MovieBytes® Screenwriting Contest List

Independent Horror Movie Awards

Final Deadline: Monthly.

Our mission is to help promote the criminally overlooked but creatively fertile field of indie horror by singling out top notch work with a wide variety of awards. Movies, scripts, and web series are all welcome! We give special attention to low budget films especially no budget entries! We're sick to death of the endless barrage of remakes and sequels that so clearly signaled the demise of originality in mainstream horror.

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Independent Horror Movie
Overall:		(4.0/5.0)
Professionalism:		(5.0/5.0)
Feedback:	n/a	(0.0/5.0)
Signficance:		(4.0/5.0)
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Feel The Reel International Film Festival

Final Deadline: Monthly.

Feel The Reel is a monthly international film festival founded in Glasgow, United Kingdom. FTR is not only an online film festival, but also a festival with live screenings, our friends from Bucharest ShortCut Cinefest making this possible.

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Feel The Reel
Overall:		(4.0/5.0)
Professionalism:		(5.0/5.0)
Feedback:	n/a	(0.0/5.0)
Signficance:		(2.0/5.0)
Report Cards:	1
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Mindfield Film Festival

Final Deadline: Monthly.

Mindfield showcases features, shorts and music videos by filmmakers from around the world, celebrating and supporting independent, new and alternative filmmakers not just during our annual Film Festival but throughout the year with our monthly competitions. Winners of our monthly online competition will automatically be in the official selection of our annual festival.

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Mindfield Film Festival
Overall:		(4.0/5.0)
Professionalism:		(5.0/5.0)
Feedback:		(5.0/5.0)
Signficance:		(3.5/5.0)
Report Cards:	2
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Bucharest ShortCut Cinefest

Final Deadline: Monthly.

Bucharest ShortCut Cinefest is monthly film competition focusing on international independent cinema. Our aim is to support new filmmakers and to promote the research and development of new means of expressivity through cinematography as art among diverse audiences.

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Bucharest ShortCut
Overall:		(2.0/5.0)
Professionalism:		(3.0/5.0)
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Signficance:		(2.0/5.0)
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Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards

Final Deadline: Monthly.

The Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards is an awards body dedicated to independent film. With competitions every two months and a changing judge panel of film critics, actors and filmmakers working within the industry, The Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards is dedicated to awarding films based on their originality and creativity, whilst considering their budget restrictions.

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Monkey Bread Tree
Overall:		(4.0/5.0)
Professionalism:		(5.0/5.0)
Feedback:	n/a	(0.0/5.0)
Signficance:		(2.0/5.0)
Report Cards:	1
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Golden Gateway Contest

Final Deadline: Monthly.

Break into the Chinese market! New company looking for scripts to market to Chinese film companies. No religious themes. No pornography. No excessive violence. No political themes. No teenage pregnancy. English only. Company will pay a small fee for long-term, non-exclusive rights to represent the script to the Chinese market. Sales will be negotiated separately if and when they occur.

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Golden Gateway
Overall:		(3.0/5.0)
Professionalism:		(4.0/5.0)
Feedback:		(4.0/5.0)
Signficance:		(3.0/5.0)
Report Cards:	1
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Los Angeles Film Awards (LAFA)

Final Deadline: Monthly.

Los Angeles Film Awards is an IMDb qualifying monthly film competition for filmmakers worldwide. Our mission is to promote films, and be another step up in the filmmakers' careers. Each month, our Jury will award the best films through private screenings, and make a special interview with the winner of the Best Picture award.

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Los Angeles Film Awards (LAFA)
Overall:		(1.2/5.0)
Professionalism:		(2.2/5.0)
Feedback:		(1.0/5.0)
Signficance:		(1.0/5.0)
Report Cards:	3
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Global Film Festival Awards

Final Deadline: Monthly.

We are a monthly and annual IMDb qualifying competition based in Los Angeles. We want the best worldwide film stories to promote filmmakers’ works for distributors. The GFFA is an open door for independent filmmakers. It's a special jury formed by Hollywood producers, European and international distributors to promote films and new media.

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Global Film Festival
Overall:		(2.0/5.0)
Professionalism:		(3.4/5.0)
Feedback:		(2.3/5.0)
Signficance:		(1.6/5.0)
Report Cards:	3
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SOMEDAY... Screenwriting Competition

Final Deadline: Monthly.

The SOMEDAY… Screenwriting Competition is an exciting, international, multi-genre screenwriting contest with the goal to identify the best new voices in screenwriting for film and television! From the start of our working relationship, we at Someday Productions always dreamed of having our "someday" and that is what has propelled us forward as screenwriters, filmmakers, playwrights, and authors.

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Someday
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Story Data $1K Monthly Story Challenge

Final Deadline: Monthly.

Story Data announces a screenwriting contest awarding $1K in prizes each month, for the next 12 months. From March 2019 through March 2020, writers are eligible to win prizes valued up to $1,000 (USD), sponsored in part by Final Draft, the number-one selling screenwriting application in the world. Aspiring screenwriters whose scripts are hosted on Story Data’s cloud-based platform will automatically be eligible.

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Story Data
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Monthly Writing Madness

Final Deadline: Monthly.

To create a short screenplay based on an image or quote. This is meant to inspire and help create new stories for screenwriters. The low entry fee is also used to donate to the International Child Art Foundation, a charity to help keep art alive for future generations.

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Monthly Writing Madness
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Miami Screenplay Awards

Final Deadline: Monthly.

WELCOME TO THE MIAMI SCREENPLAY AWARDS! We are an international screenwriting contest committed to discovering, cultivating, and endorsing talented new screenwriters from around the world. Our mission is to champion the best unknown screenwriters and help them reach their maximum potential on their way to a thriving career in the film industry.

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Miami Screenplay Awards
Overall:		(1.7/5.0)
Professionalism:		(3.3/5.0)
Feedback:		(2.7/5.0)
Signficance:		(1.1/5.0)
Report Cards:	4
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Bridge Fest

Final Deadline: Monthly.

In its 15th edition Bridge Fest has moved online. We have monthly competitions in short and feature screenplay category for all genres, virtual pitch category and Annual winners will be listed on IMDB. Bridge Fest is the premium IMBD approved festival since 2006 with screenplay competition and FilmFreeway Gold festival https://filmfreeway.com/BridgeFest.

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Bridge Fest
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SWN Screenplay Competition

Final Deadline: Monthly.

Screenwriters Network host a quarterly screenplay competition to give exposure to those who are ready for the industry. We have built up a large network of production companies, producers and executives. As well as giving the winners exposure, they are set to win many other great prizes. Not only do we provide value for the winners, all of our entrants receive the following: Every script submitted gets registered* with SWN for free.

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SWN Screenplay Competition
Overall:		(3.0/5.0)
Professionalism:		(4.0/5.0)
Feedback:	n/a	(0.0/5.0)
Signficance:		(2.0/5.0)
Report Cards:	1
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Wiki: The World's FASTEST Screenplay Contest

Final Deadline: Monthly.

Is your script ready to show to agents...producers...studios? Find out fast! A new contest every 30 days! You don't need to have a finished script... Just 10 pages...or a Treatment! When you enter... Your pages will be read by established Hollywood professionals, including: Studio readers • Agents • Producers WGA writers • DGA directors • SAG performers Every entry receives a 1-10 page studio-level professional analysis covering the ten major elements of a professional screenplay: Concept • Dialogue • Structure Character • Tone • Pacing Conflict • Structure • Hook Market Potential Every entry receives Transparent Professional Studio Scoring with a choice of 3 Levels of Fast, Ethical Written Feedback.

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Wiki Contest
Overall:		(1.0/5.0)
Professionalism:		(4.0/5.0)
Feedback:		(1.0/5.0)
Signficance:		(1.0/5.0)
Report Cards:	1
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