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BlueCat Names Contest Winners
Death of a Fool by Ismael Gomez III & Joe Leone has been named the winner of the 2018 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition.
BlueCat Names Finalists
BlueCat has announced their 2018 Feature, Pilot, and Short Screenplay finalists. Winners will be announced Thursday, July 5th.
ScreenCraft Names Fellowship Winners
ScreenCraft has announced their 5th annual ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship winners. The program is designed to advance the careers of talented screenwriters through ongoing mentorship and introductions to key entertainment executives and talent representatives.
CineStory Annouces Quarterfinalists
CineStory has announced quarterfinalists for their 2018 Feature Retreat and Fellowship competition.
Austin Film Festival Announces Partners and Judges for Fiction Podcast Script Competition
In order to further expand their legacy of supporting storytellers, Austin Film Festival (AFF) is pleased to announce a distinguished panel of judges for its returning Fiction Podcast Script Competition, which includes development heads and creators of successful fiction podcasts such as THE BRIGHT SESSIONS and TUMANBAY.
ScreenCraft Announces China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship Winner
Craig Rosenthal has been named by Orb Media Group and ScreenCraft as the winner of the second annual China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship on the basis of his script #Cloudman.
StoryPros Names Award Winners
Christian Lybrook's City of Trees has been named the winner of the 11th Annual StoryPros Awards Screenwriting Competitition.
Scriptapalooza premieres new website, ventures into producing and announces Advisory Board
The Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition has dramatically updated their website, inserting all the movie posters they have been involved with over the years. Also, posting success stories of past winners, alumni and all the projects that have taken off since Scriptapalooza started in 1998.
Interview with ISA Fellowship Winner Sean Collins-Smith
Ever since graduating from film school in 2010, Sean Collins-Smith has wanted to move to Los Angeles to pursue a TV writing career. His goal seemed unobtainable, though, until he won an ISA Fast Track Fellowship on the basis of his pilots End of Life and Lifers Anonymous. As part of his ISA prize package, he scored a week of industry meetings and wound up signing with manager Jewerl Ross of Silent R Management. He'll be moving to Los Angeles in September.
Finalists Announced for 11th Annual StoryPros Awards
Finalists have been announced in all genres for the 11th Annual Story Pros Awards. Winners will be announced Friday, June 15th.
ScreenCraft Names Fellowship Finalists
ScreenCraft has announced the 25 Finalists for their 2018 Fellowship, selected from a submission pool of more than 2,100 entries.
BlueCat Names Quarterfinalists
BlueCat has announced their 2018 Feature, Short, Pilot-Hour and Half-Hour quarterfinalists.
Shore Scripts Names Short Film Fund Winners
Shore Scripts has announced Nora Kirkpatrick & Dennis McNicholas as the winners of their 2018 Short Film Fund. They'll be awarded a $10,000 grant to make their short film, Best Seller.
StoryPros Awards Names Semifinalists
Semifinalists have just been announced for the 11th Annual StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest.
ScreenCraft Names Sci-fi Semifinalists
Semifinalists have been announced for the 2018 ScreenCraft Sci-fi Screenplay Contest, representing the top ten percent of submissions received. The jury this year includes development executives from 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures and United Pictures Group. Winners will be announced July 6th.
Shore Scripts Names Short Film Fund Finalists
Shore Scripts has named their 2018 Short Film Fund Finalists.
StoryPros Awards Names Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 11th Annual StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest.
Blumhouse Productions Set to Produce Script from Shore Scripts Alum Louis Ackerman
Shore Scripts has announced that their 2015 Contest Winner, Louis Ackerman, has set up his horror/thriller script, Flesh & Blood with Blumhouse Productions.
Scriptapalooza Names Fellowship Mentors
Scriptapalooza has named its industry mentors, one of whom who will provide six-months of mentorship to the winner of the Scriptapalooza Fellowship. Four other writers will receive 3-months of mentorship.
ScreenCraft Names Fellowship Semifinalists
ScreenCraft has named their Screenwriting Fellowship Semifinalists, representing approximately the top 10% of all submissions.
On Winning the Austin Film Festival Script Competition, Part II
Troy Anthony Miller shares some thoughts about what it takes to win the Austin Film Festival Script Competition ... twice!
On Winning the Austin Film Festival Script Competition, Part I
Are there actually writers out there who enter screenplay competitions thinking they might win? Because I am mostly certainly not that kind of writer.
ScreenCraft Names Sci-Fi Contest Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalists have been announced from among nearly 800 submissions to the ScreenCraft Sci-Fi Screenplay Contest.
ISA Names Fast Track Fellowship Winners
Ned Farr and Sean Collins-Smith have been named the International Screenwriters Association's Fast Track VII Fellowship Winners.
Universal Names Writers Program Participants
Universal Writers Program has announced their 2018 participants. The program is a one-year track that gives writers the opportunity to develop two feature scripts under the guidance of Universal and Focus Features production executives and producers.
Scriptapalooza Interviews Fellowship Winner
Scriptapalooza has posted an interview with their 2017 Fellowship Recipient Natasha Paris.
ScreenCraft Names 5th Annual Fellowship Quarterfinalists
ScreenCraft has announced the quarterfinalists for their 5th Annual ScreenCraft Fellowship Competition.
ScreenCraft Names Orb Media China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship Finalists
Semifinalists have been announced for the ScreenCraft/Orb Media China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship, representing approximately the top 10% of all applicants.
ScreenCraft Names Family Script Contest Winner
Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto has been named the winner of the 2017 ScreenCraft Family-Friendly Screenplay Contest. Repeatedly praised for its unique premise and strong character dynamics, it is an innovative story of a dragon who moves to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a comedian and paves the way for civil rights.
Fresh Voices Names Contest Winners
Those Who Hear by Jerome Velinsky has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2017-18 Fresh Voices Screenwriting Competition.
FilmMakers.com Names Feature Script Contest Finalists
FilmMakers has announced the finalists of the 16th Annual Filmmakers International Screenwriting Awards.
American Gem Names Short Screenplay Contest Winners
American Gem and Write Brothers have announced the winners of the 13th Annual American Gem Literary Festival. The Competition attracted a total of 1309 entries worldwide, including 1,026 short scripts, 221 short stories, 51 TV scripts, 5 treatments and 6 documentaries.
Fresh Voices Names Contest Finalists
Fresh Voices has announced their 2017-2018 contest finalists.
1st TV Script Writing Competition Names Contest Winners
Persuasion by Susan Hippen has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 3rd annual '1st TV Script Writing Competition' from FilmMakers.com.
ScreenCraft Names Cinematic Short Story Winners
Syringe-Fed Ferrets by Samuel Martin has been selected as the Grand Prize Winner of the 2017 ScreenCraft Short Story Contest. Missives From The Green Campaign by David Armstrong has been named the runner-up.
Austin Fest Announces Josephson Entertainment Screenwriting Fellowship
The Austin Film Festival has announced a partnership with producer Barry Josephson to present a Screenwriting Fellowship that will provide one-on-one mentorship in Los Angeles for two fellows – one writer or writing team with a feature script and one writer or writing team with a teleplay pilot – selected from the Final Round of this year's competition.
Poe Screenplay Contest Names Contest Winners
Karen McDermott's Custom of the Sea has been the Grand Prize Winner of the 2018 Poe Screenwriting Contest. The script, based on a true story, is about a judge who ponders a murder verdict when three sailors are imprisoned after cannibalism on a lifeboat.
Scriptapalooza Posts Interviews with TV Contest Winners
Scirptapalooza has posted video interviews with their 2018 ScriptapaloozaTV Contest Winners.
Poe Contest Names Contest Finalists
The Poe Contest has announced its 2018 screenplay finalists.
Shore Film Fund Winner
to Premier at Tribeca
Claire Fowler, the inaugural winner of the Shore Script Short Film Fund, will be premiering her winning short, Salam, at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.
Submissions Open for Stowe Story Labs
Application season to the sixth-annual Stowe Story Labs is now open. The Early Bird Application Fee is $40.
Launch Pad Names Feature Contest Winners
Brian T. Arnold's Friend of the Show has been named the Overall Winner of the 2017 Launch Pad Feature Screenplay Contest. The script is about a far-right news commentator who's kidnapped by a right-wing extremist group who want him to help lead their movement, not knowing that his television persona is a sham. When he discovers their plan to assassinate the president, he realizes he is the only one who can stop them.
ScreenCraft Names Film Production Fund Winners
Leading development consultancy and screenplay discovery platform ScreenCraft and Santa Monica-based media financier BondIt Media Capital have announced two recipients of their Fall 2017 Film Production Fund. The first is documentary project Karachi’s Unknown Dead, conceived by Samira Shackle, Owen Kean and Haya Fatima Iqbal. Innovative and impactful, the film is set in Karachi, Pakistan’s troubled, throbbing economic epicenter. It will center on the Edhi Foundation, which runs clinics, an ambulance service, a graveyard, and the city’s only functioning morgue and is the largest voluntary social welfare organization in the world. Per Shackle, Kean and Iqbal, “Its workers care for residents of Karachi from birth until death and after as they struggle against the dual pressures of poverty and violence. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the care they provide for these neglected dead: Edhi workers collect the bodies, try to track down their relatives, and ultimately bury them, according a respect in death that many did not have in life.”
CineStory Names 2018 TV/Digital Fellowship Winner
Naomi Iwamoto has been named the winner of 2018 CineStory TV/Digital Fellowship.
Fresh Voices Names Semifinalists
Fresh Voices has announced their 2017-2018 Semifinalists, the Top 100 Screenplays of their 8th Annual Screenplay Competition. Judging continues into the third round of reading. Finalists and Spotlight Award Nominees will be announced March 27th.
ScreenCraft Names Family-Friendly Semifinalists
Semifinalists have been announced for the 2017 ScreenCraft Family-Friendly Screenplay Contest. The 80 screenplays advancing to the next round represent the top 12% of submissions received.
ScreenCraft Names Film Fund Finalists
ScreenCraft has named the 25 Finalists for the Fall, 2017 ScreenCraft Film Fund.
National Screenwriters Day Names Contest Winners
Radar Contact, by Delia Colvin, has been named the First Place Winner of the National Screenwriters Day Competition.
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