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Innovative Screenwriting Project Makes Its Debut
In association with respected management/production company Benderspink (A History of Violence, Just
Friends, The Butterfly Effect) Cowrite is launching an innovative screenwriting competition open to
aspiring writers and movie lovers everywhere. The contest will provide a unique opportunity to those who
have always thought they could write a screenplay to play an essential role in a potential Hollywood
blockbuster.
The idea behind the web-based Cowrite contest is to have writers throughout the country collaborate on a
movie script based on a posted story premise. The script will be written in ten-page increments based on
contestant submissions.
Every other week, the best ten-page script submission ($10 per 10 page entry) selected by the Cowrite
judges will be added to the developing story until the script is finished and ready to be sold. There will be
eleven winners over the six-month contest. Each winner will receive money and prizes totaling $3,000, a
pitch meeting with Benderspink and a chance to win the grand prize of a paid rewrite of the script. All
winners will also share in any potential script sale proceeds.
Another exciting aspect of the Cowrite website is the "Pro's Take" section where professional
screenwriters and industry professionals will offer comments and suggestions on the developing story as
well as insight into how to get started in Hollywood. This mentoring program will serve as an invaluable
tool for aspiring screenwriters and help guide the story along. Guest mentors will include screenwriters
Andrea Berloff (World Trade Center), Shintaro Shimosawa (The Echo) and Josh Schaer (TV's Jericho).
This is believed to be the first screenwriting competition where the end goal is to try to sell a collaborative
movie script. In true Web 2.0 fashion, Cowrite utilizes social networking and the "wisdom of the crowd"
to create a community-sourced product. Cowrite believes this method of art creation will become a widely
accepted, and, in fact, sought out way of finding new talent while producing blueprints for major motion
pictures. After all, what better market research tool for studios trying to figure out what audiences want to
see at the theaters than letting the audiences provide the content?
Cowrite has partnered with The LA Film Festival and software companies Final Draft and Jungle
Software, all of which will supply prizes to each of the eleven winners.
Updated: 12/04/2008
Additional Contest Info:
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!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.
ALTA CALIFORNIA
A young mixed blood, determined to avenge his mother’s brutal death, is thrust into a battle of survival and identity as he navigates through the oppressive and inhumane colonizers of California's “Mission Era.
ENDLESS COURAGE ( formerly Drop In Squad)
There’s the family you’re born into and the one you choose: Aging out of foster care meets elder aging in place when a sharp-witted teen and a feisty elder activist team up to conquer the housing crisis in a world stacked against them.
THE QUISLING
A young lawyer defends a wanted terrorist from international extradition.
MIRACLE BOY
After dying from meningitis and glimpsing Paradise, a troubled seven-year-old mountain boy is sent back to Earth with a promise of eighty more years—but when he wakens with no memory of his past, he must struggle through a lifetime of doubt, hardship, and temptation to rediscover his purpose and fulfill a divine mission that could save not only his family, but his soul.
Dark Latitude
When a young woman discovers a hidden photograph in the family album of a murdered WWII survivor, she becomes the target of a decades-old conspiracy linking Nazi fugitives, a secret escape flight from Germany, and a deadly cover-up that kills to protect its secrets.
Knock on Wood
To survive a week against a vengeful universe, a legendary hitman must trade his "Celestial Mathematics" for genuine morality after a botched job fractures his luck and begins to liquefy reality.
Ilium Ridge
To brothers Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, the First World War is but a game to stave off the boredom of immortality.
Christmas Island
Sissy and Kenneth return to their home in the northern woods for their mother's funeral, to find that their parents plan to snatch their bodies.
Tam Lin
In a modern romantic fantasy based on an ancient Scottish fairy tale, a strong young woman risks everything to save her mysterious lover from the evil Fairy Queen, and bring him back to a world he's never known.
