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Soggy Mops Production will be having a short screenwriting competition. The screenplay must be between 5 and 30 pages. The winning script(s) will be produced and promoted in film festivals nationwide in 2011.
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To help aspiring writers connect with industry professionals and have their scripts read.
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To encourage writing talent and to give writers the opportunity to see their work on screen.
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The purpose of this contest is to showcase the beauty of Colorado. The story should be set around a place in Colorado.
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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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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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To give honest, in depth feedback to writers that they can actually use. Winning writer gets 30% of the entry fees so that they can hopefully produce their film. We offer free advice on how to create a low/no budget feature that can get your script produced, go to film festivals, win awards and get distribution.
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Final Deadline: 09/01/2011 (expired)
To find talented new and original screenplays.
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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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Final Deadline: 09/30/2011 (expired)
To find screenplays ready for production.
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Final Deadline: 11/15/2011 (expired)
The MiX competition rewards current projects and brings talented writers and filmmakers together to collaborate on the production of future high quality projects. We are also one of the few that provides potential production opportunities for our top winners. All entrants receive the judging scorecard and a few paragraphs of notes, included in the price of the entry.
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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: 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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Final Deadline: 01/31/2012 (expired)
Your mission is to write a 15-minute sitcom episode with series potential. Make it funny, interesting, marketable and stageable - we perform the winners in a London theatre to the UK comedy commissioners. Give us some brilliant characters who make us, and an audience, laugh out loud. We're in partnership with Hat Trick Productions, the guys behind Episodes and Father Ted.
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Final Deadline: 03/16/2012 (expired)
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: 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: 07/01/2012 (expired)
The EDDIE BAUER JR AND TRUSTFUNDPUNKFILMS SCREENPLAY CONTEST was created to uncover hidden talent, and to help writers get their screenplays in front of industry professionals on the hunt for great content. Grandson of the famed outdoorsman, Eddie Bauer Jr. wrote CASA DEL AGUA about his tumultuous life experiences, and now wants to help fellow screenwriters complete the journey to see their short or feature-length script play out on the big screen.
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Final Deadline: 09/16/2012 (expired)
The Richmond International Film Festival (RIFF) is a competitive festival that accepts features and shorts of all genres and niches (films & screenplays). The festival highlights both the emerging and professional filmmaker, and serves as a catalyst for bringing writers & filmmakers together to collaborate on future film productions.
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Final Deadline: 11/05/2012 (expired)
Fresh Voices offers winning screenwriters the tools, guidance and opportunity to pursue a professional career, while offering the industry a trusted conduit for fresh new material and writers. Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition offers unrivaled industry exposure and a tangible career boost. Executives from some of Hollywood's top production companies have committed to read and consider the winners in six separate genre categories including; HBO Films, Escape Artists, Joel Schumacher Prods.
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Final Deadline: 11/09/2012 (expired)
We strive to discover & develop talented writers while offering superior transparency regarding our competition. FEATURES: Recognizing a lack of distinct voices in the screenplays being produced, GSISC has devoted our competition to finding brilliant feature scripts and developing them with our winners to ensure they are production ready.
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Final Deadline: 11/10/2012 (expired)
To promote and support new talent and continue our pledge of creating opportunities for new writers by providing financial rewards, software to assist in future projects, and promotion of the writer and project to agents, studios and production companies. Our winners are routinely requested by top entertainment industry people and many winners have either gained representation and/or had their screenplays optioned.
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Final Deadline: 12/15/2012 (expired)
Provide an opportunity for novice and experienced writers who are seeking to have their project read for consideration.
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Final Deadline: 12/31/2012 (expired)
The goal of the Red Eye Writing is to discover and build relationships with talented screenwriters.
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Final Deadline: 01/15/2013 (expired)
KAYfilms Productions is seeking a short comedic screenplay (under 30 pages) for production. The value of the screenplay should lie in witty dialogue and character development. In other words: Minimal foul language No nudity No major special effects Flexible locations (outdoor preferred) No expensive props The winning writer will receive 20% of any proceeds from the film.
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Final Deadline: 01/16/2013 (expired)
Before any film is cast, financed, produced or distributed, there must be a high quality screenplay. The Los Angeles Screenplay Competition is run by people who produce feature films. We are specifically looking for screenplays to produce and talented screenwriters to contract to write screenplays for production.
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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: 05/10/2013 (expired)
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: 05/19/2013 (expired)
Storyboard TV is an online community of writers, readers, and television watchers that believes in the power of episodic, fictional television to document, enhance, and transform people's lives for the better. The object of Storyboard's long form script competition is to jump start this community and to empower new writers to start creating scripts for television.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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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Final Deadline: 05/01/2014
New Media Film Festival Honors Stories Worth Telling. Judges from Pixar, FOX, The Caucus and other industry leaders. NEW MEDIA SCRIPT COMPEITION - If you write stories worth telling, this is the category for you. Whether it is short of long form, animation, comedy, sitcom, drama, webseries, anything scripted, this is for you.
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