Call out for writers to attend Edinburgh TV Festival 2025

Screen Scotland is thrilled to once again be working in partnership with the Edinburgh TV Festival. The festival will be held at the EICC, with dates confirmed as Tuesday 19 to Friday 22 August 2025.

Screen Scotland is offering bursaries and passes to TV production companies in Scotland and writers based in Scotland with viable TV prospects.

Creative Scotland (CS) requires some personal information about you to consider your application. Without this information CS will be unable to provide you with a delegate pass. 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.

If you have any queries or access requests, please email our enquiries team at enquiries@creativescotland.com.
Personal information
1.First name(Required.)
2.Surname(Required.)
3.Email address(Required.)
4.Job title(Required.)
5.Post code(Required.)
Selection Questions
6.Please provide a brief overview of your output and how you meet one of the following criteria as defined by the application guidance. This offer is open to Scotland-based writers who have either:
  • Professionally produced a theatre play  
  • Had a funded short film produced through competitive and editorially rigorous funding programme (which does not include crowdfunding)  
  • A project in development with a broadcaster 
  • At least one hour of broadcast TV credits
(250 words max)

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7.Please provide a strategic rationale for you attending the Edinburgh TV Festival and include the specific objectives you hope to achieve. This should include information about who you seek to meet, existing relationships, appropriate projects suitable to progress at ETVF, expected outcomes (please reference any previous TV Festival attendance too) and how you would deliver these outcomes:
  • What stage are your current projects at, and how do you see ETVF helping move them forward?
  • If you’re awarded a pass, how do you plan to follow up on connections made or the opportunities presented at the festival?
(750 words max)

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