Slamdance Screenplay Competition
Slamdance
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5634 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
323-466-1786 (voice)
323-466-1784 (fax)
Web:
http://www.slamdance.com
Email:
submissions@slamdance.com
Contact: Clementine Leger , Festival Manager
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Objective
The Slamdance Screenplay Competition is dedicated to discovering and nurturing emerging screenwriters. Since 1997, the competition has established a strong track record for introducing writers to members of the entertainment industry who have gone on to produce, option, and represent submitted work. Like the Film Festival, the Screenplay Competition is a place for new, bold, and raw voices. We are looking for scripts that take risks, refuse compromise, and go places where Hollywood hacks fear to tread.
Recent success stories include Tyler Tice, whose 2018 Grand Prize-winning horror feature Day Shift was released in 2022 as a Netflix original film starring Jamie Foxx. Day Shift became the most watched film in the world during the third week of August 2022. Show More
Deadline/Entry Fees
| Deadline | Date Days till: |
Entry Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Early | April 17, 2024 | $65 (feature) |
| Regular | June 15, 2024 57 |
$75 |
| Late | July 19, 2024 91 |
$85 |
| Final | July 26, 2024 98 |
$95 |
See website for other long feature, TV pilot and short script entry fees.
Every entrant will receive short feedback from one of our readers. It will include a genre suggestion, a logline, and a paragraph outlining the strengths and weaknesses of your screenplay. The goal of the feedback is to provide you with short & sweet constructive criticism of your work.
Notification: October 27, 2024
Rules
Please visit website for rules and guidelines.Awards
- A total of $18,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to the winners this year.
- The Grand Prize winner will receive $10,000 in cash.
- The winners of the Feature, Horror, TV Pilot, and Short categories will each receive $2,000 in cash.
- The top three screenwriters in each category will receive prize packages that include Festival Passes good for all screenings and parties at the next Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah
- The winning Horror and Feature screenplays will receive $5,000 in legal services from Pierce Law Group, LLP.
- The top three screenwriters in each category will be included in the upcoming Slamdance Film Festival program which is distributed to industry professionals in Park City and year round.
- One entry from the competition will be awarded the Slamdance Screenplay Mentorship Award, consisting of personal mentorship through Slamdance's alumni network and screenwriting consultants. This includes an in-depth coverage report, an action plan for next draft development, further review of subsequent drafts, support in preparing a pitch deck, and best efforts in helping get the finished work produced through Slamdance's alumni network.
- Production companies, studios, top agencies, and managers request to read our top scripts each year.
Slamdance
Contact
5634 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
323-466-1786 (voice)
323-466-1784 (fax)
Web:
http://www.slamdance.com
Email:
submissions@slamdance.com
Contact: Clementine Leger , Festival Manager
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Slamdance Screenplay Competition
Contact
5634 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
323-466-1786 (voice)
323-466-1784 (fax)
Web:
http://www.slamdance.com
Email:
submissions@slamdance.com
Contact: Clementine Leger , Festival Manager
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Contest News
MovieBytes Interview:
Screenwriter Andrew B Smith
An interview with screenwriter Andrew B Smith regarding the Slamdance Writing Competition.
Q: What's the title of the script you entered in this contest, and what's it about?A: “Hay’s Code” is a comedy. In 1934, a gay director named Roger Hay has to shoot a movie based on a gay novel. The studio doesn’t know that, of course, so he has to make the movie without revealing its true content or, naturally, his own sexuality. Eventually he and his cast and crew must defend the film before the zealous enforcers of the Hays Code that governed the movie business then.
Q: What made you enter this particular contest? Have you entered any other contests with this script? If so, how did you do?A: Slamdance is finding new voices, genuine diversity, and smaller films that might get overlooked at other places.
“Hay’s Code” won the Skyline Award, first place for Best City Story, at Slamdance.
The script also placed third in the “One in Ten” contest.
A: The folks at Slamdance and at Andrew Lauren Productions were great. Everything’s more exciting now that so many gay-themed movies were nominated for so many Oscars. There’s buzz from all directions. We’re pumped.
Q: Were you given any feedback on your script? If so, did you find the feedback helpful?A: We had a staged reading in New York at IFM, and again at Slamdance at Park City. We’ve got another one scheduled as part of “Slamdance on Stage” at 7:30 pm, Thursday, April 13, at Renberg Theatre in The Village at Ed Gould Plaza in Los Angeles.
The feedback from audiences has been, y’know, laughter. That’s why we keep bringing the story to the stage. People enjoy being immersed in another time and place that are so relevant to right now. They’re fascinated by the history. The story is screwball comedy wrapped inside the stifling, life-and-death 1930s. It’s for real, there’s a lot at stake, but it’s fun. When you make people laugh, you get them to care about your characters and what’s happening to them. Laughter is a revolutionary act.
A: I’ve had meetings with the big agencies and management firms, and I’ve narrowed it down to two or three. They're calling me "multi-platform" -- I write comedies and thrillers. We’re talking about an overall plan for me as well as for this story. I’ve been advised to keep it to myself, away from producers, till I sign, so we’ll see.
Q: What's your background? Have you written any other screenplays or television scripts?A: I received an honorary degree in theoretical mathematics from a fictional university.
The rules say a writer’s supposed to pick comedy or drama and stick with it, but the rules get written by rulebreakers.
A: Yes
Q: What's next? Are you working on a new script?A: Of course I’m working on a new script. I’m a writer.
Posted Friday, February 24, 2006
Slamdance Screenplay Competition
Contact
5634 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
323-466-1786 (voice)
323-466-1784 (fax)
Web:
http://www.slamdance.com
Email:
submissions@slamdance.com
Contact: Clementine Leger , Festival Manager
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