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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: 06/20/2013
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: 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: 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: 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: 07/15/2013
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: 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: 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
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: 10/31/2013
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 assist the aspiring screenwriter in realizing his/her dream of becoming a professional screenwriter. To eliminate industry chokepoints that stifle creativity and impede screenplay access to managers,agents & producers.
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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: 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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Final Deadline: 03/31/2014
The American Movie Awards were originally founded in 1980 with winners such as Meryl Streep, Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, and Steven Spielberg. The event's mission is to award and recognize the very best in independent filmmaking and screenwriting and to help launch the careers of talented new filmmakers and screenwriters. The American Movie Awards have reemerged to become one of indie film's most respected symbols of success.
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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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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: Please visit website for deadlines.
Scripped users get access to some of the most exciting contests around. The Scripped network of producers, writers, and Hollywood professionals comes to Scripped to find new talent and read great scripts. Past contests have been run for Edward Burns (actor, producer, director, and writer), Steven de Souza (writer of 48 Hours and Die Hard), Dawn Olivieri (leading actress on Heroes) and Alex Albrecht (popular Internet personality).
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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: 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST) on the last day of each month.
This contest has been designed to test the mettle of the 1st 10 pages, of any script, in any genre. We're looking for a tightly written, fluently paced opening that whets our appetite and leaves us longing for more... Sounds easy right? Can you prove your script has what it takes? Enter if you dare... One unique feature of this competition is that we provide constructive feedback for every entrant.
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