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Final Deadline: 09/07/2010
Our $90,000 in prizes aim to reward what Creative Screenwriting has been celebrating for the past 15 years: the art and craft of screenwriting.
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Final Deadline: 09/07/2010
The GOTHAM SCREEN Film Festival and Screenplay Contest will take place Oct 7-10, 2010, in New York City. An opportunity for filmmakers to have their work shown and critically judged in New York, Gotham Screen is looking for fresh voices and perspectives from local, national and international filmmakers. The mission of the festival is to create a positive industry and audience exposure for works that would otherwise not easily get seen.
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Final Deadline: 09/11/2010
Shiver's Short Horror Screenplay Competition is for short horror screenplays 1 to 30 pages in length. Winners receive monetary award, trophy, and industry exposure.
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Final Deadline: 09/15/2010
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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Final Deadline: 09/15/2010
This program is sponsored by Drs. Bill & Camille Cosby. It's purpose is to Increase the pool of talented, qualified African-American writers in the entertainment industry.
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Final Deadline: 09/28/2010
I want your best story and I want it to be rolled out visually. Give me a good story visually and we can work out any other deficiencies.
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Final Deadline: 09/29/2010
The Sin City Underground Film Festival Screenplay Competition is dedicated to discovering and supporting emerging writing talent. We welcome screenplays in every genre, any budget, on any topic, from anywhere in the world. Our goal is highlighting talented, independent screenwriters and introducing them to the entertainment industry. We are committed to continuing our pursuit to champion outstanding new work.
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Final Deadline: 09/30/2010
Zed Fest is a film festival and screenplay competition established to promote and appreciate Lo/No budget independent Horror and Sci-Fi films, otherwise known as Z-Movies. We want to support filmmaking outside the "System" whether it be DIY, Backyard, Sweded, Guerilla, Dogme, etc. The lower the budget the better!
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Final Deadline: 09/30/2010
Our Objective is to provide new writers with feedback, exposure and cool prizes they can show their friends. Our mission at the-GreenLight.com is to provide new writers with helpful insight and tools to make there writing better.
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Final Deadline: 09/30/2010
We highlight Family Friendly entertainment during our Festival to both the public and members of the Entertainment Industry.
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Final Deadline: 09/30/2010
Write a short film screenplay. The genre is Science fiction. The screen time for your entry should not be any longer than 25 minutes.
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Final Deadline: 09/30/2010
Though in its first year, the SCRIPTOID Writer's Challenge promises to be different from other similar competitions. Aside from cash prizes and packages offered by our sponsors, SCRIPTOID also gives the grand prize winner an offer of representation from ADA Management Group, an up and coming management firm in South Florida. Furthermore, everyone that submits a screenplay to the competition will receive a complimentary coverage of their work.
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Final Deadline: 10/01/2010
The Hearst Screenwriting Grant was conceived to identify, nurture and support mid-career screenwriters that are writing scripts that are vibrant, intelligent, moving and innovative. For talented screenwriters with projects at an early stage such as full treatment or early screenplay draft, the grant provides $15,000 to develop their projects further.
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Final Deadline: 10/01/2010
Our intention is to help open doors for the aspiring television writer. There are four categories you can submit to, which include 1 hour existing spec scripts, 1/2 hour existing sitcom spec scripts, original pilots, and reality programs. This competition is designed with the TV writer and crossover screenwriter in mind. The participants we have chosen to read the winning scripts are individuals from established production companies.
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Final Deadline: 10/01/2010
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: 10/05/2010
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: 10/10/2010
To create a series of short films about historical women warriors.
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Final Deadline: 10/15/2010
To open doors to provide access to Hollywood. The Forum plans to leverage the experience of President Ken Miyamoto, formerly of Sony Pictures, and current paid screenwriter with Lionsgate, to benefit its members.
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Final Deadline: 10/15/2010
The All Genres Writing Competition hosts writing contests for the following categories: Children's Books (No Word Limit) Young Adult (No Word Limit) Poetry (No Word Limit) Romance (No Word Limit) Screenplays (120 pages) Fiction (No Word Limit) Non-Fiction (No Word Limit) A junior writing contest in all genres is also offered for writers 12-18 years of age.
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Final Deadline: 10/23/2010
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: 10/23/2010
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: 10/31/2010
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Final Deadline: 10/31/2010
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: 10/31/2010
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: 11/01/2010
To promote holiday centered screenplays.
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Final Deadline: 11/01/2010
Fresh Voices is a consortium of industry professionals providing emerging writers with the tools, guidance and opportunities to succeed, while offering the industry a trusted conduit for fresh new material. Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition offers unrivaled industry exposure and a tangible career boost. Senior executives from some of Hollywood's leading companies have committed to read and consider the winners in five separate genre categories including; HBO Films, Escape Artists, Mandate Pictures, Joel Schumacher Prods.
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Final Deadline: 11/02/2010
The Gimme Credit International Screenplay Competition was created to provide exposure and development advice to as many writers as possible. We strive to bring new and unique voices to the table. Recognizing a lack of distinct voices in the screenplays being produced, GSISC has now devoted the competition to finding brilliant feature scripts. We have a network of associates at production companies who are constantly on the lookout for the next great script.
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Final Deadline: 11/07/2010
Only 1000 entries will be accepted. Enter early and save! Out of close to three hundred "contest sites," WriteMovies is one of only a handful that has produced movies from winning projects. "The List", was written by WriteMovies winner Marcus Folmar. In addition, former winner Jon Rosten has parlayed his success in the contest into getting his project," Valley of Angels" produced last Dec.
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Final Deadline: 11/10/2010
Each year, at our exclusive Awards Ceremony and Filmmakers Dinner, the California Film Awards recognizes excellence in filmmaking in several competition categories with the prestigious California Film Awards. The Official Jury will award deserving films, filmmakers, and writers in the following categories: Best Picture, Screenplay, Directing, Actor, Actress, Art Design, Cinematography, Editing, Animation, Short Films, Feature Narratives, Documentaries, Foreign Films, Music Videos, Experimental Films, First-Time Directors, California Films, and Student Films.
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Final Deadline: 11/15/2010
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: 11/15/2010
Television is booming, with an insatiable appetite for new content. High salaries, creative control and a fast paced, exciting environment have made tv a mecca for new writers. TV is in a new golden age, and our Golden Age of Television Writing Competition seeks the best scripts across both major formats: Spec scripts of half an hour or one hour in length, comedies or dramas.
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Final Deadline: 11/15/2010
We don't offer any of the usual screenplay contest smoke and mirrors ... No coverage from someone being paid $10 per script (please ask Mom). No cash (please ask Grandma) or writing clinics from gurus who have never sold a screenplay (Dad?). What our winners do receive is: INDUSTRY ACCESS AND INDUSTRY READS.
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Final Deadline: 11/30/2010
Our objective is to find and promote talented screenwriters.
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Final Deadline: 11/30/2010
Our objective is to discover and promote quality screenplays. There will be one winner in each of our seven categories: Drama, Romantic Comedy, Comedy, Family, Action/Thriller, Period, Sci-Fi/Fantasy (provided quality scripts are submitted in each category) and one Grand Prize winner. The Grand Prize winning script will be submitted to managers, producers, and directors in Los Angeles, New York and/or London, depending on the genre.
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Final Deadline: 11/30/2010
The High Concept Screenplay Competition welcomes all genres and aims to discover, honor and reward different approaches, eclectic points of view and unique voices in screenwriting. A high concept screenplay: has a great premise — the idea is king (Big) has a memorable title — it conveys what the movie is about (Wedding Crashers) has a visual logline — you can see the movie (40 Year Old Virgin) has universal appeal — all demographics ''get it'' (Star Trek) has a simple throughline, clear conflicts, high stakes, a hook, a ticking clock and/ or a twist (The Godfather, Liar Liar) can be summed up succinctly in 25 words or less (Seven, Home Alone)
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Final Deadline: 12/01/2010
To provide Screenwriters Access to Actors performing their work!
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Final Deadline: 12/15/2010
The 2010 Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition is OPEN FOR ENTRIES! And the prizes include all the TOOLS you need to change your career forever! Submit your FEATURE screenplay or T.V. Pilot and WIN the best Prizes in the industry. And an Opportunity to CHANGE YOUR CAREER FOREVER!
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Final Deadline: 12/15/2010
The competition focuses on showcasing the work of emerging screenwriters who have not had their work produced or optioned. The competition is especially committed to encouraging writers from rural areas.
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Final Deadline: 12/15/2010
In the over saturated screenplay competition landscape, The Inkwell Opportunity offers aspiring scribes the chance to secure guaranteed representation. Our winner will be signed to an exclusive one year contract by Pipeline Entertainment, a production management firm with over 100 seasoned industry clients. The winning screenplay will be developed, packaged and brought to town - perhaps even financed - by this shingle.
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Final Deadline: 12/16/2010
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: 12/17/2010
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: 12/20/2010
The L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival and Screenplay Competition is dedicated to promoting the comedy genre and helping comedy filmmakers and writers take the next step in their careers. L.A. Comedy Shorts was ranked one of the ''Top 25 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee'' by MovieMaker Magazine, and listed as one of the ''Top Ten Festivals in the U.
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Final Deadline: 12/31/2010
ScriptVamp is seeking feature length screenplays to compete for cash and prizes. This year's contest will be broken down into five separate categories; each script will be judged against scripts in a similar genre. You may enter your script(s) in one or more of the following five genre categories: Action /Adventure Comedy Drama Epic / Historical Horror / Thriller / Sci-Fi One unique feature of each ScriptVamp competition is that we provide constructive feedback for every entry.
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Final Deadline: 01/11/2011
To promote and encourage the creation and sharing of family film product through film exhibition, professional, seminars, and engaging post-film discussions. IFFF believes it is extremely important to restate the emphasis on the celebration of the family unit and that this social unit is the single most important human dynamic that most directly influences and impacts each human being's personal odyssey through life.
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Final Deadline: 01/31/2011
The Canadian Short Screenplay Competition, administered by Year of the Skunk Productions (Regina), and established in 2008, is the premiere script contest for short film screenplays. With over $50,000 in prizing, CSSC is the single-most competitive, prestigious, short screenplay festival in Canada, a champion for screenwriters everywhere and a launching pad for writers' professional careers.
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Final Deadline: 02/01/2011
RomCom 2011 is run by New Island Productions, an independent film business in Melbourne, Australia. The competition is to write a screen play for a Short Romantic Comedy with a screen time of no more than 20 minutes. The competition is open to international entrants of all ages.
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Final Deadline: 02/15/2011
Talent is not a diamond in the dust, it's a diamond in a rock. Unlike dust, you have to mine; which is back breaking. Then you have to sift through unwanted elements in repetitive cycles. It's time consuming, it's difficult. Industry executives are not miners. They are like end-users. They like to stroll in and try it on. Yes, when it's polished and ready for the market.
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Final Deadline: 02/15/2011
To identify and foster the talents of emerging screenwriters by providing feedback on submitted scripts.
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Final Deadline: 03/31/2011
Founded in 1997 as the Police Writers Club, the Public Safety Writers Association is open to both new and experienced, published and not yet published writers. Members include police officers, civilian police personnel, firefighters, fire support personnel, emergency personnel, security personnel and others in the public safety field. Also represented are those who write about public safety including mystery writers, magazine writers, journalists and those who are simply interested in the genre.
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Final Deadline: Monthy on the 20th of each month.
Build a screenwriting resume quickly with our MONTHLY Best Script contest and win a shot at our yearly contest. Consultations with top consultant Sheila Gallien as prizes...and lots of screenwriting info on the site.
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