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Screenwriting contest that offers feedback to all participants.
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Original, television scripts, and film scripts are sought.
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Competition aims to find and usher emerging talent into the Hollywood mainstream marketplace.
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Elicits scripts which are suitable for either theatrical or television production and which tell a positive story about specific fundamental values.
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A contest seeking stories that reflect timeless American virtues. Judges include three Oscar-nominated screenwriters.
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The winning screenplay will be produced, with the screenwriter sharing in the gross profits.
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Promises $50,000 in cash and prizes. Minimum entry fee: $40. Deadline: September 15.
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Offers a $5,000 grand prize. The top ten screenplays are considered for option by American Zoetrope and for representation by top agencies. Judged by Francis Ford Coppola. Reading fee: $40. Opens May 1. Deadline: September 1.
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Annual contest offering year-long $10,000 screenwriting fellowships to Christian writers.
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Spotlights screenplays with a budget summary of less than a million dollars.
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An annual search for the best screenplay in the world.
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The winning script will be produced by Kaos Films to be exhibited in UK cinemas and entered into film festivals around the world.
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Writing competition open to all writers of fiction, plays, screenplays. Five winners will each receive a $20,000 fellowship, and spend 10 months completing 2 screenplays with the guidance of industry mentors. Sponsored by Paramount Pictures.
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An annual screenplay competition and film festival that takes place in Erie, Pennsylvania.
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Cash prizes and industry exposure from the publishers of Fade In Magazine.
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Short script (11 pages or less) competition grants a $10,000 production budget to the winning entrant.
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Database of current screenwriting contests.
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Full-length screenplay competition with $4000 grand prize and representation consideration for the top 50 entrants.
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Short script (30 pages or less) competition that grants production to the grand prize winner. Three contests each year. Entry fees vary on length and time of submission ($9-$44)
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$5,000 bonus and round trip tickets each to 3 screenwriters chosen for this experience down in South Africa.
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Independent film production company offering $25,000 in prize money.
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Features screenplay development, film production, script consultation and screenplay contests.
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Provides information about the services, locations, crews, permits, films shot in the area, and job openings.
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1st place cash prize of $1,000 plus an all-access pass to the Nashville Independent Film Festival.
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Annual screenwriters competition in which 75% of the script's locations must be shootable in Nevada.
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An international competition, sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, seeks original screenplays from writers who have not earned more than $5,000 for film or TV scripts. Up to five $25,000 fellowships are awarded each year.
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A screenplay contest dedicated to the positive portrayal of gays and lesbians in film. $1000 first prize.
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A screenplay contest promoting the full-length character driven screenplay. First prize is $1000 and a one-year option for production.
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Categories are original screenplays, half-hour and one hour television spec scripts, and half-hour and one hour television pilot scripts.
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Recognizes and promotes screenplays that significantly feature lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered characters and/or themes.
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Founded by Hollywood producers to discover new screenplays by up-and-coming writers. Cash and prizes of over $25,000.
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A UK-based treatment and screenplay competition. Treatments are accepted on a monthly basis, with winners made eligible for the annual screenplay competition. Cash prizes.
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Short script contest that produces the winning script and gives the writer a producer credit.
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Annual horror film and screenplay competition. Finalists and winning horror screenplay finalists to be read by literary agents. 0ctober 17th - 20th.
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Feature-length screenplay contest with industry exposure and $1000 grand prizes in five categories.
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An annual screenwriting contest, to find and promote talented new screenwriters, awards prizes in kind but not in cash. Entry fees are payable.
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$10,000 in cash and prizes for full-length screenplays.
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Cash prizes, script notes and consideration from a legitimate management company, production company or agency.
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Offers $10,000 in cash, plus $8,000 in other prizes. 203 companies have requested the winners for their consideration.
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Monthly screenplay competition. Provides contest details, fee and prize information, deadlines and online application.
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Offers annual screenplay competition with a $10,000 cash prize, a semi- annual television writing competition and professional script analysis.
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Annual screenplay competition open to writers of screenplays set primarily in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area. $10,000 grand prize.
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All contestants must register as a member of the Screenwriters Community.
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Television writing explained by award winning writer and poet Larry Brody.
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Winners are submitted to the networks and production companies to help find them work.
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Competition dedicated to recognizing the writer's contribution to the motion picture industry.
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The Warner Bros. Writers Workshop maintains an annual program geared towards helping aspiring television writers obtain representation and work.
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Los Angeles-based feminist network promoting a festival and WIN Awards focusing on women's stories.
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Offers a $2,000 cash prize (plus representation, and possible option money), plus submission of the top three entries to studios, production companies, and agencies in Hollywood.
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Quarterly competition for all material registered with WriteSafe for public view.
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10 week fall fellowship program focused on re-writing an existing script. $3,000 stipend for 5-10 winners.
