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Shore Scripts TV Pilot Contest

Shore Scripts Pilot

Contact

171 Pier Avenue #145
Santa Monica, CA 90405-5363

Web:
https://www.shorescripts.com/tv/
Email:
contact@shorescripts.com

Contact: Justine Owens, Director of Contests

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Feedback: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
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Objective

EMMY & BAFTA Judges will decide this year’s Winners. Guaranteed Industry Meetings & Mentorships + Cash Prizes. Writer Development Program for Winners & Finalists.

The Shore Scripts TV Pilot Contest is for screenwriters who are looking to get staffed on TV shows and have their pilots picked up by production companies. Many contests will quickly move on after announcing the placings. Not us. We are constantly getting each year's top scripts out to the industry and creating real and tangible opportunities and successes for our writers.

GUARANTEED INDUSTRY MEETINGS

This year, as well as the industry connections we create from our Writer Development Program, the following members of our Industry Roster have already signed up to meet with writers of one-hour and half-hour pilots. Show More

Deadline/Entry Fees

Expired. Previous Deadline: 06/28/2024

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Notification: October 7th, 2024.

Rules

* ½-Hour Pilots should be within 5-30 Pages. 1-Hour Pilots should be within 40-70 Pages.

* Writers can exceed the recommended limits by up to 30 pages, with an additional fee of $1 per page.

* We accept submissions for ongoing shows and limited series. Web Series and animations are accepted.

* Web Series should be submitted to the ½-Hour TV Pilot Contest category.

* Please only enter the first episode of your TV series or your series Pilot.

* Shore Scripts only accepts electronic entries.

* Writers from all countries are welcome to enter. All scripts must be written in English.

* The script must be the writer’s original work. Adaptations are accepted but the writer must own all copyright. At no point will Shore Scripts ever have any rights over your work.

* All ages are welcome.

* Each writer, or writing team, may not have earned more than $50,000 in screenwriting fees in the preceding 18 months. This clause is in place to help us support emerging talent. (Contest and Fellowship awards and writing fees received outside of fiction screenwriting do not count toward this total).

* Please only include the Script Title on the cover page.

* You may enter a newer draft of an already submitted script. There will be a small additional fee as the script will be reread. You may re-enter your script through our resubmission page.

* A writer can enter as many scripts in as many categories as they wish.

* If a script is optioned or purchased during the competition, then it will no longer be eligible for the contest.

* Scripts should be formatted at size 12 Courier.

* We prefer scripts to be submitted as a PDF file.

* We accept all genres. It’s absolutely fine if your script is a combination of multiple genres or sub-genres. If that’s the case, use the Coverfly Genre dropdown to indicate the main genre on your submission, and make a note of other Genres, and any other information you feel will be relevant to the reader in the Comment to Reader field.

* The winners consent to Shore Scripts using their name, script title, and any other relevant information for promotional purposes on their website. This will be used to inform other contestants and the media of the results.

* If Shore Scripts helps a writer gain representation, option, sell, or have his/her screenplay produced, then we are entitled to state this on our website and any other platform, whenever we see fit.

* Shore Scripts staff and associates are unable to enter.

* The decision of Shore Scripts is final. By applying to this contest each participant agrees to hold Shore Scripts, our judges, and sponsors immune from any competition disputes, claims, liabilities, and expenses.

* By entering Shore Scripts, you authorize us to use any trusted third-party online, cloud-based, and email services and databases for hosting, managing, and/or sending/transmitting your submission file(s).

* If we see fit, we can extend the final deadline for the competition. (Please note that this has never yet happened).

FOR ALL THE RULES & FAQ: https://www.shorescripts.com/rules-faq/#tv-rules

Awards

* Guaranteed Meetings for this year’s Winners. This year the following members of our Industry Roster have signed up to meet with writers of one-hour and half-hour pilots based in the U.S.A., Sugar 23, WPA, Stagecoach, and Epi Center.

For writers in the UK and Europe: Lookout Point, Elation Pictures, and Wildcard Films

* All of our Winners and Finalists have the opportunity to participate in our Writer Development Program receiving one-to-one support from our Writer Development Manager who will send out scripts to our roster of over 300 Managers, Agents, Producers, and Directors. This bespoke and personal approach to script circulation, built on knowing what our roster members are looking for, and what our writers wish to achieve, is what makes Shore Scripts stand out from the crowd, and has enabled us to help launch the careers of over 100 screenwriters to date.

* 1-Hour & ½-Hour Grand Prize Winners - receive $2,500 each.

Both of our 1hr and 1/2hr Grand Prize Winners will win a call with SEAN CHARLES - Development & Production Manager at AMC Networks

Our 1hr Grand Prize Winner will also win a call with John Papsidera CSA, the 2x Emmy-Winning Casting Director of YELLOWSTONE, WEST WORLD, and OPPENHEIMER.

Our ½hr Grand Prize Winner will also win a call with Henry Russell Bergstein CSA, the Emmy-Nominated Casting Director of BLACK MIRROR, and SUCCESSION.

Mentors will read your script and discuss it with you, imparting expert advice on how to best position yourself to take the next step in your screenwriting career.

Plus, both Grand Prize Winners will receive a free call with Save The Cat’s Master Cat Team to discuss the craft.

* 1-Hour & ½-Hour 2nd Place Winners – receive $500 each.

All four (4) of our Winners will also receive four (4) months of free InkTip Pro membership & the opportunity to receive free one-to-one career advice from InkTip's staff.

* Top 10 Finalists in each category will have the opportunity to join our private alumni Facebook community where they can network with other winners, readers, and members of the Shore Scripts team, and our directors' roster and take part in exclusive live events and access specially provided learning materials.

Placing in Shore Scripts contests will boost your rating on Coverfly’s Red List. At the end of 2023, over 100 scripts by Shore Scripts writers were listed in Coverfly's Top 10%.

Plus, every writer who enters will receive a FREE 18-page booklet on HOW TO GET YOUR SCREENPLAY PRODUCED.

TO ENTER THE CONTEST GO TO: http://www.shorescripts.com/tv/

Shore Scripts Pilot

Contact

171 Pier Avenue #145
Santa Monica, CA 90405-5363

Web:
https://www.shorescripts.com/tv/
Email:
contact@shorescripts.com

Contact: Justine Owens, Director of Contests

Report Card

Overall: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Professionalism: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.3/5.0)
Feedback: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
Report Cards: Less than 5  
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Shore Scripts TV Pilot Contest

Contact

171 Pier Avenue #145
Santa Monica, CA 90405-5363

Web:
https://www.shorescripts.com/tv/
Email:
contact@shorescripts.com

Contact: Justine Owens, Director of Contests

Report Card

Overall: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Professionalism: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.3/5.0)
Feedback: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
Report Cards: Less than 5  
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Contest News

Shore Scripts Names TV Pilot Competition Winners

Shore Scripts has named Counterfeit, by Emily Renee, as the Grand Prize Winner of the 1-Hour Category in their TV Pilot Competition. Grand Prize Winner of the 1/2-Hour Category was Chris Watt's Southbank.

TV PILOT 1 HOUR

Grand Prize Winner
COUNTERFEIT by EMILY RENEE

When a respected art conservator is asked to identify a mysterious painting, she risks exposing her criminal past as a master art forger.

2nd Place Winner
COSA NOSTRA
by ARDEN EARNEST

In 1903 New Orleans, the bond between three Sicilian-American sisters will be tested when one of them joins the city’s mafia underworld.

FINALISTS
(alphabetical order)

Alex Blumberg
Back Fires
A crew of California prison inmates move to an isolated mountain camp to fight wildfires in exchange for their freedom – only to face hostile opposition from furious locals and within their own ranks.

Ali Wilkie
DRUNK PROPHETS
About wayward tarot card readers fighting crime in Brighton, UK – unaware that their boss is a criminal. Episode one: When a rookie tarot reader sees a death in the cards and is wrongly arrested for murder, she sets out to catch the real killer – and ends up saving his life. Cam Smith
Black Death Harlem, 1923.
After defeating the Germans abroad, a Black war hero searching for identity, must contend with the new enemies at home — Jim Crow and the Irish Mob. (Inspired by true events)

Frances Flannery
Lionheart
Haunted by her father’s suicide, a physicist travels back through time in an attempt to unravel the Cold War mystery that led to his death.

J.D. Elliby
The Kingmaker
A young African-American baseball scout puts his life on the line when he fights to sign an undiscovered pitching phenom who’s trapped in the drug game.

Kyle Vorbach
The Beginning of the End
After a whistleblower leaks dangerous and unbelievable claims that Earth is five years from obliteration, his small hometown must decide what to do with the time they have left, while the world slowly descends into chaos.

Marine Mondelot
Code Breaker
A genius but maladjusted hacker infiltrates a cutting edge AI programme run by the British Intelligence Services to foil a terrorist plot and protect his wife.

Siôn Eirug
HIRAETH
On Earth’s Evacuation Day, a mother and son are cruelly ripped apart from their family and left behind in a now terrifying lawless world. Their only hope of ever being reunited balances on a perilous journey to the last departing Ark, forcing them to re-connect with their past, and the planet they’re about to abandon forever.

TV PILOT 1/2 HOUR

Grand Prize Winner
SOUTHBANK
by CHRIS WATT

When an ex-girlfriend dies, thirty-something Ethan Evans finds he has been made her social media legacy contact and is asked by her grieving family to sort through and delete her remaining online presence, only to find, as he moves through her digital archives, that there was much he didn't understand about the woman he had always considered a six month fling.

2nd Place Winner
BUMP
by BEN S. HYLAND & KATE MCCOID

A bereaved husband and his late wife’s estranged sister embark on a tumultuous surrogacy journey, grappling with their mutual animosity and shared sorrow, as they attempt to honour the deceased's last wish for a family.

FINALISTS
(alphabetical order)

Clement Vallos
Disabled Love
Lilou (a 20-year-old woman with Down syndrome) wants to be independent and date “normal” guys. Unfortunately, her parents send her to a residence for people with mental disabilities. Bored and hopeless, she meets Billie (a 50-year-old autistic woman), who will become her coach in sexuality, independence, and feminism. Together, they will try to find their place in a society that has never really given them one.

Disha Manocha
Route 87
Neil runs a hole-in-the-wall Indian restaurant in a small town near the US-Canada border. Nursing loneliness and a recent loss, his life is turned upside town when he takes on Vik, a charming but dubious new employee. New friendships –and old secrets– are all on the table.

Katie Wells
Wonder Inc.
After a messy breakup and a minor breakdown, a woman finds herself in a place no twenty-nine year old wants to be: starting over.

Lena Reibstein
No Worries If Not!
Dawn’s ex-girlfriend Leah mysteriously disappears 24 hours after leaving Dawn’s emotionally vulnerable text on read. After Dawn receives an ominous message about Leah’s location, she starts to believe there’s more to the story than just her getting ghosted—at least she hopes so. “Fleabag” meets “Search Party”.

Madison Ramirez
JEFA
A half hour, single-cam dark comedy following recent college graduate and professional pushover, Naomi Garcia, whose barely starting life must come to a halt, as the news of her grandmother’s terminal illness forces her to return to her small hometown in California to live with her God-worshipping and Bud Light obsessed grandmother.

Miguel Rivera
ChuBBBs, Inc., "Enter the Cub"
After his sister is arrested for dealing crystal meth, C.J., a gay bear-chub baker in North Hollywood, California, joins forces with his fellow gay, bear-chub friends, Marty and Dana, and his cantankerous Republican uncle Reggie to help raise his rambunctious nephew, Rocco.

Morgan English & Topher Harless
Talk
A jaded comedienne makes an unconventional comeback to television after a publicized suicide attempt.

Sammy Sultan & Alan Niku
Ten Percent Off
As the best mohel in Los Angeles, thirty-year-old Shraga Fallas is a generational talent when it comes to circumcising Jewish boys. But when he elects to pursue a career change, he finds old habits and hefty paychecks keep him in the dick-cutting business.

Updated: 10/07/2024

Shore Scripts TV Pilot Contest

Contact

171 Pier Avenue #145
Santa Monica, CA 90405-5363

Web:
https://www.shorescripts.com/tv/
Email:
contact@shorescripts.com

Contact: Justine Owens, Director of Contests

Report Card

Overall: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Professionalism: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.3/5.0)
Feedback: 4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars4.5 stars (4.5/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
Report Cards: Less than 5  
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