WriteMovies Spring 2025 Screenwriting Contest
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Contact: John Sullivan, Competitions & Consulting Facilitator
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WriteMovies Spring 2025 Screenwriting Contest: Now Open!
WriteMovies is celebrating 25 years of promoting great global writing! Since 1999, WriteMovies’ screenwriting contests guarantee to help develop our winners’ projects at our own expense and pitch them to producers with the power to make them happen. Our contests are designed to show you exactly how well your script currently competes in the market, and a clear ladder to success.
Our results – with up to 50+ Quarter-Finalists, 25+ Semi-Finalists and 3 Winners – show you where your project currently sits in comparison to others, and our studio-quality tiers of script mentoring and script consultancy show you its potential and how to remove the obstacles to that success without compromising on the things that matter most to you about your script. Show More
Eligibility
Open to anyone. Scripts need to be in English.Rules
- We no longer accept checks due to issues with fraud. Please use the PayPal options when participating. Please ensure you can send AND receive payments via PayPal.
- There are no physical items deliverable under our services – all reports will be provided by email in standard document formats.
- Once a project has been processed, there is no refund.
- Any cancellations must be requested within 48 hours and before any public announcement of winning entries.
- Entries MUST have a cover sheet/titlepage with contact info in order to be considered.
- Prize: All winners are guaranteed representation and one full year of script mentoring, including development notes on all re-writes of the winning scripts. Worth $3,200
- Up to $1 million in option monies from the A-List producers we work with. If an established studio/production company makes an offer on your script, we will fly you to Los Angeles and cover your flight & hotel costs for three days. We will pitch the top three projects to relevant production companies. You keep ALL the option/sales money (unless you commission an agent, manager or attorney to represent you). The Grand Prize winner is also pitched to several literary agencies and management companies as well as non-US companies to increase the chances of a sale. The top three overall winners and their projects are mentioned in press releases and on the web.
Awards
Top three scripts, genre award winners and the Script Pitch Contest winner all receive:- A year of free script development worth up to $3200
- Representation and Guaranteed pitching to industry by Talent Scout International Management
WriteMovies
Contact
264 S. La Cienega Boulevard
Suite 1132
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
(206) 203-1256 (fax)
Web:
Click here
Email:
info@writemovies.com
Contact: John Sullivan, Competitions & Consulting Facilitator
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WriteMovies Screenwriting Competition
Contact
264 S. La Cienega Boulevard
Suite 1132
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
(206) 203-1256 (fax)
Web:
Click here
Email:
info@writemovies.com
Contact: John Sullivan, Competitions & Consulting Facilitator
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Contest News
MovieBytes Interview:
Screenwriter Gil Christner
An interview with screenwriter Gil Christner regarding the WriteMovies.com Writing Competition.
Q: What's the title of the script you entered in this contest, and what's it about?A: "Death Takes A Vacation"
Simply stated, it's a comedy version of the premise for "Death Takes a Holiday" (later remade as "Meet Joe Black"):
The Angel of Death wants to take a weekend off, but the neurotic mortals at the Earthly resort he checks into have other plans for him, especially the moody Hotel Manager, who has been obsessed with the Grim Reaper all her life.
A: WriteMovies.com had one of the first deadlines in the calendar year, and seemed to have a good reputation (I checked every contest I entered on MovieBytes.com, something I highly recommend)! Also, the address, on The Lot in Hollywood, gave it an air of substantial solidity in my mind.
I entered 11 contests with this script, and it placed in 8 of them, including finalist in the Chesterfield Fellowship, Scriptapalooza, Script Pimp, and Honorable Mention in the Hollywood Script Symposium.
A: Great! I have nothing but high praise for Alex and the gang at WriteMovies.com.
They were very friendly and communicative, and the prize winners were treated to lunch on The Lot with some Producers to pick their brains.
Plus, WriteMovies.com follows up with extra perks, such as a newsletter sent to producers including my rep info plus any log lines and synopses of other scripts I have written.
Great people, great experience.
A: Nothing except they liked it.
Always think that's helpful!
A: Not this contest directly.
However, I had a conversation at an audition with a friend of mine telling him about winning this contest. A woman overheard me and told me she worked for a literary agent, and would be happy to read my script.
Long story short, I signed with that agent! Serendipitous!
A: I'm an actor (please see my professional website at www.gilchristner.com) and have been working in the business for 20 years.
I have two other screenplays. I also made my living writing short form comedy for the radio in the 90's.
A: Yes.
If you don't live here, move here, kids!
A: Polishing up "Jenny Swerdlow, Restaurant Detective."
Posted Saturday, January 31, 2004
WriteMovies Screenwriting Competition
Contact
264 S. La Cienega Boulevard
Suite 1132
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
(206) 203-1256 (fax)
Web:
Click here
Email:
info@writemovies.com
Contact: John Sullivan, Competitions & Consulting Facilitator
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(3.0/5.0) |
| Professionalism: |
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(4.1/5.0) |
| Feedback: |
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(4.0/5.0) |
| Signficance: |
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(2.6/5.0) |
| Report Cards: |
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Have you entered?
Submit a Report card
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