Shore Scripts Announces Feature & TV Finalists

Updated: 11/25/2020

Shore Scripts has announced their feature screenplay and 1-hour and 1/2-hour TV pilots finalists, representing the top 1% of all submissions this year.

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StoryPros Names International Screenplay Contest Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 14th Annual StoryPros International Screenplay Contest. Semifinalists will be announced Tuesday, December 1st. [Updated: 11/25/2020]

HollyShorts Announces Competition Winners

HollyShorts has announced Mike Kearby as the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 HollyShorts Screenwriting Competition for his screenplay, The Problem With Time Travel. The winner will be awarded a $10,000 Production Grant from Seattle Film Summit, and the completed film will screen at the 2021 HollyShorts Film Festival, and receive distribution on Bitpix. [Updated: 11/15/2020]

Shore Scripts Announces Feature & TV Semifinalists

Shore Scripts has announced their feature screenplay and 1-hour and 1/2-hour TV pilots semifinalists. Finalists will be announced November 25th. [Updated: 11/10/2020]

Write LA Posts Grand Prize Winner Live Read

Write LA has posted their live read of Grand Prize Winner Nathan Dame comedy pilot script, Fräulein Schreiber’s Mixtape. [Updated: 11/09/2020]

ScreamFest Names Contest Winner

Bloody Mary by Dan Ast and John C. Thursby has been named the Grand Prize winner of the 2020 ScreamFest Screenwriting Competition. [Updated: 11/04/2020]

Scriptapalooza Announces Screenplay Competition Producer Requests

Producers have requested to read a number of Scriptapalooza's 2020 finalists. [Updated: 11/04/2020]

RIIFF Names Contest Winners

Edward Balli from Canada won the Best Screenplay Grand Prize Winner for this year's Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF) Screenplay Competition for his screenplay is entitled "Leadeth." [Updated: 11/03/2020]

AFF Announces Screenplay Contest Winners

The Austin Film Festival has announced their 2020 Script Competition winners. [Updated: 11/02/2020]

Shore Scripts Announces Feature & TV Quarterfinalists

Shore Scripts has announced their feature screenplay and 1-hour and 1/2-hour TV pilots quarterfinalists. Semifinalists will be announced November 10th [Updated: 10/25/2020]

HollyShorts Names Screenplay Finalists

Finalists have been announced from among more 1,000 submissions to the HollyShorts Film Festival. The top 3 screenplays will be announced/awarded during the HollyShorts Awards Ceremony on November 15, with the winning script receiving a $10,000 production deal courtesy of Seattle Film Summit. [Updated: 10/24/2020]

ISA Names Fast Track Fellowship Winners

The International Screenwriting Association has announced Robert Ripley (The Mender) and Danielle Nicki (The First White President) as their 2020 FAST TRACK XII Fellowship Winners. Genre winners and finalists have also been announced.

[Updated: 10/21/2020]

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