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The Canadian Short Screenplay Competition, administered by Year of the Skunk Productions (Regina), and established in 2008, is the premiere script contest for short film screenplays. With over $50,000 in prizing, CSSC is the single-most competitive, prestigious, short screenplay festival in Canada open to international writers, a champion for screenwriters everywhere and a launching pad for writers' professional careers. One of the top three winning screenplays will be produced by Year of the Skunk productions and premiered at film festivals worldwide. Past productions have screened in Cannes, Worldwide Short Film Festival, Yorkton Film Festival and on television. See website for additional information.
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Notification: April, 2011
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1st Place (GRAND PRIZE): The ''Writer's Block'' Award. There will be one (1) ''Grand Prize'' title awarded to the screenplay deemed to be the overall best screenplay by the competition judges. The ''Grand Prize'' title also comes with an option and purchase agreement for One Thousand Five Hundred Canadian Dollars (CAD $1,500.00) cash prize, accreditation to attend the 2012 Yorkton Film Festival (including complimentary shuttle ground transportation from Regina airport to Yorkton and one (1) ticket to attend the Golden Sheaf Awards gala event), an Apple iPad, Writer's Block crystal award and additional prize package TBD and subject to availability from competition sponsors.
2nd PLACE PRIZE: The ''2nd Place'' Award. There will be one (1) ''2nd Place'' title awarded to the screenplay deemed to be the 1st runner-up to the Grand Prize by the competition judges. The ''2nd Place'' title also comes with an option and purchase agreement for Three Hundred Fifty Canadian Dollars (CAD $350.00) prize, accreditation to attend the 2012 Yorkton Film Festival (including complimentary shuttle ground transportation from Regina airport to Yorkton and one (1) ticket to attend the Golden Sheaf Awards gala event) and additional prize package TBD and subject to availability from competition sponsors.
3rd PLACE PRIZE: The ''3rd Place'' Award. There will be one (1) ''3rd Place'' title awarded to the screenplay deemed to be the 2nd runner-up to the Grand Prize by the competition judges. The ''3rd Place'' title also comes with an option and purchase agreement for Two Hundred Fifty Canadian Dollars (CAD $250.00) prize, accreditation to attend the 2012 Yorkton Film Festival (including complimentary shuttle ground transportation from Regina airport to Yorkton and one (1) ticket to attend the Golden Sheaf Awards gala event) and additional prize package TBD and subject to availability from competition sponsors.
Additionally, there are ten (10) finalist prizes:
Finalists will each receive One Hundred Canadian Dollars (CAD $100.00), accreditation to attend the 2012 Yorkton Film Festival (including complimentary shuttle ground transportation from Regina airport to Yorkton and one (1) ticket to attend the Golden Sheaf Awards gala event) and additional prize packages TBD and subject to availability from competition sponsors.
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Jesse & Zachary Herrmann have been named co-winners of the Candiania Short Screenplay Competition for their short film script "Elijah the Prophet".
The screenplay, as penned by the Brooklyn, NY natives, tells the tale of Elijah, the pious, chummy and alcoholic prophet, whose yearly antics have graced Jewish households for ages. Unfortunately for the childlike servant of God, not everyone understands drunk driving is, for him, a divine right.
Thirteen short film scripts and writers as determined by the competition judges were vying for the top prize during the Golden Sheaf Awards gala as part of the Yorkton Film Festival Saturday night.
As co-grand prize-winner, the Herrmann's received the coveted Writers' Block Crystal in addition to $2,500 and an Apple iPad, while 2nd place honours went to Canadian Ira Henderson's "Strange Music", about a young music student in the big city who develops a relationship, through music, with a neighbour they have never actually met. Third place standing went to UK writer Sundae Jahant-Osborn's "13", a whacky comedy thriller about an obsessive nerd who's sure he hears voices calling out to him - and him only, from the other side of a forbidding fence. Henderson and Jahant-Osborn will each receive $500 and $100 cash prizes, respectively.
The announcement was made official and the writers honoured during the Golden Sheaf Awards gala at the Yorkton Film Festival, May 28, 2011 in Yorkton, SK.
The 2010/11 CSSC Top 13 finalists in order of judges ranking are:
1. "Elijah The Prophet", Jesse & Zachary Herrmann USA
2. "Strange Music", Ira Henderson CAN
3. "13?, Sundae Jahant-Osborn UK
4. "The Ridge to the River", Edmund Jory AUS
5. "Tubby's Car Project", Julian Williams UK
6. "The Great Ghouldini", Ian Johnston CAN
7. "When The Dust Settles", Suleiman Wali USA
8. "Sudden Death", Al Kline USA
9. "Near Sighted", Evan Jobb, CAN
10. "Shattered Worlds", Matthew Layden CAN
11. "Mother Will Be So Pleased", Carrie Ann Lee USA
12. "The Chicken and the Egg", Lisa Eismen AUS
13. "The Box Social", Scott Summerhayes CAN
An interview with DAVID CORMICAN regarding the Canadian Short Writing Competition.
An interview with screenwriter David Gott regarding the Canadian Short Writing Competition.
An interview with screenwriter Neil Graham regarding the Canadian Short Writing Competition.
An interview with screenwriter Daniel Audet regarding the Canadian Short Writing Competition.
An interview with screenwriter Surita Parmar regarding the Canadian Short Writing Competition.
An interview with screenwriter David Carey regarding the Canadian Short Writing Competition.
