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Screenwriting Contest Advice
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Launching Careers: The Screenplay Contests That Make a Difference New!
Is it better to submit your screenplay early or to wait until closer to a contest's final deadline? Each approach has its own set of advantages and potential drawbacks.
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Early or Late? Which Contest Deadline Should You Choose
Is it better to submit your screenplay early or to wait until closer to a contest's final deadline? Each approach has its own set of advantages and potential drawbacks.
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Advice from Screenwriting Contest Readers
Entering a screenwriting contest can be a nerve-wracking experience. With thousands of scripts vying for attention, it's crucial to ensure your screenplay stands out. Contest readers, who sift through these countless entries, offer invaluable insights into what makes a script shine - or sink. Here's a compilation of advice from seasoned contest readers that can help you refine your screenplay and increase your chances of success.
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Post Your Script Here!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.
Drop In Squad
There’s the family you’re born into and the one you create.
A Matter of Time, based on the book by Don Kirchner
He searched for freedom in the skies, he found it in a prison cell.
PAPER TRAIL
When a young Army MP becomes a private investigator after he inherits his grandfather’s storefront in a small town in the mountains of Colorado; his first case reveals a town full of secrets, including one that destroyed his family years before, and a new one he must forever keep from his fiancée.
Three Daze of Denver - It's Been a Long Road for David Wooderson
A seventeen year old golf prodigy and his mom are upended and move to small town Iowa in 1976.
THE SECOND LOVE OF MY LIFE
To procure funds for a new business, a fashion photographer babysits the famous actress he saved from an embarrassing photo/film scandal over Christmas but didn't expect to fall in love.
In the Cards
In this inspirational drama, world's collide when a down-to-earth girl next door piques the interest of a rough-around-the-edges men's club president.
Perfect Beau
A Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her girlfriend's boyfriends' DNA for her senior class project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante assassinating violent domestic abusers (and other deviants) after their third offense.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy.. A twisted view of the ineptness of modern day psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
