Objective

To discover innovative, marketable, high-concept projects for studio-level development, including feature screenplays, TV material, and media content.

Deadline/Entry Fees

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Rules

We accept completed scripts, media, or pitches that fall into the following categories:

• Studio-level feature screenplays (must be action/adventure, comedy, drama, horror/thriller, or sci-fi/fantasy)
• Original teleplays; any genre, cable or network
• Media such as short films, webseries, clips, or other short-form narrative or documentary content

If submitting a pitch only, a 1-2 page synopsis or full treatment is acceptable. Entries can be submitted into more than one category for separate entry fees. Animation is allowed for any category, including Media. Please review the rules and restrictions below to avoid disqualification.

• The script is not currently under a representation, option, or purchase agreement.
• Entries in the screenwriting genre categories must be intended for a studio market.
• Writers who have sold, optioned, or produced scripts in the past are eligible; however, the material submitted to First Look must not have been produced as a feature or TV series. There are otherwise no restrictions on amateur or professional status. The First Look Project is open to writers of all levels.
• Preference may be given to material that has not seen wide circulation.
• The material is wholly original, or you retain the rights to the work submitted and can submit proof of such.

Awards

The First Look Project is focused primarily on connecting the winners with specific film and TV producers, in addition to monetary prizes across all categories.

• $2,000 to the winner of each genre category (Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror/Thriller, Sci-fi/Fantasy). $10,000 awarded in total.
• Initial circulation to the company sponsoring the winner’s category (Action/Adventure – QC Entertainment, Comedy – Panay Films, Drama – Silent R Management and QC Entertainment, Horror/Thriller – Good Fear Film + Management, Sci-fi/Fantasy – Lakeshore Entertainment), plus long-term facilitation to Script Pipeline’s broader industry network.
• Additional material review and assistance in getting other scripts into circulation on a case-by-case basis.

• $2,000 to the winner.
• Initial circulation to the company sponsoring the Teleplay category (Madhouse Entertainment), plus other companies seeking original TV pilots.
• Additional material review and assistance in getting other scripts into circulation on a case-by-case basis.

• $2,000 to the winner.
• Initial circulation to the companies sponsoring the Short Film category (Silent R Management and Good Fear Film + Management), plus other companies looking for directors, writers, and emerging filmmakers.
• Assistance from Script Pipeline development executives to review any script or treatment adaptation of the short film or pilot.
• Additional circulation for other material from the winners and finalists.