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Screenwriting Contests that focus specifically on the sci-fi genre, or that offer a special award for sci-fi scripts.
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Breaking Walls Thriller Screenplay Contest
Final Deadline: 03/06/2021
Breaking Walls is a contest for thriller screenplays with contacts at established Hollywood literary representation and production companies who have agreed to consider the full winning script and the top finalists' loglines. Well-written thrillers are always an excellent way for writers to show Hollywood pros a combination of commerciality, unique voice, and a clear understanding of effective feature film narrative.User Feedback: 5 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Horror Hotel International Film Festival
Final Deadline: 03/08/2021
The International Horror Hotel fosters creativity within genre writers and filmmakers, providing a platform for them to share their work and gain recognition. Our main focus is in connecting those working within the horror (and sub-genre) community, helping them to expand their network and gain contacts to strengthen their work.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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2021 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
Final Deadline: 04/15/2021
The PAGE Awards competition was established in the fall of 2003 by an alliance of Hollywood producers, agents, and development execs. Our goal: to discover the most exciting new scripts by up-and-coming writers from across the country and around the world. And due to the success of our winning writers, the PAGE Awards competition has rapidly become one of the most important sources for new screenwriting talent within the Hollywood community and worldwide.User Feedback: 72 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Stage 32 Fantasy & Sci-Fi Screenwriting Contest
Final Deadline: 04/21/2021
Past Winners/Finalists working with Good Fear + Film Management, Baker Entertainment Group, Wonder Woman producer Stephen Jones, talent agent Shawn Burns, producer Mitchell Peck and more! Thanks to the plethora of streaming options and a renewed interest in the genres, fantasy and sci-fi films have never been hotter. More and more production companies, managers, and agents are looking for writers working with fantasy and sci-fi ideas.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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StoryPros Awards Contest
Final Deadline: 04/30/2021
To find the best GENRE scripts. Genre scripts are bought and produced more than 10 to 1 over the serious drama, tentpole or quirky scripts that usually win screenplay contests. This contest pits genre scripts only against scripts within their genre, and seeks to identify and promote to the industry the very best in each genre -- in other words, the scripts with the very best chances in the marketplace.User Feedback: 35 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Creative World Awards
Final Deadline: 05/14/2021
The 14th Annual Creative World Awards (CWA) is an international screenwriting contest that is well known for having the writer's interest at heart when it comes to development and industry promotion. Production: CWA brings an exciting production opportunity to the Grand Prize Winner. This year’s winner will have the options of a short version of their script being produced by The MIX, and the film will then get a guaranteed premiere at the Richmond International Film Festival.User Feedback: 61 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Austin Film Festival Script Competition
Final Deadline: 05/21/2021
The Ultimate Runway Now in our 28th year, the Austin Film Festival has been catapulting writers into life-changing careers for over two decades. Whether your dream is to sign a contract, land an agent, learn from an industry icon, or take home the coveted Bronze Typewriter Award, it’s simple: you can’t win if you don’t enter.User Feedback: 38 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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The Indie Gathering International Film Festival
Final Deadline: 05/21/2021
To recognize excellence in screenwriting of shorts and features in a wide variety of genres.User Feedback: 4 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition
Final Deadline: 05/31/2021
Whether you’re writing a contained science fiction drama or an epic fantasy saga, we want to read your TV, feature film or short scripts. The jury is out of this world — with judges who love sci-fi and fantasy — from top companies including MGM TELEVISION, CIRCLE OF CONFUSION, APA and 21 LAPS! Don’t miss the industry’s #1 sci-fi & fantasy screenwriting competition.User Feedback: 7 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Screamfest Horror Film Festival and Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 06/15/2021
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.User Feedback: 11 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Summer in the South Film Festival
Final Deadline: 06/30/2021
Summer in the South Film Festival welcomes filmmakers and their amazing films and screenplays as we say goodbye to summer over Labor Day weekend - in the heart of the South - Atlanta, GA. We have an entire weekend packed with independent film screenings, Q&As with the filmmakers, table reads of nominated screenplays, stand-up comedy, live panels with professionals in the film industry, and networking.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 08/18/2021
We have teamed up with several creative partners looking for Features and TV Pilots with unique voices and original stories. Our goal with this contest is to discover great writers then connect their authentic stories to those creative partners, and we are looking for the best writing in all of these genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family/Holiday, Mystery/Crime, Historical/Biopic, Horror/Thriller, Sci-Fi/ Fantasy, Western and Young Adult (YA).User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Shore Scripts Feature Screenplay Contest
Final Deadline: 08/31/2021
DISCOVERING THE BEST NEW SCREENWRITING TALENT FROM AROUND THE WORLD How do we do that? We’ve helped 70+ Writers gain representation, sell, and have their screenplays produced. 20 Oscar & BAFTA Winning Judges will read the final round of submissions. 140 Production Companies, Agents & Managers are signed up to read each year’s best scripts.User Feedback: 14 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Worldfest - Houston Int'l Film Festival
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Contest founded in 1988 to provide an opportunity to compete with talent from around the world. The 42nd Annual WorldFest offers Cash Awards, Special Screenplay Master Classes, significant mentoring and project development opportunities during the ten-day festival. More than 550 international filmmakers and writers attend each year. All Remi Nominees receive VIP Gold All Access Passes to the Festival and the Master Classes (A $800 value).User Feedback: 7 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest
Final Deadline: 07/30/2020 (expired)
Big Break is an annual, international feature and television screenwriting contest designed to launch the careers of aspiring writers. Big Break rewards screenwriters with over $80,000 in cash and prizes, including a trip to Los Angeles for a series of A-list executive meetings. Winners and finalists alike have had their screenplays optioned and produced and have secured high-profile representation as well as lucrative writing deals.User Feedback: 27 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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The 18th Annual FilmMakers International Screenwriting Awards
Final Deadline: 07/31/2019 (expired)
To make Hollywood more accessible than ever before to more aspiring global screenwriters, Filmmakers is forming strategic alliances with the powers that be in Film and TV Script Writing; who are in search of top Screenplays & Writers... Filmmakers Championing Emerging Artists. FilmMakers International Screenwriting Awards has been in existence since 2000 (formerly known as The Radmin Company / FilmMakers.User Feedback: 40 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Moondance International Film Festival
Final Deadline: 08/30/2019 (expired)
The objective of the Moondance International Film Festival is to inspire, motivate, promote and encourage the best writers & independent filmmakers, from every country in the world, and to inspire a greater understanding about the vital role of the arts in enhancing creativity, community spirit, and the preservation of our cultural heritage.User Feedback: 15 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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SHRIEKFEST Horror/SciFi Film & Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 07/10/2020 (expired)
CALL FOR ENTRIES! Shriekfest, the Los Angeles Horror/SciFi Film Festival continues its tradition as Los Angeles' Premier horror film event, presenting an exciting program of films each fall with beautiful Los Angeles as its backdrop. Now, in its 20th year, Shriekfest takes place at the legendary Raleigh Studios, which is the largest independent studio operator in the country.User Feedback: 11 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Eerie Horror Screenplay Competition
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The Eerie Horror Screenplay Competition offers beginning, aspiring and veteran screenwriters in the horror genre a chance to have their work recognized by people in the industry and beyond and to provide recognition and exposure for screenwriters in the horror, science fiction and suspense genres. The finalists and top 3 winning screenplays will be announced on all Eerie Horror Film Festival websites and winner's information will be forwarded to industry professionals for consideration.User Feedback: 2 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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International Horror and Sci Fi Short Screenplay Competition
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To discover the best un-produced short screenplays by talented writers and present their work to LEADING INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Rod Serling Short Script Competition
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Each script must be written in the same genre and style that would have been suitable to conform with episodes for either THE TWILIGHT ZONE or NIGHT GALLERY. More specifically this means displaying traits of either a horror or a science fiction genre, while exhibiting strong traditional or contemporary social themes. Serling taught at Ithaca College from 1967 until his death in 1975.User Feedback: 2 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Zed Fest Schlock Horror Short Sreenplay Contest
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Zed Fest was formed to acknowledge and encourage new independent filmmakers and screenwriters. We noticed that there are a lot of talented and promising filmmakers and screenwriters that tend to get snubbed by other festivals and competitions simply because they are low budget or less polished. We want to give them the recognition that they deserve and try to help them build upon their abilities.User Feedback: 9 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 11/05/2020 (expired)
Since 2009, Fresh Voices has been proud to provide a microphone to exciting new voices that deserve to be heard and memorable stories that must be told. Celebrating our 11th Annual Screenplay Competition in 2020, we are grateful to have had the opportunity to help guide dozens of talented writers to secure literary representation, option agreements and other writing assignments, providing the stepping stones and advancing the careers of many of our winning writers.User Feedback: 40 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 09/08/2020 (expired)
Accepted Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Historical/Bio, Horror/Thriller, Mystery/Crime, Sci Fi/Fantasy We’re searching for emerging screenwriters with exceptional screenplays in seven genre categories. The winner of each genre category will receive $2500 cash. Of the seven scripts selected, one of you will go on to win the Grand Prize, receive an additional $7500 and be accepted onto the ISA Development Slate, where the Career Development team will work with you for a minimum of one year to get you and your script in front of top producers, literary reps and other industry executives from companies like Lakeshore Entertainment, Gidden Media, ICM, and others.User Feedback: 13 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Roswell International Film Festival and Digital Shootout
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The Roswell International Sci-Fi Film Festival and Digital-shootout (RISF) is looking for your short scripts to make into a movie. The RISF 2013 Digital Film Shoot-Out is the only filmmaking experience dedicated to bringing a screenwriters vision from “script to screen” in one week. The RISF Digital Film Shoot-Out will provide crew and equipment (A $50,000 dollar value) to five filmmakers who have the opportunity to direct their winning short that will screen at the RISF Digital Film Gala at the end of the week! This is a non-union, non-pay opportunity, but the RISF committee will be provided lodging, on-set meals, IMDB credit and “significant exposure” at the international film festival.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Richmond International Film Festival (Screenplays & Films)
Final Deadline: 11/12/2020 (expired)
The 8th annual Richmond International Film Festival (RIFF) is a competitive festival that accepts feature and short screenplays, teleplays, and screens more than 120 international cutting edge film premiers making it one of the Mid-Atlantic's largest international competitive festivals. RIFF provides six days of industry panels, Q&As, industry mixers, live music performances, the FLOW Creative & Pitch Conference, and entertainment mixers that bring the spirit of Hollywood to beautiful Richmond, Virginia at the Bowtie Criterion/Movieland and the historic Byrd Theatre.User Feedback: 6 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Script Pipeline First Look Project
Final Deadline: 10/01/2020 (expired)
To discover innovative, marketable, high-concept projects for studio-level development, including feature screenplays, TV material, and media content.User Feedback: 5 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Zed Fest Horror/Sci-Fi/Action/Suspense Screenplay Competition
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Screenplays must be feature length no less than 80 pages and no more than 120 pages. All screenplays must be written in English. Screenplays should be in 12 point Courier font and pages must be numbered. Only online PDF submissions will be accepted. Any revisions after submission will not be accepted. Genres may only be HORROR SCI-FI ACTION SUSPENSEUser Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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The 5th Annual 1st TV Script Writing Competition: Presented by Filmmakers.com
Final Deadline: 07/31/2019 (expired)
To make Hollywood more accessible than ever before to more aspiring screenwriters, 1st TV Script Writing Competition is forming strategic alliances with the powers that be in Film & TV, who are on the lookout for exceptional talent and TV scripts. The 1st TV Script Writing Competition is presented by FilmMakers Magazine. It wasn't that long ago that for a writer to get discovered he or she had to reside in or around Hollywood.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Other Worlds Austin SciFi Screenwriting Contest
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The universe is an infinite expanse of limitless possibility, teeming with unknown worlds and untold stories. The blank page opens, a white inexhaustible void, punctuated only by the monolithic black cursor. What wonders lie in its indefinable depths? Other Worlds is dedicated to fostering and promoting creativity in Science Fiction at every stage of development, so we are proud to announce our annual SciFi Screenwriting Contest is now currently open and accepting submissions! The contest runs concurrently with the film program, and will award prizes for the top feature, short or teleplay.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Miami International Science Fiction Film Festival
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The intent of MiSciFi is to showcase the best in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy, and other imaginatively-themed films from around the world. This celebration is set in the trendy and progressively global megalopolis of Miami Florida. Our creative and inspirational environment is ideal to explore films that ponder the infinite possibilities our multiverse holds.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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GenreBlast Film Festival
Final Deadline: 06/26/2020 (expired)
GenreBlast is an international independent genre film festival coming to you from the awesome Alamo Drafthouse Winchester in beautiful Winchester, VA! GB5 will happen LABOR DAY WEEKEND - 9/3-9/6 2020 and will feature the best of truly independent films from around the world - specializing in action, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, martial arts, grindhouse, exploitation, Korean thrillers, Japanese gangster flicks, Chinese action movies, French horror, midnight movies, shoestring budget weird cinema, and everything under the sun! We really welcome all genres of interesting, original, exciting and daring moviemaking! All countries and walks of life are welcome here! We also have a fantastic screenplay contest that is growing larger every year! Our discussion panels at GenreBlast have been a big hit and we're bringing them back for GB5! Raw, uncensored real talk about indie filmmaking, gender bias, distribution, criticism, and much more will come your way from the mouths of some of the best indie talent out there! After-parties, lively conversation, networking galore, TONS of movies, informative Q&A's and the chance to make new lifelong industry friends - all nestled in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley hamlet of Winchester, VA! Your movie will be shown in front of a lively, enthusiastic crowd of cinephiles and industry peers that don't walk around with their heads up their asses 24/7! What a refreshing way to attend a film fest! Come Labor Day Weekend, you'll wish you were at GenreBlast!User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Oregon Short Film Festival
Final Deadline: 12/31/2019 (expired)
The Oregon Short Film Festival is a showcase of independent short films from around the world. We accept short screenplays of all genres that are 40 pages or less. Action Comedy Dark Comedy Drama Experimental Family Fantasy Horror Romantic Comedy Science FictionUser Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Shiver International Film Festival
Final Deadline: Contact contest for deadline info.
We are accepting Feature Screenplay and Short Script entries worthy of the title: 'Best Horror', 'Best Sci-Fi' and 'Best Thriller'.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Script Summit
Final Deadline: 06/30/2019 (expired)
Script Summit is a festival dedicated to supporting screenwriters. You will have the opportunity to connect with directors, producers, and other writers at the Script Summit Networking Event. The Summit also hosts Q&A panels, seminars, table reads of selected scripts, an awards dinner, and over $1,500 in cash prizes! We are very excited to announce that we have partnered with the famous Action on Film MEGAfest! This allows all of our writers with officially selected scripts, the chance to attend the AoF.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Underground Indie Film Festival
Final Deadline: 06/05/2019 (expired)
Tired of being overlooked by fests? Searching for one that truly celebrates independent work and the dedication it requires? Then you've found the right place! While Hollywood keeps regurgitating the same junk over and over, indie filmmakers strive to do something different. Something original. They may not always be successful but at least they tried.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Pitch Now Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 11/30/2020 (expired)
Filmmatic coined a slogan, "Hidden screenplays never get produced". As writers, we spend a lot of our precious time crafting unique scripts, yet we hardly ever employ an equal level of passion when attempting to get our work into the "right hands". The exposure and prestige one can gain from placing or winning a screenplay competition is invaluable, but what do you say this time around we also get you PITCHING! Let's get proactive, let's pick a production company that makes sense for our project, tell them we were a Pitch Now Finalist or Winner, and get them to review our work, now not later ;) All 100 finalists will be able to pitch to a studio or production company of their choice via Virtual Pitch Fest! The competition is open to feature-length and short works, screenplays and teleplays.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Greenlight Screenplay Contest
Final Deadline: 05/15/2019 (expired)
This competition honors emerging screenwriters from around the world with feature length screenplays worthy of production regardless of gender, race, religion or nationality.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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L.A. Live Film Fest
Final Deadline: 10/31/2020 (expired)
LA LIVE FILM FESTIVAL's mission is to provide a festival where filmmakers are treated with respect and given opportunities that empower the filmmaker’s career while being showcased at the most prestigious location in Los Angeles, Regal Cinemas at LA LIVE. We strive to do things differently than other festivals and part of how we do this is the way we market the selected films.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Your Script Produced! Studios : Season 2
Final Deadline: 12/07/2020 (expired)
YOUR SCRIPT PRODUCED! STUDIOS PRESENTS SEASON 2 OF OUR ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL FEATURE / PILOT / SHORTS SCRIPT COMPETITION. Over $350,000.00 in Production / Cash / Awards & Prizes. Founded / Sponsored & Financed by Doval Bacall under his Production Banner Doval Bacall Films LLC. ! Grand Prize & Category Winners Announced in the largest trades during the top tier film festivals: Sundance, Berlin, Cannes Film Festival AND American Film Market 2021.User Feedback: 2 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards
Final Deadline: 09/20/2019 (expired)
The Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards were created to locate and expose up-and-coming TV and web-series writers, as well as to empower and educate passionate and talented screenwriters still waiting for their invitation into the mainstream industry. Competition is open to TV pilots, webisodes and inventive TV-series scripts of all genres. Season 4 results will post by November 15, 2019.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Austin After Dark Film Festival
Final Deadline: 03/31/2020 (expired)
The Austin After Dark Film Festival screens at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Lakeline in Austin, Texas. This event will focus on films that are created for a mature audience. Enjoy a great slate of films in large cushioned seating, a massive theater screen, with access to 50 beers on tap and full restaurant while you watch films. Austin is a great independent film town and this event will be a lot of fun as well as a great opportunity to network with filmmakers and screenwriters.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Colorado Intl. SciFi & Fantasy Film Festival
Final Deadline: 09/20/2020 (expired)
We like "quirky" scifi and fantasy characters including monsters, aliens, space invaders, body snatchers and zombies. We like space-related fantasies along the lines of Gravity (2013) and Daniel Espinosa's Life (2017). We like SciFi Thrillers like The Thirteenth Floor (1999). We would love to showcase your expose similar to Peter Hyams' Capricorn One, a 1977 government conspiracy thriller film about a Mars landing hoax.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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WriteMovies Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award 2020
Final Deadline: 06/07/2020 (expired)
*** 1 Week Extension - now open until June 7th! *** Celebrating great writing across all genres… The second edition of the WriteMovies Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award is open for submissions! Take us to brave new worlds full of the strange and fantastical, with ideas that will blow our minds and stretch the limits of our imaginations. Last year, Mark Flood won the first ever WriteMovies Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award with his script THE TIME-TRAP.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards
Final Deadline: 06/20/2020 (expired)
"Short-form films can be great calling cards. They help writers and directors flesh out their unique voices without great expense of time or money. They allow artists to venture out of their comfort zone, show off their wares, and speak to the world without first having to obtain studio or distributor permission...." The Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards were created to locate and expose up-and-coming screenwriters, as well as to empower and promote those talented writers still waiting for their invitation to the mainstream industry.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Page Turner Screenplays - Feature & TV GENRE
Final Deadline: 09/07/2020 (expired)
CONTEST DESCRIPTION PAGE-TURNER: page–turn·er \ n. A script so compelling or exciting that the reader is unable to put it down. And that’s exactly what the PAGE-TURNER Screenplay Competition is looking for. The 3rd ANNUAL FEATURE & TV PILOT GENRE COMPETITION is designed with the writer in mind. This is a competition that is somewhat unique so please read everything carefully.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Sci-Fi & Fantasy Genre Lab
Final Deadline: 12/07/2020 (expired)
The Lift-Off Global Network want to meet, inspire and support the next pioneers of Science Fiction and Fantasy. This Genre Lab exists to provide huge opportunities featuring discussions, feedback on your work, workshops, and future support for your project. The lab accepts Shorts, Features, Animations, Scripts, Works in Development, Web Series, VR, Music Videos, and Treatments.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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