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Final Deadline: 02/15/2012
For over a decade, CineStory has been dedicated to nurturing new screenwriting talent through mentorship programs. To this end, the top 16 Semifinalists of the yearly CineStory Screenwriting Awards are invited to participate in an exclusive Writer's Retreat. The CineStory Writer's Retreat is four days of heaven in the beautiful mountains of Idyllwild, California.
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Final Deadline: 02/28/2012
Nickelodeon is offering writing fellowships in live action and animated television to writers with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Participants will have hands-on interaction with executives writing spec scripts and pitching story ideas. The program, developed to broaden Nickelodeon's outreach efforts, provides a salaried position for up to one year.
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Final Deadline: 02/28/2012
I look for the very best character-based screenplay a writer has to offer. My focus is on a visually charged story, that is original and above all, entertaining. Remember: I look for a script that shows me the story!
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Final Deadline: 03/10/2012
To inspire and encourage the creative spirit in writers.
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Final Deadline: 03/15/2012
Only 1000 entries will be accepted. Enter early and save! Out of close to three hundred "contest sites," WriteMovies is one of only a handful that has produced movies from winning projects. "The List", was written by WriteMovies winner Marcus Folmar. It featured Jane Lynch (GLEE), Brad Dourif, Illeana Douglas, Wayne Brady and Sydney Poitier and was acquired by Warner Bros.
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Final Deadline: 03/15/2012
To provide both aspiring and seasoned screenwriters with an opportunity to have their scripts brought to the attention of industry professionals and to further the opportunities and careers of our winning screenwriters.
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Final Deadline: 03/16/2012
KAYfilms Productions is proud to announce the First Annual KAYfilms Summer Screenplay Contest! We're looking for feature-length narrative screenplays, 80-120 pages in length, which entertain, inform, and inspire - all while being cost-effective. All genres will be considered! Entries will be judged on story, character, message, and budget (the lower the better).
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Final Deadline: 03/21/2012
The Nantucket Film Festival - unique in its dedication to supporting and promoting the art of screenwriting - launched the Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Competition in 1996. The Festival's screenwriting focus was inspired by Nantucket's rich history as a writer's retreat and is one of the main reasons for the event's distinction as an important cultural institution.
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Final Deadline: 03/23/2012
Who's Next? is an international screenwriting challenge open to any and all screenwriters around the world! This competition strives to bring Hollywood's next big screenwriting talents to surface without the limitations of having a finished and polished script. Founded by producers in the pitch stage of a new comedy/drama series for premium television, we're excited to announce.
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Final Deadline: 03/31/2012
The Pulsar Sci-Fi Screenplay Contest is an international screenplay contest dedicated exclusively to Sci-Fi. Our promises to each entrant: Your screenplay will be read by someone who loves Sci-Fi. With other contests, Sci-Fi scripts are often viewed in a lesser light than traditional material such as drama. At Pulsar, we love Sci-Fi!
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Final Deadline: 03/31/2012
Reel Authors is the FIRST contest to GUARANTEE that each script will only be allocated to a reader who enjoys that particular genre. Reel Authors has been set up by film industry professionals to encourage NEW writing talent and to BANISH genre subjectivity in screenplay and teleplay contests. We our the first contest to offer a 'script to reader genre match' guarantee.
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Final Deadline: 03/31/2012
Our intention is to run an event that will be about encouraging Welsh independent film making and screenplay writing both in Welsh and English. Not only within Wales but also Internationally through working with Welsh expat film makers all over the world.Also we very much like to work with and encourage film makers and writers from the rest of the UK and internationally.
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Final Deadline: 04/02/2012
The PAGE Awards competition was established by an alliance of Hollywood producers, agents, and development execs. Our goal: to discover the most exciting new scripts by up-and-coming writers from across the country and around the world. And due to the success of our winning writers, the PAGE Awards have rapidly become one of the most important sources for new screenwriting talent within the Hollywood community and worldwide.
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Final Deadline: 04/04/2012
The Big Bear Lake International Screenwriting Competition stresses providing opportunities for winning screenwriters to make key film industry contacts and to have their script read by our jury panel of Hollywood professionals.
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Final Deadline: 04/10/2012
Pride Films and Plays' Women’s Work Contest has Stage, Screenplay, and Shorts categories. We aspire to honor excellence in work written by women for film or stage with lesbian characters or themes.
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Final Deadline: 04/15/2012
The Script Exposure Screenwriting competition main objective is to find great scripts in any genre and pass them on to working Hollywood professionals, such as: Agents, Managers and Producers. We're about helping the screenwriter get connected. And with a very low entry fee of $20, The Script Exposure Screenwriting competition is the most affordable competition any writer can enter.
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Final Deadline: 04/15/2012
To shine a spotlight on new, fresh voices writing for television.
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Final Deadline: 04/16/2012
Our intention is to help open doors for the aspiring television writer. There are four categories you can submit to, which include 1 hour existing spec scripts, 1/2 hour existing sitcom spec scripts, original pilots, and reality programs. This competition is designed with the TV writer and crossover screenwriter in mind. The participants we have chosen to read the winning scripts are individuals from established production companies.
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Final Deadline: 04/19/2012
Scriptapalooza was founded in 1998 with the goal of helping as many writers as possible through the competition. We have over 90 production companies, agents and managers reading all the entered scripts. (A complete list of participants is on Scriptapalooza?s website.) We actively push the Semifinalists, Finalists, Runners-Up and Winners for a full year with the intention of creating opportunities for the writers.
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Final Deadline: 04/23/2012
The purpose of this annual writing contest, named in honor of Willamette Writer's founder, Kay Snow, is to help writers reach professional goals in writing in a broad array of categories; and to encourage student writers.
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Final Deadline: 04/30/2012
To find the best GENRE scripts. Genre scripts are bought and produced more than 10 to 1 over the serious drama, indie, or quirky scripts that typically win screenplay contests. This contest pits genre scripts only against scripts within their genre, and seeks to identify and promote to the industry the very best in each genre -- in other words, the scripts with the very best chances in the marketplace.
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Final Deadline: 04/30/2012
Our objective is to discover and promote quality screenplays of any genre.
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Final Deadline: 04/30/2012
The DC Shorts Screenplay Competition (October 2012) is a very different kind of screenwriting competition. A panel of judges consisting of filmmakers, screenwriters and critics will review and provide coverage (feedback) for scripts of 15 pages or less. 5-7 finalists will be featured during ScriptDC — the region’s largest screenwriting conference — where their scripts will be read in front of a live audience — and one will walk away with $2,000 to shoot their project! If the script is shot and completed by the deadline, it will be automatically included as an official selection for the 2013 DC Shorts Film Festival.
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Final Deadline: 05/01/2012
To help launch the careers of 4 previously undiscovered screenwriters. Once the winners are announced, hard-copies of all four winners will be delivered to the 200 production companies and literary agencies that have requested the winners for their consideration.
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Final Deadline: 05/01/2012
To identify and encourage talented new screenwriters
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Final Deadline: 05/15/2012
: Encourage excellence in writing. The three prize-winning screenplays receive a critique from the contest judge.
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Final Deadline: 05/15/2012
To assist the aspiring screenwriter in realizing his/her dream of becoming a professional screenwriter. To eliminate industry chokepoints that stifle creativity and impede screenplay access to managers,agents & producers.
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Final Deadline: 05/15/2012
Creative World Awards (CWA) is an international screenwriting contest that is well known for having the writer's interest at heart when it comes to development and industry promotion. CWA has built relationships with some of the industry's leading companies such as Lionsgate/Mandate International, GreeneStreet Films, Relativity Media, Crystal Sky, Icon Films & Entertainment, Voltage Pictures, and more - all of which have agreed to give first looks to the top winners.
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Final Deadline: 05/15/2012
To recognize excellence in script writing of shorts and features in a wide variety of genres. Event takes place August 17-19, 2012.
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Final Deadline: 05/15/2012
To introduce Midwestern screenwriters to Hollywood production companies and representatives.
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Final Deadline: 05/18/2012
Our aim is to discover new screenwriting talent from around the world. To put the best feature scripts in the hands of the Producers and Companies that have the means to get them made.
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Final Deadline: 05/26/2012
To introduce writers to the decision makers of traditional broadcast television, the cable market, and multi-media outlets. Competition winners will have their material read by experienced producers and agents in L.A. and N.Y.
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Final Deadline: 05/26/2012
To introduce writers to the decision makers in film and multimedia markets. Top script receives $1,000 and ALL competition winners, runners-up, and finalists will earn the chance to have their scripts read by established production companies and agents in LA and NY. We strive to provide commentary on each script.
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Final Deadline: 05/31/2012
ENDAS International Screenplay Competition is produced by ENDAS, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering sports and culture. ENDAS International Screenplay Competition strives to encourage artistic innovation, promote, and foster new and creative authors.
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Final Deadline: 06/01/2012
The People's Pilot is a chance for outsiders to contribute to the medium they love by creating the kind of series they want to see, without worrying about the politics of television network and cable channel sales. See website for additional info.
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Final Deadline: 06/01/2012
The basic fact about the television business is that in order to get into it you, the writer, must have at least 3 great spec episodes written for existing shows. These episodes are your calling card. They demonstrate that you have what it takes to write "on assignment." In other words, they show that your writing can meet the demands of a show's individual (we would never say "peculiar") style.
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Final Deadline: 06/22/2012
Praxis Centre for Screenwriters is a non-profit organization devoted to the professional development of Canadian screenwriters and filmmakers. Located in Vancouver, Canada, we serve to support and stimulate the production of innovative Canadian feature films though screenplay and screenwriter development. We run the compeition twice a year, with deadlines of June 30th and Dec.
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Final Deadline: 06/30/2012
The objective of the Moondance International Film Festival is to inspire, motivate, promote and encourage the best writers & independent filmmakers, from every country in the world, and to inspire a greater understanding about the vital role of the arts in enhancing creativity, community spirit, and the preservation of our cultural heritage.
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Final Deadline: 06/30/2012
To foster excellence in screenwriting that features gay characters, history, or themes important to the gay community, and relevant to our world. Up to four full length finalists and up to six shorts finalists will be named by September 1, 2012, and those scripts will be performed as staged readings during Gay Screenplay Weekend October 19 to 21, 2012 at the Hoover-Leppen Theater of the Center on Halsted in Chicago.
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Final Deadline: 07/07/2012
As a distinguished international film competition, the London Film Awards celebrates and awards independent film's best and brightest talent spanning the globe. The London Film Awards is a medium for both fresh and masterful talent to have their extraordinary work recognized and honored before their industry peers.
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Final Deadline: 07/07/2012
The Script-a-thon is a month long screenwriting contest and marathon. Write or re-write your script in July 2012, then submit for prize consideration at the end of the month. With our contest, there's one month that's completely devoted to writing. One month where you can say, guilt-free, "I'm sorry, I can't go out tonight. It's Script-a-thon month.
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Final Deadline: 07/15/2012
To discover and honor the new voices of independent film. Screenplays will be judged on creativity, innovation, vision, originality and the use of language. The key element is that of communication and how it complements and is transformed by the language of film.
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Final Deadline: 07/20/2012
To promote the horror genre in screenplay form.
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Final Deadline: 07/31/2012
Championing Emerging Artists. To make Hollywood more accessible than ever before to more aspiring screenwriters Filmmakers.com is forming strategic alliances with the powers that be. The Radmin Company will read the TOP FIFTY SCRIPTS. Top 20 Screenplays: Production Consideration by Leading Hollywood Producers and Representation Consideration by Leading Hollywood Agencies/Management Companies.
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Final Deadline: 08/20/2012
The New York Screenplay Contest is a global screenwriting contest designed to launch careers and provide recognition and network opportunities to the world's best new voices in screenwriting for film and television. The New York Screenplay Contest awards its winners with cash, prizes, sponsorship packages, and meetings with leading industry professionals.
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Final Deadline: 08/31/2012
Zed Fest was formed to acknowledge and encourage new independent filmmakers and screenwriters. We noticed that there are a lot of talented and promising filmmakers and screenwriters that tend to get snubbed by other festivals and competitions simply because they are low budget or less polished. We want to give them the recognition that they deserve and try to help them build upon their abilities.
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Final Deadline: 08/31/2012
Write Reality is a competition dedicated to finding the next hit reality show idea. Entrants are asked to write a short summary of their idea for a chance to win a grand prize of $1,200 dollars and consideration by top reality production companies and networks. The top ten finalists will be judged by industry insiders from companies such as OWN and the Discovery Channel.
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Final Deadline: 09/01/2012
To promote gay and lesbian material in a positive light.
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Final Deadline: 09/01/2012
Screenplay Festival was established to help eliminate this "chicken and egg" problem. By accepting all submitted screenplays and judging them based upon their quality -- not their source or their standardized formatting or the quality of the brads holding them together -- Screenplay Festival looks to give undiscovered screenwriters an opportunity to rise above the crowd.
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Final Deadline: 09/01/2012
The Eerie Horror Screenplay Competition offers beginning, aspiring and veteran screenwriters in the horror genre a chance to have their work recognized by people in the industry and beyond and to provide recognition and exposure for screenwriters in the horror, science fiction and suspense genres. The top 3 winning screenplays will be announced on all Eerie Horror Film Festival websites and winner's information will be forwarded to industry professionals for consideration.
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