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HollywoodIQ: Niad Management's Wendi Niad

Updated: 11/12/2009

Wendi Niad started out working as a comedy writer and today runs Niad Management, a company she founded that represents an extraordinary slate of new and established writers, directors and actors. A literary and talent manager, Niad also teaches and mentors, helping the up-and-coming learn about the entertainment industry, so this month, we asked Niad to talk with us about the business.

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Champion Screenwriting Competition Announces Short Script Winners

KITTEN by Magali Rennes has been named the inaugural winner of the Champion Screenwriting Competition in the short script category.

Updated: 11/22/2009 Full Story More News

Adventures in Screenwriting: An Unwelcome Visitor

And no, I'm not talking about punks egging my house on Halloween.

Here I am, plugging merrily away on my latest spec (albeit merrily laboriously, a sentence, a paragraph a page at a time). I'm on page 75, for me the equivalent of being in the seventh inning stretch of a baseball game. I've just hit a double; I'm rounding second and heading towards home when I'm clocked on the head. Not with a baseball, mind you, but with a new idea.

Updated: 11/19/2009 Full Story More News

Script Savvy Contest Winner Optioned

Screenwriter Sheri Davenport of the San Francisco Bay area has optioned her May 2009 Script Savvy winning screenplay Kiss Me Lucky with Smash Media Films, helmed by producer Harry Winer and Shelley Hack.

Updated: 11/17/2009 Full Story More News

ScriptShadow Announces Top 100 Loglines

ScriptShadow has announced the top 100 loglines from nearly 1,000 entries to ScriptShadow Logline/Screenplay Contest.

Updated: 11/16/2009 Full Story More News

The Movie Deal! Announces Semifinalists

The Movie Deal! has announced their 2009 semifinalists in all genres.

Updated: 11/16/2009 Full Story More News

One in Ten Announces Contest Winners

J.R. Taylor's BORDERLAND has been named the winner of the 2009 One in Ten Screenwriting Competition.

Updated: 11/15/2009 Full Story More News

One in Ten Announces Contest Finalists

Finalists for the 2009 One in Ten Screenplay Contest have been announced.

Updated: 11/13/2009 Full Story More News

Champion Contest Announces Finalists

The Champion Screenwriting Competition has announced their Top 20 Feature Script Finalists, and their Top 6 Short Script Finalists.

Updated: 11/13/2009 Full Story More News

Scriptapalooza TV Winner Scores Local Press

Adrienne Simpson might be a TV-aholic. But the tube hasn't melted her brain.

Instead, the 25-year-old Glassboro native considers her TV-watching habit to be research -- fieldwork for penning award-winning scripts.

Updated: 11/10/2009 Full Story More News

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Back in the Box Screenplay Competition

(August 15, 2009 (early); October 3, 2009 (regular); October 31, 2009 (late); November 28, 2009 (final))

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Shiver's Short Horror Screenplay Competition

(October 28, 2009 (early); November 30th, 2009 (regular))

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Screenwriter Showcase Screenplay Contest

(November 30, 2009)

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StoryPros International Screenplay Contest

(September 30, 2009 (early); October 31, 2009 (regular); November 30, 2009 (final). )

WBW Discount: $5.00 Details More Contests

Silverback Screenwriting Competition

(December 1st, 2009)

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Contest of Contest Winners

(Early Deadline: 10/01/2009; Final Deadline: 12/01/2009)

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Free Screenplay Contest

(December 1, 2009)

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trackingb.com Screenplay Contest

(September 1st, 2009 (early); Nov. 15th, 2009 (late); Dec. 1st, 2009 (really late))

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Ozark Foothills FilmFest Screenwriting Competition

(December 1, 2009)

WBW Discount: $5.00 Details More Contests

Bridge International Screenplay Competition

( Extended to December 3, 2010)

WBW Discount: $2.00 Details More Contests

International Family Film Festival (IFFF)

(December 11, 2009)

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Acclaim TV Screenwriting Competition

( Extended again to December 14, 2009 )

WBW Discount: $5.00 Details More Contests

Acclaim Film

( Extended again to December 14, 2009 )

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IndieProducer Screenwriting Contest

(December 15, 2009)

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Canada International Film Festival

(December 15, 2009)

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The Inkwell Opportunity

(December 15, 2009)

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A Night of Horror International Film Festival Screenplay Competition

(July 31, 2009 (early); October 2, 2009 (regular); December 18, 2009 (final).)

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L.A. Comedy Scripts Screenplay Competition

(October 2, 2009 (early); November 2, 2009 (regular); December 2, 2009 (late); December 18, 2009 (extended final). )

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Mammoth Mountain Film Festival Screenplay Competition

( December 20, 2009)

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20/20 Screenwriting Contest

(Contest #13 first round opens October 20, 2009; First Round deadline December 20,2009 )

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Mountain Film Festival

(December 20, 2009)

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3i International Short Screenplay and Teleplay Contest

(October 31, 2009 (early); November 30, 2009 (regular); December 31, 2009 (final))

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Dream Quest International Screenwriting Competition

(September 30, 2009 (early); November 30, 2009 (regular); December 31, 2009 (late))

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Garden State Film Festival Screenplay Competition

(October 31, 2009 (regular); December 31, 2009 (late))

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Screenplay Shootout

(July 31, 2009 (early); September 26, 2009 (regular); December 18, 2009 (late); January 1, 2010 (WithoutABox) )

WBW Discount: $5.00 Details More Contests

Beverly Hills Film Festival

(January 1, 2010)

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Screenplay Search Screenwriting Competition

(November 30, 2009 (early); January 10, 2010 (final) )

WBW Discount: $5.00 Details More Contests

Script Alchemist Screenplay Competition

(January 13, 2010)

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Act 1: The ION Television Movie Contest

(January 15, 2010 at noon EST, or before 1500 entries are received. )

WBW Discount: $5.00 Details More Contests

Worldfest - Houston Int'l Film Festival

(Early: 11/15/2009; Regular: 12/15/2009; Final: 1/15/2010 )

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Sixth Borough Screenplay Competition

(Scripts submitted on November 15th, 2009 will receive their written analysis by December 1st, 2009. Scripts submitted by December 1st, 2009 will receive their analysis by January 1st, 2010. Scripts submitted on January 1st, 2010, will receive their analysis by February 1, 2010. Scripts submitted by February 1st will receive their analysis by March 1st, 2010. Scripts submitted by March 1st will receive their analysis by April 1st, 2010.)

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Underground Exposure

(November 30th, 2009 (early); January 31st, 2010 (regular); March 31st, 2010 (late) )

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Act 1: The ION Television Movie Contest

(January 15, 2010 at noon EST, or before 1500 entries are received. )

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Scriptshadow Logline/Screenplay Contest

(November 9th, 2009 )

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Shiver's Short Horror Screenplay Competition

(October 28, 2009 (early); November 30th, 2009 (regular))

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