Screenwriter — future vision xprize - a job post by Matthew DiteljanLocation Vancouver, Canada, New York City, New York, Los Angeles, California and Calgary, Canada$10,000–$15,000 CAD flat fee + 5% profit share · May 20, 2026 deadlineTHE OPPORTUNITYThis is not a typical screenwriting gig.We are entering the Future Vision XPRIZE — a $2.5M film competition presented by Google and Peter Diamandis. The brief: create a 3-minute film that shows humanity a hopeful, technology-forward vision of the future. If selected as a Top 10 Finalist, Google and Range come in as producing partners on the feature film.We have a fully realized world. A story with genuine philosophical depth. A director of AI cinematics. A producer with capital committed and the clock running.What we need is the writer who makes it sing.THE PROJECTEnlightened Earth is a philosophical sci‐fi film set in 2100 — a world where technology serves the soul, nature is a co‐creator, and humanity has chosen a different way of being. We open in 2100 — a world so fully realized it aches. Then we fall back to 2035, when everything was still at stake.The story centers on the collision of two timelines: a coherence zone that has achieved genuine post‐fear living, and the forces of the old world that come to destroy it. It is Gandhian truth force meets science fiction. The antagonists become the protagonists. The darkness is not defeated — it is healed.Think Avatar's reverence for nature. The Matrix's philosophical ambition. Interstellar's emotional devastation. But with a fundamentally different worldview — one that refuses the dualism of good versus evil, and insists instead on the more radical truth: that separation is a wound, and wounds can be healed.The world‐building is extensive — thousands of words of lore, philosophy, technology, governance, and economics. The story brief is locked.



What we need is a writer who can take this skeleton and breathe life into it.WHO WE'RE LOOKING FORThis is a specific kind of writer. Not the most commercially obvious. The most alive.YOU ARE:A true artist first. Craft is non‐negotiable. You know how to bring an audience to the edge of their seat and make them cry on command. You have feature film credits that prove it.On the path of genuine inquiry — spiritually curious without spiritual ego. You've sat with eastern philosophy, with questions of consciousness and oneness, and you carry those questions into your work without preaching.Deeply disillusioned by the pessimism of mainstream science fiction. You love the genre. And you're tired of it. Tired of dystopia as default. Tired of technology as villain. Tired of stories that can imagine the end of the world but not a world worth living in.Obsessed with the question of what a genuinely good future looks like — technologically, ecologically, spiritually. You could talk about this for hours. You have talked about this for hours.Someone who wants to push the envelope of the genre. You understand non‐dualism. You can write a villain whose transformation is more devastating than their destruction. You know that the most radical act in storytelling right now is to insist on wholeness.A collaborator who gives a damn. This project has a soul and we're looking for someone who feels it. Chemistry matters. We want someone we'd genuinely enjoy being in a room with.YOU HAVE:At least one produced credit on a feature film, short film (festival circuit), or TV/streaming episode — OR significant placement in a major screenwriting competition (Nicholl,



Austin, Sundance Lab, Black List, or equivalent) — ideally in science fiction, drama, or genre‐bending workA portfolio that shows range, depth, and the ability to write characters that feel genuinely humanThe ability to work to a hard deadline — August 15, 2026 is immovableComfort working remotely and collaborating closely with a small, quick‐moving teamTHE DELIVERABLEA 12‐page treatment for the XPRIZE submissionVoiceover script for the 3‐minute cinematic trailerCreative collaboration on story development throughout productionFull world‐building documents, story brief, and visual references will be provided at project start. You are not starting from zero — you are taking something already alive and helping it reach its full potential.COMPENSATIONFlat fee: $10,000–$15,000 CAD depending on experience5% net profit participation on direct proceeds from the XPRIZE submission, plus right of first negotiation to continue as screenwriter on the feature film if fundedGoogle and Range as producing partners on the feature if we reach the Top 10Credit on the XPRIZE submission and all subsequent developmentThis is not a high‐budget commission. It is a low‐budget bet on something that could become significant. We are looking for a writer who understands the difference — and who wants to be part of something from the beginning.HOW TO APPLYSend us three things:A brief note — not a cover letter, a genuine human response — on why this project resonates with you specificallyTwo or three writing samples or produced credits that show us what you're capable ofOne sentence on what you think the most important story humanity needs to hear right now isThat last one matters most.Preference for Canadian writers. Open globally to the right person."The stories we tell about the future are not predictions. They are invitations."#J-18808-Ljbffr

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