CBC Maritimes Television
Broadcast Script Joy Award

Emerging writers, screenwriters or scriptwriters residing in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island or Newfoundland are eligible to apply. See the application form for more detailed information regarding elegibility, or view the Joy Award guidelines.

Scripts submitted should be a second or later draft of a script intended for television of 3 to 12 minutes in length.
CBC Television will acquire the successful script and consider it for production development.

$5000 in cash.
Mentorship at intervals during the Award period (October 01 to April 01).
Up to $5000 in production and/or post-production services, subject to scheduling availability, in support of script development.
CBC Television will acquire the rights of the script selected by the CBC TV Script Joy Award Jury.

2009 Application (PDF) >

Note: Residents of New Brunswick, Newfoundland, PEI, and Nova Scotia may apply for the CBC Television Script Development Award, the Joy Award, Joy Post and the Helen Hill Animated Award.

Luckas Cardona is the winner of the 2008 CBC TV Broadcast Script Development Awardfor Mr. Happy.

Luckas Cardona’s script humorously tells the story of an inflexible environmentalist, 5th Level Vegan, and self-described angry hippie whose self-appointed quest to keep virtue alive in the world must be achieved at any cost. Living an immaculate lifestyle on the moral high ground, his anger at lesser mortals has come to define his life – so much so, he realizes, that it isn’t his life any more. His anger has taken form: a tumor that will kill him unless he can change his ways. Can an angry hippie find inner peace without selling out?

Luckas Cardona graduated from the Humber College Film and Television Program in 1999, and has since established his reputation in the film and media arts scene as a capable editor and technician working with a range of post-production systems. He is Technical Coordinator at the Centre For Art Tapes in Halifax.