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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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After a string of suspicious celebrity deaths, an obsessed detective must protect a fragile pop starlet and other notable targets of an eccentric stalker who claims to be able to cancel deals with the devil they've unknowingly made.
DON'T GO IN
A Baton Rouge teen, haunted by a family tragedy, battles a malevolent Creole Myth to save his brother and amend past mistakes.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
In the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter with RUTHLESS characters, a 14 year old minister - mourns his twin sister, and scorns the GOD he once fervently praised.
Mission kamikaze
Osama Bin Laden is back he lived a conspiracy and wants the whole world to know he's back but Bin Laden Keeps it Old skool and gangsta messing with The CIA's minds, a little bit of explodings here and there not willing to detonate here and there till the right time is he has his mind focused on his Peshawar Wedding dancing girl, Osama runs The drug trafficking trade messing around day and night with alcohol and drugs as his workers get caught by the CIA and dealt with but Osama doesn't care he calls up the CIA giving them orders as he can see them all the way from Peshawar.
Sandy Mills
When a Hollywood starlet returns to North Carolina to attend college, she finds that keeping her identity secret is hard, but falling in love is easy.
THE RUINS OF OZ
When burned-out ruins appear in a Kansas cornfield, an archeology professor discovers that the Wicked Witch of the West has returned and now threatens the Earth as well as Oz.
MADEMOISELLE
In 19th Century Paris, ERICA CLAUDIN is the brightest star in Opera.
Anne Bonny, Pirate
Anne Bonny is the most illustrious female pirate from the Golden Age of Piracy.
God's Warrior
God chooses a young woman to be His Warrior but fails to warn of formidable opponents colluding to destroy her.
meet The Devil!
An award-winning journalist unaccepting of the existence of God or the Devil interviews the author of such a book, finds himself in Hell calling for God.
