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Slamdance Screenplay Competition

Slamdance

Contact

5634 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
323-466-1786 (voice)
323-466-1784 (fax)

Web:
http://www.slamdance.com
Email:
submissions@slamdance.com

Contact: Clementine Leger , Festival Manager

Report Card

Overall: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.7/5.0)
Professionalism: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (3.2/5.0)
Feedback: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (3.0/5.0)
Signficance: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.7/5.0)
Report Cards: 43    
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Objective

The Slamdance Screenplay Competition is dedicated to discovering and nurturing emerging screenwriters. Since 1997, the competition has established a strong track record for introducing writers to members of the entertainment industry who have gone on to produce, option, and represent submitted work. Like the Film Festival, the Screenplay Competition is a place for new, bold, and raw voices. We are looking for scripts that take risks, refuse compromise, and go places where Hollywood hacks fear to tread.

Recent success stories include Tyler Tice, whose 2018 Grand Prize-winning horror feature Day Shift was released in 2022 as a Netflix original film starring Jamie Foxx. Day Shift became the most watched film in the world during the third week of August 2022. Show More

Deadline/Entry Fees

Deadline Date
Days till:
Entry Fee
Early April 17, 2024 $65 (feature)
Regular June 15, 2024
53
$75
Late July 19, 2024
87
$85
Final July 26, 2024
94
$95

See website for other long feature, TV pilot and short script entry fees.

Every entrant will receive short feedback from one of our readers. It will include a genre suggestion, a logline, and a paragraph outlining the strengths and weaknesses of your screenplay. The goal of the feedback is to provide you with short & sweet constructive criticism of your work.

Notification: October 27, 2024

Rules

Please visit website for rules and guidelines.

Awards

  • A total of $18,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to the winners this year.
  • The Grand Prize winner will receive $10,000 in cash.
  • The winners of the Feature, Horror, TV Pilot, and Short categories will each receive $2,000 in cash.
  • The top three screenwriters in each category will receive prize packages that include Festival Passes good for all screenings and parties at the next Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah
  • The winning Horror and Feature screenplays will receive $5,000 in legal services from Pierce Law Group, LLP.
  • The top three screenwriters in each category will be included in the upcoming Slamdance Film Festival program which is distributed to industry professionals in Park City and year round.
  • One entry from the competition will be awarded the Slamdance Screenplay Mentorship Award, consisting of personal mentorship through Slamdance's alumni network and screenwriting consultants. This includes an in-depth coverage report, an action plan for next draft development, further review of subsequent drafts, support in preparing a pitch deck, and best efforts in helping get the finished work produced through Slamdance's alumni network.
  • Production companies, studios, top agencies, and managers request to read our top scripts each year.

Slamdance

Contact

5634 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
323-466-1786 (voice)
323-466-1784 (fax)

Web:
http://www.slamdance.com
Email:
submissions@slamdance.com

Contact: Clementine Leger , Festival Manager

Report Card

Overall: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.7/5.0)
Professionalism: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (3.2/5.0)
Feedback: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (3.0/5.0)
Signficance: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.7/5.0)
Report Cards: 43    
Have you entered?
Submit a Report card

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Slamdance Screenplay Competition

Contact

5634 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
323-466-1786 (voice)
323-466-1784 (fax)

Web:
http://www.slamdance.com
Email:
submissions@slamdance.com

Contact: Clementine Leger , Festival Manager

Report Card

Overall: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.7/5.0)
Professionalism: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (3.2/5.0)
Feedback: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (3.0/5.0)
Signficance: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.7/5.0)
Report Cards: 43    
Have you entered?
Submit a Report card

Contest News

Slamdance Announces 2004 Screenplay Competition Semi-Finalists

FEATURES

ACCUSTOMED TO YOUR FACE
by Russel Sommers


THE APOLOGY
by Amir Onebsion, David Davoodian, Babak Shekrian


BISHOP'S ALLEY
by Paul Cummings


BONE
by David Gregg


BREACH OF FAMILY: A COMING OF RAGE
by John L. Beem


CHASING MONARCHS
by Michael Davidson


CIGARETTE BURNS
by Jason Jacobson and Michelle Trantina


CLAUDE
by Andrea Kleine


DAISY GUN
by Joshua Beal


DARYL THE DOG
by Janet Fielding


DUKJA PU
by Nathan Johnson


EMMA
by Chris Rodgers


GIRL CAN'T PLAY POOL
by Julian M. Kheel


IMAGINARY FRIENDS
by John Stancari


JIGSAW
by D. Kim Potter


THE LAST TWO
by David B. Schaer


LOVE EASY
by Shana Feste


THE LOW COUNTRY
by Nan Byrne


MAESTRO, MAESTRO
by Betty Teng


MAIL ORDER HERO
by Jonathan Bruce Appel


MISS PEARLIE
by Stacey Jean Snider


THE PASSON OF THE CHRIST II: JUDGMENT DAY
by Steve Mardiks, Les Mardiks


RICHARD SERIOUS
by Allen Keller


THE SEA OF TRANQUILITY
by Chris Newberry


SPLIT INFINITY
by Nora Jacobs, John Douglas Sinclair


TRIPLE DOG
by Barbara Marshall


TWO GUN
by Robert G. Steele


VINEYARD SOUND
by Eric Molinsky


WARM SPRINGS
by Richard Willett


WILD OATS
by Claudia Myers and Gart Kanew


SHORTS


THE ECSTASY NOTE
by Geoffrey Uloth


JAZZ IS DEAD
by Michael Longarzo


LOVE AND LETTERS
by William "Mac" Marshall


ONE HUNDRED AND TWELVE TAMALES
by D.V. Gaitlyn


SCRATCHES
by Isabelle Marinov

Updated: 09/18/2004

Slamdance Screenplay Competition

Contact

5634 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
323-466-1786 (voice)
323-466-1784 (fax)

Web:
http://www.slamdance.com
Email:
submissions@slamdance.com

Contact: Clementine Leger , Festival Manager

Report Card

Overall: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.7/5.0)
Professionalism: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (3.2/5.0)
Feedback: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (3.0/5.0)
Signficance: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.7/5.0)
Report Cards: 43    
Have you entered?
Submit a Report card

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