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San Jose, CA 95113
(408) 638-0644 (voice)
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Email: screenplay@cinequest.org
Contact: Antonea Colon, Screenwriting Competition Coordinator
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Cinequest voted Best Film Festival by USA Today Readers.
The Cinequest Screenwriting Competition continues to empower global screenwriters through discovery, recognition and opportunity. Cinequest loves writers, and we welcome you to submit your screenplay or teleplay to our renowned competition. The Top 10 Finalists receive many empowering benefits including: All Access passes to the Cinequest Film & VR Festival and the exclusive Writers Celebration, plus exposure to leading industry players and inspiring luminaries.
Finalists are presented alongside high profile Maverick Spirit awardees like: J.J. Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, Chuck Palahniuk, Neil Gaiman, Philip Kaufman, Michael Arndt, Diablo Cody, Dennis Lehane, Jason Reitman and more at the highly anticipated Writers Celebration during the Cinequest Film & VR Festival. Show More
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Notification: Finalists will be notified December 2017. Winners revealed at Writers Celebration during Cinequest Film Festival, February 27-March 11, 2018.
FEEDBACK & NOTIFICATIONS
All contestants will receive 2-3 lines of generalized feedback for improvement on their script. Full script coverage services are not available at this time.
Writers will be notified on their status in the competition via the email address provided at time of registration. Please include screenplay@cinequest.org in your contact lists to receive these notifications. See below for selection process:
San Jose, CA 95113
(408) 638-0644 (voice)
Web:
Click here
Email: screenplay@cinequest.org
Contact: Antonea Colon, Screenwriting Competition Coordinator
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San Jose, CA 95113
(408) 638-0644 (voice)
Web:
Click here
Email: screenplay@cinequest.org
Contact: Antonea Colon, Screenwriting Competition Coordinator
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Rubbish by John Dilley & Seth Corr has been named the Feature Screenplay Winner of the 2017 Cinequest Screenwriting Competition.
Wheelman by Jeremy Rush has been named the Feature Script Winner of the Cinequest Screenwriting Competition. Shiva by Vishnu Sekar won the Short Script Competition, and the TV Script Winners were Brooklyn Bus by RJ Marx (60-minutes) and Patient by M. Rowan Meyer (30-minutes).
Saint Chloe by Stacie Shellner (Feature), The Yard by Eugenie Carabatsoshas (Short), and Awareness by Sean Corrigan (Teleplay) have been named the winners of the Cinequest Screenwriting Competition for 2014-2015.
Breathe has been named the winner of the 2014 CineQuest Film Festival Screenplay Competition. Travis Neufeld's The Tinwife was the winner of the Short Screenplay Competition.
Cinequest has announce that The Imperfect Cell, Mister Dunbury’s Exotic Lunatic Caravan, and Marcus were the winners of the Cinequest 14 Screenwriting Competition.
San Jose, CA 95113
(408) 638-0644 (voice)
Web:
Click here
Email: screenplay@cinequest.org
Contact: Antonea Colon, Screenwriting Competition Coordinator
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An interview with screenwriter M. Rowan Meyer regarding the Cinequest Writing Competition.
A: "Patient" is a half hour dark comedy about Adrian Irons, a razor-witted, bisexual, self-destructive standardized patient at a NYC teaching hospital. He has the unique ability to recreate the symptoms of any disease, which he uses to help train med students and new doctors. Chaos ensues, however, when the symptoms start to stick.
Q: What made you enter this particular contest? Have you entered any other contests with this script? If so, how did you do?A: I found this contest through Withoutabox while I was searching for contests that accept teleplays. I've entered about 20. Still waiting to hear back from most with later deadlines, but I was just named a finalist for the Screencraft Screenwriting Fellowship, and am currently a semi-finalist for the SeriesFest Teleplay Competition.
Q: Were you satisfied with the administration of the contest? Did they meet their deadlines? Did you receive all the awards that were promised?A: Cinequest, and Antonea Colon in particular, were great. Everything went smoothly and they couldn't have been nicer or more accommodating.
Q: How long did it take you to write the script? Did you write an outline beforehand? How many drafts did you write?A: I wrote the first draft in two days. There was no outline, just an idea. The stars aligned for this project, and it just happened to come at a particularly creative time. I made several big changes in later rewrites over the next year.
Q: What kind of software did you use to write the script, if any? What other kinds of writing software do you use?A: I use Celtx.
Q: Do you write every day? How many hours per day?A: I ideally like to write for an hour every day, but if I'm not feeling inspired I will at least write for 10 minutes. As long as I can get one solid line, plot point, or transition, that's enough sometimes.
Q: Do you ever get writer's block? If so, how do you deal with that?A: I absolutely get writer's block. The best thing to do is not stress about it. Just keep going, no matter how slowly. Or work on something else, as long as it serves your creativity.
Q: What's your background? Have you written any other screenplays or television scripts?A: I have a MFA in Acting from Rutgers University. I've written 6 episodes for "Patient" thus far, a spec script for "Brooklyn Nine-Nine", and many short comedic films. I also a few plays that occasionally get produced, and a novel.
Q: Do you live in Los Angeles? If not, do you have any plans to move there?A: I live in New York. I'd be happy to move to LA, but only if I have something solid lined up.
Q: What's next? Are you working on a new script?A: I'm currently writing a feature, a short film, two new sketches, and a new pilot. I know it sounds like I have too many projects up in the air, but very happy to say I actually work on all of them pretty regularly.
