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NHMC Series Scriptwriters Program

Final Deadline: 03/26/2023

For nearly twenty years, the NHMC Series Scriptwriters Program has helped launch the careers of more than 200 Latinx writers. Ten diverse Latinx writers nationwide are selected for a five-week intense writers lab. At the end of the program, these writers will have a half an hour original series pilot, which they will pitch to industry leaders, beginning with our partners at ABC & NBC.

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NHMC Television

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Save the Cat! Screenplay Challenge

Final Deadline: 03/26/2023

All entrants receive 50 points of analysis—at no extra cost—and a written review from readers trained in the Save the Cat! Methodology. All scripts receive a full read. Feedback is grounded in structure—not subjective opinion. Our approach is simple: a screenplay competition that uses the same language the writer, the reader, and the decision makers use when analyzing your work.

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Save the Cat!

Overall: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Professionalism: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Feedback: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.4/5.0)
Signficance: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
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trackingb.com Original TV Pilot Contest

Final Deadline: 03/27/2023

We are looking to find the next generation of Sorkins, Rhimes, Gilligans, & Lorres by shining a spotlight on new, fresh voices writing for television. And we've enlisted a great industry judging panel from the TV world to help us. THE INDUSTRY PANEL Berry Welsh - SVP, Production & Development - Tribeca Film Natalie Haack Flores - VP, Development & Kevin Sauer - DIrector of Development - Nuyorican Productions Karyn Smith-Forge - President - This Radical Act (Don Cheadle) Jeff Portnoy - Lit Manager - Bellevue Productions Dustin Davis - President - Bandera Entertainment Anil Kurian - Head of Development - G-Unit Films & Television Brin Lukens - SVP, Programming, AwesomenessTV Ryan Cunningham - Lit Manager - Anonymous Content Amanda Krentzman - Original Series - Snap Inc.

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trackingb.com Original TV

Overall: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (2.8/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
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Signficance: 5 stars5 stars5 stars5 stars5 stars (4.8/5.0)
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Family Friendly Peer Review Screenwriting Festival

Final Deadline: 03/28/2023

Screenwriters often don't get the results they were hoping for from a script but don't know how to fix it, leaving them confused or frustrated. Family Friendly Peer Review Screenwriting Festival offers you affordable feedback from other writers and actionable techniques from professional instructors that you can immediately use to refine your script, increase your skill level, and advance your career! Network with other writers in the Family Friendly genre.

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Family Friendly Peer Review

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Golden Script Competition

Final Deadline: 03/29/2023

The Golden Script Competition is a yearly international competition for short, feature and TV pilot screenplays from all around the world. You will be submitting to the 2023 edition and the winning scripts of this edition will be read by some of the best production companies and literary agencies (including some that have one several OSCARS and BAFTAS), giving you the chance to have your script produced or represented.

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Golden Script Competition

Overall: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.2/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.2/5.0)
Feedback: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.2/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (3.9/5.0)
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Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition

Final Deadline: 03/31/2023

Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition seeks to discover and support the most original and innovative screenplays from emerging and established screenwriters from around the world.

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Big Apple

Overall: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.7/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (3.9/5.0)
Feedback: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.3/5.0)
Signficance: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (3.1/5.0)
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100 Screenplays

Final Deadline: 03/31/2023

"100 Screenplays" is a unique contest brought to you by "Screenplay Festival," one of the longest running and highest rated screenplay competitions on MovieBytes. We accept one hundred scripts into each contest, and quickly get the results to you. "!00 Screenplays" is a fast, targeted screenplay contest where every writer who enters goes in knowing exactly how many scripts will be in the competition, and every writer knows that there will be results less than a month after the contest closes.

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100 Screenplays

Overall: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.3/5.0)
Professionalism: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.4/5.0)
Feedback: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (3.9/5.0)
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The Writers Lab US

Final Deadline: 03/31/2023

The Writers Lab, produced by IRIS and New York Women in Film & Television and supported by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, is open for submissions of screenplays by women over the age of 40 ABOUT THE LAB The Writers Lab brings 12 women screenwriters over the age of 40 with promising scripts together with outstanding professional female filmmakers for an intensive four-day screenwriting development retreat of one-on-one meetings, panel discussions and other activities designed to inspire the artists; to prompt rigorous creative exploration; and, through revision, to cultivate first-rate cinematic stories.

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The Writers Lab US

Overall: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.6/5.0)
Professionalism: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (3.0/5.0)
Feedback: 1 star (1.0/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (3.9/5.0)
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Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship

Final Deadline: 03/31/2023

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.

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Inroads Fellowship

Overall: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.3/5.0)
Professionalism: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.3/5.0)
Feedback: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
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WRPN Women's International Film Festival

Final Deadline: 03/31/2023

Welcome to the WRPN Women's International Film Festival, where distribution and feedback opportunities abound for films made by women, or films that carry subject matter relating to concerns particular to women's issues. WWIFF is a sister festival to the Depth of Field International Film Festival, a FilmFreeway “Top 100 Reviewed” festival alumni.

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WRPN Women

Overall: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (3.0/5.0)
Professionalism: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (3.0/5.0)
Feedback: n/a (0.0/5.0)
Signficance: 2 stars2 stars (2.0/5.0)
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Scriptapalooza Features & Shorts Competition

Final Deadline: 04/03/2023

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.

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Scriptapalooza Features/Shorts

Overall: 5 stars5 stars5 stars5 stars5 stars (5.0/5.0)
Professionalism: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Feedback: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
Signficance: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.7/5.0)
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New Media Film Festival Script Competition

Final Deadline: 04/06/2023

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.

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New Media Scripts

Overall: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.4/5.0)
Professionalism: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.6/5.0)
Feedback: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
Signficance: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.7/5.0)
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Faith in Film: International Film Festival and Screenwriting Competition

Final Deadline: 04/07/2023

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.

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Faith in Film

Overall: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (2.9/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Feedback: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.7/5.0)
Signficance: 2.5 stars2.5 stars2.5 stars (2.6/5.0)
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2023 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards

Final Deadline: 04/10/2023

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.

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PAGE International

Overall: 5 stars5 stars5 stars5 stars5 stars (5.0/5.0)
Professionalism: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.6/5.0)
Feedback: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.4/5.0)
Signficance: 5 stars5 stars5 stars5 stars5 stars (4.9/5.0)
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Humanitas New Voices

Final Deadline: 04/14/2023

In 2010, Executive Director Cathleen Young created NEW VOICES with the vision of discovering, developing and launching a new generation of talented writers under the mentorship of Hollywood showrunners and studio partners. MENTORS INCLUDE: Alan Ball, Jenny Bicks, Janine Sherman Barrois, Matt Carlson, Carter Covington, Liz Craft, Sarah Fain, Tom Fontana, Gary Glasberg, Gary David Goldberg, Marc Guggenheim, Hart Hanson, Chris Harris, Felicia Henderson, David Hudgins, Jason Katims, Jay Kogen, Bill Lawrence, Ali LeRoi, Melanie Marnich, Nancy Pimental, Rashad Raisani, David Shore, Robin Swicord, Pam Veasey, Ben Watkins, and David Zuckerman.

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Humanitas New Voices

Overall: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (3.8/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
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Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (3.8/5.0)
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Great American Script Search

Final Deadline: 04/15/2023

GREAT AMERICAN SCRIPT CONTEST will be bringing not only legit chances for you to connect with industry decision makers, agents and producers in Los Angeles, but also provide opportunity to network at live events in Chicago and LA. GASC is not only one of the best opportunities for you to get your writing seen and discovered, finalists will all be part of the physical film festivals in Chicago (March) and in LA (November).

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Great American Search

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Scriptapalooza TV Writing Competition

Final Deadline: 04/18/2023

Our intention is to help open doors for the aspiring television writer. There are four categories you can submit to, which include 1 hour existing spec scripts, 1/2 hour existing sitcom spec scripts, original pilots, and reality programs. This competition is designed with the TV writer and crossover screenwriter in mind. The participants we have chosen to read the winning scripts are individuals from established production companies.

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Scriptapalooza TV

Overall: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.3/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Feedback: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (3.9/5.0)
Signficance: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.6/5.0)
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True Story Showcase

Final Deadline: 04/22/2023

Submissions Open: December 3, 2022. The True Story Showcase recognizes scripts, books, short stories & stage plays in any genre that feature a story based on, or inspired by, true events.

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True Story Showcase

Overall: 2.5 stars2.5 stars2.5 stars (2.3/5.0)
Professionalism: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.6/5.0)
Feedback: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (3.0/5.0)
Signficance: 2 stars2 stars (1.8/5.0)
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Los Angeles Crime and Horror Film Festival

Final Deadline: 04/22/2023

The Los Angeles Crime and Horror Film Festival is an IMDb qualifying event that aims to increase exposure for high quality crime and horror screenplays, including the many subgenres of crime fiction, mystery, psychological horror, and more. Winners are invited to attend the film screenings and the awards presentation in Hollywood.

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L.A. Crime and Horror

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Apeiron Films Screenplay Competition

Final Deadline: 04/25/2023

Cinema is your passion? You've written a short film script that tells a meaningful and touching story with a few characters in plain settings? You can restrict yourself to the essentials? You want to see your ideas in a movie at last? Congratulations: You’ve just found the right opportunity! CHALLENGE Create pure narrative live-action cinema without extravaganza! Make the audience care! Only the awesome idea counts, because the film crew will have only a few days for the complete production from casting to cinema premiere.

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Apeiron Films

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StoryPros Awards Contest

Final Deadline: 04/30/2023

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.

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StoryPros Awards

Overall: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.4/5.0)
Professionalism: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.6/5.0)
Feedback: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.3/5.0)
Signficance: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.7/5.0)
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ScreenCraft Comedy Screenwriting Competition

Final Deadline: 04/30/2023

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.

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ScreenCraft Comedy

Overall: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (3.9/5.0)
Professionalism: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.5/5.0)
Feedback: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.4/5.0)
Signficance: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.7/5.0)
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Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting

Final Deadline: 05/01/2023

Each year, the Academy Nicholl screenwriting competition awards up to five $35,000 fellowships to amateur screenwriters. To enter, submit a feature length screenplay and entry fee via the online application when the competition is open for submissions. Fellowship winners are invited to participate in awards week ceremonies and seminars, receive individualized Academy member mentorship and are expected to complete at least one original feature film screenplay during their Fellowship year.

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Nicholl Fellowships

Overall: 5 stars5 stars5 stars5 stars5 stars (5.0/5.0)
Professionalism: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.4/5.0)
Feedback: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.4/5.0)
Signficance: 5 stars5 stars5 stars5 stars5 stars (5.0/5.0)
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Family Friendly Screenwriting Awards

Final Deadline: 05/01/2023

Let’s celebrate great storytelling! Family Friendly Screenwriting Academy wants to find the best of the best of unproduced features in the faith based and family friendly genres. Do you have an amazing and entertaining story without profanity, vulgarity, nudity, or sexual situations? (Something families can watch without being ready with the remote to skip scenes?) If so, we want to read it! There is a growing demand for Family Friendly films.

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Family Friendly Screenwriting

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Shore Scripts Short Film Fund

Final Deadline: 05/02/2023

$16,000 in Cash Prizes. For screenwriters and/or directors who want to see their short film script produced and create a calling card to help them progress in the industry. New projects are funded each season. Previous winners have had their films screened at Tribeca, BFI London, and won a BAFTA. Alumni working on Netflix & BBC Shows.

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Shore Film Fund

Overall: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Professionalism: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.6/5.0)
Feedback: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.6/5.0)
Signficance: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
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Breaking Walls Thriller Screenplay Contest

Final Deadline: 05/06/2023

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.

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Breaking Walls

Overall: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (2.9/5.0)
Professionalism: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (3.2/5.0)
Feedback: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (3.0/5.0)
Signficance: 2.5 stars2.5 stars2.5 stars (2.3/5.0)
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Scriptapalooza Fellowship

Final Deadline: 05/15/2023

The fellowship program was developed to honor dedicated writers and to help further their creative process and skills. Writing in itself is a journey and we would like to facilitate the process by giving the fellows the opportunity to be surrounded by like-minded professionals and individuals. Application Requirements: Completed application and fee.

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Scriptapalooza Fellowship

Overall: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.3/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (3.8/5.0)
Feedback: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.2/5.0)
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Coverage Ink's Get Repped Now

Final Deadline: 05/15/2023

Our Manager Panel. Your Script. From March 13th through May 15th 2023, all scripts submitted to www.coverageink.com or www.getreppednow.com for screenplay analysis ("coverage") which score a 'consider' (or better) for script are elevated to our panel of ten reps with our recommendations (appx. the top 3%.) We work with the top literary managers in town, and they are looking for the best writers and freshest voices around.

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CineStory Foundation Feature Retreat and Fellowship

Final Deadline: 05/18/2023

CineStory is a national non-profit dedicated to nurturing emerging screenwriters through mentorship programs. Winners of our competition have gone on to pen films such as IRON MAN, CAKE, THE CHILDREN OF MEN, BALLAST, KING OF CALIFORNIA and 11:14. One of the main goals of the CineStory Feature Retreat is to select up-and-coming screenwriters for our four-day intensive program held in the Fall.

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Cinestory Feature

Overall: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.6/5.0)
Professionalism: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.3/5.0)
Feedback: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Signficance: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
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Diversity Showcase

Final Deadline: 05/19/2023

Submissions Open: January 3, 2023. The Diversity Showcase recognizes scripts, books, short stories, & stage plays in any genre that feature a Writer or a story about a Lead Character from an under-represented community. "Under-represented" may include race, gender, sexual orientation, religious group, political affiliation, or physical or mental challenges.

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Diversity Showcase

Overall: 2.5 stars2.5 stars2.5 stars (2.7/5.0)
Professionalism: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.7/5.0)
Feedback: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (3.0/5.0)
Signficance: 2.5 stars2.5 stars2.5 stars (2.7/5.0)
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Austin Film Festival Script Competition

Final Deadline: 05/25/2023

The Ultimate Runway Now in our 30th 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.

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Austin Fest Film

Overall: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.6/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
Feedback: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.5/5.0)
Signficance: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.6/5.0)
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Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition

Final Deadline: 05/25/2023

As Austin Film Festival continues to grow and expand, our vision also widens with the addition of new avenues for storytellers. In 2017 we introduced the inaugural Playwriting Competition. It is open to full-length stage plays and gives playwrights a chance to explore our film and television conference. It will also allow film professionals to discover storytellers who have mastered the art and craft of stage drama.

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Austin Fest Stage

Overall: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.4/5.0)
Professionalism: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.7/5.0)
Feedback: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.3/5.0)
Signficance: 5 stars5 stars5 stars5 stars5 stars (5.0/5.0)
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Emerging Screenwriters Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition

Final Deadline: 05/25/2023

Do you have a great action or adventure script that's ready for the industry? When Luke Skywalker lost control against Darth Vader in THE RETURN OF THE JEDI, the brutal swings of his lightsaber advanced the story of his character. In MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, the operatic chase sequence bound every character, plot point, and theme together.

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Emerging Screenwriters Action & Adventure

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Emerging Screenwriters Suspense Screenplay Competition

Final Deadline: 05/25/2023

We are seeking suspenseful drama, horror, thriller, mystery, and crime narratives. Which is scarier, the unknown horror of the titular creature in ALIEN or the appearance of a “regular” person in HALLOWEEN? Is the tragedy of SHAUN OF THE DEAD amplified by its beats of disarming humor? And is the WITCH a supernatural horror story or a drama showcasing a young woman’s journey of empowerment? Fear is a complex emotion.

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Emerging Screenwriters Animation Screenplay Competition

Final Deadline: 05/25/2023

Do you have a great animation script that’s ready for the industry? From the ballroom dance in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, to the elemental combat of AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER, some of the greatest moments in cinema come from the world of animation. In recent years, the popularity of (and development interest in) animation has skyrocketed thanks to hits such as the subversive RICK AND MORTY to the heartwarming ENCANTO.

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Emerging Animation

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LA Shorts Screenplay Competition

Final Deadline: 05/26/2023

LA Shorts International Film Festival ranks among the most prestigious and largest international short film festivals in the world. The festival is accredited by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences OSCAR®, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts BAFTA and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television (ACCT) presenters of the Canadian Screen Awards and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain (Goya Awards).

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Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition

Final Deadline: 05/28/2023

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.

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Script Pipeline Screenwriting and TV Writing Competition

Final Deadline: 05/31/2023

The 2023 Script Pipeline Screenwriting and TV Writing Competitions head into their 21st and 16th seasons, continuing the search for up-and-coming talent and connecting them with top producers, agencies, and managers. As one of the longest-running and most successful screenplay contests, we focus specifically on finding writers representation, supporting diverse voices, championing ambitious storytelling, and pushing original projects into production.

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Script Pipeline Screenplay/TV

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ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition

Final Deadline: 05/31/2023

The best visual effects in the universe count for nothing if a story doesn’t have a world or characters that we care about. It takes unrestrained imagination to explore new worlds and character connections through timeless fantasy and awe-inspiring science fiction, and the best scripts in these genres are nothing short of magical. Whether you’re writing a contained science fiction drama, epic fantasy saga, or anything in-between, we want to read your feature screenplay or TV pilot! ScreenCraft has relationships with sci-fi & fantasy heavyweights that include Scott Free Productions, 21 Laps, HBO Max, Netflix, and countless others.

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ScreenCraft SciFi

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BOLT

Final Deadline: 05/31/2023

Bolt is an innovative screenplay competition from the creators of Barnstorm Fest. The rules are simple: Submit a short film screenplay or television pilot then Barnstorm Media chooses the winner and MAKES YOUR MOVIE OR PILOT! You get to be the Executive Producer. Every submission receives feedback from the producers at Barnstorm Media.

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BOLT

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Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards

Final Deadline: 05/31/2023

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!

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Filmmatic Drama

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ScreenCraft Feature Competition

Final Deadline: 05/31/2023

Whether it's a blockbuster that thrills, an indie that inspires, or a comedy that delights an audience, our Hollywood judges are excited to connect with your voice as a writer! ScreenCraft has helped feature script writers of all different voices find representation, earn paid writing assignments, land high profile options, and even sell their work.

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ScreenCraft Feature

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The Indie Gathering International Film Festival

Final Deadline: 06/01/2023

To recognize excellence in screenwriting of shorts and features in a wide variety of genres.

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Indie Gathering

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Write LA

Final Deadline: 06/01/2023

**A Moviebytes Top Screenplay Contest for 2023** Our winners and finalists have been signed by Literary Managers as a result of entering our competition!! Now in our sixth season, Write LA gives 5 writers the chance to be read and considered for representation by leading Literary Management Companies. Semifinalists receive several prizes - An online writing seminar from The Writer's Store, a screenwriting book from Michael Wiese Productions, a notebook from Decomposition Books, and free feedback from head judge and highly respected script coach Tim Schildberger.

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HollyShorts Screenplay Contest

Final Deadline: 06/02/2023

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.

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HollyShorts

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Mad Wife Productions Fellowship Program

Final Deadline: 06/14/2023

Mad Wife Productions (https://madwifeproductions.com/) screenwriting fellowship program is for aspiring writers who want to get their big break in the film industry! The aim of this fellowship program is to offer one or more writers the opportunity to work in the industry and learn the ins and outs of taking a story from script to screen.

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Mad Wife Fellowship

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Capital Fund Screenplay Competiton

Final Deadline: 06/17/2023

The Capital Fund Screenplay Competition, now in its 9th 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.

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Capital Fund

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Dallas International Film Festival

Final Deadline: 06/18/2023

Dallas International Film Festival, Event Horizon Films, and Torfoot Studios have come together for the DIFF 2023 Screenplay Competition. Among the prizes, award-winning filmmaker Johnathan Brownlee at Torfoot Studios will produce and direct the winning short script for film festival screenings. Previous winning short scripts screened at Dallas Noir Fest, Dallas International Film Festival and ATX Short Film Showcase, and many others.

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Finish Line Script Competition

Final Deadline: 06/20/2023

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. With the guidance of a seasoned script consultant, you can work on your rewrites AFTER submitting your script to the competition and then, after reviewing their notes, RESUBMIT your script to us, having improved your draft and thus bettering your chances to WIN! Our screenplay consultants will provide comprehensive development notes on your screenplay or pilot, for as many drafts as you choose, focusing on the fact that the STORY and WRITER are KING.

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Finish Line

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Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards

Final Deadline: 06/20/2023

"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.

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