Objective

We are passionate about film and passionate about nurturing, developing, and supporting the next generation of great filmmakers and screenwriters from North America and around the world.

Our mission is to forge a screenwriting competition that will launch the careers of cinema’s next generation of writers and filmmakers. We want our competition to be a bridge between up and coming artists and the talent agents and managers that will ultimately put them in front of studio executives in both Canada and the US. We are also passionate about introducing them to the various producers and production teams that call our city their home.

We love all kinds of scripts and stories from studio blockbusters to art house fare. No two paths are the same and no two stories are either. We accept scripts from all over the world not just the US and Canada and from artists of all shapes and sizes, colors and ethnicities, sexes and sexual orientations.

Our city has a long history of nurturing and showcasing the most talented filmmakers in the entertainment industry. We want our independent screenwriting contest to give screenwriters the same level of exposure. We want to develop writers to work on studio films as well as high end independents. We want to inspire, support, and develop writers at all levels to make great films that leave others touched, moved and inspired.

We love film and we love storytellers. And we want to do everything we can to support the arts, not only locally, but around the world. Our aim is to forge a screenwriting competition that will inspire generations of filmmakers to tell great stories in the US, Canada, and abroad.

Our goal is to open doors for aspiring writers and filmmakers in all genres.

Deadline/Entry Fees

Deadline	Date	Entry Fee	Days till Deadline
Early	August 28, 2018	$50
Regular	September 20, 2018	$55	1
Ext Regular	November 15, 2018	$57	57
Extended	January 17, 2019	$58	120
Late	February 14, 2019	$60	148
Final	March 14, 2019	$65	176

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Notification: 4/30/2019

Rules

• Submissions are accepted via electronic submission only through our partner websites.
• There is no limit to the length of the projects you submit. Projects can be in script or treatment form.
• There is no limit to the number of projects you may submit.
• Scripts must be written in English or French, but can be in any film or television genre.
• Entrants are prohibited from contacting the judges during the competition. Any entrant who attempts to contact a judge will be disqualified and their entry fee forfeited. The decision of the judges is final.
• Entry fees for screenplay entries are posted on our partner websites and are non refundable.
• Employees and family members of the film festival are not eligible.
• Entrants must be 18 years or older to enter the contest. Misrepresentation of age, upon discovery, will forfeit entry and fees to the contest.
• Entries must be received on or before the deadlines and submission fee payment must be made in full at time of the submission. All entry fees are non-refundable and contest is void where prohibited.
• All submitted material must be original, and all rights must be wholly owned by the writer(s).
• All entries must be the original, and unpublished, un-produced, un-optioned work of the entrant. The entrant ensures that he or she is the sole author of the work and that it does not infringe on any existing copyright.
• All winners are responsible for their own income tax withholding.
• The competition, it’s judges, and it’s officers accept no liability whatsoever for any claims of damages, real or perceived, by any entrant(s) as a result of their participation in this contest.
• All writers at least 18 years of age are eligible.
• All persons from anywhere in the world are eligible; however the material submitted must be in English or French.
• All material submitted to other competitions or contests are eligible.
• Professional writers, journalists, poets, and previous contest winners are eligible.
• There are no requirements as to when the material was written.
• Material must be your original work.
• The material submitted must not be encumbered by any obligation to, or option held by, a third party prior to entering the competition.

Awards

TISC rewards winning screenwriters with distribution of your script to our database of top industry executives at several production companies in New York, LA, and Toronto as well as to our list of A list agents, and managers on both coasts in the US and Canada who are looking for clients and material to produce. Note only the top three winners receive prizes: the Grand Prize Winner and two Finalists.