters.

SWA Script Lab 2022

is a platform where emerging screenwriters will get an opportunity to be mentored by professionals. Feature-length screenplays, both original as well as literary adaptations, were eligible for the lab. This lab is a channel through which aspiring screenwriters can present their work to industry professionals, who are widely appreciated for their work in the field, and get valuable feedback to hone one’s skills and script. SWA’s endeavour is to help the writers understand the scope of improvement in their own script/writing with these sessions, while also presenting them an opportunity to connect with these mentors.

At the competition, merging screenwriters were encouraged to submit their scripts, either original or adapted work. At the end of the competition, up to six finalists will be shortlisted after two rounds of selection. Each finalist will get an online one-on-one feedback session with four out of the six mentors.

The selection process is divided into two stages. After the first round, thirty (30) participants have been shortlisted based on their stage one submission made at the time of the application. Now, the shortlisted candidates have been invited to submit their complete, fully-formatted first drafts of their screenplay.








Here are a few things about the competition that you should know:

• Submissions for Stage-I were open from September 8 2021 till 25th October 2021.
• Documents to be submitted were a synopsis of the film (maximum 2500 words) and the first ten pages of the script in Hindi or English.
• We received an overwhelming number of 601 entries in our very first year. The competition was tough considering only thirty entries made it to the next stage.
• Twelve readers hired by SWA went through each one of the 601 feature film synopsis and script samples before zeroing on the final 30 after two internal rounds.
• All the 601 participants were informed regarding their selection or non-selection by email on December 2, 2021.
• The shortlisted 30 writers will now submit their full-length feature film before 11:59 PM on 10th January 2022.
• The submitted script must be between 70-120 pages and written in Hindi or English.
• Six scripts will be further shortlisted from the 30 submissions in Stage-II. The six finalists will get one-to-one online feedback on their scripts on Zoom with four of the mentors at SWA Script Lab.