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Article: Scribes key to Humanitas' goal.(humanitas prize)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- June 28, 2006
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The Humanitas Prize, funded by an endowment, provides $145,000 annually to writers of "stories that communicate values, motivate behavior and can help bring about change in an individual."
Past winners comprise a virtual who's who of scribes in both television and films--David Milch, David Kelly, Cameron Crowe, Tom Fontana, Gary Ross, Akiva Goldsman, Stephen Gaghan, ad gloriam--many of whom have an ongoing involvement with the community programs Humanitas sponsors. (This year, Milch conducted a four-week seminar for the first 25 one-hour TV writers who showed up).
The prize was established in 1974 by Paulist Father Ellwood E. Kieser, a Catholic priest ...