Screamfest Horror Film Festival and Screenplay Competition
Screamfest
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8840 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
310-358-3273 (voice)
310-358-3272 (fax)
Web:
https://screamfestla.com
Email:
info@screamfestla.com
Contact: Rachel Belofsky, Festival Director/Founder
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Objective
Screamfest was formed in order to give filmmakers and writers in the horror/sci-fi genres a venue to have their work showcased to people in the industry. We are very proud that the majority of the films showcased now have distribution. Writers have garnered representation due to the festival.
Rules
- Screenplays can be submitted online.
- Online entrants can complete their application, make their credit card payment and upload a PDF version of their script.
- Feature film script length should be at least 75 pages and not over 130 (there is no page limit).
- We will notify screenplay finalists in October. The winning screenplay will be announced at the festival closing night awards ceremony.
- The screenplay finalists will be announced in an email sent to you from Screamfest and posted on the front page of the Screamfest website in October.
- Please add our email address to your email safe senders list, address book or contact list so that any correspondence with Screamfest will not be blocked or filtered into your bulk folder.
Awards
Winning Screenwriter will receive:- General meeting with managers/producers
- $1,000 cash prize
- Our amazing gold skull trophy designed by Stan Winston
- 10 free pitches on Virtual Pitch Fest
- 3 months of On Ramp program and 2 Open Pitch Sessions. Value: $337
- Movie Magic Screenwriting software
- InkTip Script Listing: A listing of your script on InkTip so that producers and reps can find you. Every InkTip producer has been vetted via resume and references and demonstrated the ability to get movies made. Companies who are InkTip members include ABC, Anonymous Content, APA, CBS Films, HBO Films, ICM, Paradigm, Paramount Pictures, Hallmark Channel, FX, Universal, WME, Echo Lake, Zero Gravity, Bad Robot, and 20th Century Fox.
- Publish your logline in InkTip's bi-monthly publication sent to nearly 15,000 producers, agents and managers.
Top 5 Finalist will receive:
- One full festival pass to Screamfest 2022, including all screenings and parties.
- 5-free pitches on Virtual Pitch Fest
- Movie Magic Screenwriting software
- Read by managers/producers such as Ghost House Pictures, Hulu, Gotham Group, Impossible Dream Entertainment and more.
- 1 Open Pitch Session each. Value: $175
- A listing of your script on InkTip so that producers and reps can find you.
- Publish your logline in InkTip's bi-monthly publication sent to nearly 15,000 producers, agents and managers.
- InkTip Script Listing: A listing of your script on InkTip so that producers and reps can find you. Every InkTip producer has been vetted via resume and references and demonstrated the ability to get movies made. Companies who are InkTip members include ABC, Anonymous Content, APA, CBS Films, HBO Films, ICM, Paradigm, Paramount Pictures, Hallmark Channel, FX, Universal, WME, Echo Lake, Zero Gravity, Bad Robot, and 20th Century Fox.
- 1 free pitch on Virtual Pitch Fest
Screamfest
Contact
8840 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
310-358-3273 (voice)
310-358-3272 (fax)
Web:
https://screamfestla.com
Email:
info@screamfestla.com
Contact: Rachel Belofsky, Festival Director/Founder
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Screamfest Horror Film Festival and Screenplay Competition
Contact
8840 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
310-358-3273 (voice)
310-358-3272 (fax)
Web:
https://screamfestla.com
Email:
info@screamfestla.com
Contact: Rachel Belofsky, Festival Director/Founder
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Contest News
MovieBytes Interview:
Screenwriter James Stevens-Arce
An interview with screenwriter James Stevens-Arce regarding the Screamfest Writing Competition.
Q: What's the title of the script you entered in this contest, and what's it about?A: "Souls" is a 35-minute contemporary psychological thriller, which some readers have described as "Psycho" meets "The Silence of the Lambs," about a murder that takes place in a seedy bar and the unexpected revelations that come out during the ensuing FBI interrogation.
Q: What made you enter this particular contest? Have you entered any other contests with this script? If so, how did you do?A: I entered this contest because it focuses on horror, a genre into which my script falls, and it included a competition for short-form screenplays.
To date, I have entered no other contests with it yet.
A: I'm fully satisfied with the contest and its administration, and I did receive the promised awards.
Q: Were you given any feedback on your script? If so, did you find the feedback helpful?A: No feedback was promised and none has been received.
Q: Has your success in this contest helped you market your script? Were you contacted by any agents, managers or producers?A: I believe my script's winning first place in its category will help me obtain financial assistance from my local government film fund (I live in San Juan, Puerto Rico).
To date, no agents, managers, or producers have contacted me as a result of my script's winning this contest.
A: I'm an independent writer-producer-director in the advertising business in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
I've written four feature-length screenplays: "Soulsaver," a sci-fi action-drama adapted from my award-winning novel of the same name, "Blind Man, Preacher Man," a 19th-century action-drama which semifinaled in the New York Latino International Film Festival, "All You Need is Love," a 1960s romantic comedy/buddy movie, and "Sins of the Heart," a contemporary noir detective story which made the top 5% in the Nicholl and the top 10% at the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.
A: I live in San Juan, Puerto Rico. If I get a job as a staff writer on a new crime drama series I'm up for, I plan to live in L.A. during those months of the year in which we are in production and my presence there is required.
Q: What's next? Are you working on a new script?A: I've been hired to write an indie script in Spanish for a local production company and I'm writing an Elmore Leonard-type contemporary crime spec script in English (think GET SHORTY and TISHOMINGO BLUES) on my own.
Posted Thursday, January 8, 2004
Screamfest Horror Film Festival and Screenplay Competition
Contact
8840 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
310-358-3273 (voice)
310-358-3272 (fax)
Web:
https://screamfestla.com
Email:
info@screamfestla.com
Contact: Rachel Belofsky, Festival Director/Founder
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