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Kairos Prize for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays

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1151 Avenida Acaso
Camarillo, CA 93012
(760) 687-9960 (voice)

Web: www.kairosprize.com
Email: contact@kairosprize.com

Contact: Michael Trent, Competition Manager
MovieBytes Interview: Michael Trent

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Objective

Created by Dr. Ted Baehr, founder, publisher and executive producer of MOVIEGUIDE® and founder and chairman of the Christian Film & Television Commission, and Dr. Jack Templeton, the primary purpose of the prize is to further the influence of moral and spiritual values within the film and television industries. Seeking to promote a spiritually uplifting, redemptive worldview, MOVIEGUIDE® announces the Kairos Prize that will help inspire first-time and beginning screenwriters to produce compelling, entertaining, spiritually uplifting scripts that result in a greater increase in either man’s love or understanding of God.

Deadline/Entry Fees

Expired. Previous Deadline: 11/16/2012

Rules

Entrants must submit (per entry):
1. One fully completed Official Entry Form.
2. One complete ELECTRONIC .pdf copy of the submitted entry must be emailed to: submissions@kairosprize.com
3. One applicatable entry fee per submission.
Entrants must provide all the information requested on the Official Entry Form or risk disqualification. If disqualified, the entry fee will not be refunded. No submitted scripts will be returned. Acknowledgment of each submission will be sent to the email address that you provide. Once submission has been received, no alterations of the submission is permissible.
Entrants must not have earned (or during this competition shall earn) money or other consideration as a screenwriter for theatrical films or television, or for the sale of, or sale of an option to, any original story, treatment, screenplay, or teleplay for more than $5000. Previous prizes or fellowships are allowed providing that the submitted entry falls within Rule #5 below.
Entrants must be 18 years or older to enter the contest. Misrepresentation of age, upon discovery, will forfeit entry and fees to the contest.
Submissions must be in US Motion Picture industry standard screenplay format and approximately 87-130 pages in length. Submissions with a page length greater than 150 pages will be disqualified. Work must be in English.
All entries must be the original, and unpublished, un-produced, un-optioned work of the entrant. The entrant ensures that he or she is the sole author of the work and that it does not infringe on any existing copyright. Additionally the rights to the submitted screenplay must not have been previously optioned or sold.
All entrants shall retain the rights to their submitted scripts.
Entries must be spiritually uplifting. A detailed definition of this is located within the GUIDELINES and CRITERIA, but simply put, entries must refer implicitly and/or explicitly to biblical principles, values and virtues, and/or refer specifically to the Bible. Preference, however (especially regarding the final decision of the judges), will be given to works that are explicitly biblical in some important way.
Collaborative work is accepted. One of the writing partners should be selected as the prime contact. Writing partners selected as winners will divide the award equally. Entrants must read, understand and accept all items on the RELEASE STATEMENT posted on the web site (www.kairosprize.com). It is implicitly understood that the receipt of entrant's submission signifies such understanding and acceptance.
Entrants are prohibited from contacting the judges during the competition. Any entrant who attempts to contact a judge will be disqualified and their entry fee forfeited. The decision of the judges is final.
Movieguide® Magazine and The John Templeton Foundation accept no liability whatsoever for any claims of damages, real or perceived, by any entrant(s) as a result of their participation in this contest.
Entry fees will not be returned under any circumstances.
All winners are responsible for their own U.S. income tax withholding.
Employees and contractors of Movieguide® Magazine and The John Templeton Foundation and their families are prohibited from entering this contest. Judges, family members, and coworkers of the judges are also prohibited.
Submissions Office:
Kairos Prize
5620 Paseo de Norte
#127C-308
Carlsbad, CA 92008

Awards

$50,000 in cash prizes + additional considerations split between the Grand Prize recipient and the 1st and 2nd Runner Ups.

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News: Kairos Prize for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays

Kairos Announces Semifinalists

Fifty-five semifinalists have been announced for the 8th Annual Kairos Prize for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays.

Updated: 01/22/2013

MOVIEGUIDE® Announces Kairos Prize Winners

The 18th Annual Faith & Values Awards Gala wrapped up its awards presentation Tuesday night, February 23rd, and handed out more than $300,000 in cash prizes, including $25,000 to Dwight Carlson and Gregory Carlson for their Kairos Award-winning Screenplay, The Good Doctor.

Updated: 02/25/2010

Twelve Finalists Named for $50,000 Kairos Prize Screenplay Competition

MOVIEGUIDE®: The Family Guide to Movies and Entertainment announced its short list of twelve finalists for the 5th Annual $50,000 Kairos Prizes for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays by first-time and beginning screenwriters, funded by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation and presented by MOVIEGUIDE®.

Updated: 02/10/2010

Fifty semi-finalists announced for $50,000 Kairos Prize

Fifty semi-finalists have been announced for the 5th Annual $50,000 Kairos Prizes for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays.

Updated: 01/14/2010

Kairos Prize Announces Competition Winners

Christina D. Denton's A Matter of Time has been announced as the winner of the $50,000 Kairos Prizes for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays.

Updated: 02/15/2009

$50,000 Kairos Prize Semifinalists Announced

With entries more than doubling previous years, the 4th Annual $50,000 Kairos Prize for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays has announced 49 semi-finalists for this year's competition.

Updated: 01/17/2009

Kairos Announces Contest Winners

The three winners who will share the $50,000 awarded annually in the Kairos Prize for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays (sponsored by the Templeton Foundation) were announced at the Movieguide Awards Gala in Hollywood, attended by more than 200 top studio executives and celebrities.

Updated: 02/14/2008

Kairos Prize Announces 12 Finalists

The field of 32 semi-finalists in the annual $50,000 Kairos Prize for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays (sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation) has been narrowed to 12 finalists, three of whom will share the $50,000 prize and have their names announced at the 16th Annual Movieguide Faith & Values Awards Gala and Report to the Entertainment Industry on Feb. 12.

Updated: 02/04/2008

Kairos Announces Contest Semifinalists

The annual $50,000 Kairos Prize for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays (sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation) has announced 32 semifinalists for this year's competition.

Updated: 01/15/2008

2007 Kairos Prize Winners Announced

R. Wyatt Scott's CHEERS & LAUGHTER has been named winner of the 2007 Kairos Prize.

Updated: 02/27/2007

Kairos Prize Finalists Announced

This year’s twelve finalists in the annual John Templeton Foundation $50,000 Kairos Prize for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays come from across the nation, showing that there are a lot of good ideas and creativity to be found outside the confines of Hollywood.

Updated: 02/14/2007

Kairos Prize Semifinalists Announced

While there is no lack of up-and-coming young screenwriters pitching Hollywood with their scripts for what they are sure is the next big blockbuster, the John Templeton Foundation $50,000 Kairos Prize for Spiritual Uplifting Screenplays is seeing to it that screenplays truly worth consideration receive that once-in-a-lifetime chance.

Updated: 02/05/2007

Winners Announced for $50,000 Kairos Prize

Winners Announced for $50,000 Kairos Prize Script-Writing Contest; Grand Prize and Two Runners-Up Named at Movieguide(R) Awards Gala.

Updated: 03/06/2006

Semi-finalists Announced for $50,000 Kairos Prize

Love is in the air - or at least in the plots of several of the semi-finalists for the Kairos Prize who submitted scripts featuring romantic storylines. Others range from action and historical drama to holiday tales and political intrigue. Of the hundreds of scripts submitted for the inaugural year of the $50,000 Kairos Prize for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays, only thirty have been selected as semi-finalists.

Updated: 02/16/2006

Interviews: Kairos Prize for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays

MovieBytes Interview: Michael Trent

An interview with Michael Trent regarding the Kairos Prize Writing Competition.

Updated: 11/26/2007

MovieBytes Interview:Screenwriter David (Nicholas) Hartmann

An interview with screenwriter David (Nicholas) Hartmann regarding the Kairos Prize Writing Competition.

Updated: 09/28/2012

MovieBytes Interview:Screenwriter Graham Moes

An interview with screenwriter Graham Moes regarding the Kairos Prize Writing Competition.

Updated: 05/04/2006

MovieBytes Interview:Screenwriter David Anthony

An interview with screenwriter David Anthony regarding the Kairos Prize Writing Competition.

Updated: 05/04/2006

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