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Contact: Jim Mercurio, Owner

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Categories

• All Contests
• Short
• Comedy

Objective

Our winners will be champions and we will work to champion our winners. Our motto is "Winning is just the beginning."'' We don't want to write you a check, shotgun your synopsis around and then wave goodbye. Win our competition and we will prepare you for what you can expect in Hollywood by giving you a team of mentors who will champion you, your current script or even your next script to a higher level and to help you achieve the goal of becoming a working screenwriter in Hollywood.

Deadline/Entry Fees

Expired. Previous Deadline: 08/31/2011

Rules

The following rules govern the submission of all material(s) to the Champion Screenwriting Competition, and each submitting writer agrees to abide by them (''Rules''):

All submitting writers must be 18 years of age or older (and able to prove it if required to do so).

Feature Screenplays must:

• be written and submitted in English;
• be an original and unproduced script that has not been optioned and to which the writer(s) retain(s) all rights, from the time of submission until the announcement of the winning script(s);
• be between 90 and 130 pages in length;
• have numbered pages; and
• be in industry-standard screenplay format

Short Screenplays must:

• be written and submitted in English;
• be an original and unproduced script that has not been optioned and to which the writer(s) retain(s) all rights, from the time of submission until the announcement of the winning script(s);
• be less than or equal to 15 pages in length;
• have numbered pages; and
• be in industry-standard screenplay format

Screenplays in any genre are accepted.

Adaptations are not accepted.

Only electronic copies of scripts submitted through Withoutabox with a valid credit card payment will be accepted. Please do not send a hard copy of any screenplay.

Only screenplay submissions in Final Draft, Movie Magic, PDF, RTF, DOC and Word file formats are acceptable.

See website for additional rules:
http://www.championscreenwriting.com/rules.html

Awards

GRAND PRIZE

• $10,000 cash
• A script development package including notes from Julie Marsh
• A year-long membership to itsonthegrid.com
• A seat in A-List's week-long Champion Screenwriting Lab with Jim Mercurio
• 10 pitches from VirtualPitchFest.com
• Two career coaching sessions with Rhona Berens, Ph.D.
• Career or pitching guidance from Michael Lent (Breakfast with Sharks)
• John Truby genre DVD
• Script and/or synopsis to be read by several production Companies

SECOND PLACE

• $2,000 cash
• A script development package
• A year-long membership to itsonthegrid.com
• A seat in A-List's week-long Champion Screenwriting Lab
• 10 pitches from VirtualPitchFest.com
• Two career coaching sessions with Rhona Berens, Ph.D.
• John Truby genre DVD
• Script and/or synopsis to be read by several production Companies

THIRD PLACE

• $1,000 cash
• A script development package
• A year-long membership to itsonthegrid.com
• A seat in A-List's week-long Champion Screenwriting Lab
• 10 pitches from VirtualPitchFest.com
• Two career coaching sessions with Rhona Berens, Ph.D.
• John Truby genre DVD
• Script and/or synopsis to be read by several production Companies

See website for short screenplay and feature semifinalist prizes.

Also Queued

Writers who have queued this contest have also queued:

• PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
• Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition
• Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting.
• Austin Film Festival Screenplay & Teleplay Competition
• CineStory Screenwriting Awards