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Killer Shorts Names Horror Screenplay Semifinalists

The Killer Shorts Horror Short Screenplay Competition has announced their 2021 semifinalists, representing approximately the top 5% of all submissions. Updated: 03/01/2021

Scriptapalooza TV Names Contest Winners

Winners and finalists have been announce in the Pilots, Sitcoms, 1-Hour Drama and Reality Categories of the Scriptapalooza TV Writing Competition. Updated: 02/15/2021

Shore Scripts Names Fiction Podcast Finalists

Finalists have been announced for the Shore Scripts Fiction Podcast competition. Winners will be announced March 5th. Updated: 02/15/2021

Killer Shorts Names Quarterfinalists

Killer Shorts Horror Short Screenplay Competition has announced their 2021 Quarterfinalists, representing approximately the top 15% of all submissions. Updated: 02/15/2021

DUMBO Film Fest Names Screenplay Competition Winners

Revelations by Johnny Gilligan has been named the winner of the Feature Screenplay Competition of this year's DUMBO Film Festival. Updated: 02/12/2021

American Zoetrope Names Contest Winners

Poppy Luard's Careme has been named the winner from early 2,000 submissions to the 18th Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition. Finalists, semifinalists, and quarterfinalists have also been announced. Updated: 02/12/2021

Your Script Produced Announces Season 2 Semifinalists

Semifinalists have been announced for the 2nd Season of the Your Script Produced Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 02/10/2021

TrackingB Announces Contest Results

Wayworn by Jenna Cosgrove has been named the overall winner of the TrackingB TV Feature Competition. Updated: 02/06/2021

Write LA Competition Winner Signs with Management Company

Screenwriter Nathan Dame has signed with management company Fourward based on his success in the Write LA Screenwriting Competition. His comedy pilot, ‘Fraulein Schreiber’s Mixtape’ was selected in a year that saw a record number of entries. Updated: 02/05/2021

Your Script Produced Announces Season 2 Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 2nd Season of the Your Script Produced Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 02/01/2021

Disney Names Writing Program Participants

Disney has announced the 13 writers who will be participating in its 2021 writing program. Updated: 01/28/2021

Fresh Voices Names Quarterfinalists

Fresh Voices has announced the quarterfinalists for their 2020/2021 Screenwriting Competition, representing the top 342 original screenplays from 1,323 submissions. Updated: 01/27/2021

CineStory Announces TV Division Finalists

Finalists have been announced for 2021 CineStory TV Fellowship. Finalists are invited to attend this year’s virtual TV retreat, with any remaining spots offered to division semifinalists and quarterfinalists. Updated: 01/27/2021

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.

Updated: 01/09/2021

Dumbo Film Fest Names Screenwriting Quarterfinalists

The Dumbo Film Festival in Brooklyn announced today the quarterfinalists for its 2020 Screenplay Competition, presented by Event Horizon Films. Each script was reviewed by working industry professionals at top rep agencies (ICM Partners, A3 Artists Agency, Gersh, etc.) and graded based on strength of plot, characterization, format, originality, style, dialogue, pacing and current market potential. Semifinalists will be announced January 16th. Updated: 01/05/2021

Which Screenplay Contests Should You Enter in 2021?

Screenwriting contests are not a one-size-fits-all affair. While there are obvious benefits to winning a huge and prestigious competition like the Nicholl Fellowships, smaller contests can be just as valuable if they hook you up with a judge who wants to option your screenplay, or a manager who wants to represent your work. Check out our annual round-up of some of the best competitions available in 2021. Updated: 01/05/2021

StoryPros International Names Contest Winners

Katterina Powers' Dog of War has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 14th Annual StoryPros International Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 12/16/2020

Shore Scripts Names Film Fund Winners

Shore Scripts has announced Two Bears, by Anthony Florez, as the winner of their 2020 Short Film Fund Competition. Updated: 12/14/2020

Golden Script Competition Announces Partnership with Emmy-Nominated Writer

The Golden Script Competition has announced a partnership with Jessica Sharzer, a three-time Emmy-nominated screenwriter, for the 2021 competition. Jessica Sharzer will read the 2021 winning TV pilot script as well as hold a 1-hour one-on-one masterclass with the winning writer via video call in July 2021. Updated: 12/12/2020

Shore Scripts Name TV Script Competition Winners

Shore Scripts has announced this year's 1-hour and 1/2-hour TV Pilot Competition winners. Updated: 12/10/2020

Shore Scripts Names Feature Screenplay Contest Winners

David Peterson's The Blind Sea has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 Shore Feature Screenplay Contest. Updated: 12/10/2020

StoryPros International Announces Contest Finalists

StoryPros has announced the Finalists for the 14th Annual StoryPros International Screenwriting Competition. Winners will be announced December 15th. Updated: 12/09/2020

Golden Script Competition Partners with Paul Haggis

Winners of The Golden Script Competition will receive a reading and one-on-one masterclass with Paul Haggis. Updated: 12/03/2020

NYC Horror Announces Screenplay Finalists

The New York City Horror Film Festival has announced their Screenplay Contest Finalists. Short and Feature Script winners will be announced on December 8th. Updated: 12/02/2020

StoryPros International Announces Contest Semifinalists

StoryPros has announced semifinalists for the 14th Annual StoryPros International Screenwriting Competition.

Updated: 12/02/2020

Shore Scripts Names Short Film Fund Finalists

Fifteen finalists have been announced for the 2020 Shore Scripts Short Film Fund Competition. Winners will be announced on December 14th. Updated: 12/01/2020

Shore Scripts Announces Feature & TV Finalists

Shore Scripts has announced their feature screenplay and 1-hour and 1/2-hour TV pilots finalists, representing the top 1% of all submissions this year. Updated: 11/25/2020

StoryPros Names International Screenplay Contest Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 14th Annual StoryPros International Screenplay Contest.  Semifinalists will be announced Tuesday, December 1st. Updated: 11/25/2020

HollyShorts Announces Competition Winners

HollyShorts has announced Mike Kearby as the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 HollyShorts Screenwriting Competition for his screenplay, The Problem With Time Travel. The winner will be awarded a $10,000 Production Grant from Seattle Film Summit, and the completed film will screen at the 2021 HollyShorts Film Festival, and receive distribution on Bitpix. Updated: 11/15/2020

Shore Scripts Announces Feature & TV Semifinalists

Shore Scripts has announced their feature screenplay and 1-hour and 1/2-hour TV pilots semifinalists. Finalists will be announced November 25th. Updated: 11/10/2020

Write LA Posts Grand Prize Winner Live Read

Write LA has posted their live read of Grand Prize Winner Nathan Dame comedy pilot script, Fräulein Schreiber’s Mixtape. Updated: 11/09/2020

ScreamFest Names Contest Winner

Bloody Mary by Dan Ast and John C. Thursby has been named the Grand Prize winner of the 2020 ScreamFest Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 11/04/2020

Scriptapalooza Announces Screenplay Competition Producer Requests

Producers have requested to read a number of Scriptapalooza's 2020 finalists. Updated: 11/04/2020

RIIFF Names Contest Winners

Edward Balli from Canada won the Best Screenplay Grand Prize Winner for this year's Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF) Screenplay Competition for his screenplay is entitled "Leadeth." Updated: 11/03/2020

AFF Announces Screenplay Contest Winners

The Austin Film Festival has announced their 2020 Script Competition winners. Updated: 11/02/2020

Shore Scripts Announces Feature & TV Quarterfinalists

Shore Scripts has announced their feature screenplay and 1-hour and 1/2-hour TV pilots quarterfinalists. Semifinalists will be announced November 10th Updated: 10/25/2020

HollyShorts Names Screenplay Finalists

Finalists have been announced from among more 1,000 submissions to the HollyShorts Film Festival. The top 3 screenplays will be announced/awarded during the HollyShorts Awards Ceremony on November 15, with the winning script receiving a $10,000 production deal courtesy of Seattle Film Summit. Updated: 10/24/2020

ISA Names Fast Track Fellowship Winners

The International Screenwriting Association has announced Robert Ripley (The Mender) and Danielle Nicki (The First White President) as their 2020 FAST TRACK XII Fellowship Winners.  Genre winners and finalists have also been announced.

Updated: 10/21/2020

Page Announces 2020 Contest Winners

The winners of the 2020 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards competition have now been announced, and this year’s $25,000 Grand Prize was awarded to Claire Tailyour for her haunting, evocative thriller MOTHER WILD. Updated: 10/15/2020

Austin Fest Names Script Competition Finalists

The Austin Film Festival has announced their contest finalists. 59 scripts were chosen for the Final Round with one winner to be determined in each of the 18 categories. The winners will be announced during this year’s Conference. Updated: 10/14/2020

Scriptapalooza Interviews Top 3 Contest Winners

Scriptapalooza has posted video interviews with the top 3 winners of their 2020 Scriptapalooza Feature Screenwriting Contest. Updated: 10/11/2020

Filmmatic Names Comedy Contest Winner

Henry Sarwer-Foner & Noel Baker have been named the winner of the Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards for their feature screenplay, Dick 2.0, about a Wall Street billionaire facing a divorce who clones himself in order to save his marriage. When he sees how much more his wife loves his duplicate, he must battle his better self to win back his better half. Updated: 10/07/2020

Write LA Names Grand Prize Winners & Finalists

Fräulein Schreiber's Mixtape, by Nathan Dame, has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 Write LA Screenwriting Competition. Finalist and semifinalist loglines have also been released. Updated: 10/07/2020

Table Read My Screenplay Names Contest Winners

But On Point by Marshall Gillson has been named the Feature/TV Pilot Grand Prize Winner of the Table Read My Screenplay Competition, while Kimberly Truong's The Ride was named the Grand Prize winner for shorts. Updated: 10/02/2020

Write LA Names 2020 Contest Finalists

Write LA has announced their 2020 contest finalists, who will each receive targeted promotion through Roadmap Writers extensive network of agents, managers, and producers. The Finalists will also get a free copy of Final Draft 11 courtesy of Final Draft and an additional screenwriting book courtesy of Michael Wiese Productions. Updated: 10/01/2020

Academy Names Nicholl Fellowship Winners

Five individuals have been selected as winners of the 2020 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. The fellows will each receive a $35,000 prize and be highlighted at the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards and Virtual Table Read on Thursday, December 3, where an ensemble of actors will read selected scenes from the winning scripts. Updated: 09/30/2020

HollyShorts Announces Screenplay Semifinalists

The HollyShorts Film Festival has announced semifinalists from a record number of over 1,000 submissions to their 7th annual screenplay contest. Updated: 09/25/2020

Scriptapalooza Names 2020 Contest Winners

A Reindeer Story by Jay Michael Jorgensen & Lisa Juslin has been named the 1st Place Winner of the 2020 Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 09/22/2020

PAGE Names 2020 Finalists

The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards has announced the top 10 Finalists in each of their ten genre categories. This year’s Finalists include writers from all across the United States and 14 foreign countries: Australia, France, Belgium, Spain, England, Ireland, Japan, South Korea, Morocco, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Mexico, and Canada. Updated: 09/16/2020

Write LA Names 2020 Semifinalists

Fifteen semifinalists have been announced for the 2020 Write LA Screenwriting Competition. Each semifinalist will receive a free screenwriting book courtesy of Michael Wiese Productions, a phone call from head judge Tim Schildberger to discuss their scripts, and a professional logline polish from co-founder Angela Bourassa. Updated: 09/15/2020

Scriptapalooza Celebrates Top 30 Writers

Scriptapalooza has posted a video celebrating the top 30 writers in this year's Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 09/15/2020

Academy Names Nicholl Fellowship Finalists

The ten finalists for this year's Nicholl Fellowships have been announced. Updated: 09/14/2020

Finish Line Script Competition Names Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced in the Feature Screenplay and Television & Short Script Categories of the 2020 Finish Line Script Competition. Updated: 09/02/2020

Creative World Awards Announces Grand Prize Winner

Ross Mayberry's Sailing Off the Edge of the World has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 Creative World Awards. Updated: 09/01/2020

Save The Cat Names Competition Winners

Save the Cat! has announced Thomas Steventon as the winner of their 2020 Screenwriting Competition for his script, Gaijin & Samson. The TV category winner was Tavyn Gentry's Tira'allara Updated: 09/01/2020

Scriptapalooza Announces Top 30 Screenplays

Scriptapalooza has announced their top 30 screenplays for 2020. Updated: 08/25/2020

Launch Pad Pilot Names Finalists

The Tracking Board has announced the Top 100 Finalists for their Launch Pad TV Pilot Competition. Updated: 08/15/2020

TrackingB Announces TV Contest Finalists

TrackingB has announced the five finalists for their 2020 TV Writing Competition. Updated: 08/14/2020

Scriptapalooza Names Short Screenplay Contest Winners

Clare Garner's The Canadian has been named the 1st Place Winner of the 2020 Scriptapalooza Short Screenplay Competition. Updated: 08/07/2020

Scriptapalooza Announces TV Contest Winners

Scriptapalooza has announced their TV Pilot, Sitcom, 1-Hour Drama and Reality TV Contest Winners. Updated: 08/04/2020

Scriptapalooza Names Fellowship Winners

Neal Wiser has been named the 2020 Scriptapalooza Fellowship winner for his script, Frankenstein Unleashed. Updated: 08/04/2020

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.

Updated: 08/04/2020

Writers Lab Names Participants

The Writers Lab for Women Screenwriters over 40 has selected the 12 participants for this year's Virtual Development Lab. Updated: 08/03/2020

Scriptapalooza Announces Semifinalists

Scriptapalooza has named their Top 100 Feature Screenplay Semifinalists for 2020. Updated: 08/01/2020

Creative Screenwriting Announces Semifinalists

Creative Screenwriting has announced the semifinalists in all genres for their Unique Voices Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 08/01/2020

Stage 32 Names Sci-fi Fantasy Semifinalists

Stage32 has announced the semifinalists of their 4th Annual Sci-fi/Fantasy Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 07/31/2020

Scriptapalooza Names Quarterfinalists

Scriptapalooza has announced their 2020 Feature Screenplay Competition quarterfinalists. Semifinalists will be announced on August 5th. Updated: 07/29/2020

Austin Going Virtual for Its 27th Annual Festival and Writers Conference

Austin Film Festival has announced that its 27th annual Film Festival and Writers Conference will be a completely virtual event including panels and film screenings that will feature leading industry creatives, to be held this October 22nd–29th, 2020. Updated: 07/28/2020

Stage32 Names Sci-fi/Fantasy Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 4th Annual Stage 32 Sci-fi/Fantasy Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 07/25/2020

HollyShorts Announces Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced from a record number of more than 1,000 submissions to the 7th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival Screenwriting Contest. Updated: 07/18/2020

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.

Updated: 07/13/2020

Scriptapalooza Produced Short Wins Festival Accolades

Tics, a short film executive produced by Scriptapalooza's Mark Andrushko, has been winning festival recognition for its unique take on mental illness, the need to ask for and receive help, and the consequences when help isn't received. Scriptapalooza is currently producing shorts and features through a newly launched division of the company. Updated: 07/06/2020

Stowe Story Labs Names Participants & Mentors

Stowe Story Labs has announced its 2020 Roster of Participants and Mentors for the Stowe Writers' Retreat. The event is typically held at the Timberholm Inn in Vermont, but will be held remotely this year due to the coronavirus crisis. Updated: 07/04/2020

Screenwriters Network Launches 2nd Annual 'Killer Shorts' Horror Short Screenplay Competition

The Screenwriters Network has partnered with literary managers, producers and executives to unearth the next visionary talent in horror. The Top 10 scripts will be read by a star-studded panel of industry judges, with a further combined $5,000 worth of prizes up for grabs including copies of Final Draft screenwriting software, waived entry fees to multiple screenwriting contests, increased rank on Coverfly's The Red List, free subscriptions to on-demand horror streaming service Shudder, and more. Updated: 07/01/2020

Filmmatic Announces Season 5 Drama Contest Winner, Plus Finalists and Semifinalists

Dawn Garcia's The Confidence Men has been named the Winner of the Filmmatic Season 5 Drama Contest. Updated: 07/01/2020

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.

Updated: 06/29/2020

Shoot Your Shorts Names Grand Prize Winner & 100 Finalists

Emerging Screenwriters has named Rachel Thomas-Medwid as the Grand Prize Winner of their 2020 Shoot Your Shorts Screenplay Competition for her script The Influencer. The contest's top 100 finalists have also been announced. Updated: 06/27/2020

CineStory Names 2020 Quarterfinalists

CineStory has named 128 quarterfinalists from almost 600 submissions to this year Feature Retreat and Fellowship Competition. Quarterfinalists will be offered any open spots to this year's retreat after the semifinalists, finalists, and winners are invited to attend. Attendees receive three 90-minute one-on-one sessions with CineStory mentors. Attendees also participate in informal rooms run by mentors that cover topics ranging from pitching like a pro to the state of filmmaking in the digital age. Updated: 06/22/2020

StoryPros Awards Names Contest Winners

Johnny Cruz has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 13th Annual StoryPros Awards for his script Repair the Carrows. Updated: 06/16/2020

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.

Updated: 06/15/2020

Shore Scripts Names 2020 Film Fund Winner

Lindiwe Makgalemele's The Town has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 Shore Scripts Short Film Fund Competition. The script is about a seven year old girl who believes she's responsible for a car break-down in an anonymous South African town. Updated: 06/07/2020

ScreenCraft Names Comedy Quarterfinalists

ScreenCraft has announced quarterfinalists from among almost 2,400 submissions to the 2020 ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Competition. Updated: 06/04/2020

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.

Updated: 06/02/2020

Inroads Names Fellowship Competition Winner

The Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship has named Christopher Byram as their 2020 Fellowship Winner for his gritty period TV pilot, Rednecks. The script is a a brutal tale of the West Virginia Mine Wars of the 1920's, when ordinary miners fought a violent David-versus-Goliath battle for their civil liberties. Updated: 05/27/2020

Dallas International Film Festival Names Screenplay Contest Winners

The Dallas International Film Festival, powered by Capital One, has announced the winners of the “Broaden Your Horizons” screenplay competition, presented by Event Horizon Films. The winners will receive cash prizes, a professional consultation with a high profile writer, a Star Pass for the Dallas International Film Festival and opportunities to pitch their work to industry professionals through Virtual Pitch Fest. The two grand prize winners will also embark on a future Writer’s Enrichment Cruise. Updated: 05/27/2020

Shore Scripts Names 2020 Film Fund Finalists

Shore Scripts has announced their 15 Short Film Fund Finalists for 2020. Winners will be announced on June 6th. Updated: 05/26/2020

StoryPros Awards Names Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced in all genres for the 2020 StoryPros Awards. Updated: 05/26/2020

BlueCat Announces Grand Prize Winner

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has named Jane Barr and their 2020 Grand Prize Winner for her script, An American Tale. Updated: 05/19/2020

Austin Fest Launches Enderby Entertainment Filmmaking Fellowship Award

The Austin Film Festival (AFF) has announced the launch of their inaugural Enderby Entertainment Filmmaking Fellowship Award, as well as their inaugural Jury Advisory Program. Updated: 05/18/2020

Save The Cat Names Contest Semifinalists

Save the Cat has announced the 25 semifinalists for their 2020 Save The Cat Screenplay Challenge. Updated: 05/13/2020

BlueCat Names 2020 Finalists

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their 2020 Feature, TV Pilot, and Short Script finalists. Winners will be announced on May 19th, 2020. Updated: 05/12/2020

Dallas International Film Festival Names Broaden Your Horizons Semifinalists

Semifinalists have been announced for the 2020 Broaden Your Horizons Screenwriting Competition, sponsored by the Dallas International Film Festival. Updated: 05/01/2020

Dallas International Film Festival Names Broaden Your Horizons Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 2020 Broaden Your Horizons Screenwriting Competition, sponsored by the Dallas International Film Festival. Updated: 04/26/2020

BlueCat Names Contest Semifinalists

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their 2020 Feature, TV Pilot, and Short Script semifinalists. Finalists will be announced on May 12th, 2020. Updated: 04/14/2020

Montana Screenwriting Competition Announces Contest Winners

The Montana Screenwriting Competition (MTSC) has announced the results of its contest to honor Montana screenwriters and film scripts that highlight Montana locations. In association with the fourth annual Bigfork Independent Film Festival (BIFF), the first MT Screenwriting Competition received submissions of features and short films between November 2019 and February 2020. Updated: 04/14/2020

Fresh Voices Names Contest Winners

Priscilla Davies’ Romantic-Comedy THE POWER OF THREE has taken top honors at the Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition, scooping up the 1st place Award in the Comedy/ Romantic-Comedy Genre and the Grand Prize Award. A graduate of the New Jersey School of Dramatic Arts acting program, Priscilla toiled as an elementary school teacher in New Jersey before chasing her dreams as an actress and moving to Los Angeles nearly ten years ago. Updated: 04/10/2020

ISA Fast Announces Track Fellows

Julia Skikavich and Kevin Bachar have been named the ISA Fast Track Fellows for 2020. Updated: 04/09/2020

Roadmap Writers Names Top Tier Competition Winner

Roadmap Writers has named Joey Day Hargrove as the winner of their 2019/2020 Top Tier Competition for her script, Sunny & Hyde. Updated: 04/01/2020

Launch Pad Feature Names Contest Winners

Alex Payne's Deepfake has been name the overall winner of the 2019 Launch Pad Feature Screenwriting Competition. Updated: 03/26/2020

Fast Track Names Semifinalists

The International Screenwriters’ Association has announced their 2020 Fast Track XI semifinalists. Updated: 03/26/2020