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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Pitch Now Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 11/30/2020
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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Your Script Produced! Studios : Season 2
Final Deadline: 11/30/2020
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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San Francisco IndieFest Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 12/05/2020
For 21 years the San Francisco Independent Film Festival has developed a great reputation for filling theaters, getting press, and throwing great parties. Films at our fest regularly get Variety reviews, picked up at other fests, and find rabid groupies following the makers around town demanded autographs and buying them drinks. This is our third year hosting a screenplay contest with the goal of expanding our filmmaker reach.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Screenwriting Staffing's Query Letter Contest (Season 2)
Final Deadline: 12/09/2020
Query letters are the backbone to screenwriting success, and our site is a testament to that. Unless you have a direct contact with a major studio or represented by a top agency, a query letter is needed to make an introduction. Screenwriting Staffing is an online community that connects screenwriters with industry buyers and producers.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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2021 BlueCat Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 12/13/2020
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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13Horror.com Film & Screenplay Contest
Final Deadline: 12/13/2020
13Horror.com is back with THE go-to contest for horror screenwriters and film-makers! The categories for the contest are: Feature-length screenplays Short screenplays Feature-length movies Short movies Winning entrants will receive some truly awesome prizes, including: Cash Publishing deals Movie distribution offer Film-making classes Contacts with horror movie industry insiders Horror merchandise And much more Each screenplay and movie entrant receives a comprehensive feedback form from one of our Hollywood judges, explaining how their screenplay or film did against the judging criteria.User Feedback: 2 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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The Killer Shorts Horror Short Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 12/15/2020
Got a horror short screenplay? We want to read it. Our winners will be read by a jury featuring over a dozen literary managers, producers, development executives, filmmakers, and even an iconic horror actress. Prizes include guaranteed industry reads, Final Draft licenses for all Top 10 finalists, Shudder subscriptions, Creepy Co gift cards, rare horror memorabilia, and so much more.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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ScreenCraft Family-Friendly Screenwriting Competition
Final Deadline: 12/18/2020
Families are the most influential moviegoing audience, yet there’s a surprising lack of high-quality films that appeal to the WHOLE family. This contest avoids the genre-bias of some other contests by seeking exclusively scripts that are life-affirming stories of faith, courage, hope and love. Whether you have a family drama, comedy, animation, or action-adventure film – we have producers and executives who are hungry for high-quality “four-quadrant” projects to package and produce.User Feedback: 3 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Emerging Screenwriters Shoot Your Short Competition
Final Deadline: 12/21/2020
Introducing the Emerging Screenwriters SHOOT YOUR SHORT Competition Brought to you by the International Screenwriters’ Association We've got you covered, from funding the production to providing all the necessary resources to produce a polished premiere-ready short. Bring your script to life with $5,000 cash to shoot your short and guidance from our highly talented consulting producers.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Get It Made
Final Deadline: 12/31/2020
GET IT MADE [GIM] IS A SHORT FILM PROGRAM THAT PRODUCES 3 TO 5 PAGE SCRIPTS, HELPING FOSTER THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCREENWRITERS & STORYTELLERS BY OFFERING A PROFESSIONAL FILM PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE WITH INDUSTRY PROS AND TOP BRANDS. Final Deadline to submit is December 31st, 2020. Use exclusive MovieBytes promo code GIMxMB for $20 off submission fee.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Toronto Metropolitan Int'l Screenwriting Competition
Final Deadline: 01/08/2021
We are passionate about film and passionate about nurturing, developing, and supporting the next generation of great filmmakers and screenwriters from North America and around the world. Our mission is to forge a screenwriting competition that will recognize the next generation of great writers and filmmakers. We love all kinds of scripts and stories from studio blockbusters to art house fare.User Feedback: 7 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Military Script Showcase
Final Deadline: 01/22/2021
Submissions Open: September 3, 2020. The Military Script Showcase recognizes and showcases feature screenplays, television scripts and short scripts in all genres that feature stories about warfare or the military experience.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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WriteMovies Winter 2020 Screenwriting Contest
Final Deadline: 01/31/2021
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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Table Read My Screenplay Genre Competition
Final Deadline: 02/23/2021
We'll Bring the Festival Experience to You! Script Showcase - Live table read of your script with a professional director and actors. Networking - Roundtable discussion with industry executives after the table read. Cash - $1,000 to each Genre Winner. Career Advice - A general meeting with an industry executive.User Feedback: 7 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 and facilitate established filmmakers in transitioning into making more faith films. Our aim is to build a festival that will introduce faith based films to mass audiences, ultimately, giving them the same multi platform release schedules and revenue streams that traditional studio films and high end independent films enjoy; and to inspire, showcase, support, and develop filmmakers of all faith’s to make great faith based films that leave others touched, moved and inspired; and filmmakers and distributors empowered to make and distribute more faith and family films.User Feedback: 9 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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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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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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Nantucket Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 01/07/2019 (expired)
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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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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Austin Film Festival Script Competition
Final Deadline: 06/01/2020 (expired)
The Ultimate Runway Now in our 27th 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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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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TVWriter.Com People's Pilot 2019
Final Deadline: 11/01/2019 (expired)
We are all about giving agents, showrunners, and executives exactly what they now are looking for: Spec pilot teleplays that showcase you, the new writer operating at your very best. If the suits love the writing of a spec pilot, they have the best reason in the world to trust the writer to come through in the development process. A strongly-written spec pilot shows you’re ready for the gig.User Feedback: 3 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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Rome Independent Film Festival
Final Deadline: 08/30/2020 (expired)
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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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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The Indie Gathering International Film Festival
Final Deadline: 06/01/2020 (expired)
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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The Broad Humor Film Festival
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This festival is the first of its kind to put the spotlight on film comedies by women. Its goals are to raise the profile of female-generated humor, to give recognition and support to the women making it, and to be a locus of networking and community building.User Feedback: 2 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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