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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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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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Scriptation Showcase Teleplay Category
Final Deadline: 03/14/2021
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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The Crime List
Final Deadline: 03/19/2021
Submissions Open: November 3, 2020. The Crime List recognizes an exceptional film, script or book that features a crime story (murder, organized crime, gangsters, fraud / corruption, missing / kidnapped, revenge, heist, etc.)User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Future Film Writers Season 2 (Adult Short)
Final Deadline: 03/22/2021
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. 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 the hands of our sponsors.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Future Film Writers Season 2 (Kids Short)
Final Deadline: 03/22/2021
There are kids with great imagination, with great creativity comes great stories. Future Film Writers is having a screenwriting contest for the young imaginative storyteller from the ages of 10 through 17. We like to help bring their creative ideas to the Big screen. We’re looking for the top stories to be in our contest. The Writer wins a cash prize and the possibility to have his or her story place in the hands of our sponsors.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship
Final Deadline: 03/31/2021
The Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship competition was created to locate, expose and nurture up-and-coming screenwriters who have yet to receive their invitation to the mainstream industry. The competition is proudly sponsored by InkTip, The Script Coverage Co., and Filmmatic, and is open to all screenplays and pilots.User Feedback: 4 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Screenwriting Competition
Final Deadline: 03/31/2021
While it’s no secret that Hollywood loves remakes, sequels and spinoffs, it’s perhaps lesser known that Hollywood loves movies based on free intellectual property in the public domain, such as folk tales, fairy tales, mythology and books and plays published before 1923. For example, folk tales, mythology, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Sherlock Holmes, Charles Dickens, famous historical figures – and the list goes on.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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12th New Media Film Festival Script Competition
Final Deadline: 04/03/2021
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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Script To Motion Picture Screenwriting Competition
Final Deadline: 04/10/2021
Script to Motion Picture International screenwriting competition is a unique innovative contest founded by working industry professionals. The premier source for emerging screenwriters to supercharge their career. Besides awarding winners with cash prizes and high-profile representation, our top priority is to get your winning script produced into a motion picture! We are eager to find compelling stories of new writers with fresh concepts, strong main characters, visual escalating conflicts and snappy dialogue.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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Orlando International Film Festival
Final Deadline: 04/15/2021
The Orlando International Film Festival, Inc (OIFF) is a nonprofit organization seeking to bring unique and diverse stories to the beautiful setting of Orlando. The festival will be taking place at the Orange County Convention Center May 23rd to May 26th.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Florida Script Challenge
Final Deadline: 04/19/2021
Lets hear it for the screenwriters people! The backbone, yet often overlooked, of the film industry. Screenwriters are a group of people who would love to have their work recognized but seldom do. Founded in 2020, The Florida Script Challenge is aiming to change that. We ourselves are screenwriters and have been for five years now. We know the struggle for screenwriters and the inability to find someone to read your work.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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True Story Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 04/22/2021
Submissions Open: December 3, 2020. The True Story Screenplay Competition recognizes and showcases feature screenplays and television scripts based on, or inspired by, true stories.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 04/23/2021
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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ScreenCraft Comedy Screenwriting Competition
Final Deadline: 04/30/2021
Whether you have a romantic comedy or an action-comedy blockbuster, we want to read your script. Big or small, our jury is looking for smart scripts with strong command of the craft, lots of heart and unique comedic voices. All entries are eligible for optional feedback from a studio-trained professional reader.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Art of Brooklyn Film Festival
Final Deadline: 05/02/2021
The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival is a unique event that brings Brooklyn’s celebrated film and media makers together with their peers across the country and around the world. The award-winning AoBFF is a filmmaker-focused event, platform and showcase for exciting emerging creators and established voices. We partner with film distributors and media organizations, host world-class talkbacks, create innovative programming for networking and skill building, and screen in state-of-the-art theaters for enthusiastic audiences across Brooklyn.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Shore Scripts - Short Film Fund
Final Deadline: 05/02/2021
DISCOVERING THE BEST NEW SCREENWRITING TALENT FROM AROUND THE WORLD. The Shore Scripts Short Film Fund offers you an opportunity to have your short film script financed and produced. Our Industry Award-Winning Judges including former Fund Winners will decide this year’s Grand Prize Winners. The 2021 Spring Season of our Short Film Fund will award production financing for two short films: Grand Prize - A Production Cash Grant of $15K.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Scriptapalooza Features & Shorts Competition
Final Deadline: 05/05/2021
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: 104 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Slamdance Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 07/27/2020 (expired)
The Slamdance Screenplay Competition is dedicated to discovering and supporting emerging writing talent. We welcome screenplays in every genre, on any topic, from anywhere in the world. A unique feature of the competition is providing constructive feedback for every entrant. In addition to this, we also offer a more intensive coverage service for a supplementary fee.User Feedback: 45 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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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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WriteMovies Winter 2021 Screenwriting Contest
Final Deadline: 02/07/2021 (expired)
*** Deadline extended to Feburary 7th! *** 2020 hasn’t gone the way anyone expected, but we’re determined to make the most of 2021 – and we want you to do the same. That’s why we’re launching the Winter 2021 Screenwriting Contest today, which will be open until January 31st! Since 1999, WriteMovies’ screenwriting contests guarantee to develop our winners’ projects at our own expense and pitch them to producers with the power to make them happen.User Feedback: 75 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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