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Final Deadline: 11/30/2011 (expired)
To passionately deliver industry exposure to the best unknown screenplays each season. (and ship our winner and his screenplay out to Sundance!)
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Final Deadline: 12/31/2011 (expired)
ScriptVamp is seeking feature length screenplays to compete for cash and prizes. This year's contest will be broken down into seven separate categories; each script will be judged against scripts in a similar genre. You may enter your script(s) in any one or more of the following seven genre categories: Action / Adventure Comedy Drama Family Horror / Thriller Romance Sci-Fi / Fantasy (Note: the fee for entering a script in more than one genre category is $14.
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Final Deadline: 07/31/2012 (expired)
ScriptVamp is actively seeking short screenplays, 40 pages or less, to compete for cash and prizes. Winners will also have their script and/or logline read by our list of industry insiders, including: production companies, agents, and managers. The competition is divided into five (5) separate genre categories. You may enter your script(s) in any one, or more, of the following categories: Action/Adventure Comedy Drama Horror/Thriller Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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Final Deadline: 08/31/2012 (expired)
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: 09/01/2012 (expired)
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: 09/30/2012 (expired)
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: 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: 11/25/2012 (expired)
To discover innovative, marketable, high-concept projects for studio-level development, including feature screenplays, TV material, and media content.
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Final Deadline: 11/30/2012 (expired)
Can't wait until the official Moondance 2013 call-for-entries in December? Starting October 1, through November 30, 2012, Moondance is offering you the opportunity to get your submission in right now for this special short competition! Here’s the deal: Submit your screenplays, short stories, TV pilots, films, music & etc. (see all competition categories) for the lowest entry fee of the year, only $25, during October & November 2012, postmark deadline November 30, for the "FAST-FORWARD" contest.
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Final Deadline: 01/31/2013 (expired)
Contest founded in 1988 to provide an opportunity to compete with talent from around the world. The 42nd Annual WorldFest offers Cash Awards, Special Screenplay Master Classes, significant mentoring and project development opportunities during the ten-day festival. More than 550 international filmmakers and writers attend each year. All Remi Nominees receive VIP Gold All Access Passes to the Festival and the Master Classes (A $800 value).
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Final Deadline: 02/08/2013 (expired)
IFFF builds a peaceful global family through the discovery and sharing of quality stories by emerging artists and productions companies.
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Final Deadline: 03/15/2013 (expired)
A haunted event for the living an dead.
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Final Deadline: 04/22/2013 (expired)
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: 04/30/2013 (expired)
Entries are now being accepted for the Rod Serling Conference's Short Feature Scriptwriting competition. The conference is scheduled for November 2013 in Los Angeles. Top 5 finalists will be judged by Carol Serling. Each script must be written in the same genre and spirit that would have been suitable to conform with episodes for either THE TWILIGHT ZONE or NIGHT GALLERY.
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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: 05/15/2013 (expired)
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: 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: 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: 06/20/2013
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: 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: 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: 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: 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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