Scriptapalooza Announces Screenplay Quarterfinalists

Updated: 07/30/2021

Scriptapalooza has announced their 2021 Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists.

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Scriptapalooza Announces Fellowship Winner

Sean Slater has been named the winner of the 2021 Scriptapalooza Fellowship for his script, Long Live John Africa!. [Updated: 07/18/2021]

Save the Cat! Screenplay Challenge Names Top 5 Scripts

The Top 5 Feature and 60-Minute Pilots have been announced for the 2021 Save the Cat! Screenplay Challenge. [Updated: 07/14/2021]

Scriptapalooza Names Short Script Contest Winners

Jarrod Lowski's Deepspot has been named the winner of the Scriptapalooza Short Screenplay Competition. [Updated: 07/13/2021]

Scriptapalooza to Produce Missing in America Documentary

Many Veterans upon their return from the war suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome, and many died forgotten, their cremains lying unclaimed on basement shelves for decades. This Scriptapalooza produced documentary will bring to light the efforts of one group to find and memorialize them. [Updated: 07/08/2021]

Golden Script Competition Announces 2021 Winners

The Golden Script Competition has named their 2021 Feature, TV, and Short Script Competition Winners. [Updated: 07/05/2021]

Shore Scripts Names Film Fund Winners

EL VALS (THE WALTZ), by Alycya Magaña has been named the winner of the Shore Scripts Film Fund $15,000 Grand Prize Production Grant. [Updated: 06/14/2021]

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Interview with Write LA Grand Prize Winner Nathan Dame

Nathan Dame's television pilot Fräulein Schreiber's Mixtape was recently named the Grand Prize Winner of the Write LA Screenwriting Competition.
Interview with 2020 Creative World Award Winner Ross L. Mayberry

Ross L. Mayberry is a Clinical Psychologist in Seattle whose pirate tale Sailing Off the Edge of the World was named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 Creative World Awards Screenwriting Competition.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.