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ISA Fast Track Fall 2025 Fellowship

ISA Fast Track

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Objective

Looking for representation or to connect with working directors or producers? Get on the Fast Track!

For 22 seasons, the ISA Fast Track Fellowship has been the premier screenwriting fellowship for writers on the rise.

Fast Track Fellows have:

  • Signed with major agencies like CAA, Paradigm, and ICM.
  • Been introduced to and then signed with management companies.
  • Had their scripts optioned, leading to development deals.

Two ISA Fast Track Fellows meet with eight top level agents, managers, producers, and executives during a whirlwind week of career acceleration with guidance from an ISA Development Executive.

Past seasons' executive meetings include writers, producers, directors and execs from ICM, CAA, The Bear, Cross, Ted Lasso, LA LA Land, Whiplash, I Feel Pretty, Harriet, Lessons in Chemistry, Dear White People, The Walking Dead, and What Women Want, among others. Show More

Deadline/Entry Fees

Deadline Date
Days till:
Entry Fee
Mega Early April 18, 2025 $49
Early May 15, 2025
15
$49
Regular June 19, 2025
50
$59
Final July 31, 2025
92
$79

Notification: 2nd Round Sept. 10, 2025; Top 50 Oct. 01, 2025; Fast Track Week Oct. 22, 2025.

Eligibility

Please see website.

Rules

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Awards

All applicants receive a FREE three-month trial to Videomaker’s premium Professional digital subscription, which features access to 59 video-making courses, a library worth $240, crafted to support creators at every level.

2 Fast Track Fellows Receive:

  • 8 general meetings with studio / development executives & literary reps
  • A pitch practice session
  • Pre Fast Track Week prep session with Suzanne Gundersen, Inner Story Consultant
  • Year-long script development and guidance
  • Invitation onto the ISA Development Slate
  • A 12-Month ISAConnect Membership
  • Fellowship announcements to media outlets

7 Category Selections (Listed in Program Description Above) Receive

  • $500 cash each
  • The Craft Course in Screenwriting ($299 value)
  • Consideration for acceptance onto the ISA Development Slate

Top 50 Receive

  • Free six-month trial of Pro Annual Plus Videomaker membership.
  • 3-Month ISAConnect Membership

All writers at every level are welcome to apply. Our mission, as always, is to shine a light on writers looking to open new doors. We have our eye on the future of this industry and are genuinely looking to amplify unique stories.

All general meetings with executives are online.

ISA Fast Track

Contact

Web:
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Email:
FastTrack@NetworkISA.org

Contact: , Contest Admin

Report Card

Overall: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.2/5.0)
Feedback: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.2/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
Report Cards: 36    
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ISA Fast Track

Contact

Web:
Click here
Email:
FastTrack@NetworkISA.org

Contact: , Contest Admin

Report Card

Overall: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.2/5.0)
Feedback: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.2/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
Report Cards: 36    
Have you entered?
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Contest News

ISA Names Fast Track X Fellowship Winners

The International Screenwriters Association (ISA) has named M Elizabeth Eller and Victoria Lucia as their Fast Track X Fellowship Winners.

Fellows:
M Elizabeth Eller with Third Party | Victoria Lucia with Out of F*cking Time


Special Mention:
Rebecca Jordan Smith with Orientation
Jon Brecto with The Revelation of Desiree Wells
Mike Doyle with Skeletons
Courtney Suttle with Mimic
Nancy Nyman with Social Work
Guy Pooles with Rust
Nora Jaenicke with Whales

Top 50 Screenwriters:
(alpha order by last name)

33 Weeks A Prude by Kelly Beck-Byrnes
No Such Thing as Monsters by Tony Abbate
Exabyte by Daniel Abrams
The Vacationers by Grant Taylor & Daniel Lawrence Abrams
Senator Vince Lombardo by Zachary Adams
Bitsy's Labyrinth by Mary Andonian
Kindred Spirits by Malcolm Badewitz
Darryn the Bold and the Sword of Boldness by Justin Best
The Shtick-Up by Valerie Bodurtha
Borderline by Joe Bonito
The Revelation of Desiree Wells by Jon Brecto
Harm's Way by Ted Campbell
Rebel Rebel by Kirsten Chen
Expat by Kris Crenwelge
Companion by John Darbonne
Monsters in Ohio by Mike DeBarr
Adopted by Heather Donnell
Desdemona by Nelson Downend
Skeletons by Mike Doyle
The Variant by Mike Doyle
Cowboy Beach by Trudy Duisenberg
Orson by Jared Egol
Third Party by M Elizabeth Eller
The Story of Garret Johnson by James Everett
Return to Treasure Island by Kerry Glamsch
A War on Terror by Peter Haig
Holy Sh!t by Christian Hearn
The Devil's Breath by Tom Hogan
Whales by Nora Jaenicke
You Got To Move by Nicholas Johnson
Orientation by Rebecca Jordan Smith
Boat People by David Kane
The Tarrytown Saint by Miles Kimball
Pastor Dash by Pearse Lehane
Out of F*cking Time by Victoria Lucia
Down the Baja by Rima Lyn
Faster Than Horses by Chris Mul
Will to Power by Chris Mul
The Buried Truth by Elizabeth Musgrave
Social Work by Nancy Nyman
Rust by Guy Pooles
Prae For The Dead by Ryan Porter
Tattooed Tears by Jim Purdy
Hellgate by Robert Ripley
Tearin' Up My Heart by Laura Sexton
Mimic by Courtney Suttle
Talon by Deborah Syna
Pistil by Kirk Vanderbeek
Lord Have Herschel by Michael Wohl
Justice, Justice by Jack Zafran

Updated: 10/23/2019

ISA Fast Track

Contact

Web:
Click here
Email:
FastTrack@NetworkISA.org

Contact: , Contest Admin

Report Card

Overall: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.2/5.0)
Feedback: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.2/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
Report Cards: 36    
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