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HollyShorts Announces Competition Winners

HollyShorts has announced Mike Kearby as the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 HollyShorts Screenwriting Competition for his screenplay, The Problem With Time Travel. The winner will be awarded a $10,000 Production Grant from Seattle Film Summit, and the completed film will screen at the 2021 HollyShorts Film Festival, and receive distribution on Bitpix. Updated: 11/15/2020

Shore Scripts Announces Feature & TV Semifinalists

Shore Scripts has announced their feature screenplay and 1-hour and 1/2-hour TV pilots semifinalists. Finalists will be announced November 25th. Updated: 11/10/2020

Write LA Posts Grand Prize Winner Live Read

Write LA has posted their live read of Grand Prize Winner Nathan Dame comedy pilot script, Fräulein Schreiber’s Mixtape. Updated: 11/09/2020

ScreamFest Names Contest Winner

Bloody Mary by Dan Ast and John C. Thursby has been named the Grand Prize winner of the 2020 ScreamFest Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 11/04/2020

Scriptapalooza Announces Screenplay Competition Producer Requests

Producers have requested to read a number of Scriptapalooza's 2020 finalists. Updated: 11/04/2020

RIIFF Names Contest Winners

Edward Balli from Canada won the Best Screenplay Grand Prize Winner for this year's Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF) Screenplay Competition for his screenplay is entitled "Leadeth." Updated: 11/03/2020

AFF Announces Screenplay Contest Winners

The Austin Film Festival has announced their 2020 Script Competition winners. Updated: 11/02/2020

Shore Scripts Announces Feature & TV Quarterfinalists

Shore Scripts has announced their feature screenplay and 1-hour and 1/2-hour TV pilots quarterfinalists. Semifinalists will be announced November 10th Updated: 10/25/2020

HollyShorts Names Screenplay Finalists

Finalists have been announced from among more 1,000 submissions to the HollyShorts Film Festival. The top 3 screenplays will be announced/awarded during the HollyShorts Awards Ceremony on November 15, with the winning script receiving a $10,000 production deal courtesy of Seattle Film Summit. Updated: 10/24/2020

ISA Names Fast Track Fellowship Winners

The International Screenwriting Association has announced Robert Ripley (The Mender) and Danielle Nicki (The First White President) as their 2020 FAST TRACK XII Fellowship Winners.  Genre winners and finalists have also been announced.

Updated: 10/21/2020

Page Announces 2020 Contest Winners

The winners of the 2020 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards competition have now been announced, and this year’s $25,000 Grand Prize was awarded to Claire Tailyour for her haunting, evocative thriller MOTHER WILD. Updated: 10/15/2020

Austin Fest Names Script Competition Finalists

The Austin Film Festival has announced their contest finalists. 59 scripts were chosen for the Final Round with one winner to be determined in each of the 18 categories. The winners will be announced during this year’s Conference. Updated: 10/14/2020

Scriptapalooza Interviews Top 3 Contest Winners

Scriptapalooza has posted video interviews with the top 3 winners of their 2020 Scriptapalooza Feature Screenwriting Contest. Updated: 10/11/2020

Filmmatic Names Comedy Contest Winner

Henry Sarwer-Foner & Noel Baker have been named the winner of the Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards for their feature screenplay, Dick 2.0, about a Wall Street billionaire facing a divorce who clones himself in order to save his marriage. When he sees how much more his wife loves his duplicate, he must battle his better self to win back his better half. Updated: 10/07/2020

Write LA Names Grand Prize Winners & Finalists

Fräulein Schreiber's Mixtape, by Nathan Dame, has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 Write LA Screenwriting Competition. Finalist and semifinalist loglines have also been released. Updated: 10/07/2020

Table Read My Screenplay Names Contest Winners

But On Point by Marshall Gillson has been named the Feature/TV Pilot Grand Prize Winner of the Table Read My Screenplay Competition, while Kimberly Truong's The Ride was named the Grand Prize winner for shorts. Updated: 10/02/2020

Write LA Names 2020 Contest Finalists

Write LA has announced their 2020 contest finalists, who will each receive targeted promotion through Roadmap Writers extensive network of agents, managers, and producers. The Finalists will also get a free copy of Final Draft 11 courtesy of Final Draft and an additional screenwriting book courtesy of Michael Wiese Productions. Updated: 10/01/2020

Academy Names Nicholl Fellowship Winners

Five individuals have been selected as winners of the 2020 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. The fellows will each receive a $35,000 prize and be highlighted at the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards and Virtual Table Read on Thursday, December 3, where an ensemble of actors will read selected scenes from the winning scripts. Updated: 09/30/2020

HollyShorts Announces Screenplay Semifinalists

The HollyShorts Film Festival has announced semifinalists from a record number of over 1,000 submissions to their 7th annual screenplay contest. Updated: 09/25/2020

Scriptapalooza Names 2020 Contest Winners

A Reindeer Story by Jay Michael Jorgensen & Lisa Juslin has been named the 1st Place Winner of the 2020 Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 09/22/2020

PAGE Names 2020 Finalists

The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards has announced the top 10 Finalists in each of their ten genre categories. This year’s Finalists include writers from all across the United States and 14 foreign countries: Australia, France, Belgium, Spain, England, Ireland, Japan, South Korea, Morocco, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Mexico, and Canada. Updated: 09/16/2020

Write LA Names 2020 Semifinalists

Fifteen semifinalists have been announced for the 2020 Write LA Screenwriting Competition. Each semifinalist will receive a free screenwriting book courtesy of Michael Wiese Productions, a phone call from head judge Tim Schildberger to discuss their scripts, and a professional logline polish from co-founder Angela Bourassa. Updated: 09/15/2020

Scriptapalooza Celebrates Top 30 Writers

Scriptapalooza has posted a video celebrating the top 30 writers in this year's Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 09/15/2020

Academy Names Nicholl Fellowship Finalists

The ten finalists for this year's Nicholl Fellowships have been announced. Updated: 09/14/2020

Finish Line Script Competition Names Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced in the Feature Screenplay and Television & Short Script Categories of the 2020 Finish Line Script Competition. Updated: 09/02/2020

Creative World Awards Announces Grand Prize Winner

Ross Mayberry's Sailing Off the Edge of the World has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 Creative World Awards. Updated: 09/01/2020

Save The Cat Names Competition Winners

Save the Cat! has announced Thomas Steventon as the winner of their 2020 Screenwriting Competition for his script, Gaijin & Samson. The TV category winner was Tavyn Gentry's Tira'allara Updated: 09/01/2020

Scriptapalooza Announces Top 30 Screenplays

Scriptapalooza has announced their top 30 screenplays for 2020. Updated: 08/25/2020

Launch Pad Pilot Names Finalists

The Tracking Board has announced the Top 100 Finalists for their Launch Pad TV Pilot Competition. Updated: 08/15/2020

TrackingB Announces TV Contest Finalists

TrackingB has announced the five finalists for their 2020 TV Writing Competition. Updated: 08/14/2020

Scriptapalooza Names Short Screenplay Contest Winners

Clare Garner's The Canadian has been named the 1st Place Winner of the 2020 Scriptapalooza Short Screenplay Competition. Updated: 08/07/2020

Scriptapalooza Announces TV Contest Winners

Scriptapalooza has announced their TV Pilot, Sitcom, 1-Hour Drama and Reality TV Contest Winners. Updated: 08/04/2020

Scriptapalooza Names Fellowship Winners

Neal Wiser has been named the 2020 Scriptapalooza Fellowship winner for his script, Frankenstein Unleashed. Updated: 08/04/2020

Interview with Author/Screenwriter Michael Weinreb

Michael Weinreb studied journalism at Penn State, and creative writing at Boston University, and published a book of short stories and several books of non-fiction before trying his hand at screenwriting with The Big D, a sports drama based loosely on the SMU football scandal of the 1980s.

Updated: 08/04/2020

Writers Lab Names Participants

The Writers Lab for Women Screenwriters over 40 has selected the 12 participants for this year's Virtual Development Lab. Updated: 08/03/2020

Scriptapalooza Announces Semifinalists

Scriptapalooza has named their Top 100 Feature Screenplay Semifinalists for 2020. Updated: 08/01/2020

Creative Screenwriting Announces Semifinalists

Creative Screenwriting has announced the semifinalists in all genres for their Unique Voices Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 08/01/2020

Stage 32 Names Sci-fi Fantasy Semifinalists

Stage32 has announced the semifinalists of their 4th Annual Sci-fi/Fantasy Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 07/31/2020

Scriptapalooza Names Quarterfinalists

Scriptapalooza has announced their 2020 Feature Screenplay Competition quarterfinalists. Semifinalists will be announced on August 5th. Updated: 07/29/2020

Austin Going Virtual for Its 27th Annual Festival and Writers Conference

Austin Film Festival has announced that its 27th annual Film Festival and Writers Conference will be a completely virtual event including panels and film screenings that will feature leading industry creatives, to be held this October 22nd–29th, 2020. Updated: 07/28/2020

Stage32 Names Sci-fi/Fantasy Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 4th Annual Stage 32 Sci-fi/Fantasy Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 07/25/2020

HollyShorts Announces Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced from a record number of more than 1,000 submissions to the 7th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival Screenwriting Contest. Updated: 07/18/2020

Interview with Screenwriters Carlo and Erin Carere

Carlo and Erin Carere are partners in life and in writing. Carlo was born in Naples, and published several novels in Italy before turning his attention to screenwriting. Minneapolis native Erin, meanwhile, was a playwright and singer-songwriter. The couple have been writing together since 2014, and their sci-fi TV pilot Dark Horizons has scored more than a dozen contest placements from some of the best-rated contests on MovieBytes.

Updated: 07/13/2020

Scriptapalooza Produced Short Wins Festival Accolades

Tics, a short film executive produced by Scriptapalooza's Mark Andrushko, has been winning festival recognition for its unique take on mental illness, the need to ask for and receive help, and the consequences when help isn't received. Scriptapalooza is currently producing shorts and features through a newly launched division of the company. Updated: 07/06/2020

Stowe Story Labs Names Participants & Mentors

Stowe Story Labs has announced its 2020 Roster of Participants and Mentors for the Stowe Writers' Retreat. The event is typically held at the Timberholm Inn in Vermont, but will be held remotely this year due to the coronavirus crisis. Updated: 07/04/2020

Screenwriters Network Launches 2nd Annual 'Killer Shorts' Horror Short Screenplay Competition

The Screenwriters Network has partnered with literary managers, producers and executives to unearth the next visionary talent in horror. The Top 10 scripts will be read by a star-studded panel of industry judges, with a further combined $5,000 worth of prizes up for grabs including copies of Final Draft screenwriting software, waived entry fees to multiple screenwriting contests, increased rank on Coverfly's The Red List, free subscriptions to on-demand horror streaming service Shudder, and more. Updated: 07/01/2020

Filmmatic Announces Season 5 Drama Contest Winner, Plus Finalists and Semifinalists

Dawn Garcia's The Confidence Men has been named the Winner of the Filmmatic Season 5 Drama Contest. Updated: 07/01/2020

Interview with StoryPros Comedy Category Winner Thomas Leupp

Comedy writer Thomas Leupp was born and raised in Los Angeles, and his sports comedy Tres Banditos was the comedy category winner of the 2019 StoryPros Awards, and a runner-up for the 2019 Inroads Fellowship.

Updated: 06/29/2020

Shoot Your Shorts Names Grand Prize Winner & 100 Finalists

Emerging Screenwriters has named Rachel Thomas-Medwid as the Grand Prize Winner of their 2020 Shoot Your Shorts Screenplay Competition for her script The Influencer. The contest's top 100 finalists have also been announced. Updated: 06/27/2020

CineStory Names 2020 Quarterfinalists

CineStory has named 128 quarterfinalists from almost 600 submissions to this year Feature Retreat and Fellowship Competition. Quarterfinalists will be offered any open spots to this year's retreat after the semifinalists, finalists, and winners are invited to attend. Attendees receive three 90-minute one-on-one sessions with CineStory mentors. Attendees also participate in informal rooms run by mentors that cover topics ranging from pitching like a pro to the state of filmmaking in the digital age. Updated: 06/22/2020

StoryPros Awards Names Contest Winners

Johnny Cruz has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 13th Annual StoryPros Awards for his script Repair the Carrows. Updated: 06/16/2020

Interview with 2020 Fresh Voices Horror Division Winner Harry Aspinwall

Harry Aspinwall is a writer and actor who grew up in Scotland, but has been living the U.S. - currently Brooklyn - since he was 16. His historical horror script Henrietta was the First Place Winner of the Horror Division of the 2020 Fresh Voices Screenwriting Competition.

Updated: 06/15/2020

Shore Scripts Names 2020 Film Fund Winner

Lindiwe Makgalemele's The Town has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 Shore Scripts Short Film Fund Competition. The script is about a seven year old girl who believes she's responsible for a car break-down in an anonymous South African town. Updated: 06/07/2020

ScreenCraft Names Comedy Quarterfinalists

ScreenCraft has announced quarterfinalists from among almost 2,400 submissions to the 2020 ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Competition. Updated: 06/04/2020

Interview with 2019 Shore Scripts Short Film Fund Winner James Gould-Bourn

James Gould-Bourne, winner of the 2019 Shore Scripts Short Film Fund Competition, is originally from Manchester, England, but now lives with his wife in Malaysia after four years of living in Lithuania. His debut novel, Bear Necessity, will be published in U.S. on August 4, 2020.

Updated: 06/02/2020

Inroads Names Fellowship Competition Winner

The Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship has named Christopher Byram as their 2020 Fellowship Winner for his gritty period TV pilot, Rednecks. The script is a a brutal tale of the West Virginia Mine Wars of the 1920's, when ordinary miners fought a violent David-versus-Goliath battle for their civil liberties. Updated: 05/27/2020

Dallas International Film Festival Names Screenplay Contest Winners

The Dallas International Film Festival, powered by Capital One, has announced the winners of the “Broaden Your Horizons” screenplay competition, presented by Event Horizon Films. The winners will receive cash prizes, a professional consultation with a high profile writer, a Star Pass for the Dallas International Film Festival and opportunities to pitch their work to industry professionals through Virtual Pitch Fest. The two grand prize winners will also embark on a future Writer’s Enrichment Cruise. Updated: 05/27/2020

Shore Scripts Names 2020 Film Fund Finalists

Shore Scripts has announced their 15 Short Film Fund Finalists for 2020. Winners will be announced on June 6th. Updated: 05/26/2020

StoryPros Awards Names Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced in all genres for the 2020 StoryPros Awards. Updated: 05/26/2020

BlueCat Announces Grand Prize Winner

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has named Jane Barr and their 2020 Grand Prize Winner for her script, An American Tale. Updated: 05/19/2020

Austin Fest Launches Enderby Entertainment Filmmaking Fellowship Award

The Austin Film Festival (AFF) has announced the launch of their inaugural Enderby Entertainment Filmmaking Fellowship Award, as well as their inaugural Jury Advisory Program. Updated: 05/18/2020

Save The Cat Names Contest Semifinalists

Save the Cat has announced the 25 semifinalists for their 2020 Save The Cat Screenplay Challenge. Updated: 05/13/2020

BlueCat Names 2020 Finalists

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their 2020 Feature, TV Pilot, and Short Script finalists. Winners will be announced on May 19th, 2020. Updated: 05/12/2020

Dallas International Film Festival Names Broaden Your Horizons Semifinalists

Semifinalists have been announced for the 2020 Broaden Your Horizons Screenwriting Competition, sponsored by the Dallas International Film Festival. Updated: 05/01/2020

Dallas International Film Festival Names Broaden Your Horizons Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 2020 Broaden Your Horizons Screenwriting Competition, sponsored by the Dallas International Film Festival. Updated: 04/26/2020

BlueCat Names Contest Semifinalists

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their 2020 Feature, TV Pilot, and Short Script semifinalists. Finalists will be announced on May 12th, 2020. Updated: 04/14/2020

Montana Screenwriting Competition Announces Contest Winners

The Montana Screenwriting Competition (MTSC) has announced the results of its contest to honor Montana screenwriters and film scripts that highlight Montana locations. In association with the fourth annual Bigfork Independent Film Festival (BIFF), the first MT Screenwriting Competition received submissions of features and short films between November 2019 and February 2020. Updated: 04/14/2020

Fresh Voices Names Contest Winners

Priscilla Davies’ Romantic-Comedy THE POWER OF THREE has taken top honors at the Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition, scooping up the 1st place Award in the Comedy/ Romantic-Comedy Genre and the Grand Prize Award. A graduate of the New Jersey School of Dramatic Arts acting program, Priscilla toiled as an elementary school teacher in New Jersey before chasing her dreams as an actress and moving to Los Angeles nearly ten years ago. Updated: 04/10/2020

ISA Fast Announces Track Fellows

Julia Skikavich and Kevin Bachar have been named the ISA Fast Track Fellows for 2020. Updated: 04/09/2020

Roadmap Writers Names Top Tier Competition Winner

Roadmap Writers has named Joey Day Hargrove as the winner of their 2019/2020 Top Tier Competition for her script, Sunny & Hyde. Updated: 04/01/2020

Launch Pad Feature Names Contest Winners

Alex Payne's Deepfake has been name the overall winner of the 2019 Launch Pad Feature Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 03/26/2020

Fast Track Names Semifinalists

The International Screenwriters’ Association has announced their 2020 Fast Track XI semifinalists. Updated: 03/26/2020

BlueCat Names Quarterfinalists

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their 2020 Feature, TV Pilot, and Short Script quarterfinalists. Semifinalists will be announced on April 14th, 2020. Updated: 03/17/2020

LiveRead/LA Names March Selections

Tony Cammarata and Dillon Magrann-Wells have been announced as the March Selections for LiveRead/LA, which this month - due to the Covid-19 virus - will feature a March 23rd "closed" reading with Industry Insider Sean Woods. Updated: 03/13/2020

Killer Shorts Names 2020 Contest Finalists & Winners

Allen Roughton has been named the 1st Place Winner of The Killer Shorts Horror Short Screenplay Competition for his short script AN APPLE A DAY. CJ Whitehead has been named the 2nd Place Winner for THE NO-NO MAN, and Chris Hicks has been named the 3rd Place Winner for THE BUTTER STREET HITCHHIKER. Updated: 03/13/2020

Scriptapalooza TV Announces Script Requests

Scriptapalooza has anounced a list of producers/managers who will review the contest's 12 winners and 12 finalists. Updated: 03/10/2020

On Story Premieres 10th Season on PBS

Austin Film Festival (AFF) has announced that its original interview series, Austin Film Festival's On Story®, will premiere its 10th season nationwide in April 2020 on public television stations across the country. Available in more than 85% of U.S. markets, including New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Houston, On Story gives viewers an inside look at the creative process behind some of our most popular and beloved movies and television shows. Season 10 features recorded conversations between acclaimed and award-winning screenwriters, TV creators, and filmmakers from the 26th Annual Austin Film Festival & Conference. Updated: 03/03/2020

Killer Short Names Contest Semifinalists

The Killer Shorts Horror Short Screenplay Competition has announced their 2020 Semi-Finalists, representing approximately the top 5% of all submissions. Updated: 03/01/2020

Emerging Screenwriters Names Shoot Your Sizzle Winners

No Overnight Parking by Megan Swertlow has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 Shoot Your Sizzle Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 02/25/2020

Scriptapalooza Posts Video Interviews with TV Contest Winners & Finalists

Scriptapalooza TV has posted video interviews with a number of their 2020 TV contest winners and finalists. Updated: 02/22/2020

Your Script Produced Names Contest Winners & New Judges in Hollywood Reporter

The Your Script Produced Screenwriting Contest has announced their second season judges in a two-page spread in the Hollywood Reporter. Updated: 02/20/2020

American Zoetrope Names Contest Winners

Tricia Lee's Mother-Daughter has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 17th Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition. Updated: 02/18/2020

Killer Shorts Names Quarterfinalists

The Killer Shorts Screenplay Competition has announced their 2020 quarterfinalists, the top 100 entries from a total of 765 submissions. Updated: 02/14/2020

Scriptapalooza TV Names Contest Winners

Scriptapalooza TV has announced their latest Pilot, Sitcom, Drama and Reality Show contest winners. Updated: 02/14/2020

TVWriter.com Names People's Pilot Winners

TVWriter.com has named their 2019 Comedy, Drama, and Special Bonus Award Winners. Updated: 02/10/2020

CoverageInk Announces Get Repped Now Competition Results

CoverageInk.com has announced the 12 "considers" from their late 2019 Get Repped Now promotion. These 12 writers submitted screenplays or pilots so effective that they scored a coveted "consider" rating for script from the service. Updated: 02/07/2020

Filmmatic Names Horror Screenplay Award Winners

Jai Brandon has been named the winner of The Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards for his dark and edgy feature Whispers from the Watchtower, which features the host of a popular skeptic/debunking radio show as he works alongside a reluctant psychic in a hectic last-ditch attempt to find his missing daughter. Updated: 02/06/2020

TrackingB Names Feature Contest Winner

Texas Poetry, by David Michael Milwee, has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the TrackingB Feature Screenplay Competition. Alessandro M. King's King of Swing and Scott Gatlin's The Stray were named runners-up. Updated: 02/01/2020

Fresh Voices Names Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists of the 10th Annual Fresh Voices Screenwriting Competition have been announced, representing the top 353 scripts from 1,400 total submissions. Quarterfinalists can resubmit a revised draft of their script by February 6th, and semifinalists will be announced by March 5, 2020. Updated: 01/29/2020

Scriptapalooza Names Fellowship Mentors

Scriptapalooza has announced the six industry professionals who will serve as mentors to this year's award winners. Updated: 01/27/2020

TVWriter.com Names People's Pilot Finalists

Finalists have been announced in the Comedy and Drama categories of the 2019 People's Pilot TV Writing Competition. Updated: 01/27/2020

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. Updated: 01/17/2020

Tracking Board Names Launch Pad Feature Finalists

Tracking Board has announced the 100 Finalists for the 2019 Launch Pad Feature Competition. Updated: 01/16/2020

People's Pilot Names Semifinalists

The People's Pilot has announced their 2019 Comedy and Drama Semifinalists. Updated: 01/13/2020

Scriptapalooza Launches New Website for Coverage Department

Updated: 01/11/2020

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. Updated: 01/07/2020

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. Updated: 12/31/2019

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. Updated: 12/20/2019

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. Updated: 12/20/2019

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. Updated: 12/16/2019