Nantucket Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Nantucket
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68 Jay St., Suite 319
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(646) 480-1900 (voice)
Web:
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Email:
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Contact: Daniela Bajar, Film Program Director
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The Nantucket Film Festival - unique in its dedication to supporting and promoting the art of screenwriting - launched the Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Competition in 1996. The Festival's screenwriting focus was inspired by Nantucket's rich history as a writer's retreat and is one of the main reasons for the event's distinction as an important cultural institution.
The competition is named after the late Winston Tony Cox, former Showtime Networks Chairman and longtime Nantucket summer resident. Throughout his career, Cox was devoted to highlighting the important role of the writer in bringing high-quality original content to cable television. Tony's legacy has helped establish a prestigious reputation for the Competition whose highly vetted finalists command notice from producers and development executives nation wide. Show More
Rules
Eligibility Requirements for SCRIPT submissions:- Feature screenplays must be standard feature length (80-125 pages);
- Short screenplays must be 40 pages or shorter;
- Episodic pilot screenplays must be standard TV length (21-30 pages for 30 min shows and 42-60 pages for one hour shows);
- TV screenplays must be for an original show. We do not accept spec screenplays for or spinoffs of existing shows;
- We do not accept scripts for Reality TV shows;
- Multiple episodes for a TV series should be entered to the competition individually;
- Screenplays must be standard U.S. format only;
- Screenplays must not have been produced;
- Collaborations are welcome.
- Screenplays must be in English;
- Screenplays must be completed by entry deadline. Screenplays must be submitted electronically via email at submissions@nantucketfilmfestival.org or www.withoutabox.com;
- Screenplays must have a title page; which includes only the title. Please Note: THE APPLICANT'S NAME MUST NOT APPEAR ON THE COVER OR ANY OTHER PAGE OF THE SCREENPLAY. JUDGES MUST NOT BE AWARE OF THE ENTRANT'S NAME. SCREENPLAYS THAT INCLUDE THE APPLICANT’S NAME ON THE COVER OR IN THE BODY OF THE SCREENPLAY WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED.
- Entry must include an application. Keep a copy of your completed application form for reference;
- There is no limit to the number of entries per entrant, provided separate applications and submission fees accompany each entry;
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Contact
68 Jay St., Suite 319
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(646) 480-1900 (voice)
Web:
http://www.nantucketfilmfestival.org
Email:
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Contact: Daniela Bajar, Film Program Director
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Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Competition
Contact
68 Jay St., Suite 319
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(646) 480-1900 (voice)
Web:
http://www.nantucketfilmfestival.org
Email:
info@nantucketfilmfestival.org
Contact: Daniela Bajar, Film Program Director
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Byron Script Wins at Nantucket Film Festival
Boston, Massachusetts -- Showtime Networks Inc. and the Nantucket
Film Festival today announced the presentation of the 5th Annual Tony
Cox Award for Screenwriting to Andrew Arthur for his original script
entitled PILGRIM OF ETERNITY.
PILGRIM OF ETERNITY is the edgy, contemporary story of how radical
politics, subversive sexuality, and the media unite to create and
then destroy the early nineteenth century English poet Lord Byron --
the world's first media superstar.
"Byron first attracted me as a subject because his life is such a
great story," said Arthur. "One of his lovers, the wife of a future
Prime Minister of England, called him 'mad, bad and dangerous to
know.' But as I learned more about him, I found he was much more
than a poet and celebrity. He was a real hero."
This is not a Byron people have seen before. Famous at the age of
twenty-four for his overnight success as a poet, Byron became a
champion of the oppressed workers known as Luddites. A radical
politician and passionate bisexual, he was persecuted by the English
authorities, yet went on to write his greatest works.
Arthur added, "The issues of Byron's day -- the gap between rich and
poor, workers' rights, gay rights, protests against the
internationalization of industry, are still very much with us today.
I realized that Byron's struggle and fate have important things to
teach us about our own society and where we choose to take it."
The prize-winning screenplay is Mr. Arthur's third. He has also
written TIME OF THE JAGUAR, which focuses on a shaman and his
grandson caught up in the crisis of the Amazonian rainforest, and
LOVE IN A WARMER CLIME, which tells the true story of Mrs. Winston
Churchill's love affair with a younger man while on an expedition to
Indonesia to capture a Komodo Dragon. LOVE IN A WARMER CLIME placed
in the Maui/AFI Screenwriting Competition last year.
Mr. Arthur is currently at work on a contemporary political thriller.
He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has established EarthHart
Productions as an independent production company to create films
which support individual rights and people's connection with the
natural world.
The Nantucket Film Festival was founded in 1996 to recognize original
voices in film and honor the screenwriters who created them. Other screenwriting finalists for 2001:
Destiny With Serapis
By Jack DuBois
Cleaning House
By Mark Grisar
Solitaire
By Rich Rubin
Updated: 06/25/2001
Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Competition
Contact
68 Jay St., Suite 319
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(646) 480-1900 (voice)
Web:
http://www.nantucketfilmfestival.org
Email:
info@nantucketfilmfestival.org
Contact: Daniela Bajar, Film Program Director
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