Call for Entries: British Short Screenplay Competition
The British Short Screenplay Competition (BSSC) is now accepting submissions for their sixth annual competition and it will be the biggest and the best. This year for the first time the BSSC will not produce one winning screenplay but THREE winners will go into production. No other screenwriting competition in the world offers a bigger prize package to one winner let alone three!
The BSSC is often asked what is the budget of the production? Well what we can tell you is that the average budget of the last three films we produced inclusive of all the sponsorship packages was $340,000. That's right $340,000! This is the biggest prize fund package offered by any screenplay competition in the World. And now we're going to produce THREE! It makes the BSSC not only “the best and the most prestigious” but the best, most prestigious and biggest screenplay competition in the world. AND Movie Magic screenwriting software for TEN runners-up.
The BSSC is the only competitive and international short screenplay competition that undertakes to produce the winning screenplay and is able to boast an unrivalled line-up of judges that includes: Kenneth Branagh, Charles Dance; Directors: Sir Alan Parker, Mehdi Norrowzian and Simon Rumley; producers: Michael Kuhn, Piers Jackson, Nik Powell, Leslee Udwin, Natascha Wharton and Stephen Woolley to name but a few. "I have been involved with this competition from the beginning and I'm very proud of what it is trying to achieve and I'm hugely impressed with the quality of screenplays coming in." Nik Powell. "Every writer's dream is to have their screenplay produced. Our aim at BSSC is to fulfil that dream" - says producer Arif Hussein.
"The Handyman" winner of the BSSC and produced by Kaos Films is making it's mark around the world. The Film won the Best Film honour at the 50th Sitges International Film Festival, it was selected as best of the festival at Rhode Island International Film Festival and listed as "highly commended" at the TCM Shorts in London.
"The Handyman" is currently being screened in competition at the Fantasporto - Oporto International Film Festival, Portugal. The Film has also been invited in competition at 25th Brussels International Festival and at Young Film Makers Festival Granada, Spain.
The British Short Screenplay Competition is now receiving entries for the 2007 competition. The early deadline for entries is Friday 27th April 2007 and the final closing deadline is Friday 22nd June 2007. The BSSC is sponsored by: Kodak, Lee Lighting, Panavision, Pinewood-Shepperton Studios and Screenplay Systems.
Updated: 03/07/2007
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ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!In Between The River
Katie (on the spectrum) thinks her nomadic family is normal but as she transitions from child to teenager; her father Donald is frequently absent, her mother Judy tries too hard to hold them together and her older brother Kyle hides a secret that eventually surfaces to expose the family illusion.
Xanadu Shores: (PoC) The Super Spy Series
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller.
Screenplay Pilot for Xanadu Shores: The Super Spy Series
Two ex-pilots become embroiled in a kidnapping and gold heist, after an employer's scheme escalates from theft to kidnapping.
She Curses Like a Sailor
The culture of women and cursing is discussed at this art opening in New York.
Nina and Flossie
Three European sisters, in their 70's, scheme to dump a dead body that the eldest killed in the middle of the night as a result of a break-in.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante assassinating violent domestic abusers (and other wretched souls) after their third offense.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A former preacher, haunted by the tragic rape/murder of his twin sister, spirals into darkness as supernatural forces, both angelic and demonic, wage war for his soul.
The Coyote
When a Native American scholar and a graduate student unearth a mysterious tomb, they find it contains a Navajo god and soon find themselves embroiled in a cosmic battle between good and evil with the fate of humanity at stake.
The Umpire Has No Balls
A fiery young woman who has baseball running through her blood and can call the game better than anyone starts her journey through the umpire ranks to achieve her one goal in life – becoming a major league baseball umpire.
All That Glitters (excerpt) From The Novel: Xanadu Shores
The Xanadu Team in their second outing become pawns in a complicated gem heist, involving a beautiful Russian woman and her nefarious employer after a boat of stolen jewelry explodes.
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