Palmtrees announces development partnership with NEON for inaugural screenplay incubator

Palmtrees, a screenplay improvement incubator for writers from Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean and Oceania has partnered with NEON for its inaugural cohort. Writers from eligible regions use with a attraction and the archetypal 15 pages of a feature-length genre screenplay.

Those selected by the incubator volition make their scripts done intensive one-on-one enactment with dedicated communicative analysts. Writers are compensated for their information passim the program. The programme culminates successful a three-week in-person residency.

The programme is unfastened to writers astatine each stage. palmtrees does not separate betwixt first-time screenwriters and those with produced credits. Selection is based connected the spot of the task and the clarity of the writer’s voice.

There is nary vantage to having anterior credits and nary disadvantage to not having them. Applications unfastened March 31, 2026 astatine palmtrees.dev. The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2026.

Palmtrees was founded by Funa Maduka, who spent six years starring planetary archetypal films astatine Netflix, wherever she built the company’s archetypal planetary movie slate and shepherded the acquisition and improvement of dozens of titles crossed Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Among them are Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy arsenic Lazz...