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Slamdance Screenplay Competition
Slamdance
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5634 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
323-466-1786 (voice)
323-466-1784 (fax)
Web:
http://www.slamdance.com
Email:
submissions@slamdance.com
Contact: Clementine Leger , Festival Manager
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Objective
The Slamdance Screenplay Competition is dedicated to discovering and nurturing emerging screenwriters. Since 1997, the competition has established a strong track record for introducing writers to members of the entertainment industry who have gone on to produce, option, and represent submitted work. Like the Film Festival, the Screenplay Competition is a place for new, bold, and raw voices. We are looking for scripts that take risks, refuse compromise, and go places where Hollywood hacks fear to tread.
Recent success stories include Tyler Tice, whose 2018 Grand Prize-winning horror feature Day Shift was released in 2022 as a Netflix original film starring Jamie Foxx. Day Shift became the most watched film in the world during the third week of August 2022. Show More
Deadline/Entry Fees
| Deadline | Date Days till: |
Entry Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Early | April 17, 2024 1 |
$65 (feature) |
| Regular | June 15, 2024 60 |
$75 |
| Late | July 19, 2024 94 |
$85 |
| Final | July 26, 2024 101 |
$95 |
See website for other long feature, TV pilot and short script entry fees.
Every entrant will receive short feedback from one of our readers. It will include a genre suggestion, a logline, and a paragraph outlining the strengths and weaknesses of your screenplay. The goal of the feedback is to provide you with short & sweet constructive criticism of your work.
Notification: October 27, 2024
Rules
Please visit website for rules and guidelines.Awards
- A total of $18,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to the winners this year.
- The Grand Prize winner will receive $10,000 in cash.
- The winners of the Feature, Horror, TV Pilot, and Short categories will each receive $2,000 in cash.
- The top three screenwriters in each category will receive prize packages that include Festival Passes good for all screenings and parties at the next Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah
- The winning Horror and Feature screenplays will receive $5,000 in legal services from Pierce Law Group, LLP.
- The top three screenwriters in each category will be included in the upcoming Slamdance Film Festival program which is distributed to industry professionals in Park City and year round.
- One entry from the competition will be awarded the Slamdance Screenplay Mentorship Award, consisting of personal mentorship through Slamdance's alumni network and screenwriting consultants. This includes an in-depth coverage report, an action plan for next draft development, further review of subsequent drafts, support in preparing a pitch deck, and best efforts in helping get the finished work produced through Slamdance's alumni network.
- Production companies, studios, top agencies, and managers request to read our top scripts each year.
Slamdance
Contact
5634 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
323-466-1786 (voice)
323-466-1784 (fax)
Web:
http://www.slamdance.com
Email:
submissions@slamdance.com
Contact: Clementine Leger , Festival Manager
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Slamdance Screenplay Competition
Contact
5634 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
323-466-1786 (voice)
323-466-1784 (fax)
Web:
http://www.slamdance.com
Email:
submissions@slamdance.com
Contact: Clementine Leger , Festival Manager
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Contest News
Slamdance Announces 2009 Screenplay Competition Winners
The Top 10 finalists of the 14th Annual Slamdance Screenplay Competition have been announced, with Phil Hwang's Male Order Bride taking top honors. Hwang was given a $5,000 cash prize for best feature length screenplay during an awards presentation hosted by the Writers Guild of America, West.
Male Order Bride tells the story of a desperate young Armenian man who poses as a mail order bride in order to get to the United States.
Other winners (ordered 2nd through 10th place) include: The Violin Case Killers written by Sean Fitzpatrick, The Norm written by Britt Aamodt, North of Here written by Kurt Smith, The Revisionist written by Jim Soscie, Seven Thousand Islands written by Gary White, Mafia written by Adeola Alao, Borderland written by J.R. Taylor, Pritt written by Mary McDermott, Rock, Paper, Scissors written by Rodrigo Patino & Luis Fernandez Reneo.
The winners were announced at a special awards ceremony last night hosted by the Writers Guild of America, West, and co-presented by InkTip. Attendees included Slamdance alumni, industry invitees, members of the WGAW Independent Writers Caucus and Slamdance Writing Awards Sponsors.
Slamdance received a record 2,000+ submissions for the Feature Screenplay Competition, which strives to bring attention to the most talented emerging screenwriters and introduce them to the industry. Previous Competition-winning screenplays that were acquired for production include Nicole Kassell and Stephen Fetcher's The Woodsman, Joshua Marston's Maria Full of Grace, Tim Boughn's Neo Ned and Nancy Kissam's Drool that will be theatrically released by Strand this November.
"Right now our winner is running a cleaning upholstery business in San Bernardino, but given his obvious writing talent and our increasingly successful production record, there's every chance Phil will soon have to decide which business he wants to be in," said Slamdance President and Co-founder Peter Baxter.
The success of the Slamdance Screenplay Competition over the past thirteen years and the writers it has discovered continues to attract the attention of industry searching for the best new independent writing talent. As a year-round organization, Slamdance serves as a showcase for the discovery of new and emerging talent and is dedicated to the nurturing and development of new independent artists and their cinematic vision. Slamdance has received over 3,000 writing submissions so far this year - a record number - and is currently accepting horror and thriller script submissions. Slamdance Film Festival will run concurrently with the Sundance Film Festival, January 21-28, 2010 in Park City, Utah. Slamdance still lives by its mantra: "By Filmmakers, For Filmmakers." No other festival is fully programmed by filmmakers. Slamdance is proud to count among its alumni many notable writers and directors who first gained notice at the festival, including such cinematic luminaries as Christopher Nolan, Marc Forster and Jared Hess. New filmmakers and writers today realize that Slamdance is a place to launch their careers.
Updated: 10/08/2009
Slamdance Screenplay Competition
Contact
5634 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
323-466-1786 (voice)
323-466-1784 (fax)
Web:
http://www.slamdance.com
Email:
submissions@slamdance.com
Contact: Clementine Leger , Festival Manager
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