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LiveRead/LA Names Contest Winners

LiveRead/LA has named Natalie Higdon and Mads Gauger & Christan Mary Leonard as the winners of their next live read, to be held Monday, January 27th at 7.30pm at the Matrix Theatre in West Hollywood. MovieBytes readers are eligible for a $5 discount for the reading and the Q&A afterwards.

Tracking Board Names Launch Pad Feature Finalists

Tracking Board has announced the 100 Finalists for the 2019 Launch Pad Feature Competition.

People's Pilot Names Semifinalists

The People's Pilot has announced their 2019 Comedy and Drama Semifinalists.

Scriptapalooza Launches New Website for Coverage Department

Table Read My Screenplay Names Park City Grand Prize Winners

Cloistered by M Rowan Meyer has been named the Feature/TV Pilot Winner of the 2020 Table Read My Screenplay Competition, with the Grand Prize of a table read to be held in Park City. Utah during the Sundance Film Festival. The Short Script/Web Series winner was The Nebraska Incident by J. Elizabeth Martin.

Which Screenplay Contests Should You Enter in 2020?

Screenwriting contests are not a one-size-fits-all affair. While there are obvious benefits to winning a huge and prestigious competition like the Nicholl Fellowships, smaller contests can be just as valuable if they hook you up with a judge who wants to option your screenplay, or a manager who wants to represent your work.

Table Read My Screenplay Names Park City 2020 Semi-Finalists

Semifinalists have been announced for the 2020 Table Read My Screenplay competition, with the winning screenplay to be read in Park City, UT during the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

Emerging Screenwriters Names Genre Contest Winners

Survivors: B.S. by Julia Skikavich has been named the winner of the 2019 Emerging Screenwriter Award, and 7 other writers have also been honored for genre-winning scripts.

Launch Pad Names 2019 Pilot Competition Winners

Noah Kloor's Grand Illusions has been named the Overall Winner of the 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition for his period drama about a young factory worker longing to escape her difficult life who is drawn inexorably into the glamorous and dangerous world of a touring illusionist and his troupe.

CineStory TV Announces First Round Contest Results

Cinestory TV has announced the quarterfinalists in their Original Drama, Comedy and Sci-Fi Categories, and the semifinalists in their Family category. The next round of results will be announced in mid-January.

Shore Scripts Announces Order of Finish

Benjamin Feuer, Brian Golden, and Kate Shenton have been named the 1st Place Winners of the Feature, 1-hour and 1/2-hour TV categories of the 2019 Shore Scripts Screenwriting Competition.

Your Script Produced Honors Contest Winners

Your script Produced! International Film/TV/Short Screenplay Competition inaugural 2019 Season 1 Awards Dinner in Beverly Hills, CA November 8, 2019.

Shore Scripts Names Contest Winners

Shore Scripts has announced their Winning Features and TV Pilots. Order of finish among the winning scripts will be announced on December 10th.

Your Script Produced Contest Winner Slated for Production

Ted Campbell, Feature Grand Prize winner and Doval Bacall the financier/producer, have begun developing/preparing the Crime Thriller script "Blue Motel" for pre-production in the first quarter of 2020. Doval Bacall will produce the feature for $250,000 under his Doval Bacall Films LLC Banner.

Shore Scripts Names Feature and TV Finalists

Shore Scripts has announced their 2019 Contest Finalists. Winners will be announced on November 25th.

Scriptapalooza Runner-Up Optioned for Production

Your Script Produced Award Ceremony with Tribute to late John Singleton

Sheila Shah and Doval Bacall hosted an intimate reception with winners and friends at the Bombay Palace in Beverly Hills.

Write/LA Names Grand Prize Winners

Write/LA has announced their Grand Prize Winner for 2019. Nick Alverson, Paula Dixon and Clint Williams will come to LA for two days of masterclasses followed by an invite-only Grand Prize Live Read event at Raleigh Studios on December 7, 2019.

Interview with 2019 Creative World Award
Winner Taylor Hopkins

Taylor Hopkins was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2019 Creative World Awards for his screenplay, Stagecoach Mary, a true story about a hard-drinking, cigar smoking black woman in Montana in 1885, who uses her six shooter and tough as nails attitude to defend a convent of nuns from the perils of the Wild West.

Creative Screenwriting Names Unique Voices Contest Winners

The First Law by D.J. McPherson and Jack Christian has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2019 Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenwriting Competition.

Shore Scripts Names Semifinalists

Short Scripts has announced their 2019 Feature and TV Pilot (1/2-hour and 1-hour) semifinalists.

Scriptapalooza Fellowship Recipient Discusses McKee Seminar

2019 Scriptapalooza Fellowship Recipient Paula Dixon talks about the Robert McKee seminar she attended.

Austin Film Fest Names Contest Winners

The Austin Film Festival has announced their 2019 Screenplay Contest Winners.

Your Script Produced Names Season One Contest Winners

Ted Campbell's Blue Motel has been named the Ultimate Grand Prize Winner in the Feature Film Category of the Your Script Produced Screenwriting Competition. Midlife Drive-Thru, by Iris May & Leia Leia Vogelle, is the Prize Winner in the TV Category.

In related news, the late Academy Award nominated filmmaker John Singleton will receive the Your Script Produced! Lifetime Achievement Award on Friday, November 8th, at the Season One Awards Dinner at Bombay Palace in Beverly Hills. The screenwriter and producer's daughter, Justice Singleton, will accept the award on his behalf.

Finish Line Names 2019 Contest Winners

Avi Glick's Old Dogs and Still Waters has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2019 Finish Line Script Competition.

Write/LA Names Contest Finalists

Eight finalists have been chosen for the 2019 Write/LA Screenwriting Competition. Three Grand Prize Winners will announced November 15th.

NYC Horror Film Festival Names Screenplay Competition Finalists

Finalists and Semifinalists have been announced for the 2019 NYC Horror Film Festival Screenplay Competition.

ScreamFest Names Contest Winners

Fang and Claw by Troy Sloan has been announced as the winner of the ScreamFest Horror Screenwriting Competition, along with four other finalists.

Shore Scripts Names 2019 Quarterfinalists

Shore Scripts has announced their 2019 TV and Feature Script Quarterfinalists, representing approximately the top 10% of all submissions.

ISA Names Fast Track X Fellowship Winners

The International Screenwriters Association (ISA) has named M Elizabeth Eller and Victoria Lucia as their Fast Track X Fellowship Winners.

Scriptapalooza Posts TV Winner Interviews

The Scriptapalooza Television Writing Competition has posted video interviews with its top winners.

2019 PAGE Award Winners Announced

The winners of the 2019 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards contest have now been announced, and this year’s $25,000 Grand Prize was awarded to Michael Kogge for his powerful historical biopic ODYSSEY.

Write/LA Names 2019 Semifinalists

The Write/LA Screenwriting Competition has named their 15 semifinalists for 2019. Finalists will be announced on November 1st.

Scriptapalooza Posts Video Interviews with 2019 Contest Winners

Scripapalooza has posted video interviews with their 2019 Contest Winners Tuck Tucker, Nick Roberts, and Steven Benedict.

ScreamFest Names Semifinalists

Semifinalists have been announced for the 2019 ScreamFest Horror Screenplay Competition.

Write/LA Announces Quarterfinalists

Fifty quarterfinalists have been announced for the 2019 Write/LA Screenwriting Competition. Fifteen semifinalists will be announced on October 15.

Filmmatic Names 2019 Comedy Screenplay Awards Winners and Finalists

Annie O'Connell & Reem Edan have been named the winner of the 2019 Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards for their Pilot "The Degenerates".

Table Read My Screenplay Names Austin Contest Winners

The Table Read My Screenplay Competition has announced Rachel Kempf's Dirty Words as the winner of a table read at this year's Austin Film Festival.

AFF Announces Semifinalists & Second Rounders

The Austin Film Festival (AFF) has announced their 2019 Script Competition Semifinalists (top 2%) and Second Rounders (top 20%), chosen from a record field of 11,907 scripts entered in the Screenplay, Digital Series, Playwriting, and Fiction Podcast Competitions. Finalists will be revealed by mid-October and the winners will be announced during this year’s Conference at the Awards Luncheon on Saturday, October 26 at the new LINE Austin Hotel, overlooking Town Lake downtown.

Page Announces Contest Finalists

The Judges of the 2019 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards have announced the top 10 Finalists in each of the contest's ten genre categories.

Finish Line Names Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 2019 Finish Line Screenwriting Competition in both the Feature and Television Pilot categories.

CineStory Names Fellowship Winner

Kerry Kolbe has been named the Winner of the 2019 CineStory Fellowship Competition on the basis of her script Swallow, about a 17-year-old girl who is desperate to study particle physics at Cambridge, like her hero Stephen Hawking. Unfortunately, she's trapped playing parent to her dysfunctional family of twitchers (a/k/a bird watchers), who drag her on a wild chase of her late mother's "spirit animal," a rare albino swallow.

Scriptapalooza Announces 2019 Screenplay Contest Winners

Tuck Tucker's Boy Most Wanted has been named the winner of the 2019 Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition. Nick Robert's Jumping Into Hemingway's Pool was the 2nd place winner, and the 3rd place winner was The Girl Who Collected Sound by Steven Benedict.

Academy Announces 2019 Nicholl Fellowship Finalists

The 2019 Nicholl Fellowships finalists are (listed alphabetically by author): Aaron Chung, "Princess Vietnam", Gary Patent, "Cosmonaut", Jack Zafran, "Justice, Justice", Joel Sinensky, "The Lie Factory", Karen McDermott, "Lullabies of La Jaula", Lynn Esta Goldman, "On the Wing", Matthew Fantaci, "Scandalous!", Paul Ashton, "Slater Berricks is a Dead Man", Renee Pillai, "Boy with Kite", Sean Malcolm, "Mother", Toy Styles, "Concrete Beach", and Walker McKnight, "Street Rat Allie Punches Her Ticket."

HollyShort Names Contest Winners

6,000 submissions, 400 official selections, and 10 days later, the HollyShorts Film Festival has announced their top 36 prizes for their landmark 15th year. On Saturday at Harmony Gold in Hollywood, three of the festival’s films officially became qualified to be in the running for an Academy AwardⓇ in 2020. This year marked the biggest prize packages for filmmakers as well, including prizes from Impossible Dream, Studio 21, Film Augusta, Seattle Film Summit, Buffalo 8, Stampede Ventures, Kodak, Panavision, PaperChase Films, ISA and more.

CWA Announces Contest Winners

Taylor Hopkins' Stagecoach Mary has been named the winner of the Creative World Awards Screenwriting Competition. Based on a true story, the script is about a hard-drinking, cigar smoking black woman in Montana in 1885, who uses her six shooter and tough as nails attitude to defend a convent of nuns from the perils of the Wild West.

Scriptapalooza Names Short Screenplay Contest Winners

Michael Fearths' Made You Better When I Died has been named the winner of the 2019 Scriptapalooza Short Screenplay Competition.

CineStory Names Finalists

Finalists have been annonced for the 2019 CineStory Feature Fellowship.

TrackingB Names TV Contest Winners

Matt Raner has been named the overall winner of the TrackingB TV Pilot Competition. The script, titled Hechicera is about a former FBI agent who lives a lonely life in a small Arizona town, until three cartel killers come hunting for an innocent immigrant girl hiding an unbelievable secret.

Live Read/LA Names August Winners

Winners and finalists have been announced for the August, 2019 Live Read/LA Screenwriting Competition. The reading will be held on Monday, August 26th, 2019, with Industry Insider Hannah Ozer, a Literary Manager with Kaplan/Perrone.

Scriptaplooza Names Screenplay Finalists

Scriptapalooza has announced the top 30 finalists for their 2019 Screenplay Competition.

Scriptapalooza Announces TV Contest Winners

ScriptaploozaTV has announced their category winners, finalists, semifinalists, and quarterfinalists from among 767 submissions.

Scriptapalooza Names Semifinalists

Semifinalists have been announced for the 2019 Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition.

Scriptapalooza Names Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 2019 Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition.

Writers Lab Names Participants

Twelve writers have been selected to participate in the 2019 Writers Lab retreat to be held October 2-6, 2019 at the Guest House Retreat Center in Chester, CT.

Scriptapalooza Names Fellowship Finalists

Scriptapalooza has the named six finalists from among 521 submissions to 2019 Scriptapalooza Fellowship Competition.

PAGE Announces 2019 Quarterfinalists

The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards has announced their 2019 Quarterfinalists, representing the top 10% of all entries in this year's contest.

CineStory Names 2019 Fellowship Semifinalists

CineStroy has announced 26 semifinalists for their 2019 Feature Fellowship Competition. Semifinalists will be invited to attend this year's feature retreat, which takes place on October 19th – October 22nd. Attendees receive three 90-minute one-on-one sessions with CineStory mentors. Attendees also participate in mentor-run informal rooms on topics ranging from "Pitching Like a Pro" to "The State of Filmmaking in the Digital Age."

Write/LA Names Two More Industry Insiders

In the lead up to Write/LA's Final Deadline on July 15, the competition has announced two more Industry Insiders who have agreed to each read a finalist script and provide written feedback to the writer.

Table Read My Screenplay Names Hollywood Winners

The Table Read My Screenplay Contest has announced Bonnie Gross, Jasmine Leyva and Anthony Fernandez as the Grand Prize Winners of their "Hollywood" competition.

Write/LA 2019 Winners to be Reviewed by Script Pipeline

Write/LA has announced that their 2019 screenwriting competition winners will be reviewed by Script Pipeline as part of their push to help top writers from all the most respected screenwriting competitions gain more industry access.

HollyShorts Film Fest Names Screenplay Selections

Official Selections have been announced for the 6th Annual HollyShort Film Festival, part of the 15th annual HollyShorts Film Festival (August 8-17th, 2019).

Launch Pad Names Feature Contest Winners

Jeffrey Field has been named the 2018 Launch Pad Feature Contest Winner for his thriller, Don't Go There, about a violent man who has just murdered four people, who seeks refuge in what appears to be an empty home, only to discover that the elderly woman living within may be far more dangerous than anything waiting for him outside.

Shore Scripts Names 2019 Short Film Fund Winners

A Young Man's Game by James Gould-Bourn has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2019 Shore Scripts Short Film Fund, and the project has been awarded $10,000 in cash. Miss Fortunate, by Molly O'Shea been named the $4,000 Second Place Winner.

StoryPros Names Awards Semifinalists

Semifinalists have just been announced for the 12th Annual StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest.

Filmmatic Names Inroads Fellowship Winner

Filmmatic has named Justin Moran Season 2 Inroads Screenwriting Fellow for his Sci-fi TV pilot, Rust. The script features a crew of hard-luck space miners that happen upon an old shipwreck, launching them into a world of bounty hunters, terrorists, and a mammoth mining conglomerate set on keeping old mistakes buried.

Shore Scripts Names Short Film Fund Finalists

Shore Films has announced the 15 Finalsts for their 2019 Short Film Fund. Winner will be announced June 6th.

StoryPros Awards Names Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced of the 12th Annual StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest.

Launch Pad Feature Competition Names Top 10 Finalists

The Launch Pad competition, in exclusive partnership with Good Fear Film + Management and Romark Entertainment, has announced the top 10 finalists for the 2018/2019 Launch Pad feature competition.

Scriptapalooza TV Debuts New Website

Emerging Screenwriters Names Shoot Your Sizzle Winners

Steve Feld's Take My Wife, Please has been named the winner of the Emerging Screenwriter's Shoot Your Sizzle Screenwriting Competition.

BlueCat Names Contest Winners

Fox Hollow by Ariel Sobel has been named the Winner of the BlueCat Screenplay Contest for 2019. Benjamin Christopher won the Hour-long Pilot Category for his script Tenth Street, while Katie Blair was the Half-Hour Winner for her script, Clay.

Austin Fest to Honor David Benioff and D.B. Weiss

Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference (AFF), the premier film festival that champions the writers’ contribution to film, television, and new media, has announced David Benioff and D.B. Weiss as the recipients of the "Outstanding Television Writer" Award at the 26th Annual Austin Film Festival, this October 24-31, 2019.

BlueCat Names 2019 Finalists

BlueCat has named their top 5 Feature and TV Pilot finalists.

Shoot Your Sizzle Names Top 100

Emerging Screenwriters has announced the Top 100 scripts of their 2019 Shoot Your Sizzle Screenwriting Competition.

Skye Emerson's Challenger Wins Fresh Voices Grand Prize Award

Women reigned victorious at the 2018-19 Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition this week with an all-star group of talented female writers dominating both the Drama and Family Film Categories. Leading them all, it was Skye Emerson's historical drama, CHALLENGER, that wowed the jury and took home the Grand Prize Award.

ScreenCraft Names Fellowship Quarterfinalists

ScreenCraft has announced the quarterfinalists from among roughly 2,500 submissions to their 2019 ScreenCraft Fellowship Competition.

BlueCat Names Semifinalists

BlueCat has announced their 2019 Feature, TV, and Short Script semifinalists.

Fresh Voices Announces Finalists and Spotlight Award Nominees

Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition has named their 2018-19 Contest Finalists and Spotlight Award Nominees.

Scriptapalooza Producing Shorts & Features

A newly launched division of the Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition is now producing films utilizing the organization's relationships to attach funds and talent.

BlueCat Names 2019 Quarterfinalists

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced quarterfinalists for their 2019 Feature, Short, and TV pilot contests.

Austin Film Festival and Rooster Teeth Announce New Fellowship Award

Austin Film Festival and Rooster Teeth are partnering to launch the Inaugural "Rooster Teeth Fellowship Award" to be presented at the 26th Annual Austin Film Festival. This new award will be available in conjunction with AFF's existing Script Competitions and is open to all scripted submissions that embody the Rooster Teeth genre.

Scriptation Announces Showcase Script Competition for Emerging Screenwriters

Scriptation, the company behind the popular script app used on film and television productions worldwide, opened the call for submissions for its new screenwriting competition, the Scriptation Showcase. Fifteen winners' scripts will be featured for a full year in Scriptation, giving them unprecedented exposure to Hollywood professionals.

Fresh Voices Names Semifinalists

Semifinalists have been announced for the 2018-19 Fresh Voices Screenwriting Competition.

TVWriter.com Names People Pilot Winners

THE BOOK OF JOEY by Steven Block has been named the TVWriter.com People's Pilot Comedy category winner, while THE FUCKING NEW GUYS by Meredith Bagby took top honors in the Drama/Action category.

Interview with 2018 CineStory Second Place Winner Avishai Weinberger

CineStory Co-Executive Director Carlo Martinelli catches up with the 2018 CineStory Fellowship second place winner, Avishai Weinberger.

People's Pilot Announces Finalists

The People's Pilot television writing contest, from TVWriter.com, has announced the finalists of their 27th competition.

Producers Request Scriptapalooza TV Winners

Twelve producers have requested to read Scriptapalooza TV's recently announced contest winners.

CineStory Names TV Fellowship Winner

Robert Axelrod has been named the 2019 CineStory TV Fellow for his winning episodic spec comedy script BETTER THINGS - "Goy Vey", which impressed the judges by capturing the tone of the show while also showcasing the writer's own voice.

Greg Silverman's Stampede Partners With HollyShorts Film Festival

Greg Silverman’s new media company Stampede is partnering with the HollyShorts Film Festival, the Los Angeles-based short film festival, on a first-look feature film and TV series development program. (From the Hollywood Reporter.)

CineStory Names TV Category Winners

CineStory has announced their 2019 Spec Drama, Spec Comedy, Original Drama and Original Comedy category winners. The first place winner of each division is now in the running for this year's TV Fellowship, which includes a $1,000 cash prize, free tuition and housing for this year's TV retreat, and a 12-month mentorship with 2 Hollywood professionals hand-picked to help the Fellow advance the Fellow's craft and career.

Scriptapalooza TV Names Contest Winners

Scriptapalooza TV has announced their latest Pilot, Sitcom, One-Hour Drama and Reality Category winners.

TVWriter.com Names People's Pilot Semifinalists

TVWriter.com has announced the semifinalists for the 27th People's Pilot competition. Finalists will be announced in two weeks.

Launch Million Dollar Screenplay Competition Now Open for Submissions

The LAUNCH Million Dollar Screenplay Competition has announced it will accept global submissions for its second million-dollar screenplay competition from Friday, February 1st through Tuesday, April 30th, 2019. Once again, The LAUNCH will be looking for original screenplays with captivating stories, unique voices and honest emotion in any genre. The international competition is open to students over the age of 18 who are enrolled in an accredited two-year, four-year college/university or graduate program.

Austin Fest and Humanitas Announce New Partnership to Discover Original Voices

The Austin Film Festival (AFF) and HUMANITAS have joined forces to launch the inaugural "HUMANITAS Originals Award". This joint initiative is a new addition to AFF’s Script Competitions and is open to both feature screenplays and teleplay pilots that reflect the kinds of stories HUMANITAS has honored for over four decades.

Scriptapalooza Short Script Finalist Screens at Hollywood Independent Film Festival

A Boy A Man and A Kite by Adam Matalon & Stephen Endelman, 2017 Scriptapalooza Shorts finalist, has been produced and will screen on 2/15/2019 at Regal Cinema LA Live.

Nicholl Fellowships Now Open for Submissions

The Motion Picture Academy's Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting is now accepting submissions. Early deadline in March 7, 2019, with a $45 entry fee.

TrackingB Names Contest Winners

Gorby and Ronnie Do Reykjavík, by Patrick Connely, has been named the overall winner of the TrackingB Screenwriting Competition.

Fresh Voices Names Quarterfinalists

Fresh Voices has announced the quarterfinalists of the 2018-2019 Fresh Voices Screenwriting Competition. Semifinalists will be announced March 7th, 2019.

CineStory Names TV Finalists

Finalists have been announced in the original and spec categories of the CineStory TV Writing Competition.