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Final Deadline: 05/24/2013
The Roswell International Sci-Fi Film Festival and Digital-shootout (RISF) is looking for your short scripts to make into a movie. The RISF 2013 Digital Film Shoot-Out is the only filmmaking experience dedicated to bringing a screenwriters vision from “script to screen” in one week. The RISF Digital Film Shoot-Out will provide crew and equipment (A $50,000 dollar value) to five filmmakers who have the opportunity to direct their winning short that will screen at the RISF Digital Film Gala at the end of the week! This is a non-union, non-pay opportunity, but the RISF committee will be provided lodging, on-set meals, IMDB credit and “significant exposure” at the international film festival.
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Final Deadline: 05/31/2013
Write your next script with professional mentoring! Submit your one-three (1-3) page synopsis, treatment, outline, beat-sheet or concept summary and you could get paid to turn your idea into a feature length screenplay. The Grand Prize winner will work with an established manager/producer who'll offer mentorship, career consultation and professional guidance throughout the development process including feedback and script notes.
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Final Deadline: 05/31/2013
To seek out and employ culturally and ethnically diverse new writers.
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Final Deadline: 05/31/2013
To make Hollywood more accessible than ever before to more aspiring screenwriters Filmmakers.com is forming strategic alliances with the powers that be... Championing Emerging Artists. FilmMakers International Screenwriting Awards has been in existence since 2000 (formerly known as The Radmin Company / FilmMakers.com Screenplay Contest) and its association with the Radmin Co has been going on since 2000.
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Final Deadline: 06/01/2013
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: 06/01/2013
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: 06/01/2013
For over 30 years, the Warner Bros. Television Writers’ Workshop has been the premier writing program for new writers looking to start and further their career in the world of television. The list of graduates who have gone on to do great things is long: Terrance Winter (Boardwalk Empire), Marc Cherry (Desperate Housewives), Greg Garcia (My Name Is Earl) and Felicia Henderson (Soul Food) to name a few.
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Final Deadline: 06/01/2013
For the past two decades, Austin Film Festival has been launching writers into their careers. This year, AFF is celebrating its longevity and exponential growth by creating a week that will change your life. With one of the most recognized and prestigious Screenplay and Teleplay competitions, AFF breaks out newcomers from the privacy of their desks and straight into the industry.
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Final Deadline: 06/01/2013
Our objective is to discover and promote quality screenplays of any genre.
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Final Deadline: 06/01/2013
Is your script the next “Paranormal Activity” or “Saw” franchise? Whether you have a contained thriller or a big effects-driven horror film, WE WANT TO READ YOUR SCREENPLAY. Enter to have your screenplay read by our 3 judges who are development executives at Lionsgate, Paramount and Sony.
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Final Deadline: 06/03/2013
Writer’s Digest has been shining a spotlight on up and coming writers in all genres through its Annual Writing Competition for more than 80 years. Enter our 82nd Annual Writing Competition for your chance to win and have your work be seen by editors and agents! The winning entries will also be on display in the 82nd Annual Writer’s Digest Competition Collection.
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Final Deadline: 06/04/2013
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: 06/14/2013
The Oaxaca FilmFest Screenwriter Competition Is Now Accepting Submissions For The 2013 Season. Oaxaca FilmFest announces it's fourth edition, scheduled for November 16th-23rd, 2013 in Oaxaca, Mexico and with the announcement rolls out a aggressive expansion of the Festival's Screen Writing Section. The international film festival was founded in the City of Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico, in 2010 and is a uniquely successful collaboration between the private and public sector.
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Final Deadline: 06/15/2013
Some of today's most exciting storytelling happens on the small screen. From dramas like Homeland, Mad Men and Breaking Bad to comedies like The Big Bang Theory and Modern Family, television has evolved to become the writer's realm, where the most talented scribes rule season after season. Sound like a dream job? Then get ready for your chance to break in to the dynamic world of writing for TV! The Industry Insider Television Writing Contest is a one-of-a-kind competition that offers every entrant the unique chance to learn about the Industry, while also creating and writing a television pilot script.
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Final Deadline: 06/15/2013
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: 06/15/2013
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. Production: New in 2013, CWA also brings an exciting production opportunity to the Grand Prize Winner. This year’s winner will have a short version of their script produced by The MIX, and the film will then get a guaranteed premiere at the Richmond International Film Festival.
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Final Deadline: 06/21/2013
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: 06/21/2013
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: 06/30/2013
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: 06/30/2013
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: 07/01/2013
Now in its 6th year, The Just Effing Entertain Me Screenwriting Competition’s grand prize winners get flown to Los Angeles, where they receive three nights free accommodation, spending money, a whirlwind of industry meetings, connections and read requests AND lunch with an A-list writer. Last year's Grand Prize winner, Matthew Morgan had lunch with Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air, Xmen: First Class) and signed with ICM less than six weeks after winning! Winning is only the beginning! Unexpected extra prizes and introductions are what we are all about – because that’s how we roll.
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Final Deadline: 07/02/2013
The Slamdance Screenwriting and Teleplay Competition is dedicated to discovering and supporting emerging writing talent. To that end, we are unveiling an exciting new partnership this year with JuntoBox Films who will be awarding a Grand Prize of $10,000 cash and a $50,000 production grant to the winning feature script. JuntoBox Films’ goal of producing films and finding writers with innovative and interesting stories is a great fit with what Slamdance strives to achieve.
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Final Deadline: 07/10/2013
To honor the overlooked genres of horror/sci-fi. Festival dates: October 3 through 6, 2013.
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Final Deadline: 07/13/2013
The Cynosure Screenwriting Awards seek to expand the scope of mainstream cinema by recognizing and rewarding screenplays in two distinct categories: screenplays which feature compelling female protagonists; and screenplays that showcase diversity (ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, disability, etc.).
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Final Deadline: 07/15/2013
2 Grand Prize Winners will win a trip and Producers Badge to the AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL & CONFERENCE and have a Table Reading of your screenplay by Professional Actors! Alvaro Rodriguez to narrate your 'Table Read'.
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Final Deadline: 07/20/2013
To promote the horror genre in screenplay form.
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Final Deadline: 07/31/2013
Big Break is an annual, international feature and television screenwriting contest designed to launch the careers of aspiring writers. Big Break rewards screenwriters with over $80,000 in cash and prizes, including a trip to Los Angeles and A-list executive meetings. Winners and finalists alike have had their screenplays optioned and produced and have secured high-profile representation as well as lucrative writing deals.
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Final Deadline: 07/31/2013
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: 08/01/2013
To introduce Midwestern screenwriters to Hollywood production companies and representatives.
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Final Deadline: 08/01/2013
From page to production, from production to profession, the Brownfish Short Film Festival NYC (BSFFNYC) is dedicated to helping filmmakers get their films seen, distributed and grow their career paths by showcasing short films under 20 minutes competing for cash awards in the categories: Comedy, Drama, Documentary and Animation. The BSFFNYC presents a Short Screenplay Competition where short screenplays 15 pages and under have staged reading and compete for cash awards in the categories of Comedy and Drama.
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Final Deadline: 08/05/2013
This festival is the first of its kind to put the spotlight on film comedies by women. Its goals are to raise the profile of female-generated humor, to give recognition and support to the women making it, and to be a locus of networking and community building.
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Final Deadline: 08/10/2013
Our aim, quite simply, is to discover and recognize the brightest new talent and original voices in storytelling from around the world. We identify emerging talent and place top new writers firmly on the industry's radar directly in the heart of the motion picture capital of the world.
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Final Deadline: 08/20/2013
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: 08/31/2013
REAPER QUEST's goal is to discover the best screenplays which have the Grim Reaper as their main character. Death, Grim Reaper, Azreal ... we are looking for great screenplays about the taker of souls. Grand Prize winning screenplay may be made into a movie!
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Final Deadline: 08/31/2013
The NFO competition seeks to provide unsold writers a means to hone their craft as writers, get them a proverbial "a foot in the door" into the filmmaking industry, while encouraging the creation of scripts (and hopefully future productions) specific to Nevada.
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Final Deadline: 09/01/2013
To promote gay and lesbian material in a positive light.
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Final Deadline: 09/06/2013
Open Curtain would like to read stories from you. We know there are good writers that have an interesting story to tell the world, and would like to see their story come to life. This is where we come in to help bring your story to life. We’re looking for the top 50 stories (Feature or Short) to be in our contest. The 1st and 2nd winners will win cash prize and a possibility to have his or her story put into our production (that if your story meets our budget).
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Final Deadline: 09/07/2013
Personal coverage and feedback from programmers and readers on your screenplay will be available to every screenplay entrant. Cash prizes are awarded in each of three categories — Best Screenplay, Best Voice of Color Screenplay (written by or about people of color), and Best Northcoast Screenplay (set in or about northern Ohio). Additionally, one winning screenplay will be chosen to be read at SCRIPT MILL, Independent Pictures' un-staged screenplay reading program, in November 2011.
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Final Deadline: 09/12/2013
Filmshift is committed to advancing the craft of screenwriting as well as the progress of independent screenwriters themselves through our annual screenplay competition. We offer awards including Final Draft screenwriting software, InkTip access awards, and a variety of awards from Script Pipeline . We accept both feature-length and short film scripts of all genres and styles that tell strong and original stories.
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Final Deadline: 09/30/2013
Writing a story is an act of creation, an illuminating feat unto itself, regardless of whether it ever appears on the silver screen. This contest means to recognize the creative efforts of writers who have endowed their work with spirit, vigor, and a spark of intrigue.
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Final Deadline: 09/30/2013
Storytelling is your passion. Ours is amplifying your voice. The World Series of Screenwriting is dedicated to recognizing and advancing the work of the world's most talented and compelling storytellers in film and television screenwriting. We recognize and award the work of the best new voices in screenwriting from around the world. The World Series of Screenwriting is thrilled to share your unsurpassed commitment toward getting your talent recognized and your stories heard.
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Final Deadline: 10/01/2013
ScreenCraft is tickled to announce the 2013 Comedy Screenplay Contest. Whether you have an indie romantic comedy or a big effects-driven comedy blockbuster film, we want to read your script. We are looking for a laugh-out-loud comedy screenplay with heart. It can we cerebral and talky or high-concept and filled with physical comedy. We're looking for a strong voice and a fresh comedic sensibility.
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Final Deadline: 10/20/2013
Taking place each year in the beautiful and exciting city of Las Vegas, the Nevada Film Festival is the Silver State’s annual celebration of the very best in American and international cinema, bringing together top independent filmmakers, growing audiences and the film industry professionals who make it all possible. The Nevada Film Festival offers filmgoers a rare opportunity to meet the filmmakers.
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Final Deadline: 10/31/2013
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 cash prizes totaling $2200 and consideration by top reality production companies such as MPH Entertainment (The Dog Whisperer), 44 Blue Productions (Lock Up), GRB Entertainment (Intervention), Buck Productions (Cake Walk), T Group Productions (Storage Wars) and Paper Route Productions (Yukon Men).
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Final Deadline: 11/15/2013
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: 11/15/2013
To ignite writers' careers and connect them with our vast network of top level production companies, agencies and managers.
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Final Deadline: 11/15/2013
To promote holiday centered screenplays.
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Final Deadline: 11/15/2013
Founded by a writer, the BlueCat Screenplay Competition’s passionate commitment to develop and discover the unknown screenwriter continues to define our work today. We provide each writer who enters BlueCat two written analyses, ensuring each entry is reviewed by two readers, while supporting screenwriters of all levels and stages of development with the constructive feedback all writers require.
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Final Deadline: 11/30/2013
In Hollywood your script has about a One in a Million chance of being produced ... That sucks! At YouPix.org your script has a One in a Thousand chance of being produced ... That sucks less. No Script or Short Film competition offers you as much as YouPix.org. Our winners make a movie. An actual movie – you don't get a trophy, prize or a monetary gesture that gets you no further in your career.
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Final Deadline: 12/01/2013
The SHORT SCREENPLAY CONTEST's focus is to promote all genres of writing focusing on scripts fifteen pages or less in length.
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