Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition
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Objective
Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition seeks to discover and support the most original and innovative screenplays from emerging and established screenwriters from around the world.
Rules
- Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition accepts feature length screenplays, short scripts and series/episodic pilot scripts. Feature length scripts must be a minimum of 60 pages and no longer than 150 pages. Series/episodic and short scripts must under 60 pages.
- Submitted screenplays can not have been optioned, purchased, or otherwise produced at the time of submission.
- Writers may submit as many screenplays as they’d like to the competition, however each script requires a separate application and payment.
- All entries must be submitted in English.
- Submissions must include the title, author(s) and any relevant registration or copyright information.
- Screenplays must be submitted in PDF or MS WORD.
- All screenplays are considered complete once they are received by the Big Apple Film Festival. No revisions or updated copies will be accepted.
- Submission fees are non-refundable.
- Please be sure to read all rules and regulations prior to submitting your project.
Awards
- Screenplay winners in each category will receive small group meetings with established producers and other industry representatives. These industry professionals will be selected from AFF alumni and other members of our industry network (screenplay winners will receive information on this year's selected industry reps in the weeks following the festival). Our network of professionals from previous years have included representatives from: HBO, NBCUniversal, Academy Award winning Killer Films, William Morris Endeavor Agency, The Gersh Agency, APA Agency, Magnolia Pictures, Film Rise(distributor of numerous Oscar Award winning and Emmy Award winning films), Emmy Award winning Gigantic Productions, Cinepointe Advisors(legal counsel on numerous Oscar nominated films), Academy Award nominated and Emmy Award winning filmmakers, Academy Award and Emmy Award winning screenwriters, Fimmakers with projects released through Sony, Disney, Lions Gate, HBO, Showtime, Netflix, Amazon Studios, Hulu, and theatrically, as well as staff writers for CBS, ABC, Lifetime, and more... These meetings are designed to provide winning screenwriters with direct access and live interaction with industry professionals to provide strategies, guidance and mentorship to emerging screenwriters. Conferences take place virtually allowing participants to join remotely.
- Winning screenplays will be promoted to Big Apple Film Festival's list of alumni filmmakers, many of which include filmmakers who have had film released theatrically, as well as on numerous major distribution platforms, including Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, HBO, iTunes, NBCUniveral and more...
- Winners will receive a complimentary all access badge to Big Apple Film Festival events, including film screenings, Agents and Managers Conferences, Distribution Summit, Producers and Screenwriters Conferences and awards reception.
- Winners will receive a complimentary InkTip listing, which will provide access to InkTip's entire network of producers, filmmakers, agents and managers. Producers have made over 400 films discovered thru InkTip.
Big Apple
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Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition
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http://www.bigapplefilmfestival.com
Email:
info@bigapplefilmfestival.com
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Contest News
MovieBytes Interview:
Screenwriter Teresa Lewis
An interview with screenwriter Teresa Lewis regarding the Big Apple Writing Competition.
Q: What's the title of the script you entered in this contest, and what's it about?A: ''Rebirth'' was inspired by a provocative true story, found "by accident" during genealogy research and soon thereafter-- day and night often blurred as I wrote determined to bring these amazing characters to life.
The story opens in the diffused white light of the Lourve, amid a grand library and a gallery of renaissance images. The timeless works of humanity are juxtaposed against the civil violence between religious factions and the corruption of Church and State. Rebirth is set in a world torn between Renaissance and genocide, where a young boy loses his faith and his faith in humanity.
Twelve years later, he's grown into an amorous young man, a student at the University of Paris, who chooses to be largely oblivious to politics or the swirl of violence that still rushes around him in a country in turmoil. He soon finds love that changes his life, and risks it all in a fight for the civil rights of a minority.
His transformation is based on facing the pain of his past, seeking the meaning of honor, and his love for an extraordinary young woman. Their love story is woven throughout and transcends the turbulent time.
Ultimately, Rebirth reminds us of the perils of unbridled power, and inspires us to to never lose sight of the true power of love and honor.
A: I saw the BIG APPLE FF Competition posted on Moviebytes and Withoutabox. Rebirth has garnered 3 WINS, so far, and has placed in approximately one dozen Finalist and Semi-Finalist lists and also ranked in the top ten on Movie bytes/ Winning Scripts (along with many other wonderful screenplays) in the top ten of Drama, Historical and Romance genres.
Someone asked me recently, when are the producers going to realize that winning scripts more likely will be winning films? I and a few other winning screenwriters, are anxiously awaiting their enlightenment. :)
A: Very satisfied and impressed with the professionalism! The letter of my win and the prize check and certificate for professional coverage by Script Sharp were all sent promptly.
Q: Were you given any feedback on your script? If so, did you find the feedback helpful?A: Their readers were extremely professional. From the feedback, I could garner that the readers at ScreenplayCoverage.com actually read the script and fully understood it. "Rebirth" was given a Score Card average based upon all the major elements in the story.
I was actually happiest with the "10" for Commercial Appeal, because that is the element I worked most on with my rewrite and polish. My goal was to make "Rebirth" even more commercially viable, without losing the essence of the story.
This win was also, in part, due to the personal review of Linda Seger, author of "Making a Good Script Great", and especially the guidance of Barb Doyon, at "Extreme Screenwriting", whose notes were invaluable in my polish of Rebirth, as well as Chris Sloth of the " Million Dollar Mini Movie Method", and Heather Waters and Marlene Neubauer of Creative World Awards. Not to forget my friends and my fellow screenwriters, also deserving of credit, who help with encouragement and motivation.
A: Actually, the day the news was released, I had a Producer contact me via my website: tllewis.net, to sign a release. I just had my "wonderful"( yes, wonderful) attorney, look it over and says to go full steam ahead. He also truly believes in the screenplay and calls it a classic. I have been surrounded by wonderful people who truly appreciate the story.
Q: What's your background? Have you written any other screenplays or television scripts?A: I am a writer/educator who actually shares 5th Great GrandFathers' and GrandMother's with writers Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Alred Tennyson, Sir Walter Scott and Jacqueline Bovier Kennedy. I like to think writing is in my genes. I definitely share their love for great literature.
Q: Do you live in Los Angeles? If not, do you have any plans to move there?A: I lived in L.A. as a child, and always wanted to go "home" to visit. But with the advent of the Internet, and ' at the fingertips' communication and transportation, it is not as critical to live there as it once was.
Q: What's next? Are you working on a new script?A: The REBIRTH Sequel... :)
Seriously, I'm always writing and actually have several scripts in progress that I often work on simultaneously. I write daily for pleasure and in the case of "Rebirth", for the passion to tell the story.
I also want to congratulate the other two winning writers, Mike Bencivenga of RUNNING GUN and Stephen Hoover, HORROR COMIC, and wish them the best.
Posted Friday, June 5, 2009
Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Contact
Web:
http://www.bigapplefilmfestival.com
Email:
info@bigapplefilmfestival.com
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