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Slamdance Screenplay Competition
Slamdance
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5634 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
323-466-1786 (voice)
323-466-1784 (fax)
Web:
http://www.slamdance.com
Email:
submissions@slamdance.com
Contact: Clementine Leger , Festival Manager
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Objective
The Slamdance Screenplay Competition is dedicated to discovering and nurturing emerging screenwriters. Since 1997, the competition has established a strong track record for introducing writers to members of the entertainment industry who have gone on to produce, option, and represent submitted work. Like the Film Festival, the Screenplay Competition is a place for new, bold, and raw voices. We are looking for scripts that take risks, refuse compromise, and go places where Hollywood hacks fear to tread.
Recent success stories include Tyler Tice, whose 2018 Grand Prize-winning horror feature Day Shift was released in 2022 as a Netflix original film starring Jamie Foxx. Day Shift became the most watched film in the world during the third week of August 2022. Show More
Deadline/Entry Fees
| Deadline | Date Days till: |
Entry Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Early | April 17, 2024 1 |
$65 (feature) |
| Regular | June 15, 2024 59 |
$75 |
| Late | July 19, 2024 93 |
$85 |
| Final | July 26, 2024 100 |
$95 |
See website for other long feature, TV pilot and short script entry fees.
Every entrant will receive short feedback from one of our readers. It will include a genre suggestion, a logline, and a paragraph outlining the strengths and weaknesses of your screenplay. The goal of the feedback is to provide you with short & sweet constructive criticism of your work.
Notification: October 27, 2024
Rules
Please visit website for rules and guidelines.Awards
- A total of $18,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to the winners this year.
- The Grand Prize winner will receive $10,000 in cash.
- The winners of the Feature, Horror, TV Pilot, and Short categories will each receive $2,000 in cash.
- The top three screenwriters in each category will receive prize packages that include Festival Passes good for all screenings and parties at the next Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah
- The winning Horror and Feature screenplays will receive $5,000 in legal services from Pierce Law Group, LLP.
- The top three screenwriters in each category will be included in the upcoming Slamdance Film Festival program which is distributed to industry professionals in Park City and year round.
- One entry from the competition will be awarded the Slamdance Screenplay Mentorship Award, consisting of personal mentorship through Slamdance's alumni network and screenwriting consultants. This includes an in-depth coverage report, an action plan for next draft development, further review of subsequent drafts, support in preparing a pitch deck, and best efforts in helping get the finished work produced through Slamdance's alumni network.
- Production companies, studios, top agencies, and managers request to read our top scripts each year.
Slamdance
Contact
5634 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
323-466-1786 (voice)
323-466-1784 (fax)
Web:
http://www.slamdance.com
Email:
submissions@slamdance.com
Contact: Clementine Leger , Festival Manager
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Slamdance Screenplay Competition
Contact
5634 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
323-466-1786 (voice)
323-466-1784 (fax)
Web:
http://www.slamdance.com
Email:
submissions@slamdance.com
Contact: Clementine Leger , Festival Manager
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Contest News
Slamdance Skyline Screenplay Award Winner Announcement at IFP
Slamdance and Andrew Lauren Productions announced the winner of the Skyline Screenplay Award for the best story set in a metropolitan city at a staged reading performed by the Theater for the New City. Andrew B. Smith took the top prize for his work, “Hay’s Code,” an ensemble comedy about a gay director in 1934 Hollywood who must make a gay movie without revealing the film's true content or, naturally, his own sexuality. An after party followed the reading at the Lit Lounge, sponsored by Stella Artois.
“While many prohibitions of the Hays Code seem ridiculous today, its intolerance of homosexuals is more relevant than ever... To get belly laughs, you have to go for the throat,” says Skyline Screenwriting Award Winner Andrew B. Smith.
Members of the Theater for the New City, including director Lissa Moira and Executive Director of the theater, Crystal Field, read the work of the top three finalists for the Skyline Screenplay Award for Best City Story, and Andrew Lauren Productions Chairmen & CEO, Andrew Lauren, was on hand for the culmination of the ceremony to present the winner with a $1,000 check, Final Draft Pro screenwriting software and a subscription to Scr(i)pt Magazine.
“The staged reading proved to be ideal for Andrew Lauren Productions and Slamdance to showcase the work of three talented new screenwriters with the help of a passionate New York theater group for an audience of IFP market-goers,” says competition Director John Stoddard.
“We are proud to work with Slamdance in an effort to recognize new and exciting voices in screenwriting,” adds Andrew Lauren.
The 2006 Slamdance Film Festival will be held in Park City, Utah January 19-27, 2006. Slamdance has successfully established year-round ventures including the Screenplay Competition, Best Of Screenings in the U.S., Festival events in China and Poland, the Anarchy Online Film competition, the Dirty Dozen DVD Series (currently in its 7th volume), and short film productions dubbed $99 Specials. In 2004, Slamdance launched a teleplay competition in conjunction with fox21, a Games Competition, and the Slamdance Media Group; a company comprised of distribution and talent-management units
Andrew Lauren Productions is an independent film production company based in New York City. Their first feature, G, starring Richard T. Jones (Collateral), Blair Underwood (Madea’s Family Reunion) and Andre Royo (HBO’s The Wire) opened in limited release on September 16th, and rolls out nationally in late October. They also executive produced Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale starring Jeff Daniels (Pleasantville), Laura Linney (Mystic River) and Jessie Eisenberg (Roger Dodger), which opens in select theaters October 5th.
Updated: 10/19/2005
Slamdance Screenplay Competition
Contact
5634 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
323-466-1786 (voice)
323-466-1784 (fax)
Web:
http://www.slamdance.com
Email:
submissions@slamdance.com
Contact: Clementine Leger , Festival Manager
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