2025 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
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Shore Scripts TV Pilot Mentorship Program

Shore Scripts TV Mentorship

Contact

171 Pier Avenue #145
Santa Monica, CA 90405-5363

Web:
https://www.shorescripts.com/tv/
Email:
contact@shorescripts.com

Contact: Sarah Eagen, Director of Contests

Report Card

Overall: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Professionalism: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.3/5.0)
Feedback: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
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Objective

The Shore Scripts TV Writer Mentorship Program prepares writers to get staffed or have their pilot picked up, while offering behind-the-scenes looks at working on top TV shows. This isn’t your typical screenwriting contest! It’s a one-of-a-kind game-changing experience to level up your TV writing career.

TV WRITER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

This year, SIX winners will be invited to attend our 8-week TV Writer Mentorship Program where writers will meet over a series of sessions that will include meeting with:

  • Showrunner Beth Schwartz (ARROW, SWEET TOOTH, DEAD BOY DETECTIVES)
  • Dev Exec Duane Luu, Director of Drama Development at NBCUniversal
  • Industry Leader Karen Horne, who ran the NBC and Warner Discover programs for over a decade
  • 1:1 mentorship from TV Writers from YOUNG SHELDON, AVATAR:THE LAST AIRBENDER, SUPERMAN & LOIS, DEXTER: ORIGINAL SIN
  • Sean Charles, Development & Production Manager at AMC Networks
  • David Katsman, Manager (Sugar23)
  • 1:1 work with Shore Scripts' Writer Development Manager
  • And more!

In an intimate, small group setting writers will get an insider’s look at what it’s really like to work in a TV writers' room, develop the pitch-perfect presentation to help them land rep and writing gigs alike, and get their most pressing questions answered with direct mentorship from established industry pros. Show More

Deadline/Entry Fees

Deadline Date
Days till:
Entry Fee
Early March 14, 2025
25
$50 (half-hour pilot); $55 (one-hour pilot)
Regular April 11, 2025
53
$60 (half-hour pilot); $65 (one-hour pilot)
Final May 16, 2025
88
$70 (half-hour pilot); $75 (one-hour pilot)

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Notification: Jul 16th: Quarterfinalists;Aug 6th: Semifinalists;Sep 3rd: Top 10 Finalists;Sep 3rd: Winners.

Eligibility

Open to everyone! 1-Hr Scripts 40-65 pages. ½-Hr Scripts 20-35 pages.

Rules

  • ½-Hour Pilots should be within 20-35 Pages. 1-Hour Pilots should be within 40-65 Pages.
  • Writers can exceed the recommended limits by up to 15 pages, with an additional fee of $1 per page.
  • Please only submit the first episode/pilot of your TV series.
  • Writers from all countries are welcome to enter. All scripts must be written in English.
  • The script must be the writer’s original work. Adaptations are accepted but the writer must own all copyright. At no point will Shore Scripts ever have any rights over your work.
  • All ages are welcome.
  • Each writer, or writing team, may not have earned more than $50,000 in screenwriting fees in the preceding 18 months. This clause is in place to help us support emerging talent. (Contest & Fellowship awards and writing fees received outside of fiction screenwriting do not count toward this total).
  • Please only include the Script Title on the cover page.
  • You may enter a newer draft of an already submitted script. There will be a small additional fee as the script will be reread. You may re-enter your script through the Resubmission page.
  • A writer can enter as many scripts in as many categories as they wish.
  • If a script is optioned or purchased during the competition, then it will no longer be eligible for the contest.
  • Scripts should be in standard formatting and submitted electronically as a PDF.
  • We accept all genres, including animation. It’s absolutely fine if your script is a combination of multiple genres or sub-genres. If that’s the case, use the Coverfly Genre dropdown to indicate the main genre on your submission, and make a note of other Genres, and any other information you feel will be relevant to the reader in the Comment to Reader field.
  • The winners consent to Shore Scripts using their name, script title, and any other relevant information for promotional purposes on their website. This will be used to inform other contestants and the media of the results.
  • If Shore Scripts helps a writer gain representation, option, sell, or have his/her screenplay produced, then we are entitled to state this on our website and on any other platform, whenever we see fit.
  • Shore Scripts staff and associates are ineligible to enter.
  • The decision of Shore Scripts is final. By applying to this contest each participant agrees to hold Shore Scripts, our judges, and sponsors immune from any competition disputes, claims, liabilities, and expenses.
  • By entering Shore Scripts, you authorize us to use any trusted third-party online, cloud-based, and email services and databases for hosting, managing, and/or sending/transmitting your submission file(s).
  • If we see fit, we can extend the final deadline for the competition. (Please note that this has never yet happened).

FOR ALL THE RULES & FAQ: https://www.shorescripts.com/rules-faq/#tv-rules.

Awards

Comprehensive 8-Week TV Writer Mentorship Program for 6 Winners. This year, 3 winners in each ½ hr and 1-hour pilot category will win spots in our career-changing Shore Scripts TV Writers Mentorship Program. The Program will include weekly Zoom sessions over 8-weeks in the fall of 2025 where participants will have sessions with showrunners, development execs, mentors, agents and managers, and more.

Please see website for schedule and details!

Shore Scripts TV Mentorship

Contact

171 Pier Avenue #145
Santa Monica, CA 90405-5363

Web:
https://www.shorescripts.com/tv/
Email:
contact@shorescripts.com

Contact: Sarah Eagen, Director of Contests

Report Card

Overall: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Professionalism: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.3/5.0)
Feedback: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
Report Cards: Less than 5  
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Shore Scripts TV Pilot Mentorship Program

Contact

171 Pier Avenue #145
Santa Monica, CA 90405-5363

Web:
https://www.shorescripts.com/tv/
Email:
contact@shorescripts.com

Contact: Sarah Eagen, Director of Contests

Report Card

Overall: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Professionalism: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.3/5.0)
Feedback: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
Report Cards: Less than 5  
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Contest News

Shore Scripts Name TV Script Competition Winners

Shore Scripts has announced this year's 1-hour and 1/2-hour TV Pilot Competition winners.

GRAND PRIZE WINNER
1-HOUR TV PILOT

THROUGH VIOLET EYES by
STEPHEN WOODWORTH

Was voted the best 1-Hour TV Pilot by our award-winning Judges and will receive a cash prize of $5,000.

THROUGH VIOLET EYES

In a world where the dead can testify against the living, someone is getting away with murder. Natalie Lindstrom is a Violet--one of the rare, genetically gifted individuals with violet eyes and the accompanying ability to channel the dead--who aids murder investigations by summoning victims to bear witness against those who slew them. But now a masked murderer is stalking the Violets themselves, and Natalie must team with FBI profiler Dan Atwater to find the killer before she, too, becomes his prey.

2ND PLACE PRIZE WINNER
1-HOUR TV PILOT

THE HAIGHT by KIMBA HENDERSON

Was voted runner-up in our 1-Hour TV Pilot Contest by our award-winning Judges and will receive a cash prize of $500.

THE HAUGHT

Amidst the explosive 1968 murder trial of Black Panther, Huey Newton, the multicultural denizens of Reve, a hip Haight-Ashbury café' struggle to maintain their peaceful balance. And, when a local drug dealer is murdered, the investigation uncovers secrets and betrayals, which rocks this close-knit community of artists and activists to its core.

GRAND PRIZE WINNER
½-HOUR TV PILOT

RBF by SARA CASEY

Was voted the best ½-Hour TV Pilot by our award-winning Judges and will receive a cash prize of $5,000.

RBF

Home for the holidays in Small Town, USA, you’d expect to run into a classmate or two, maybe an old flame, and definitely some people you hated from high school. What Iris Burns didn’t expect was to end up disposing of a dead body with the homecoming queen. But in the suburbs — you never really know what else people are hiding.


2ND PLACE PRIZE WINNER
½-HOUR TV PILOT

THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS by MATT SCHULTZ

Was voted runner-up in our ½-Hour TV Pilot Contest by our award-winning Judges and will receive a cash prize of $500.

THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS

In a sleepy oceanside town overrun by bizarre (but harmless) creatures and put under military lockdown, a single father looks for ways to help his 10-year-old daughter as she exhibits stranger and stranger behavior.

Updated: 12/10/2020

Shore Scripts TV Pilot Mentorship Program

Contact

171 Pier Avenue #145
Santa Monica, CA 90405-5363

Web:
https://www.shorescripts.com/tv/
Email:
contact@shorescripts.com

Contact: Sarah Eagen, Director of Contests

Report Card

Overall: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Professionalism: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.3/5.0)
Feedback: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
Report Cards: Less than 5  
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