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Final Deadline: 06/20/2013
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: New in 2013, CWA also brings an exciting production opportunity to the Grand Prize Winner. This year’s winner will have a short version of their script produced by The MIX, and the film will then get a guaranteed premiere at the Richmond International Film Festival.
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Final Deadline: 07/31/2013
We're here to promote the art of screenwriting and filmmaking in the world of sports and competition.
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Final Deadline: 08/20/2013
The New York Screenplay Contest is a global screenwriting contest designed to launch careers and provide recognition and network opportunities to the world's best new voices in screenwriting for film and television. The New York Screenplay Contest awards its winners with cash, prizes, sponsorship packages, and meetings with leading industry professionals.
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Final Deadline: 09/06/2013
Open Curtain would like to read stories from you. We know there are good writers that have an interesting story to tell the world, and would like to see their story come to life. This is where we come in to help bring your story to life. We’re looking for the top 50 stories (Feature or Short) to be in our contest. The 1st and 2nd winners will win cash prize and a possibility to have his or her story put into our production.
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Final Deadline: 09/30/2013
Writing a story is an act of creation, an illuminating feat unto itself, regardless of whether it ever appears on the silver screen. This contest means to recognize the creative efforts of writers who have endowed their work with spirit, vigor, and a spark of intrigue.
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Final Deadline: 09/30/2013
Storytelling is your passion. Ours is amplifying your voice. The World Series of Screenwriting is dedicated to recognizing and advancing the work of the world's most talented and compelling storytellers in film and television screenwriting. We recognize and award the work of the best new voices in screenwriting from around the world. The World Series of Screenwriting is thrilled to share your unsurpassed commitment toward getting your talent recognized and your stories heard.
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Final Deadline: 11/07/2013
The 2013 Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition has an all-star lineup of industry judges and even greater opportunities for our winners to launch their career! Acclaimed Hollywood director Joel Schumacher (St. Elmo's Fire, Time To Kill, Batman Forever, 8MM, Phone Booth, Tigerland, Phantom of the Opera, Trespass, House of Cards) and top literary manager Evan Cavic (Principato-Young Ent.
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Final Deadline: 11/11/2013
The Cinequest Screenwriting Competition continues to empower global connectivity between screenwriters, filmmakers, producers, and innovators. Now in its tenth year, the competition retains a stellar reputation that hinges in no small part on its knack for exhibiting a compelling mix of stories from around the globe and providing opportunities for writers to tap into a network recognized for accelerating the drive towards success.
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Final Deadline: 11/15/2013
Founded by a writer, the BlueCat Screenplay Competition’s passionate commitment to develop and discover the unknown screenwriter continues to define our work today. We provide each writer who enters BlueCat two written analyses, ensuring each entry is reviewed by two readers, while supporting screenwriters of all levels and stages of development with the constructive feedback all writers require.
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Final Deadline: 11/15/2013
As a distinguished international film competition, the London Film Awards celebrates and awards independent film's best and brightest talent spanning the globe. The London Film Awards is a medium for both fresh and masterful talent to have their extraordinary work recognized and honored before their industry peers.
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Final Deadline: 11/15/2013
To ignite writers' careers and connect them with our vast network of top level production companies, agencies and managers.
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Final Deadline: 11/30/2013
In Hollywood your script has about a One in a Million chance of being produced ... That sucks! At YouPix.org your script has a One in a Thousand chance of being produced ... That sucks less. No Script or Short Film competition offers you as much as YouPix.org. Our winners make a movie. An actual movie – you don't get a trophy, prize or a monetary gesture that gets you no further in your career.
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Final Deadline: 12/31/2013
The Beverly Hills Screenplay Contest is an international screenwriting competition dedicated to discovering and showcasing the work of the world’s best new emerging screenwriters in the city globally recognized as the center of the movie and television industries. We celebrate and share your passion for storytelling by helping to advance the careers of talented screenwriters, connecting our winners with working industry producers, agents, managers, and development executives.
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Final Deadline: 03/31/2014
The American Movie Awards were originally founded in 1980 with winners such as Meryl Streep, Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, and Steven Spielberg. The event's mission is to award and recognize the very best in independent filmmaking and screenwriting and to help launch the careers of talented new filmmakers and screenwriters. The American Movie Awards have reemerged to become one of indie film's most respected symbols of success.
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Final Deadline: Last day of each month
A monthly competition for members of Talentville.com who have uploaded full length, drama or sitcom screenplays at the site. Script are reviewed and rated via a peer review system among the members, with the top three rated scripts becoming a finalist at the end of each month. All finalists receive professional coverage by Scriptapalooza, with the order of finish being judged solely by them.
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Final Deadline: Monthly on the last day of each month.
Our goal is threefold: help writers improve their craft, celebrate our best work, and connect writers and their scripts with filmmakers.
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Final Deadline: HOP is run three times (sessions) per year, with entry deadlines on the third Saturday of January, May and September.
Hollywood Outreach Program (HOP) provides access to enlisted production companies, agents, and managers for feature film and movie of the week screenplays (entries) that are recommended by the program. All entries receive at least two studio-style comprehensive written evaluations (coverage) in any one session. The program's objective is to help writers improve their craft with a goal of obtaining representation, selling or optioning their work, and/or landing a writing assignment.
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Final Deadline: ON GOING DEADLINE. Monthly event and contest.
WILDsound Monthly Reading Series offers screenwriters at all levels the fantastic opportunity of hearing their scripts read out loud using Top Professional Actors in front of a sold out crowd of their peers (over 100 people). Then after the script is read, they get to hear feedback from a selected Industry Professional who will moderate the event and will facilitate a Q&A with the audience.
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Final Deadline: Bi-monthly contest. Submissions will end every final day of the second month.
What makes the Big Idea Writing Challenge unique? We are going to make your idea BIG! If you have the talent, we have the connections and extensive marketing expertise that will give you the chance you're looking for. We will showcase your Idea to 19 PRODUCTION COMPANIES affiliated with BIG IDEA WRITERS CHALLENGE! Big Idea Writer's Challenge is a bi-monthly writing competition to accommodate those who just have a personal story to tell or a Hollywood blockbuster idea, entries are accepted in many formats ranging from one-page essays to TV.
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Final Deadline: 20th of every month
The mission of The-GreenLight.com is to help new and veteran writers develop their skills, and contacts by providing articles, interviews with industry professionals and giving them exposure to our readers and contacts from over 34 countries.
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Final Deadline: 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST) on the last day of each month.
This contest has been designed to test the mettle of the 1st 10 pages, of any script, in any genre. We're looking for a tightly written, fluently paced opening that whets our appetite and leaves us longing for more... Sounds easy right? Can you prove your script has what it takes? Enter if you dare... One unique feature of this competition is that we provide constructive feedback for every entrant.
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