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:
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Yrrem Samtsirhc from Mars
A gentle, highly intelligent alien crash-lands in a small town just before Christmas and forms an unlikely friendship with a girl with Down syndrome.
Twenty Last Summers
When a longtime group of friends in their fifties and sixties jokingly ask themselves, “What if we only had twenty summers left?”, the question unexpectedly detonates their comfortable routines, sending each of them into a spiral of hilarious missteps, overdue confrontations, and clumsy attempts at self-reinvention.
New Jack Hustlers: New Jacks
When a new synthetic drug floods New York City, a promising young officer is sent undercover into the nightlife scene, where criminal innovation, institutional ambition, and personal survival collide—forcing her to decide who she’s willing to become to stay alive.
“Be prepared for what?” Episode 2: THE BOY WHO EARNED HIS MAGIC
Howell and friends arrive at a school in the desert where they prepare to face evil forces.
The Huntsman
A battle-hardened Starship crew faces their greatest test when a routine extraction mission unleashes a mind-altering alien force, fracturing loyalties and awakening a cosmic mystery that could reshape the fate of the universe.
Wendigo
After a series of brutal killings in Algonquin Provincial Park linked to a missing hiker transformed into a mythical Wendigo, an elite military team must join forces with local rangers and a Native American tracker to stop the ancient creature's reign of terror before more innocent lives are lost.
Doc Savage: Dark Empire
In the shadow of World War II, Doc Savage, the legendary Man of Bronze, embarks on a daring mission to dismantle Nazi superweapons, rescue the woman he loves, and confront a dark legacy tied to his own past — all while battling the forces of tyranny and fighting for the future of humanity.
Xanadu Shores: SEAN LANDERS Intro 10 Pages.
A pilot returns home anticipating matrimony soon learning his fiance has cleaned out their wedding account and moved to Las Vegas.
Furgrow Birds back to the beginning
When a dog loses his owner and home, he discovers a dark conspiracy involving an evil king, a hidden realm, and God's magical crystals used to alter the world.
