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Screenplay Contest List: Short Add your contest
A list of contests that accept or specialize in short screenplays, or any scripts that are less than feature-length.
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WriteMovies Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award 2021
Final Deadline: 05/09/2021
Celebrating great writing across all genres… The third 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. All submissions for the WriteMovies Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award 2021 also automatically get free entry to our Spring 2021 Screenwriting Contest, with the opportunity to win the Grand Prize of $3500 and many other bonuses! Don't delay.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Diversity Film & Script Showcase
Final Deadline: 05/19/2021
Submissions Open: January 3, 2021. The Diversity Film & Script Showcase recognizes and showcases screenplays featuring an Under Represented Lead Character OR Filmmaker (Writer or Co-Writer, or Director, or Producer).User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Faith in Film: International Film Festival and Screenwriting Competition
Final Deadline: 05/20/2021
Mission: Faith in Film is dedicated to forging a film festival and screenwriting competition that will launch the careers of filmmakers focused on adding the element of faith to their films. Our aim is to inspire, showcase, and support filmmakers of all faith’s to make great faith based films that leave others touched, moved and inspired. Our prayer is that our festival will open doors for filmmakers with a higher purpose.User Feedback: 9 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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Future Film Writers Season 2 (Youth Short)
Final Deadline: 05/21/2021
Future Film Writers like to read stories from you, the Writer. We know some excellent writers have an interesting story to tell the world and would like to see their story come to life on the Big Screen or on social media streaming. We are looking for the top stories to be in our contest. The Writer wins a cash prize and the possibility to have their story place in our sponsors' hands.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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HollyShorts Screenplay Contest
Final Deadline: 05/22/2021
HollyShorts Film Festival (HSFF) is an annual Academy Qualifying short film festival showcasing the best and brightest short films and short screenplays from around the globe. The festival showcases the top short films produced 40 minutes or less and is looking for the best short screenplays 30 pages or less.User Feedback: 2 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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WriteMovies Spring 2021 Screenwriting Contest
Final Deadline: 05/23/2021
Spring is upon us, and the start of a new season means a new contest from WriteMovies. The Spring 2021 Screenwriting Contest is now open! Spring is always a time of rejuvenation and renewal. With positive news about vaccine rollouts and a potential end to lockdowns around the world, this year’s spring feels even more like a time for getting things going.User Feedback: 75 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Creative World Awards
Final Deadline: 05/27/2021
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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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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ScreenCraft $30,000 Film Fund
Final Deadline: 05/31/2021
Whether you have a simple screenplay or a film that’s already in production, we want to consider it for our grant program. We consider a range of projects, from standalone screenplays, to fully packaged projects seeking finishing funds. If your aspirations are solely to become a produced screenwriter, you can rely on ScreenCraft and BondIt to package the winning script with a talented director and in-house production resources with up to $30,000 in cash financing, judged on a case-by-case basis, depending on each project’s budget and needs as determined by our internal jury of industry professionals.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards
Final Deadline: 05/31/2021
The Filmmatic Screenplay Awards were created to locate and expose up-and-coming screenwriters, as well as to empower and educate those talented writers still waiting for their invitation to the mainstream industry. The Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Competition is open to feature-length and short works, screenplays and teleplays. 10 Honorees, 1 Overall-Winner, and 100 Finalists will be named!User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Page Turner Awards
Final Deadline: 05/31/2021
Our Awards give writers the chance to enter their screenwriting to be read by a high-profile judging panel, including producers who are actively looking for work to option. Success stories from the 2020 awards include three writers winning literary representation, six writers winning a writing mentorship, five writers winning a publishing contract and thirteen independent authors winning an audiobook production.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition
Final Deadline: 06/13/2021
Founded in 1969 as the Sinking Creek Film Celebration, Nashville Film Festival (NashFilm) is one of the longest-running film festivals in the country and one of the most acclaimed festivals in the South. Hosted in Music City, NashFilm attracts enthusiastic film lovers from all across the country and has been praised by film-goers and filmmakers alike for its unique combination of big city festival atmosphere and laid back Southern hospitality.User Feedback: 9 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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WeScreenplay Shorts Competition
Final Deadline: 06/15/2021
The WeScreenplay Shorts Competition is dedicated to connecting talented short film writers with Oscar-nominated short film creators and industry leaders in our unique Shorts Lab for advice on how to create emotionally impactful storytelling in short-form content. EVERY ENTRY GETS WRITTEN FEEDBACK WeScreenplay believes that every entrant of a contest should benefit from entering – whether the writer wins or not.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Capital Fund Screenplay Competiton
Final Deadline: 06/17/2021
The Capital Fund Screenplay Competition, now in its fifth year of successes, where your scripts are read direct by investors that buy projects and fund films at the studio level domestically and abroad. Our entrants have been optioned and sold at AFM, Cannes, Berlin, Toronto and Shanghai Film Markets. A Different Screenplay Contest Find out if your script can sell- is it commercial? Now get the answer with a CVR report.User Feedback: 2 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Adapted Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 06/23/2021
Submissions Open: February 1, 2021. The ONLY screenplay competition focused exclusively on adapted material. The Adapted Screenplay Competition recognizes and showcases adapted feature and television scripts in ALL genres.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Finish Line Script Competition
Final Deadline: 06/29/2021
It’s a fact that rewriting your screenplay or television pilot is an absolutely essential part of the successful process of perfecting story, character, structure, tone and theme. It’s from that reality that The Finish Line Script Competition was created. The Finish Line redefines the screenwriting competition, embracing the rewrite as an essential component in any successful screenplay, and incentivizing every entrant to dig deeper, find their best draft, and win.User Feedback: 6 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenwriting Competition
Final Deadline: 06/30/2021
The action genre is the one genre that producers and literary managers have recently requested the most, and which we have the least. So this could be one of our most successful competitions! Our jury is looking for emerging voices in the action movie genre. Whether you have a big-budget, tentpole family adventure movie, or a taut, low-budget action film, we want to read your script.User Feedback: 2 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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Table Read My Screenplay Genre Competition
Final Deadline: 07/21/2021
Your Script Read Live at the Austin Film Festival! Script Showcase - Live table read of your script with a professional director and actors at the festival. Flight & accommodations to attend the Austin Film Festival. Producer’s Badge ($675 value) - Access to screenings, panels, and other festival events and parties.User Feedback: 7 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Scriptation Showcase Features & Shorts Category
Final Deadline: 07/25/2021
The Scriptation Showcase is officially open for submissions! Emerging writers can now enter their best screenplay, teleplay, or short. The Scriptation Showcase is the screenwriting competition that circulates winners’ scripts to the directors, showrunners, and producers behind your favorite movies and TV shows. Why submit to the Scriptation Showcase? UNPRECENDENTED EXPOSURE Never before has a screenwriting competition made your script so accessible to working industry professionals.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Global Film Market
Final Deadline: 07/25/2021
The Global Film Market is a competitive event containing sections for content ready, immediately to stream; as well as works-in-progress and undeveloped projects such as scripts, television pilots, and/or treatments. The Global Film Market is the perfect event for the evolving streaming industry. The Internet now controls and dominates the entire cinematic universe.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Slamdance Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 07/27/2021
The Slamdance Screenplay Competition is dedicated to discovering and nurturing emerging screenwriters. Since 1995, the competition has established a strong track record for introducing writers to members of the entertainment industry who have gone on to produce, option and represent submitted work. Like the Film Festival, the Screenplay Competition is a place for new, bold, and raw voices.User Feedback: 45 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Rome Independent Film Festival
Final Deadline: 07/30/2021
The screenplay award is organized and promoted by the RIFF. The intent is to offer new filmmakers a concrete opportunity to grow professionally by developing their films, and making them accessible to the public.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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ScreenCraft Drama Screenwriting Competition
Final Deadline: 07/31/2021
Feature film dramas drive deep into the heart of what it means to be human, expressing universal themes with nuanced complexity. Our judges are looking for great stories with original voices and honest emotion. This competition celebrates great dramatic film writing. Whether you’re writing a sweeping period drama or a contained relationship movie, we want to read your script! All entries are eligible for optional feedback from a studio-trained professional reader (highly recommended).User Feedback: 2 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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The Script Lab's Free Contest
Final Deadline: 07/31/2021
The Script Lab and Coverfly are offering this FREE screenplay competition to help open talent-discovery to anyone and everyone, regardless of financial ability. This contest is open to feature, TV and short screenplays. Scripts must be in English and formatted with industry-standard screenwriting software. First impressions are important: For this free competition, all scripts will receive an initial first impression read, consisting of just the first few pages of each script.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Circa Historical Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 07/31/2021
Circa 2021 Historical Screenplay Competition accepts Historical Screenplays in three categories: Feature Screenplay, TV Pilot and Short Screenplay. All three categories compete for Circa Historical Screenplay Competition Award: "Best Historical Screenplay".User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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ScreenCraft Animation Screenwriting Competition
Final Deadline: 07/31/2021
Perhaps no other medium of entertainment liberates the writer’s imagination more than animation. From wildly experimental 2D animation, to photo-realistic 3D animation, and everything in between, the medium of animation can allow for many kinds of inventive, visual storytelling. Whether you’re writing an animated family feature, a serious animated series for adults, or a kids TV show, we’re honoring three categories in this annual competition!User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Williamsburg International Film & Music Competition
Final Deadline: 08/14/2021
Our Director of the Screenplay Competition is a working writer himself. We carefully select our Judges and try to assist the screenplay winners in their journey to sell their manuscripts. Exposure is half the battle. Our priority has always been the writer. Read our reviews on FilmFreeway and you'll see what past writers and filmmakers think of our competition.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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The TITAN Awards
Final Deadline: 08/20/2021
The TITAN Awards was established in 2021 by leading script consultancy Industrial Scripts® to offer access to a rare level of Hollywood judge... Judged only by heavyweight Hollywood producers, the prize discovers and champions exciting screenwriting talent and delivers it to people of stature who can genuinely give the project industry traction.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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New York City Horror Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 09/01/2021
New York City's longest running horror film festival. Established by MooDude Films CEO / Producer / Director / Michael J. Hein in 2001. The NYCHFF is a four-day event that takes place each November in New York City. The NYCHFF has grown to be a world recognized event, with industry, filmmakers, and press attention from around the globe. The Hein Family is committed to keeping the festival alive in memory of the truly missed and loved founder Michael J Hein.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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ScreenCraft Horror Screenwriting Competition
Final Deadline: 10/31/2021
Our Hollywood judges love good horror movies – and they’re looking for the next fresh voices in horror screenwriting.User Feedback: 6 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 11/04/2021
Since 2009, Fresh Voices has distinguished itself as a screenplay competition designed to discover, empower and promote the next generation of storytellers, writers and filmmakers. Fresh Voices experience in the industry allows us the ability to identify and elevate writer's with a unique perspective and memorable voice that demands to be read. Now in our 12th year, we have helped guide dozens of talented screenwriters to secure literary representation, option agreements and other work-for-hire writing assignments that have been the stepping stones to significant careers.User Feedback: 40 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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13th New Media Film Festival Script Competition
Final Deadline: 04/03/2022
Honoring Stories Worth Telling. All Scripts. Short or long form, animation, comedy, sitcom, drama, books, web series, reality, live, TV anything scripted, this is for you. There is not a limit on page numbers. Top 3 winners in this category win Industry memberships valued at $1000.00 each & are still considered for Grand Prize Award ($45,000.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Nantucket Film Festival Screenplay Competition
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The Nantucket Film Festival - unique in its dedication to supporting and promoting the art of screenwriting - launched the Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Competition in 1996. The Festival's screenwriting focus was inspired by Nantucket's rich history as a writer's retreat and is one of the main reasons for the event's distinction as an important cultural institution.User Feedback: 6 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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2021 BlueCat Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 12/13/2020 (expired)
The BlueCat Screenplay Competition, now in its 23rd year, is accepting submissions for its 2021 competition. Founded in 1998 by award-winning writer Gordy Hoffman, BlueCat has supported thousands of screenwriters through written analysis provided to all entrants, many of whom have gone on to successful careers in the film and television industry.User Feedback: 179 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Fade In Awards
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Industry exposure, WGAw writer assistance in polishing winning scripts and $15,000 in cash prizes for up to 19 finalists.User Feedback: 85 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Scriptapalooza Features & Shorts Competition
Final Deadline: 04/12/2021 (expired)
Scriptapalooza was founded in 1998 with the goal of helping as many writers as possible through the competition. We have over 90 production companies, agents and managers reading all the entered scripts. (A complete list of participants is on Scriptapalooza's website.) We actively push the Semifinalists, Finalists, Runners-Up and Winners for a full year with the intention of creating opportunities for the writers.User Feedback: 105 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Bare Bones Film Festival
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We champion the struggling independent Auteur who literally does it all or who gathers a close team who contributes what's needed to get their movie make. By having in attendance, mediamakers from all across the U.S. and Canada and by bringing in experienced and award winning directors, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and stunt professionals to conduct workshops and discussion groups, thus sharing their knowledge, we are paving the way for an independent movie explosion in Oklahoma.User Feedback: 1 Comment (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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The 15th Annual American Gem Short Script & Literary Festival
Final Deadline: 07/30/2019 (expired)
To promote and support new talent by creating real and original opportunities. To make Hollywood more accessible than ever before to more aspiring screenwriters, American Gem Short Script Writing Contest: presented by Filmmakers Magazine and Write Brothers, is forming strategic alliances with the powers that be in Film, TV and Literary Publishing.User Feedback: 7 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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L.A. Shorts Screenplay Competition
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After several years of hiatus we are proud to bring back LA Shorts screenplay competition. Finalists are invited to attend a table reading of the script for a live audience during LA Shorts Fest. The readings are performed by professional actors and actresses in front of an audience, who will vote on their favorites. These votes, along with the scores of the readers, determine the winner.User Feedback: 2 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Writers Place
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To assist the aspiring screenwriter in realizing his/her dream of becoming a professional screenwriter. To eliminate industry chokepoints that stifle creativity and impede screenplay access to managers,agents & producers.User Feedback: 12 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Cinequest Screenwriting Competition
Final Deadline: 11/13/2020 (expired)
Cinequest voted Best Film Festival by USA Today Readers. Cinequest voted Best Film Festival by USA Today Readers. The Cinequest Screenplay Competition empowers global screenwriters through discovery, recognition, and opportunity. Cinequest loves writers, and we welcome you to submit your screenplay or teleplay to our renowned competition.User Feedback: 13 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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2021 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
Final Deadline: 05/03/2021 (expired)
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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NYC Midnight Screenwriter's Challenge
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The mission of the Screenwriter's Challenge is to discover and support a new wave of talented storytellers from around the world. The Challenge is organized by NYC Midnight Movie Making Madness, LLC. NYC Midnight aims to provide the prizes and exposure necessary for writers to take their next big step towards writing professionally.User Feedback: 1 Comment (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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Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 04/23/2021 (expired)
Big Apple Film Festival and Screenplay Competition (Spring Edition) takes place in the heart of NYC. BAFF presents selected films as a live in person event, as well as additional selections presented virtually. BAFF, named one of MovieMaker Magazine's top "25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee,” top "25 Coolest Film Festivals,”, CBS New York's "Best Film Festivals in New York.User Feedback: 6 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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