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On Twitter? Want a ticket to #comedyswf? Then check out this FREE contest! Write a tweet of no more than 140 characters (including the hashtag #comfest) - the tweet must be a COMEDY LOGLINE and must describe a story that is either one YOU are working on, or IMAGINARY.
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Final Deadline: 05/01/2013 (expired)
"100 Screenplays" is a unique contest brought to you by "Screenplay Festival," one of the longest running and highest rated screenplay competitions on MovieBytes. We accept one hundred scripts into each contest, and quickly get the results to you. "!00 Screenplays" is a fast, targeted screenplay contest where every writer who enters goes in knowing exactly how many scripts will be in the competition, and every writer knows that there will be results less than a month after the contest closes.
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Final Deadline: 06/20/2012 (expired)
Finding fresh voices and great scripts by fostering good writers into artistic and commercial success. We are a hands on contest. We do our own reading.
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3-page, 3-minute, 3-character screenplays to be shot by multiple student teams in a custom-designed studio set that changes yearly.
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Final Deadline: 03/31/2012 (expired)
The first 3Pages competition ran in 2001. It has been a decade since we were foolish enough to undertake a competition the first time, but here we are again. The Academy of Film Writing is a school founded by screenwriter and author Max Adams to perpetuate excellence in film writing. The 3Pages contest exists to seek out writers exhibiting exceptional talent and drive and to work with those writers honing their craft and moving their careers forward.
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Final Deadline: 06/14/2012 (expired)
Writers have 72 hours to write a screenplay based on criteria given out on June 14th.
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Final Deadline: 08/30/2012 (expired)
To promote and support new talent by creating real and original opportunities.
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All entrants receive feedback on their scripts. Our goal is to help new writers by providing affordable, professional feedback that is neither sugarcoated nor scathing but “encouragingly blunt,” and to give talented writers the opportunity to get their work read by industry decision makers.
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Help writers enhance their screenplays.
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Final Deadline: 05/01/2013 (expired)
Help discover new or hidden talent that deserves to be recognized by the industry. This is one step towards helping achieve this goal. Every entry receives feedback.
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A Night of Horror International Film Festival is Sydney, Australia's leading genre film event, seeks to find and promote talented screenwriters working in the horror genre. Submitted screenplays will be judged by industry professionals, with the three finalist feature scripts being read by a representative of Lionsgate, the world's leading distributor of horror cinema.
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Final Deadline: 04/03/2012 (expired)
A&E Network and the New York Television Festival are back with the second installment of an innovative program seeking original unscripted television treatments from independent producers and doc production companies. Five finalist projects will receive development funding from the network with one winner earning $10,000 and the opportunity to participate in pilot production.
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Final Deadline: The 27th of each month.
We are a company run by and for writers and filmmakers. Our objective is to find hot new writers whose careers we can help launch either at the studio or indie levels, or as TV writers (longform, sitcom, not reality). We also work with playwrights and have access to a number of major theaters in the US and England and also work with novelists, as we have access to most of the major publishers.
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Final Deadline: 05/01/2013 (expired)
To identify and encourage talented new screenwriters
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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: 06/21/2013
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: 08/01/2012 (expired)
The Act One Script Competition seeks scripts that exhibit the mastery of craft combined with unparalleled beauty and depth. The winning and finalist scripts will best exemplify the Act One keynotes: Artistry, Professionalism, Meaning and Spirituality. ARTISTRY Writing communicates a fresh and unique voice Characters are well developed and multi-dimensional Plot is clear and offers an appropriate amount of twists, set-ups and payoffs.
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Final Deadline: 07/01/2011 (expired)
The Action on Film Festival is dedicated to filmmakers and to film making, and has developed a program that supports artists and creators and allows them a voice via their work.
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The Alaska International Film Festival is Alaska's leading independent film competition and recognition platform. The aim of the competition is to recognize the best and brightest new work in international cinema and highlight Alaska's important role in the international film community. Each year, awards are presented to independent filmmakers from around the globe who produce original and compelling films and screenplays in several competition categories.
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Final Deadline: 12/15/2012 (expired)
Contest will help writers open the Hollywood Door.
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Final Deadline: 09/14/2011 (expired)
We're here to promote the art of screenwriting and filmmaking in the world of sports and competition.
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To place student written material into the hands of Hollywood agents and managers.
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Final Deadline: Last day of the month.
Movies have been developed pretty much the same way since talkies were considered cutting-edge. But here at Amazon Studios, we believe 21st-century technology creates opportunities to make and share movies and scripts more easily than ever. We invite you to: Win money. Amazon Studios will award a combined $2.7 million in our first year's worth of monthly and annual contests for the best scripts and movies.
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Final Deadline: 09/30/2011 (expired)
Every brilliant film begins with a brilliant screenplay. Do you have what it takes? Our annual screenplay competition is aimed at finding the best and most talented writers from around the world. The main goal of the competition is to uncover the best, unproduced screenplays and in collaboration with the writer help develop and potentially produce them.
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The purpose of this contest is to give new screenwriters industry exposure. In its first thirty years, American Zoetrope has produced some of the most important films in American cinema--films that have been recognized with fifteen Academy Awards and sixty-eight nominations. At the core of this success is a steadfast dedication to storytelling. In the words of founding director Francis Ford Coppola, who won his first Oscar for the screenplay of Patton, "the story is the foundation upon which all else is built.
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The Amsterdam Film Festival proudly supports the art of screenwriting by allowing new talent to be heard and discovered in AFF's annual Screenplay Competition. Top screenplays in the competition are awarded based on the quality and originality of the work. AFF seeks to discover and revere the finest and most original voices in screenwriting from around the globe.
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Looking for the Best Screenplays out there today! Contest will award $1,000 to best screenplay and $250 for 2nd place along with our coveted "Appy" Award. Accepting entries beginning October 1, 2005. Festival Dates are April 27-29, 2006 in Huntington, WV. Contest Finalists invited to attend the festival.
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Final Deadline: 12/14/2012 (expired)
To provide feedback and exposure to screenplay writers who have written screenplays that take place inside and outside of Arizona.
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Final Deadline: 05/01/2012 (expired)
The Astana International Action Film Festival Screenplay and Short Film Competition is a holiday of fun-filled movies. Every summer famous actors, director and producers making dynamic action films gather in the capital city of Kazakhstan.
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aTalentScout TV Contest is a contest for big ideas and great writing. aTalentScout has been helping TV writers succeed since 1999. We are committed to discovering the best TV writing talent and catapulting projects over the no-sayers onto the desks of decision makers. Out of close to three hundred "contest sites," aTalentScout is one of only a handful to have winning projects produced.
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Final Deadline: 09/26/2011 (expired)
The Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition looks to discover high quality screenplays and then help the writer further develop and refine their script through an intensive workshop retreat (December 9-11, 2011) with professional writers and filmmakers.
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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: 12/15/2011 (expired)
Have you ever asked yourself "How will anyone know how good my screenplay is, if it never made into a film?" Here is your chance to see your screenplay brought to life. The winner in each category will not only receive a cash prize, but will get the opportunity to have their screenplay made into a film upon contract agreement with Fernleif Productions and the writer.
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We champion the struggling independent Auteur who literally does it all or who gathers a close team who contributes what's needed to get their movie make. By having in attendance, mediamakers from all across the U.S. and Canada and by bringing in experienced and award winning directors, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and stunt professionals to conduct workshops and discussion groups, thus sharing their knowledge, we are paving the way for an independent movie explosion in Oklahoma.
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Final Deadline: 12/31/2013
The Beverly Hills Screenplay Contest is an international screenwriting competition dedicated to discovering and showcasing the work of the world’s best new emerging screenwriters in the city globally recognized as the center of the movie and television industries. We celebrate and share your passion for storytelling by helping to advance the careers of talented screenwriters, connecting our winners with working industry producers, agents, managers, and development executives.
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The annual International Beverly Hills Film Festival was founded in 2001 by award-winning independent filmmaker Nino Simone. The event is dedicated to showcasing and promoting non-studio films to the entertainment industry.
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BIFF Screenplay to Production Contest (BIFF SPC) offers an opportunity for under-represented screenwriters and filmmakers to produce a film entirely from Pre-Production, Production, Post-Production to a completed finished project on High Definition Format only.
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Final Deadline: 04/07/2013 (expired)
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: Bi-monthly contest. Submissions will end every final day of the second month.
What makes the Big Idea Writing Challenge unique? We are going to make your idea BIG! If you have the talent, we have the connections and extensive marketing expertise that will give you the chance you're looking for. We will showcase your Idea to 19 PRODUCTION COMPANIES affiliated with BIG IDEA WRITERS CHALLENGE! Big Idea Writer's Challenge is a bi-monthly writing competition to accommodate those who just have a personal story to tell or a Hollywood blockbuster idea, entries are accepted in many formats ranging from one-page essays to TV.
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Final Deadline: 03/01/2013 (expired)
The 2013 Big Sur Screenwriting Workshop is most unique and rewarding screenwriting workshop in the known universe! The workshop, which will be held April 12-14, 2013 at the Lodge in Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park (25 miles south of Carmel, CA), will focus on works-in-progress. You must submit and be accepted before registering! The workshop offers participants: * A world-class faculty that includes Emmy Award-winners, Oscar nominees, the Chair of Film and Television Production at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, academia’s most accomplished professors and the industry’s most innovative producers.
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Final Deadline: 05/15/2013 (expired)
BVEW’s writing programs are designed to showcase the work of screenwriters and playwrights, getting it into the hands of industry decision-makers and independent producers. The three BVEW Screenwriting Fellows will meet at least once per month for one year with BVEW founders and industry mentors to further their work creatively and professionally.
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Final Deadline: 01/30/2012 (expired)
The purpose of the competition is to discover and provide the next great feature film with tools for its production. The Grand Prize Package - which includes a 30-day HDSLR Camera, a Canon EOS EF “L” Series Lens Package Rental and prizes from Media Services, Redrock Micro, Quick Film Budget, konsonant/, Daryl Eisenberg Casting, and Ataboy - is valued at over $100,000!
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The goal of Wilson Wheaton Productions, LLC is to serve as an outlet for creative expressions in screenwriting for both the beginning and seasoned screenwriter. This annual screenwriting competition will give screenwriters an opportunity to gain valuable experience and exposure in the film industry. Entries will be judged on originality, creativity, and industry standard formatting.
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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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Following eight successful years of the British Short Screenplay competition and with an un-precedented line up of judges like Kenneth Branagh, Sir Alan Parker, Nik Powell and Stephen Woolley Kaos Films aim with the Feature Screenplay Competition is discover the best and most talented writers from around the world and put it into production. This is not a development scheme the winning screenplay will be produced with a budget of up to $2 Million!
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Final Deadline: 07/06/2012 (expired)
The British Short Screenplay Competition (BSSC) is now accepting submissions for their annual competition. The BSSC is the only competitive and international short screenplay competition that undertakes to produce the winning screenplay and is able to boast an unrivalled line-up of judges that has included: Kenneth Branagh, Charles Dance; producers: Michael Kuhn, Alan Parker, Nik Powell, Leslee Udwin, Natascha Wharton and Stephen Woolley to name but a few.
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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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To increase the richness of contemporary Jewish culture through the creation of screenplays and films that reflects aspects of Jewish American experience.
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Final Deadline: 08/01/2011 (expired)
The BNFF is an opportunity to showcase creative writing, film and video arts, and the people who passionately pursue following their dreams of sharing the fruits of their labors with others from around the world. The BNFF is a place to come together and celebrate this shared passion for film, filmmaking, and writing. With the backdrop of Buffalo and Niagara Falls, the promise of Spring, and the beauty and power of the Falls, The BNFF offers a place like no other.
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Final Deadline: 09/03/2011 (expired)
The screenwriting contest is designed to highlight and promote the talent of undiscovered scriptwriters. Bulldog Productions will produce the winning script into a movie during the semester following the Fall deadline. Finalists have the opportunity to receive feedback on their work. Scripts will be judged by a jury of distinguished panel of industry professionals, educators, and film enthusiasts in a process that usually spans two weeks.
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