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StoryPros Awards Names Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 11th Annual StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest.
Blumhouse Productions Set to Produce Script from Shore Scripts Alum Louis Ackerman
Shore Scripts has announced that their 2015 Contest Winner, Louis Ackerman, has set up his horror/thriller script, Flesh & Blood with Blumhouse Productions.
Scriptapalooza Names Fellowship Mentors
Scriptapalooza has named its industry mentors, one of whom who will provide six-months of mentorship to the winner of the Scriptapalooza Fellowship. Four other writers will receive 3-months of mentorship.
ScreenCraft Names Fellowship Semifinalists
ScreenCraft has named their Screenwriting Fellowship Semifinalists, representing approximately the top 10% of all submissions.
On Winning the Austin Film Festival Script Competition, Part II
Troy Anthony Miller shares some thoughts about what it takes to win the Austin Film Festival Script Competition ... twice!
On Winning the Austin Film Festival Script Competition, Part I
Are there actually writers out there who enter screenplay competitions thinking they might win? Because I am mostly certainly not that kind of writer.
ScreenCraft Names Sci-Fi Contest Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalists have been announced from among nearly 800 submissions to the ScreenCraft Sci-Fi Screenplay Contest.
ISA Names Fast Track Fellowship Winners
Ned Farr and Sean Collins-Smith have been named the International Screenwriters Association's Fast Track VII Fellowship Winners.
Universal Names Writers Program Participants
Universal Writers Program has announced their 2018 participants. The program is a one-year track that gives writers the opportunity to develop two feature scripts under the guidance of Universal and Focus Features production executives and producers.
Scriptapalooza Interviews Fellowship Winner
Scriptapalooza has posted an interview with their 2017 Fellowship Recipient Natasha Paris.
ScreenCraft Names 5th Annual Fellowship Quarterfinalists
ScreenCraft has announced the quarterfinalists for their 5th Annual ScreenCraft Fellowship Competition.
ScreenCraft Names Orb Media China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship Finalists
Semifinalists have been announced for the ScreenCraft/Orb Media China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship, representing approximately the top 10% of all applicants.
ScreenCraft Names Family Script Contest Winner
Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto has been named the winner of the 2017 ScreenCraft Family-Friendly Screenplay Contest. Repeatedly praised for its unique premise and strong character dynamics, it is an innovative story of a dragon who moves to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a comedian and paves the way for civil rights.
Fresh Voices Names Contest Winners
Those Who Hear by Jerome Velinsky has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2017-18 Fresh Voices Screenwriting Competition.
FilmMakers.com Names Feature Script Contest Finalists
FilmMakers has announced the finalists of the 16th Annual Filmmakers International Screenwriting Awards.
American Gem Names Short Screenplay Contest Winners
American Gem and Write Brothers have announced the winners of the 13th Annual American Gem Literary Festival. The Competition attracted a total of 1309 entries worldwide, including 1,026 short scripts, 221 short stories, 51 TV scripts, 5 treatments and 6 documentaries.
Fresh Voices Names Contest Finalists
Fresh Voices has announced their 2017-2018 contest finalists.
1st TV Script Writing Competition Names Contest Winners
Persuasion by Susan Hippen has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 3rd annual '1st TV Script Writing Competition' from FilmMakers.com.
ScreenCraft Names Cinematic Short Story Winners
Syringe-Fed Ferrets by Samuel Martin has been selected as the Grand Prize Winner of the 2017 ScreenCraft Short Story Contest. Missives From The Green Campaign by David Armstrong has been named the runner-up.
Austin Fest Announces Josephson Entertainment Screenwriting Fellowship
The Austin Film Festival has announced a partnership with producer Barry Josephson to present a Screenwriting Fellowship that will provide one-on-one mentorship in Los Angeles for two fellows – one writer or writing team with a feature script and one writer or writing team with a teleplay pilot – selected from the Final Round of this year's competition.
Poe Screenplay Contest Names Contest Winners
Karen McDermott's Custom of the Sea has been the Grand Prize Winner of the 2018 Poe Screenwriting Contest. The script, based on a true story, is about a judge who ponders a murder verdict when three sailors are imprisoned after cannibalism on a lifeboat.
Scriptapalooza Posts Interviews with TV Contest Winners
Scirptapalooza has posted video interviews with their 2018 ScriptapaloozaTV Contest Winners.
Poe Contest Names Contest Finalists
The Poe Contest has announced its 2018 screenplay finalists.
Shore Film Fund Winner
to Premier at Tribeca
Claire Fowler, the inaugural winner of the Shore Script Short Film Fund, will be premiering her winning short, Salam, at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.
Submissions Open for Stowe Story Labs
Application season to the sixth-annual Stowe Story Labs is now open. The Early Bird Application Fee is $40.
Launch Pad Names Feature Contest Winners
Brian T. Arnold's Friend of the Show has been named the Overall Winner of the 2017 Launch Pad Feature Screenplay Contest. The script is about a far-right news commentator who's kidnapped by a right-wing extremist group who want him to help lead their movement, not knowing that his television persona is a sham. When he discovers their plan to assassinate the president, he realizes he is the only one who can stop them.
ScreenCraft Names Film Production Fund Winners
Leading development consultancy and screenplay discovery platform ScreenCraft and Santa Monica-based media financier BondIt Media Capital have announced two recipients of their Fall 2017 Film Production Fund. The first is documentary project Karachi’s Unknown Dead, conceived by Samira Shackle, Owen Kean and Haya Fatima Iqbal. Innovative and impactful, the film is set in Karachi, Pakistan’s troubled, throbbing economic epicenter. It will center on the Edhi Foundation, which runs clinics, an ambulance service, a graveyard, and the city’s only functioning morgue and is the largest voluntary social welfare organization in the world. Per Shackle, Kean and Iqbal, “Its workers care for residents of Karachi from birth until death and after as they struggle against the dual pressures of poverty and violence. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the care they provide for these neglected dead: Edhi workers collect the bodies, try to track down their relatives, and ultimately bury them, according a respect in death that many did not have in life.”
CineStory Names 2018 TV/Digital Fellowship Winner
Naomi Iwamoto has been named the winner of 2018 CineStory TV/Digital Fellowship.
Fresh Voices Names Semifinalists
Fresh Voices has announced their 2017-2018 Semifinalists, the Top 100 Screenplays of their 8th Annual Screenplay Competition. Judging continues into the third round of reading. Finalists and Spotlight Award Nominees will be announced March 27th.
ScreenCraft Names Family-Friendly Semifinalists
Semifinalists have been announced for the 2017 ScreenCraft Family-Friendly Screenplay Contest. The 80 screenplays advancing to the next round represent the top 12% of submissions received.
ScreenCraft Names Film Fund Finalists
ScreenCraft has named the 25 Finalists for the Fall, 2017 ScreenCraft Film Fund.
National Screenwriters Day Names Contest Winners
Radar Contact, by Delia Colvin, has been named the First Place Winner of the National Screenwriters Day Competition.
Table Read My Screenplay Names Contest Winners
Table Read my Screenplay has named their 2018 Park City Contest Winners.
American Zoetrope Names Contest Winner and Finalists
Caroline's Wedding Easmanie Michel, France-Luce Benson, and Darcy Miller has been named the Grand Prize Winner from among 1,600 submissions to the American Zoetrope Screenwriting Competition.
ScreenCraft Names Orb Media China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalists have been announced for the second annual Orb Media China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship. Two winners who will each be offered an option fee, one of which will be at least WGA minimum (up to $13,374) against a six-figure purchase price at WGA scale contingent on production (up to $133,739 each, depending on the final budget of each film).
ScreenCraft Names Short Story Semifinalists
Semifinalists have been announced for the 2017 ScreenCraft Short Story Contest, representing the top 12 percent of submissions received.
CineStory Names All TV Contest Winners
CineStory has announced their spec and original comedy and drama contest winners.
People's Pilot Announces Contest Winners
The People's Pilot has announced their Comedy and Drama/Action Contest Winners.
Scriptapalooza Names TV Contest Winners
Scriptapalooza has named their latest Sitcom, Pilot, Reality, and 1-Hour TV Contest winners.
CineStory Names Web Series Contest Winners
Two Weeks by Melissa & Benjamin Oren has been named the winner of the 2018 TV/Digital Retreat and Fellowship Web Series Division.
Movieguide Names Kairos Contest Winners
North Star by William Gebby has been named the winner of the Kairos Prize for Beginning Screenwriters. The script is about an emotionally cold Quakeress who learns to love after she rescues an eight year-old runaway slave. The Kairos Pro Prize for Established Screenwriters has been awarded to Alexandra Boylan for her scirpt Switched, which is about a woman who is tired of turning the other cheek. When she prays that her nemesis, the Queen Bee of social media, would know what it’s like to walk a day in her shoes, her prayer is answered in an unexpected way when they switch identities.
TrackingB Names Screenplay Contest Winners
Willful Blindness, by Barbara Nunberg, has been named the winner of the winner of the 2017 TrackingB Feature Contest.
ScreenCraft Names FilmFund Semifinalists
Semifinalists have been announced for the Fall, 2017 ScreenCraft Film Competition. Fund recipients will announced on February 28th.
ScreenCraft Names Family Friendly Quarterfinalists
ScreenCraft has announced quarterfinalists from among more than 700 submissions to their 2017 Family Friendly Screenwriting Competition.
CineStory TV/Digital Names Original Drama and Comedy Semifinalists
Semifinalists have been announced for the Original Comedy and Original Drama Divisions of the 2018 CineStory TV/Digital Fellowship.
CineStory Names 2018 Finalists
CineStory has named Digital and TV Finalists in their Episodic Spec and Digital Divisions for 2018.
Fresh Voices Competition Names Quarterfinalists
Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 8th Annual Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition. Advancing screenplays represent approximately the top 25% of all submissions. Semifinalists will be announced on March 6th.
TVwriter.com Names People's Pilot Finalists
Finalists have been announced for the TVWriter.com People's Pilot Competition.
ScreenCraft Names Short Story Quarterfinalists
ScreenCraft has named quarterfinalists from among the 1,400 submissions to their 2017 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Contest. Semifinalists will be announced February 14th.
ScreenCraft Names Action/Thriller Contest Winner
Get It Together by Matthew Ryan has been selected as the Grand Prize Winner of the 2017 ScreenCraft Action & Thriller Screenplay Contest.
TVWriter.com Names People's Pilot Semifinalists
Comedy and Drama Semifinalists have been announced for the 2017 People's Pilot TV Writing Competition:
CineStory Names 2018 Digital/TV Semifinalists
CineStory has announced the Semifinalists for their 2018 Digital/TV Fellowship Competition.
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