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ScreenCraft Names Stage Play Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalists have been selected from among nearly 700 submissions to the inaugural ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition.
ScreenCraft Names Short Screenplay Contest Winner & Finalists
The Rubicon by Aminah Hughes has been selected as the winner of the 2018 ScreenCraft Short Screenplay contest.
Write/LA Names Semifinalists
Semifinalists been announced for the 2018 Write/LA Screenwriting Competition.
AFF Names Screenplay Contest Winners
The Austin Film Festival (AFF) has announced their 2018 Screenplay Contest Winners in all categories.
Interview with ScreenCraft Fellowship Winner Davia Carter
Davia Carter was named a 2018 ScreenCraft Fellowship Winner on the basis of her TV pilot Double Time Dames, a one-hour drama set in the jazz age that tells the story of a brilliant female trumpeter who sheds her life of abusive men and attempts to start an all-female band as an Italian mob tries to stake their claim in her town.
Shore Scripts Names Finalists
Shore Scripts has announced their contest finalists. Winners will be named November 30th.
Poe Contest Names Halloween Contest Winner
The Poe Contest has to announced the winner of its one-day Halloween script contest. "Demon Inside Me," by Brandon Rutherford, captured the $100 cash prize and an automatic advancement to the Poe Contest semifinals.
ScreenCraft Names Pilot Launch Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 2018 ScreenCraft Pilot Launch TV Writing Competition, selected from about 2,500 submissions.
Finish Line Script Competition Names Grand Prize Winner
Folklore by Sebastian Magiera has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2018 Finish Line Script Competition. Set in 18th century colonial America, the script is about a Spanish priest and a cursed enchantress who band together to prevent malevolent supernatural forces from destroying the lives of helpless villagers.
Short Scripts Names Semifinalists
Shore Scripts has announced the semifinalists in their Feature, TV Pilot and Short Categories. Winners will be announced November 10th.
Interview with ScreenCraft Fellowship Winner Georgina Love
Georgina Love was named a 2018 ScreenCraft Fellowship Winner for her sci-fi feature Pig, which follows an experimental scientist as he raises a sentient pig as a mirror image of his terminally ill son. When the pig learns his "father's" plans have a sinister bent, he fights to resist the inevitable.
Roadmap Writers Names JumpStart Finalists
Roadmap Writers has announced the Top 10 Pilot and Feature Finalists for their 2018 JumpStart Writing Competition.
Scriptapalooza TV Producer Requests
Scriptapalooza has released a list of the producers that have requested to read their recent TV contest winners.
Write/LA Names Contest Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 2018 Write/LA Screenwriting Competition. Semifinalists will be announced November 15.
Scriptapalooza Interviews TV Contest Winners
Scriptapalooza has posted video interviews with their 2018 television contest winners.
Shore Scripts Names Contest Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalists have been announced in all four categories of the 2018 Shore Scripts Screenwriting Competition.
Interview with ScreenCraft Fellowship Winner Brock Newell
Brock Newell was named a 2018 ScreenCraft Fellowship Winner for his feature screenplay Ravenous, a fresh take on the cabin in the woods horror genre, about a man who invites his new girlfriend on a camping trip with his friends, only to realize that she's a cannibal who intends to kill them all. Brock graduated from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana with a degree in Creative Writing, and has been living in LA for 10 years by way of Chicago.
ScreenCraft Names Drama Quarterfinalists
ScreenCraft has announced the quarterfinalists of their 2018 Drama Screenplay Competition, selected from more than 1,000 submissions.
ScreenCraft Names Public Domain Contest Winners
Yellow by Zara Meerza has been selected as the grand prize winner of the inaugural ScreenCraft Public Domain Competition. A pilot set at the end of the 19th century as the bitter rivalry between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst reaches a boiling point and "yellow journalism" is born.
ScreenCraft Names Horror Contest Winner
Burner by Mukilan Thangamani has been selected as the grand prize winner of the 2018 ScreenCraft Horror Competition. Drawing inspiration from Strangers on a Train, Maya uses a black-market phone app to kill her sexually abusive boss, only to find she must repay the favor.
2018 PAGE Award Winners Announced
The winners of the 2018 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards contest have just been announced, and the Judges have presented this year’s $25,000 Grand Prize to Kevin Bachar from New York City for his riveting action script TUNDRA KILL. In addition, Gold, Silver, and Bronze Prizes have been awarded to writers in ten different genre categories.
Finish Line Announces 2018 Semifinalists
The Finish Line Script Competition has announced the 67 semifinalists for their 2018 contest.
ScreenCraft Names 2018 Short Screenplay Semifinalists
ScreenCraft has announced their 2018 Short Screenplay semifinalists.
Scriptapalooza Posts Video Interviews with 2018 Contest Winners
Scripapalooza has posted video interviews with their 2018 Contest Winners Angela & Darren Croucher, Beth Ashby, and George Caine.
One-Day Halloween Screenplay Contest Announced
Submit your feature or short screenplay in The Poe Contest during the 24 hours of Halloween (October 31, your prevailing time), and you'll learn whether you've won our $100 cash prize in a week.
ScreenCraft Names Public Domain Contest Finalists
ScreenCraft has announced the top 10 finalists of their Public Domain Screenplay Contest, a competition that highlights Hollywood's longstanding tradition of adaptations based on free intellectual property in the public domain, such as folk tales, fairy tales, mythology and books and plays published before 1923.
Universal Writers Program Now Open for Submissions
The Universal Writers Program, designed to identity both up-and-coming and experienced screenwriters with unique points of view, is accepting entries through October 31, 2018. The only feature film program sanctioned by the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW), the Program develops storytellers who organically incorporate multicultural and global perspectives in screenwriting.
Austin Fest Names Script Competition Semifinalists
The Austin Film Festival has announced the 2018 Script Competition Semifinalists, representing the top 2% of all submissions. They were chosen from a record field of 10,580 scripts entered in the AFF Screenplay, Digital Series, Playwriting, and Fiction Podcast Competitions.
Academy Names Nicholl Fellowship Winners
Three individuals and one writing team have been selected as winners of the 2018 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. The fellows will each receive a $35,000 prize, the first installment of which will be distributed at the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards Presentation & Live Read on Thursday, November 8, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Scriptapalooza Names Contest Winners
Angela & Darren Croucher have been named their $10,000 Grand Prize Winner of the Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition for their script, 1000 Beautiful Watts.
Finish Line Script Competition Names Quarterfinalists
The Finish Line Script Competition has announced their 2018 quarterfinalists, a mixed list of television pilots and screenplays.
Scriptapalooza Names Fellowship Winner
Lyn Pinezich has been named the Scriptapalooza Fellowship winner for her script Julie and Romeo, and will attend a Robert McKee STORY Seminar (hotel and airfare included).
2018 PAGE Awards Finalists Announced
The judges have now announced the Finalists in the 2018 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards competition, representing the Top 10 scripts in each of the contest's ten genre categories.
Stage32 Announces National Lampoon Search for Comedy Gold Finalists
Stage32 and National Lampoon have announced the Finalists for their "Search for Comedy Gold" Screenwriting Competition.
ScreenCraft Names Spring Film Fund Semifinalists
Semifinalists have been announced for ScreenCraft's 2018 Spring Film Fund.
ScreenCraft Names Short Script Quarterfinalists
ScreenCraft has named the quarterfinalists for their 2018 Short Screenplay Competition.
Filmmatic Names Screenplay Award Winners and Finalists
Greg Mania has been named the overall winner of the Filmmatic Screenplay Awards for his script Mania, an edgy and brazen TV Comedy Pilot.
ScreenCraft Names Horror Semifinalists
ScreenCraft has announced the semifinalists for their 2018 Horror Screenplay Competition.
Scriptapalooza Announces TV Contest Winners
Scriptapalooza has named their TV Pilot, Sitcom, 1-Hour, and Reality TV Contest Winners.
CWA Names Contest Winners
El Camino de Milagros by Drew Mackinstosh has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2018 Creative World Awards.
Writers and Filmmakers Announces Winning Script
Winning filmmaker Boris Schaarschmidt has selected Ryan Powell's Just a Hit of Garlic as the winning script in the lastest installment of the Writers and Filmmakers Competition.
ScreenCraft Announces Public Domain Semifinalists
Semifinalists have been announced for the 2018 ScreenCraft Public Domain Screenplay Contest, which highlights Hollywood's longstanding tradition of adaptations based on free intellectual property in the public domain, such as folk tales, fairy tales, mythology and books and plays published before 1923.
Poe Films Names Burning Love Semifinalists
Poe Films has announced the 20 semifinalists for the 2018 Burning Love Screenplay Contest.
CineStory Names Feature Fellowship Winner
Travis Opgenorth has been named the winner of the 2018 CineStory Feature Fellowship for his script, The Poacher.
CWA Names Finalists
The Creative World Awards have announced their finalists for 2018:
Write/LA Names Industry Insiders
Write/LA has announced five industry insiders, each of whom will read one of eight finalist scripts and give the writer(s) written feedback.
Scriptapalooza Announces Short Script Contest Winners
Reflection 5, by Brian Dorman, has been named the winner of the Scriptapalooza Short Screenplay Competition.
ScreenCraft Names Spring Film Fund Quarterfinalists
ScreenCraft has announced their 2018 Spring Film Fund quarterfinalists, chosen from nearly two thousand applications.
PAGE Awards Names 2018 Semifinalists
Semifinalists have been announced for the 2018 Page Screenwriting Awards.
Scriptapalooza Names Top 30 Screenplays
The Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition has announced their top 30 screenplays for 2018.
CineStory Names Fellowship Finalists
Finalists have been announced for the 2018 CineStory Feature Retreat & Fellowship competition.
Scriptapalooza Announces Semifinalists
Scriptapalooza has announced the 106 semifinalists for the 2018 Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition. All 106 semifinalists will be promoted for an entire year.
ScreenCraft Names Horror Contest Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 2018 Screencraft Horror Competition.
ScreenCraft Names Comedy Contest Semifinalists
ScreenCraft has announced the semifinalists for their 2018 Comedy Screenwriting Competition.
ScreenCraft Names Public Domain Quarterfinalists
ScreenCraft has announced the quarterfinalists of the 2018 ScreenCraft Public Domain Screenplay Contest, which highlights Hollywood's longstanding tradition of adaptations based on free intellectual property in the public domain, such as folk tales, fairy tales, mythology and books and plays published before 1923.
Writers Lab Names Retreat Participants
The Writers Lab, produced by IRIS and New York Women in Film & Television and supported by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, has announced their 2018 retreat participants.
Scriptapalooza Names Quarterfinalists
Scriptapalooza has announced the 481 quarterfinalists for the 2018 Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition.
Table Read My Screenplay Names Hollywood Contest Winners
Stringer by Elaine Loh has been named the winner of the 2018 Hollywood Table Read My Screenplay Contest.
CineStory Names Semifinalists
CineStory has announced the semifinalists for the 2018 CineStory Feature Retreat & Fellowship competition.
ScreenCraft Names Sci-fi Contest Winners
Sandino Moya-Smith's Monster Hunter has been named the Grand Prize Winner from among over 700 submissions to the ScreenCraft Sci-fi Screenplay Contest. The script focuses on a father/son team of cryptozoologists tasked with finding the Loch Ness monster. The contest jury this year included development executives from 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures and United Picture Group.
Capital Fund Names Contest Winners
The Capital Fund Screenplay Contest has named their Contest Winners and "Hot 100" for 2018.
PAGE Announces 2018 Quarterfinalists
The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards has announced their 2018 Quarterfinalists, representing the top 10% of all entries in this year's contest.
Acclaim Announces Spring/Summer TV Contest Winners
Natural Law by Nick Marini has been named the winner of the Spring/Summer 2018 Acclaim TV Writing Competition.
ScreenCraft Names Comedy Quarterfinalists
Screencraft has named the quarterfinalists for their 2018 ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Contest.
ScreenCraft Names Sci-Fi Contest Finalists
Ten finalists have been announced from among more than 700 submissions to the 2018 ScreenCraft Sci-Fi Screenwriting Competition.
BlueCat Names Contest Winners
Death of a Fool by Ismael Gomez III & Joe Leone has been named the winner of the 2018 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition.
BlueCat Names Finalists
BlueCat has announced their 2018 Feature, Pilot, and Short Screenplay finalists. Winners will be announced Thursday, July 5th.
ScreenCraft Names Fellowship Winners
ScreenCraft has announced their 5th annual ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship winners. The program is designed to advance the careers of talented screenwriters through ongoing mentorship and introductions to key entertainment executives and talent representatives.
CineStory Annouces Quarterfinalists
CineStory has announced quarterfinalists for their 2018 Feature Retreat and Fellowship competition.
Austin Film Festival Announces Partners and Judges for Fiction Podcast Script Competition
In order to further expand their legacy of supporting storytellers, Austin Film Festival (AFF) is pleased to announce a distinguished panel of judges for its returning Fiction Podcast Script Competition, which includes development heads and creators of successful fiction podcasts such as THE BRIGHT SESSIONS and TUMANBAY.
ScreenCraft Announces China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship Winner
Craig Rosenthal has been named by Orb Media Group and ScreenCraft as the winner of the second annual China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship on the basis of his script #Cloudman.
StoryPros Names Award Winners
Christian Lybrook's City of Trees has been named the winner of the 11th Annual StoryPros Awards Screenwriting Competitition.
Scriptapalooza premieres new website, ventures into producing and announces Advisory Board
The Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition has dramatically updated their website, inserting all the movie posters they have been involved with over the years. Also, posting success stories of past winners, alumni and all the projects that have taken off since Scriptapalooza started in 1998.
Interview with ISA Fellowship Winner Sean Collins-Smith
Ever since graduating from film school in 2010, Sean Collins-Smith has wanted to move to Los Angeles to pursue a TV writing career. His goal seemed unobtainable, though, until he won an ISA Fast Track Fellowship on the basis of his pilots End of Life and Lifers Anonymous. As part of his ISA prize package, he scored a week of industry meetings and wound up signing with manager Jewerl Ross of Silent R Management. He'll be moving to Los Angeles in September.
Finalists Announced for 11th Annual StoryPros Awards
Finalists have been announced in all genres for the 11th Annual Story Pros Awards. Winners will be announced Friday, June 15th.
ScreenCraft Names Fellowship Finalists
ScreenCraft has announced the 25 Finalists for their 2018 Fellowship, selected from a submission pool of more than 2,100 entries.
BlueCat Names Quarterfinalists
BlueCat has announced their 2018 Feature, Short, Pilot-Hour and Half-Hour quarterfinalists.
Shore Scripts Names Short Film Fund Winners
Shore Scripts has announced Nora Kirkpatrick & Dennis McNicholas as the winners of their 2018 Short Film Fund. They'll be awarded a $10,000 grant to make their short film, Best Seller.
StoryPros Awards Names Semifinalists
Semifinalists have just been announced for the 11th Annual StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest.
ScreenCraft Names Sci-fi Semifinalists
Semifinalists have been announced for the 2018 ScreenCraft Sci-fi Screenplay Contest, representing the top ten percent of submissions received. The jury this year includes development executives from 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures and United Pictures Group. Winners will be announced July 6th.
Shore Scripts Names Short Film Fund Finalists
Shore Scripts has named their 2018 Short Film Fund Finalists.
StoryPros Awards Names Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 11th Annual StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest.
Blumhouse Productions Set to Produce Script from Shore Scripts Alum Louis Ackerman
Shore Scripts has announced that their 2015 Contest Winner, Louis Ackerman, has set up his horror/thriller script, Flesh & Blood with Blumhouse Productions.
Scriptapalooza Names Fellowship Mentors
Scriptapalooza has named its industry mentors, one of whom who will provide six-months of mentorship to the winner of the Scriptapalooza Fellowship. Four other writers will receive 3-months of mentorship.
ScreenCraft Names Fellowship Semifinalists
ScreenCraft has named their Screenwriting Fellowship Semifinalists, representing approximately the top 10% of all submissions.
On Winning the Austin Film Festival Script Competition, Part II
Troy Anthony Miller shares some thoughts about what it takes to win the Austin Film Festival Script Competition ... twice!
On Winning the Austin Film Festival Script Competition, Part I
Are there actually writers out there who enter screenplay competitions thinking they might win? Because I am mostly certainly not that kind of writer.
ScreenCraft Names Sci-Fi Contest Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalists have been announced from among nearly 800 submissions to the ScreenCraft Sci-Fi Screenplay Contest.
ISA Names Fast Track Fellowship Winners
Ned Farr and Sean Collins-Smith have been named the International Screenwriters Association's Fast Track VII Fellowship Winners.
Universal Names Writers Program Participants
Universal Writers Program has announced their 2018 participants. The program is a one-year track that gives writers the opportunity to develop two feature scripts under the guidance of Universal and Focus Features production executives and producers.
Scriptapalooza Interviews Fellowship Winner
Scriptapalooza has posted an interview with their 2017 Fellowship Recipient Natasha Paris.
ScreenCraft Names 5th Annual Fellowship Quarterfinalists
ScreenCraft has announced the quarterfinalists for their 5th Annual ScreenCraft Fellowship Competition.
ScreenCraft Names Orb Media China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship Finalists
Semifinalists have been announced for the ScreenCraft/Orb Media China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship, representing approximately the top 10% of all applicants.
ScreenCraft Names Family Script Contest Winner
Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto has been named the winner of the 2017 ScreenCraft Family-Friendly Screenplay Contest. Repeatedly praised for its unique premise and strong character dynamics, it is an innovative story of a dragon who moves to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a comedian and paves the way for civil rights.
Fresh Voices Names Contest Winners
Those Who Hear by Jerome Velinsky has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2017-18 Fresh Voices Screenwriting Competition.
FilmMakers.com Names Feature Script Contest Finalists
FilmMakers has announced the finalists of the 16th Annual Filmmakers International Screenwriting Awards.
American Gem Names Short Screenplay Contest Winners
American Gem and Write Brothers have announced the winners of the 13th Annual American Gem Literary Festival. The Competition attracted a total of 1309 entries worldwide, including 1,026 short scripts, 221 short stories, 51 TV scripts, 5 treatments and 6 documentaries.
Fresh Voices Names Contest Finalists
Fresh Voices has announced their 2017-2018 contest finalists.
1st TV Script Writing Competition Names Contest Winners
Persuasion by Susan Hippen has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 3rd annual '1st TV Script Writing Competition' from FilmMakers.com.
ScreenCraft Names Cinematic Short Story Winners
Syringe-Fed Ferrets by Samuel Martin has been selected as the Grand Prize Winner of the 2017 ScreenCraft Short Story Contest. Missives From The Green Campaign by David Armstrong has been named the runner-up.
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