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Acclaim Film

Acclaim Film

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300 Central Avenue
Suite 501
St. Petersburg, FL 33701

Web: http://acclaimscripts.com
Email: info@acclaimscripts.com

Contact: Frank Drouzas, Coordinator

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Objective

To introduce writers to the decision makers in film and multimedia markets. Top script receives $1,000 and ALL competition winners, runners-up, and finalists will earn the chance to have their scripts read by established production companies and agents in LA and NY. We strive to provide commentary on each script.

Deadline/Entry Fees

Deadline Date Entry Fee Days till Deadline
Early February 22, 2013 $45
Regular March 22, 2013 $50
Late April 26, 2013 $55
Extended May 24, 2013 $60
Extended Final June 21, 2013 $65 1

$25 reading fee for students, any deadline.

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Rules

  • Open to all writers 18 and over.
  • Work must be original material of the author(s).
  • Must not be sold or optioned at time of submission.
  • Multiple entries may be submitted by author(s).
  • Include separate form for each entry.
  • Author(s) must sign entry form for eligibility.
  • Feature length scripts of any genre accepted.
  • Format and bind your script according to industry standards.
  • WGA registration is recommended but not required.
  • Scripts will not be returned. Do not send originals.
  • Electronic submissions accepted

Awards

First Place, $1,000; Top three winners will have a personal e-query sent from ScriptDelivery.net sent to over 3,000 industry professionals and eight-month access to their contact database. The top three winners will also receive an annual subscription to Scripped Pro.

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News: Acclaim Film

Acclaim Film Announces Contest Winners

Charles McNamara has been named the winner of The Acclaim Film Screenwriting Contest for his script The Immaculate Girl.

WINNER

THE IMMACULATE GIRL by Charles McNamara (comedy)
An irreverent small town check-out girl accidentally becomes pregnant, but everyone in town believes she's carrying the son of God.

RUNNERS UP

INFIDELS by Richard Jean LeBlanc, Jr. (drama)
Upon returning to civilian life, an Iraqi War vet embarks upon a Faustian journey that forces him to confront the demon that has haunted him his entire life.

HOBBY AND FITZ by Jim Milton (period comedy)
When novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald is hired by a studio producer in 1940, he struggles, with the help of an alcoholic schemer left over from the silent era, to learn the ways of Hollywood and to create "the greatest movie ever written."

FINALISTS


YARDSTICKS by Debra Murphy & John Murphy (comedy)
Just when the suicidal misfit from an ultra-successful family finds a reason to live, he must do battle with a flamboyant "Angel of Death" who seeks to gain cosmic powers by collecting designer suicides.

DREAMWORLD by Brent Hartinger (fantasy/family)
An eleven-year-old girl plagued by nightmares wakes up in Slumberia, a place inside her own brain where they "film" her dreams.

THE HECKLER by Michael J.E. Hanson (comedy)
Heckling wars break out between a slacker comic and sent-down Major League slugger.

CHOICE by Richard Jean LeBlanc, Jr. (comedy)
A vegetarian struggling to keep the family butcher shop afloat has given up on finding the perfect woman--until he meets a female lawyer who is a closet cannibal and is defending the man that killed his mother.

MY SAVING GRACE by Karen Higbie (drama)
A young model on the path to destruction discovers the key to living her life after her daughter is diagnosed with a rare disease.

SEMIFINALISTS

THE HOUSE THAT PETERBILT by Carl B. Clark
THE PACT by Shari Carpenter
WEEKEND DAD by Barbara Albers Jackson
GRASS FIRE by Steve Daniels
MISSING LOVE by Ronald Marchand & Rhonda Ewing


Updated: 07/25/2011
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Interviews: Acclaim Film

MovieBytes Interview:Screenwriter James Milton

An interview with screenwriter James Milton regarding the Acclaim Film Writing Competition.

Updated: 03/07/2013

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Updated: 08/28/2008

MovieBytes Interview:Screenwriter Jim Beck

An interview with screenwriter Jim Beck regarding the Acclaim Film Writing Competition.

Updated: 08/23/2008

MovieBytes Interview:Screenwriter Kim Townsel

An interview with screenwriter Kim Townsel regarding the Acclaim Film Writing Competition.

Updated: 07/29/2008

MovieBytes Interview:Screenwriter Mark Kratter

An interview with screenwriter Mark Kratter regarding the Acclaim Film Writing Competition.

Updated: 10/28/2007

MovieBytes Interview:Screenwriter Harold Jewell

An interview with screenwriter Harold Jewell regarding the Acclaim Film Writing Competition.

Updated: 04/05/2007

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An interview with screenwriter jason zimmatore regarding the Acclaim Film Writing Competition.

Updated: 11/23/2006

MovieBytes Interview:Screenwriter David Bertoni

An interview with screenwriter David Bertoni regarding the Acclaim Film Writing Competition.

Updated: 02/03/2006

MovieBytes Interview:Screenwriter Constantine Athanas

An interview with screenwriter Constantine Athanas regarding the Acclaim Film Writing Competition.

Updated: 09/07/2005

MovieBytes Interview:Screenwriter Christopher Canole

An interview with screenwriter Christopher Canole regarding the Acclaim Film Writing Competition.

Updated: 08/30/2005
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