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HollyShorts Screenplay Contest

HollyShorts

Contact

14622 Ventura Blvd Suite 102
#722
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
8187609897 (voice)

Web:
http://hollyshorts.com
Email:
staff@hollyshorts.com

Contact: Daniel Sol, Festival Director

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Overall: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Feedback: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.6/5.0)
Signficance: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.3/5.0)
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Objective

HollyShorts Film Festival (HSFF) is an annual Academy Qualifying short film festival showcasing the best and brightest short films and short screenplays from around the globe. The festival showcases the top short films produced 40 minutes or less and is looking for the best short screenplays 30 pages or less.

Deadline/Entry Fees

Deadline Date
Days till:
Entry Fee
Earlybird January 19, 2024 $40
Regular March 22, 2024 $50
Late May 3, 2024
17
$60
Extended June 3, 2024
48
$75

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Notification: July 26, 2024.

Rules

If selected, I hereby grant permission to produce and screen the above mentioned as part of the HollyShorts Screenplay Contest. In addition, proceeds made by HollyShorts will go to HollyShorts, selected charities and sponsors. Submission information and screenplays will be utilized solely for the purpose of helping the selected parties advance their careers by showcasing the work to industry peers and executives.

Awards

Quarter finalists (top 50) and Semi Finalists (top 25 screenplays) get an all access pass to the HollyShorts Film Festival and are invited to the awards event where we will announce the top 3 Finalists and Grand Prize winner. Final Draft Software to the winners, and ISA will award a finalist with a prize. Grand Prize first place screenplay winning a Seattle Film Summit and abundant productions deal to get produced by HollyShorts, with the completed film screening in the festival.

HollyShorts

Contact

14622 Ventura Blvd Suite 102
#722
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
8187609897 (voice)

Web:
http://hollyshorts.com
Email:
staff@hollyshorts.com

Contact: Daniel Sol, Festival Director

Report Card

Overall: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Feedback: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.6/5.0)
Signficance: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.3/5.0)
Report Cards: 7    
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HollyShorts Screenplay Contest

Contact

14622 Ventura Blvd Suite 102
#722
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
8187609897 (voice)

Web:
http://hollyshorts.com
Email:
staff@hollyshorts.com

Contact: Daniel Sol, Festival Director

Report Card

Overall: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Feedback: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.6/5.0)
Signficance: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.3/5.0)
Report Cards: 7    
Have you entered?
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Contest News

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. 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive Final Draft software. Awards will also be given in categories for best TV Pilot and Female Screenwriter.

All screenplay selections will receive a festival all-access pass.

The completed shorts will screen at the Academy Qualifying 2021 HollyShorts Film Festival at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres.

7th Annual Hollyshorts Screenplay Contest Official Finalist Selections:

Tye Sheridan - Withdraw
Bryan Eisenbise - Tryhard
Madeline Mack - Small Fry pilot 'Six Pack'
Laila Ujayli - The Last Librarian in Raqqa
Omar Kamara - RICE
Richard Wilby - After the Monsoon
Maximilian Williamson - Walls Fade Away
Angela Gricar - The Scarlet Ibis
Chelsea Barns - Life In Focus
James Musselman - The Magician
Julie Cavaliere - Puppet Me
Elisabeth Hayward - Mrs. Anne Parker
Elisabeth Hayward - Murder-in-Marsh
Akiko Izumitani - Yae: Blind Samurai Woman
Matthew Higgins - Chamber Music
Elise Brown - Out Damn Spot
A.C. Lamberty - Miss Teen Dairy Minnesota
Mike Kearby - The Problem With Time Travel
Robbie Lemieux - Morgan, Who Only Drinks Champagne
Zoe Warncke - Libertine
Robert Benjamin - Serial
Fernando Rendon - Trick or Beat
John Bickerstaff - Dunked
Kevin Giles - Rehash
Vanessa Esteves - Christopher & the Bug
Kristy Walsh - Mary, Dispossessed
Sara Hallowell - Hello I Must Be Going
Mychal Sargent - Kid Midnight

Updated: 10/24/2020

HollyShorts Screenplay Contest

Contact

14622 Ventura Blvd Suite 102
#722
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
8187609897 (voice)

Web:
http://hollyshorts.com
Email:
staff@hollyshorts.com

Contact: Daniel Sol, Festival Director

Report Card

Overall: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Feedback: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.6/5.0)
Signficance: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.3/5.0)
Report Cards: 7    
Have you entered?
Submit a Report card

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