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Screenplay Contest List: Short Add your contest
A list of contests that accept or specialize in short screenplays, or any scripts that are less than feature-length.
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Apeiron Films Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 04/25/2023 (expired)
Cinema is your passion? You've written a short film script that tells a meaningful and touching story with a few characters in plain settings? You can restrict yourself to the essentials? You want to see your ideas in a movie at last? Congratulations: You’ve just found the right opportunity! CHALLENGE Create pure narrative live-action cinema without extravaganza! Make the audience care! Only the awesome idea counts, because the film crew will have only a few days for the complete production from casting to cinema premiere.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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WeScreenplay Shorts Competition
Final Deadline: 07/15/2023 (expired)
Short scripts are a fantastic way to get your screenwriting feet wet, explore a new genre, hone your craft, and get noticed. With so many Oscar-qualifying film festivals, it’s one way to gain recognition within the entertainment industry! For this competition, all winners will be invited to take part in our exclusive Virtual Shorts Lab to help define the next steps in their projects journey – whether that’s self-producing, crowdfunding, or connecting it with a production company looking for short content.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Toronto Metropolitan Int'l Screenwriting Competition
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Our mission is to recognize and reward the next generation of great writers and artists by creating a screenwriting competition designed to find them. We believe that we have created a vehicle that will infuse new energy into filmmaking while also creating unique opportunities for emerging new talent. We are passionate about filmmaking and about nurturing, developing, and supporting the next generation of filmmakers and screenwriters from Toronto and around the world.User Feedback: 8 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Skyline Indie Film Fest
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We are a competitive festival for new, undistributed films and original screenplays.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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ScreenCraft $30,000 Film Fund
Final Deadline: 06/30/2023 (expired)
Whether you have a simple screenplay or a film that’s already in production, we want to consider it for our grant program. We consider a range of projects, from standalone screenplays, to fully packaged projects seeking finishing funds. If your aspirations are solely to become a produced screenwriter, you can rely on ScreenCraft and BondIt to package the winning script with a talented director and in-house production resources with up to $30,000 in cash financing, judged on a case-by-case basis, depending on each project’s budget and needs as determined by our internal jury of industry professionals.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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ScreenCraft Drama Screenwriting Competition
Final Deadline: 08/31/2023 (expired)
Feature film dramas drive deep into the heart of what it means to be human, expressing universal themes with nuanced complexity. Our judges are looking for great stories with original voices and honest emotion. This competition celebrates great dramatic film writing. Whether you’re writing a sweeping period drama or a contained relationship movie, we want to read your script! All entries are eligible for optional feedback from a studio-trained professional reader (highly recommended).User Feedback: 4 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Sherman Oaks Film Festival
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Founded by longtime residents and movie veterans alike, the Sherman Oaks Film Festival looks to showcase the best undiscovered movies in the heart of Los Angeles. The neighborhood that was home the mall in Fast Times At Ridgemont High deserves a world class film festival! The Sherman Oaks Film Festival has a category for unproduced screenplays of any length, feature or short or in between.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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theOFFICE 2023 Writing Fellowship
Final Deadline: 06/30/2023 (expired)
theOFFICE, a quiet, communal workspace for LA writers is currently accepting submissions for our 2023 Fellowship Program. One up-and-coming writer will win a FREE 6-Month Premium Membership to our space. The deadline is June 30th and it’s completely free for writers to submit. Accepting screenplays, TV pilots, stage plays, fiction, essays, memoirs, poetry, etc.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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The Wayward Festival
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Wayward was born and raised in LA – join us for our flagship event in autumn 2017. Expect cross-genre film screenings, competition screenings, live music and performance, roundtables, education sessions, and plenty of networking sessions so fun they feel more like a party. Step into the future of film. Step outside the box. We are dedicated to providing a platform for “outside the box” storytelling, with an emphasis on diversity and inclusivity.User Feedback: 2 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Grave Intentions Horror Anthology & Screenplay Contest
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One screenplay and up to ten short films will win $500 each! As filmmakers, we know that outside of the film festival circuit, most shorts will die a lonely death in the bowels of the interwebs. So to help amazing shorts get the audience they deserve, we’re creating "Grave Intentions: An Anthology of Chills, Thrills, and Kills." And your film could be a part of it! If your short would be at home on The Twilight Zone, Tales From the Crypt, The Outer Limits, or Creep Show, we want to see it.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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BOLT
Final Deadline: 05/31/2023 (expired)
Bolt is an innovative screenplay competition from the creators of Barnstorm Fest. The rules are simple: Submit a short film screenplay or television pilot then Barnstorm Media chooses the winner and MAKES YOUR MOVIE OR PILOT! You get to be the Executive Producer. Every submission receives feedback from the producers at Barnstorm Media.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship
Final Deadline: 03/31/2023 (expired)
The Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship competition was created to locate, expose and nurture up-and-coming screenwriters who have yet to receive their invitation to the mainstream industry. The competition is proudly sponsored by InkTip, The Script Coverage Co., and Filmmatic, and is open to all screenplays and pilots.User Feedback: 4 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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I See You Awards
Final Deadline: Contact contest for deadline info.
The mission of the "I See You Awards(tm) is to recognize and honor low budget independent filmmakers. The I See You Awards fill a niche and create a platform for recognizing independent filmmakers that is currently missing in mainstream Hollywood.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Satisfied Eye International Film Festival
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The Satisfied Eye International Film Festival is about discovery - a global forum for the discovery, promotion and exhibition of new talent, new connections, new networks and new opportunities; a place where careers can flourish and valuable collaborations can thrive.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Scription Screenplay Competition
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Scriptition Screenplay competition is dedicated to discovering new talent by increasing exposure for unproduced short film and feature narrative screenplays. Competition organizers are passionate about the writing process and telling stories, and we are seeking good stories/ scripts to produce. Hence, we started a competition. Everyone receives: The feedback includes a logline, genre suggestion and a small paragraph outlining the strengths and weaknesses of your screenplay.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Script Summit
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Script Summit is a festival dedicated to supporting screenwriters. You will have the opportunity to connect with directors, producers, and other writers at the Script Summit Networking Event. The Summit also hosts Q&A panels, seminars, table reads of selected scripts, an awards dinner, and over $1,500 in cash prizes! We are very excited to announce that we have partnered with the famous Action on Film MEGAfest! This allows all of our writers with officially selected scripts, the chance to attend the AoF.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Hudson New York Shorts
Final Deadline: Contact contest for deadline info.
To discover and encourage both new and long committed screenwriters. Our mission is to take the winning writer's vision from screenplay to screen!User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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New York City Horror Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 09/01/2023 (expired)
New York City's longest running horror film festival. Established by MooDude Films CEO / Producer / Director / Michael J. Hein in 2001. The NYCHFF is a four-day event that takes place each November in New York City. The NYCHFF has grown to be a world recognized event, with industry, filmmakers, and press attention from around the globe. The Hein Family is committed to keeping the festival alive in memory of the truly missed and loved founder Michael J Hein.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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BEYOND: The Cary Film Festival
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The Cary Theater is pleased to present BEYOND: The Cary Film Festival, a celebration of the many facets of the art of storytelling through film. BEYOND: The Film Festival will highlight all aspects of filmmaking, featuring a short film competition and screenplay writing competition (length – 30 minutes or less). Each year, the festival will explore some of the behind-the-scenes aspects of the filmmaking process.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Screenwriting Competition
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While it’s no secret that Hollywood loves remakes, sequels and spinoffs, it’s perhaps lesser known that Hollywood loves movies based on free intellectual property in the public domain, such as folk tales, fairy tales, mythology and books and plays published before 1923. For example, folk tales, mythology, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Sherlock Holmes, Charles Dickens, famous historical figures – and the list goes on.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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New Orleans Film Festival Screenplay Competition
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For the first time this year, the New Orleans Film Festival is launching a screenplay competition to take place in conjunction with the festival October 17-25, 2018, and is seeking to discover bold, passionate writers telling the stories of our time. The Academy-qualifying festival has been named by MovieMaker Magazine as one of the “50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee” for seven years in a row and was named one of the “Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World” last year.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Boomtown Film and Music Festival
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The Boomtown Film and Music Festival accepts Short (44 or less pages) and Feature (45+ pages) screenplays in any genre! Submit on Film Freeway!User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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WRPN Women's International Film Festival
Final Deadline: 03/31/2023 (expired)
Welcome to the WRPN Women's International Film Festival, where distribution and feedback opportunities abound for films made by women, or films that carry subject matter relating to concerns particular to women's issues. WWIFF is a sister festival to the Depth of Field International Film Festival, a FilmFreeway “Top 100 Reviewed” festival alumni.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Scriptation Showcase Features & Shorts Category
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The Scriptation Showcase is officially open for submissions! Emerging writers can now enter their best screenplay, teleplay, or short. The Scriptation Showcase is the screenwriting competition that circulates winners’ scripts to the directors, showrunners, and producers behind your favorite movies and TV shows. Why submit to the Scriptation Showcase? UNPRECENDENTED EXPOSURE Never before has a screenwriting competition made your script so accessible to working industry professionals.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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WriteMovies Romance and Comedy Award 2022
Final Deadline: 04/03/2022 (expired)
*** 2 WEEK EXTENSION - NOW OPEN UNTIL APRIL 3RD! *** The third edition of the WriteMovies Romance and Comedy Award is now open for submissions! The pandemic has meant times have been tough over the last few years, and there are lots of people turning to film and TV to help cheer them up. Make the most of that by writing a feel-good script and entering it into our Romance and Comedy Award! We believe that this is the right time to be writing in these genres.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Your Script Produced! Studios : Season 3
Final Deadline: 08/31/2022 (expired)
YOUR SCRIPT PRODUCED! STUDIOS: PRESENTS SEASON 3 INTERNATIONAL FEATURE / PILOT / SHORTS / DOCUMENTARY SCRIPT COMPETITION. Over $500,000.00 in Production Budgets/ Cash / Awards & Prizes. Founded, Financed, & Sponsored by Doval Bacall under his Production Banner Doval Bacall Films LLC Grand Prize & Genre Category Winners Announced in the largest trades during the top tier film festivals & Markets: Sundance, Berlin, Cannes Film Festival, American Film Market, ETC.User Feedback: 2 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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New York New Stories
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New York New Stories Screenplay Contest is an exciting new script competition seeking submissions in the following categories: Short Film, TV/Web Pilot. New York New Stories is dedicated to discovering and celebrating the work of screenwriters from all backgrounds and all levels of experience. Our mission is to elevate unique and creative stories that are ready to be told.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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New York International Screenplay Awards
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New York International Screenplay Awards is an international screenplay competition for screenwriters who aspire to connect with the USA industry workers and explore the US markets. NYISA winners will be connected to the US film industry by InkTip Magazine, iPitch. tv, and Script Mailer. They’ll be registered for free at CreatersVault, and will receive free screenwriting courses from Script Reader Pro, plus, detailed analysis and free consultations by Coverage Ink… And much more! NYISA’s valued jury members are industry professionals such as Producers, Script Doctors, Directors, Actors and Screenwriters.User Feedback: 2 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Genre Celebration Festival
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Genre colors all film, and we're here to celebrate that whether you create sci-fi works, horror, noir, westerns, etc. We love them all. Indie filmmakers are encouraged to submit. We don't have a premiere requirement or any made by dates so don't hesitate to submit. We're looking for the best genre films and scripts regardless of budget. Our jury consists of industry veterans and professionals around the world.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards
Final Deadline: 09/20/2023 (expired)
The Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards were created to locate and expose up-and-coming TV and web-series writers, as well as to empower and educate passionate and talented screenwriters still waiting for their invitation into the mainstream industry. Competition is open to TV pilots, webisodes and inventive TV-series scripts of all genres. Thanks to our sponsors: Script Reader Pro, Screenwriting Staffing, Filmmatic, Monday on Main Street, The Script Coverage Co.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Holly Weird Film Festival Screenplay Contest
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The Holly Weird Film Festival (HWFF), founded by Festival Director Jack Truman, celebrates independent films of all genres that feature a distinct vision, a unique voice, or an avant-garde challenge to what is expected or accepted. HWFF provides a venue for narrative, documentary, experimental and avant-garde film and video. Holly Weird is dedicated to celebrating all types of creativity from the worldwide independent film community.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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The Script Lab's Free Contest
Final Deadline: 02/28/2023 (expired)
The Script Lab and Coverfly are offering this FREE screenplay competition to help open talent-discovery to anyone and everyone, regardless of financial ability. This contest is open to feature, TV and short screenplays. Scripts must be in English and formatted with industry-standard screenwriting software. First impressions are important: For this free competition, all scripts will receive an initial first impression read, consisting of just the first few pages of each script.User Feedback: 3 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Seattle International Screenwriting Honors
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Seattle's burgeoning independent film community is home to artists, actors, writers, directors, producers, singers, dancers, musicians, storytellers, filmmakers, and multi-hyphenates of all shapes and sizes. People from all walks of life, from all over the world, call our city home. They come hear to learn, hone, and practice their craft. Unlike other major hubs, that are only interested in established talent, artists know they can come to Seattle and grow into their greatness.User Feedback: 2 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Get It Made
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GET IT MADE [GIM] IS A SHORT FILM PROGRAM THAT PRODUCES 3 TO 5 PAGE SCRIPTS, HELPING FOSTER THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCREENWRITERS & STORYTELLERS BY OFFERING A PROFESSIONAL FILM PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE WITH INDUSTRY PROS AND TOP BRANDS. Final Deadline to submit is December 31st, 2020. Use exclusive MovieBytes promo code GIMxMB for $20 off submission fee.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Scriptation Showcase Teleplay Category
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The Scriptation Showcase is officially open for submissions! Emerging writers can now enter their best screenplay, teleplay, or short. The Scriptation Showcase is the screenwriting competition that circulates winners’ scripts to the directors, showrunners, and producers behind your favorite movies and TV shows. Why submit to the Scriptation Showcase? UNPRECENDENTED EXPOSURE Never before has a screenwriting competition made your script so accessible to working industry professionals.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Circa Historical Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 09/15/2023 (expired)
Circa 2023 Historical Screenplay Competition accepts Historical Screenplays in three categories: Feature Screenplay, TV Pilot and Short Screenplay. All three categories compete for Circa Historical Screenplay Competition Award: "Best Historical Screenplay".User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Orlando International Film Festival
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The Orlando International Film Festival, Inc (OIFF) is a nonprofit organization seeking to bring unique and diverse stories to the beautiful setting of Orlando.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Page Turner Screenplays - First 15
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FIRST 15 - FEATURE & TV PILOT The FIRST 15 is a unique competition where your script will only be judged based upon your opening FIRST 15 pages. As a “Thank You” to everyone for your support during our first two years we are giving anyone who applies on Filmfreeway FREE ENTRY for the FIRST 15 Days of the competition. The FIRST 15 is a great way to kick off the New Year and jump-start your writing to prepare your script for all the upcoming top tier competitions, writers programs and residency applications.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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ScreenCraft Animation Screenwriting Competition
Final Deadline: 07/31/2023 (expired)
Perhaps no other medium of entertainment liberates the writer’s imagination more than animation. From wildly experimental 2D animation, to photo-realistic 3D animation, and everything in between, the medium of animation can allow for many kinds of inventive, visual storytelling. Whether you’re writing an animated family feature, a serious animated series for adults, or a kids TV show, we’re honoring three categories in this annual competition!User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Future Film Writers Season 2 (Adult Short)
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Future Film Writers like to read stories from you, the Writer. We know some excellent writers have an interesting story to tell the world and would like to see their story come to life on the Big Screen. We are looking for the top stories to be in our contest. The Writer wins a cash prize and the possibility to have their story place in the hands of our sponsors.User Feedback: 2 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Future Film Writers Season 2 (Youth Short)
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Future Film Writers like to read stories from you, the Writer. We know some excellent writers have an interesting story to tell the world and would like to see their story come to life on the Big Screen or on social media streaming. We are looking for the top stories to be in our contest. The Writer wins a cash prize and the possibility to have their story place in our sponsors' hands.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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WriteMovies Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award 2022
Final Deadline: 05/29/2022 (expired)
Science fiction and fantasy have been some of the most profitable genres in recent years. From MARVEL to LORD OF THE RINGS, from GAME OF THRONES to STRANGER THINGS, they’ve been conquering both the big and the small screen. Here at WriteMovies, we’re always on the hunt for the next big thing. If you’ve written a script that could be a franchise-starter and take the world by storm, something unique that will make audiences sit up and take notice, we want to read it! On top of the great prizes on offer, all submissions to our Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award will also receive feedback on their first 10 pages, plus free and automatic entry to the WriteMovies 2022 Screenwriting Contest, giving them the chance to win the Grand Prize of $3500!User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards
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The Filmmatic Screenplay Awards were created to locate and expose up-and-coming screenwriters, as well as to empower and educate those talented writers still waiting for their invitation to the mainstream industry. The Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Competition is open to feature-length and short works, screenplays and teleplays. 10 Honorees, 1 Overall-Winner, and 100 Finalists will be named!User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards
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"Short-form films can be great calling cards. They help writers and directors flesh out their unique voices without great expense of time or money. They allow artists to venture out of their comfort zone, show off their wares, and speak to the world without first having to obtain studio or distributor permission...." The Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards were created to locate and expose up-and-coming screenwriters, as well as to empower and promote those talented writers still waiting for their invitation to the mainstream industry.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Screenplay Awards: Elements of Story
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Screenwriting is a business and the best screenwriters have a brand. A special writing style or talent that makes them unique and easy to recognize. Filmmakers needing a story that centers on a big idea or great characterization or engaging dialogue or a compelling theme are able to seamlessly identify the best writer for the project when the writer is branded as a specialists in one of those needed areas.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Dumbo Screenwriting Competition
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The DFF Screenwriting Competition is a collaborate effort with Event Horizon Films and the Dumbo Film Festival. This festival highlights both affirmed and emergent filmmakers by launching promising artists into the world film stage. The screenwriting competition is designed to inspire writers to keep writing. One great story simply isn't enough to advance in this industry.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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WriteMovies Horror Award
Final Deadline: 01/16/2022 (expired)
ONE WEEK EXTENSION - NOW OPEN UNTIL JANUARY 16TH Celebrating great writing across all genres… The third edition of the WriteMovies Horror Award is here! The winner will receive: Guaranteed pitching to industry Two sets of Development Notes to help take their script to the next level Further advice to fine tune their script from our experts.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Summer in the South Film Festival
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Summer in the South Film Festival welcomes filmmakers and their amazing films and screenplays as we say goodbye to summer over Labor Day weekend - in the heart of the South - Atlanta, GA. We have an entire weekend packed with independent film screenings, Q&As with the filmmakers, table reads of nominated screenplays, stand-up comedy, live panels with professionals in the film industry, and networking.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Future Film Writers Youth (Title Challenge 3)
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Future Film Writers create a challenge for new beginner and long-term writers. It is a challenge to test the knowledge of a writer who can take a Title and change it into a fantastic story. On September 20th - 30th, 2021, for 1 1/2 weeks only. Three Youth Short stories will enter our contest for free for the chance to win cash prize money.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Stone Knight Writers
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Welcome to the New (Stone Knight Writers). If you're a writer that wants to have your story read, get feedback, or win the cash prize, well, this contest is for you. Stone Knight Writers wants to help Writers get noticed in the film business. We know some excellent writers have exciting stories to tell the world. The Winner can win a cash prize and the possibility to have their story placed in the production of Stone Knight.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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