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To provide a forum for Virigina screenwriters and promote the future of filmmaking in Virginia.
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To find scripts for the 3rd International Mystery Writers' Festival where new mystery-genre plays, screenplays and teleplays come to life on stage. Professional actors present the best (contest finalists) new works of thrillers, suspense, who-dun-its, psychologoical dramas, and good ol' mysteries!
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To help aspiring writers connect with industry professionals and have their scripts read.
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Enter the 4th Annual FOX-NYTVF Comedy Script Contest and submit your script for an original half-hour comedy series. 25 Finalists will have their scripts evaluated by FOX for a possible development deal with the network and one winner will receive $25,000 and a development deal. Scripts must be entered by uploading them in a PDF format on the NYTVF upload page beginning April 4, 2011.
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Final Deadline: 06/01/2011 (expired)
To support student screenwriters at any campus of the University of California.
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Final Deadline: 10/28/2011 (expired)
We're looking for the next great story featuring the modern American family. Share your original, half-hour comedy format script with us for an opportunity to win $5,000, PLUS receive creative guidance and direct input from John Wells!
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Final Deadline: 10/31/2011 (expired)
Our objective is to find the scariest horror screenplay and launch an aggressive campaign to see it made into a movie. And this year we are looking for TWO winning screenplays!
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Final Deadline: 11/15/2011 (expired)
MARZA ANIMATION PLANET INC. (CEO: Koichi Fukazawa), the new film production arm of Sega Sammy group, and 100 Meter Films (CEO: John Williams) are pleased to launch the MARZA Story Circus competition. MARZA's company vision is to produce "Delightful stories for children all over the world!" MARZA aims to produce feature-length CGI animated films for global distribution.
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Final Deadline: 12/15/2011 (expired)
The objective of Kuzmacinema Feature Script Competition to discover a great independent feature script for following production. Screenplays must meet standard feature-length screenplay format. Allusions and citations from the world culture legacy are allowed as well as elements of absurdity or poetic manner. The next genres are not allowed: Crime, Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller.
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Final Deadline: 01/01/2012 (expired)
Imagine 10 days where the only thing you had to focus on was your screenwriting. Imagine 10 days of world class professional mentorship to help you develop your craft and take your writing to the next level. Imagine a community of writers that shares your goals, and can help you to achieve them. Imagine it taking place in one of the most beautiful places on earth.
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Final Deadline: 01/27/2012 (expired)
The New York Television Festival and Comedy Central have teamed up to offer aspiring TV writers and producers the opportunity to win $7,500 and a development deal with Comedy Central! Comedy Central is looking for fun, fresh points of view that fit into the Comedy Central brand of comedy. The following scripted-comedy formats would apply: sketch, narrative/single-camera sitcom, animated and "late night" comedy (game shows, panel shows, etc.
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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: 04/30/2012 (expired)
A new production fund that is designed to support and facilitate the creation of unconventional independent cinema that pushes the boundaries of film language. Filmmakers can apply with their scripts on Persona Non Grata’s site (http://personanongrata.org/) to compete for an opportunity to direct their film. The first round of the script-to-screen competition will result in the production of a feature film with a budget of at least $250,000.
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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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Final Deadline: 07/24/2012 (expired)
To discover amateur writers' work and promote it to Hollywood producers in a first-look option meeting.
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Final Deadline: 10/12/2012 (expired)
To promote talented people and to give them the opportunity to receive feedback from production professionals as well as meet European decision-makers of the advertising industry in order to start or to develop a career in advertising. To allow mutual discovery between scriptwriters and producers, every project will be read by members of the Production Cristal Academy.
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Final Deadline: 01/31/2013 (expired)
Our goal is threefold: help writers improve their craft, celebrate our best work, and connect writers and their scripts with filmmakers.
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Final Deadline: 02/25/2013 (expired)
History and the NYTVF awarding development deals for original unscripted, reality and doc TV programming. Submit your casting tape and series concept for the opportunity to receive funding, win $10k and participate in pilot production with History Channel. The History Unscripted Development Pipeline History, home of factual entertainment hits including Pawn Stars and American Pickers, is collaborating with the NYTVF on a new initiative to give independent artists and production companies a chance to develop fresh unscripted programming for cable's number two network.
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Final Deadline: 02/28/2013 (expired)
Nickelodeon’s Writing Program offers aspiring television writers, with diverse backgrounds and experiences, the opportunity to hone their skills while writing for our live action and animated shows. Participants will have hands-on interaction with executives writing spec scripts and pitching story ideas. ThePprogram, developed to broaden Nickelodeon's outreach efforts, provides a salaried position for up to one year.
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Final Deadline: 03/15/2013 (expired)
Writers and Independent Producers: Think you could create NBC's next big, splashy drama TV hit? Earn $25k with NBC and the NYTVF. NBC is partnering with the New York Television Festival to discover aspiring writers, storytellers and television creators. They are looking for passionate ideas for hour-long drama pilots, with bold characters and specific and fresh points of view.
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Final Deadline: 04/10/2013 (expired)
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: 04/12/2013 (expired)
Pixel Productions is proud to announce our Green Screen Challenge! Do you have a short script that you’ve always wanted to see come to life? What about a good idea for one that you’ve needed an excuse to write? Well now’s your chance! Enter your short script of between 1 and 2 pages and we’ll shoot it against our green screen cyc wall, edit it for you, and put it out there for everyone to see.
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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: 12/01/2013
To promote talented screenwriters.
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Final Deadline: Rolling Contest -- Each Month Winners Announced and Yearly Awards up to $500.
Think you have a good idea for a movie? Submit your Movie Idea and it will be uploaded online for everyone to vote on and review. Why LoglineFest? 1) So you know whether or not your idea is ready to be written into a screenplay before you spend days and months writing. 2) To perfect your Logline to prepare to pitch your script. 3) To win $500 in Awards!
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Final Deadline: Monthly on the last day of each month.
Our goal is threefold: help writers improve their craft, celebrate our best work, and connect writers and their scripts with filmmakers.
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Final Deadline: 25th of each month.
To help writers hone their loglines by competing with and judging their peers.
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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: Last day of each month
A monthly competition for members of Talentville.com who have uploaded full length, drama or sitcom screenplays at the site. Script are reviewed and rated via a peer review system among the members, with the top three rated scripts becoming a finalist at the end of each month. All finalists receive professional coverage by Scriptapalooza, with the order of finish being judged solely by them.
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