Order, Chaos, Reorder: Character Arcs
Updated: 05/10/2012
The generic term character arc is something you might here coming from your agent, at a story development meeting, or from your damn Columbia College part-time instructor. They can't figure out what's not clicking so out comes the cure-all: Your lead character hasn't explored the full range of character arc. But what the hell does that mean?
MovieBytes News 
Talentville Announces April Contest Winner
Cole Fowler's The Set-Up has been named the Gold Medal Winner of the April, 2012 Talentville Screenwriting Competition. [Updated: 05/15/2012]
ScriptVamp Announces April Attention Grabber Results
Christopher Kelleher's The Necessity Box has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the April, 2012 ScriptVamp Dream Quest: Attention Grabber Contest. [Updated: 05/14/2012]
Reel Authors Announces Break Out Screenplay Contest Winner
Garth Hendricks' Flight Club has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the Reel Authors Break Out Screenplay Contest. [Updated: 05/13/2012]
Pulsar Announces Screenplay and Teleplay Winners
Evan Johnson's Warpers has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the Pulsar Sci-fi Screenplay Competition. Alexander Collins won the best Original Teleplay Competition for his script, Orbital. [Updated: 05/13/2012]
Austin Fest Announces Contest Judges
The Austin Film Festival has assembled a panel of industry judges to read and determine the Semifinalists, Finalists, and winners of this year's competition. [Updated: 05/10/2012]
CineStory Announces Quarterfinalists
CineStory has announced their quarterfinalists for 2012. [Updated: 05/10/2012]
Pulsar Announces Screenplay and Teleplay Semifinalists
The Pulsar Sci-Fi Screenplay Contest has announced their screenplay and teleplay competition semifinalists. [Updated: 05/05/2012]
MoviePoet Announces March Short Script Winners
MJ Hermanny's Left Or Right Old Chum? has been named the 1st Place Winner of the March, 2012 MoviePoet.com Short Screenplay Competition. [Updated: 05/01/2012]
The-Greenlight.com Announces March Contest Winner
Stephen C. Settle's EKE'BOLOS has been named the winner of the March, 2012 The-Greenlight.com Screenplay Contest. [Updated: 04/30/2012]
Call for Entries – IFP’s Independent Film Week's Project Forum
Independent Film Week (September 16-20, 2012) is the oldest and largest forum in the U.S. for the discovery of new projects in development and new voices on the independent film scene. [Updated: 04/30/2012]
ScriptVamp Announces 2011 Feature Contest Results
The Grand Prize Winners in all genres have been announced for the 2011 ScriptVamp Dream Quest Feature Screenwriting Competition. [Updated: 04/30/2012]
Nicholl Fellowship Deadline Approaching
The regular deadline to submit entries for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Nicholl Fellowships is Tuesday, May 1, 2012. [Updated: 04/27/2012]
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WinningScripts: ScriptLinks
Through Enemy Lines
Based on the true account of an American Officer's harrowing existence working his way through the retreating German Army in order to get home.
Author: Douglas Strait
Genre: Drama,Action-Adventure,Historical
Enter, Raven
A widowed store detective hires an unassuming Vietnamese girl that turns out to be a partner in a Ninja-for-hire team who helps him unravel an insidious plot to steal the store's jewel supply
Author: Douglas Strait
Genre: Drama,Thriller,Action-Adventure
The Girl In The Cabin
A lonely teenager girl befriends a young woman held captive in a cabin by a demented recluse and must find a way for both of them to escape.
Author: Douglas Strait
Genre: Drama,Thriller
Saving Nikki
A little girl kidnapped by a serial child killer must find a way to save herself and others who fall victim.
Author: Douglas Strait
Genre: Drama,Thriller,Action-Adventure
The Ink Is Black
A rocky friendship between a mischievous white girl and a black girl who has moved in next door is marred by racial violence that erupts around them.
Author: Douglas Strait
Genre: Drama,Comedy
Sabertooth
A clutzy female writer participates in deer hunting to research an article on outdoorsmen but is is drawn into the hunt for a sabertooth tiger stalking human prey.
Author: Douglas Strait
Genre: Action-Adventure,Sci-Fi,Horror
Sandwich Generation
A Korean adoptee, and his white long-time girlfriend, end up having both their fathers move in with them, hers because he's a compulsive gambler, his because he's a pack rat whose fifth wife threw him out; while the couple's garage keeps getting broken into by an at-risk African American boy who finds a box of porn magazines inside.
Author: Patricia Fox
Genre: Comedy,Family
Dead Enders
(Romantic Comedy/Black Comedy) Two near-death survivors join together to kill themselves in order to return to heaven -- but suicide proves more difficult than anticipated, especially when they fall in love.
Author: Brent Hartinger
Genre: Comedy,Romantic Comedy,Romance
Morning Glory
During the Great Depression in the Pacific Northwest, two men working for a logging company risk their lives and everything they hold dear when union activists attempt to organize timber workers against the violent opposition of the owners and their henchmen.
Author: Jon Christopher
Genre: Drama,Action-Adventure,Historical
The Bottle Imp (aka: The Imp Rules)
In 1890 a young Hawaiian sailor buys a hellish bottle that grants wishes.
Author: Gered Beeby
Genre: Action-Adventure,Fantasy,Supernatural
