Script Pipeline First Look Project
Script Pipeline First Look
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2633 Lincoln Blvd. #701
Santa Monica, CA 90405
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entry@scriptpipeline.com
Contact: Matt Misetich, Contest Director
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Objective
To discover innovative, marketable, high-concept projects for studio-level development, including feature screenplays, TV material, and media content.
Deadline/Entry Fees
Deadline | Date Days till: |
Entry Fee |
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Earlybird | June 20, 2024 | $45 |
Regular | September 30, 2024 | $50 |
Extended | October 30, 2024 1 |
$60 |
WinningScripts Pro 10% Off Coupon
Notification: December 15, 2024
Rules
We accept completed scripts that fall into the following categories:
- Studio-level feature screenplays (must be action/adventure, comedy, drama, horror/thriller, or sci-fi/fantasy)
- Original teleplays; any genre, cable or network
If submitting a pitch only, a 1-2 page synopsis or full treatment is acceptable. Entries can be submitted into more than one category for separate entry fees. Animation is allowed for any category, including Media. Please review the rules and restrictions below to avoid disqualification.
- The script is not currently under a representation, option, or purchase agreement.
- Entries in the screenwriting genre categories must be intended for a studio market.
- Writers who have sold, optioned, or produced scripts in the past are eligible; however, the material submitted to First Look must not have been produced as a feature or TV series. There are otherwise no restrictions on amateur or professional status. The First Look Project is open to writers of all levels.
- Preference may be given to material that has not seen wide circulation.
- The material is wholly original, or you retain the rights to the work submitted and can submit proof of such.
Awards
Screenplay
Winners (4):- $10,000 awarded. $2,500 to the winner of each genre category (Action & Sci-Fi, Comedy, Drama, Horror & Thriller)
- Circulation to select production and management companies for first look; expanded circulation afterward
Runners-up (4, at least one in each category):
The Screenplay winners and runners-up receive:
- Long-term facilitation to Script Pipeline's industry network of producers, agents, and managers seeking features.
- Development assistance from Script Pipeline's execs on both the screenplay and pitch
- Additional script reviews and consideration of other material for industry exposure
- Invitations to private events and Symposium panels hosted by Pipeline
TV Pilot
Winners (2):
- $5,000 awarded total. $2,500 to the winner of each category (Hour and Half-Hour)
- Circulation to select production and management companies for first look; expanded circulation afterward
Runners-up (2; one in each category)
The TV Pilot winners and runners-up receive:
- Long-term facilitation to Script Pipeline's industry network of producers, agents, and managers seeking original pilots and new TV writer clients.
- Development assistance from Script Pipeline's execs on the pilot and series pitch or bible
- Additional script reviews and consideration of other material for industry exposure
- Invitations to private events and Symposium panels hosted by Pipeline
Script Pipeline First Look
Contact
2633 Lincoln Blvd. #701
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Web:
Click here
Email:
entry@scriptpipeline.com
Contact: Matt Misetich, Contest Director
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Script Pipeline First Look Project
Contact
2633 Lincoln Blvd. #701
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Web:
Click here
Email:
entry@scriptpipeline.com
Contact: Matt Misetich, Contest Director
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Contest News
Script Pipeline Names First Look Winners
Script Pipeline has announced the winners and finalists of their 2015 First Look Project, a genre-specific competition searching for studio-level material and original TV pilots.
Selected scripts:
SCREENWRITING
Action / Adventure
Bury Your Dead by Rick McGovern - Winner
Zero Days by Ilan Benjamin - Finalist
Comedy
Whoever She Is by Josh Staman - Winner
Dirt Brown and the Seven Laborers by Michael Cummings - Finalist
Sluts by Eric Bergemann - Finalist
Horror / Thriller
The Gates by Laura West - Winner
The Aberrant by Kevin Luu & Kelly Luu - Finalist
Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Skyhook by Nicole Eilers & Michael Eilers - Winner
The Lazarus Effect by Graham Parke - Finalist
Stranded by David Hogan & Frank D'Angeli - Finalist
TELEPLAY
Sugar Land by RB Ripley - Winner
Across the Line by Heidi Putallaz - Finalist
Bitter Ghosts by Bradley Martocello - Finalist
Funderland by Sasha Perl-Raver - Finalist
Hosers by Jacob Isser - Finalist
The Lucky Ones by Victoria Arevalos - Finalist
ADAPTATION
Wonderland by Daniel Baig - Winner
By Noble Means by Stephen Barber - Finalist
MEDIA
Dream Writers - Winner
Created by Nathan Bach, Dalton Lilley, Shea Castle, & Ben Owen
Directed by Nathan Bach & Dalton Lilley
Written by Ben Owen
Selfers - Finalist
Written and Directed by Michele Bizzi
All writers receive consultation and development assistance, in addition to long-term industry circulation. The 2016 season will open April 1st.
Updated: 03/25/2016
Script Pipeline First Look Project
Contact
2633 Lincoln Blvd. #701
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Web:
Click here
Email:
entry@scriptpipeline.com
Contact: Matt Misetich, Contest Director
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