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Shore Scripts Feature Screenplay Contest

Shore Scripts Feature

Contact

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

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

Contact: Justine Owens, Director of Contests

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Overall: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
Professionalism: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.5/5.0)
Feedback: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.7/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (3.9/5.0)
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Objective

Guaranteed Option Prize, 1-2-1 Judges' Feedback. Cash Prizes + Industry Meetings. We've launched screenwriting careers at Sony, Blumhouse, Film4, & Hulu.

For over a decade, Shore Scripts has been shining a light on new screenwriting talent. This year we are presenting a unique opportunity for feature writers to go behind the scenes and start developing their screenplay with the support of our award-winning Judges.

Feature film production is a massive engine, made up of many moving parts and engaging the creative talents of a huge number of individuals, but as the well-known phrase goes, “It all starts with the script.”

NEW FOR 2024 – A GUARANTEED PAID OPTION PRIZE with Showdown Productions!

Showdown Productions has come on board to select and sign a Paid Option Agreement with one of Shore’s 2024 feature writers, working with the writer to develop their project before taking it out to market. Show More

Deadline/Entry Fees

Expired. Previous Deadline: 08/30/2024

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Notification: December 9th, 2024.

Rules

* Scripts should ideally be within 80-120 pages. Writers can exceed the recommended limits by up to 30 pages, with an additional fee of $1 per page.

* To be eligible for consideration for the Guaranteed Option Prize you must select the +Showdown entry when submitting your Feature screenplay.

* Shore Scripts only accepts electronic entries.

* Screenwriters 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.

* We accept animations.

* 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.

* 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).

* You may enter a newer draft of an already submitted script. There is a small additional fee as the script will be reread. You may re-enter your script through our Resubmission page: https://www.shorescripts.com/resubmissions/

* 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.

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

* 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).

RULES, FAQ’s & MORE INFO CAN BE SEEN HERE: https://www.shorescripts.com/rules-faq/#f-rules

Awards

NEW FOR 2024 – A GUARANTEED PAID OPTION PRIZE with Showdown Productions!

Showdown Productions is a Los Angeles-based Production Company who have produced multiple feature films, including Blumhouse’s TORN HEARTS, FOLLOW ME & SAFER AT HOME. Showdown will select and sign a Paid Option Agreement with one of Shore’s 2024 feature writers, working with the writer to develop their project before taking it out to market. This will be a career-changing experience for an upcoming writer that will enable them to gain experience developing their work with a top production company.

Showdown will be presented with a shortlist of the strongest screenplays for them to choose the winner. To be eligible for consideration for the Guaranteed Option Prize you must select the +Showdown entry when submitting your Feature screenplay.

Our prestigious panel of Oscar & BAFTA winning Judges (https://www.shorescripts.com/judges/#feature) will decide this year’s five (5) Winners.

* Grand Prize Winner - $5,000.

- Writer Development Calls with our Judges, Antony Johnston (ATOMIC BLONDE), Alayna Glasthal (M3GAN), Mitchell Altieri (THE HAMILTONS), Alex Ranarivelo (THE RIDE), and Manager Alec Ring at Cinetic whose clients include the writers of BOOKSMART, MOONLIGHT, and PARASITE.

- A complimentary enrollment in a 10-week or shorter screenwriting course at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.

* 2nd Place Winner - $1000.

* 3rd Place Winner - $500.

Plus, all FIVE (5) of our Winners will win 6 months of free access to the Stage 32 Writer's Room program.

In 2024 all of our 5 Winners and Top 20 Finalists will have the opportunity to participate in our Writer Development Program receiving one-to-one support from our Writer Development Manager, sending out their scripts to our roster of over 300 Managers, Agents, Producers, and Directors (https://www.shorescripts.com/industry-roster/). This bespoke and personal approach to script circulation built on enduring, knowing what our roster members are looking for right now, 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.

And 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.

Take a look at our alumni and see how placing in Shore Scripts contests can kick-start your screenwriting career: www.shorescripts.com/success-stories/.

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.

Shore Scripts Feature

Contact

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

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

Contact: Justine Owens, Director of Contests

Report Card

Overall: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
Professionalism: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.5/5.0)
Feedback: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.7/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (3.9/5.0)
Report Cards: 30    
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Shore Scripts Feature Screenplay Contest

Contact

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

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

Contact: Justine Owens, Director of Contests

Report Card

Overall: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
Professionalism: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.5/5.0)
Feedback: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.7/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (3.9/5.0)
Report Cards: 30    
Have you entered?
Submit a Report card

Contest News

Short Scripts Names Semifinalists

Shore Scripts has announced the semifinalists in their Feature, TV Pilot and Short Categories. Winners will be announced November 10th.

FEATURES (45 Semi-Finalists)
Amanda Keener, Magic Research Society
Amy Cornforth, Neptune's Stone
Ashley James Louis, A Long Shadow at Noon
Ben Browne, Credence Falls
Brian Kazmarck, Diary of a Dead Man
Bruce Branit, Loop Thief
CHARLOTTE Cameron, Kill or Cure
Craig Rickard, DRY
Dave Thomas, Nell Thomas, Prophesy
David Lyon, The Game of Time
David Snee, Remember the Fire
Douglas Spaltro, STILL, MAX
Ed Wiles, The Tower
Finley Mulligan, Electronic Sounds from a Still Heart
Gary Makin, Facsimile
Gemma Addy, Small Town
Graham Leverton, Land of Blood
Grace Cleere, Lost Giant
Guy Polin, Hotel Flughafen
Iannis Aliferis, Mary and Dionysus
James Stewart, Foxed
Jason Harang, Sorry for Dying
Jason McBeth, TORCH
John Dummer, Forget-Me-Nots
John Fairhurst, Spark
Jordan Prosser, Hungry Man
Julian Chomet, FRED PERRY
Karen Farmer, Betrand The Terrible
KEVIN Dembinsky, Nudie Mag
Krystyna Łoboda, Schicchi
Lisanne Sartor, Six Letter Word
Matt Hubsher, Signal
Matt Wedge, The Killing Moon
Megan Williams, Joe Newkirk, Two Hours From
Nicole Jones, Shrimp
Paul Mahoney, Nora, Netball, and Ninjas
Pete Simmons-Hayes, Internet Friends
Philip Buckley, The Things He Sees
Russell DeGrazier, "MAD Boy, I'll Blow Your Mind, Be Mine"
Stacy Hullah, The Remnants of Lucy Jordan
Stephanie Ginger, Valentine
Tim Brothers, Six Seconds
Timothy Burnham, Christol Ware, The Diary of Roman Thurgood
Tricia Cerrone, The Skeleton Watch
Zac Kish, Fuck You, John

TV PILOT (41 Semi-Finalists) (both 1hr & 1/2 hr)
Alex Williams, Playing the Palace
Allison Osborne, Family Secrets 'Pilot'
Amanda Keener, Madam Caraveil's Caravan of Curiosities
Amanda Prentiss, Lyre
ANDREW ENINGER, Bad Gays
Auryn Lieb, DISCONNECTED
Ben DeLoose, Matthew Chilelli, Leviathan
Bob Bowse, Inside
Carlo CARERE, Erin Carere, DARK HORIZONS
Christopher Brandt, Blue Highway
Craig Page, parts
Douglas Spaltro, WASHED
Dustin Drye, Elements
Fearghas Cleary, The Circuit
Gregory Pohl, Pharm Animals
james berg, The Great Gay Hope
Jay Cundiff, Kyle Jorgensen, Elvis Bites Man
Jeff Bower, FIX
Julie O'Hora, FLORIDA WOMAN SAVES THE DAY
Kelsey Pfeifer, Nothing They Can Take
Kristie Grover, Third Party
Laura Beck, HARDCORE VEGANS
Lena Pousette, Deon van Rooyen, WILD C.A.T.
Lisanne Sartor, Tested
Lukas Hassel, Galápagos
Margaret Kaminski, Wizard Fest: Pilot
Matt McManus, Anno Domini
Matt Thomas, Carpetbaggers
Michael G. Mack, ABSALOM
Michele Yeo, Kimberley Gonsalves, C U Next Tuesday
monique reymond, There's No Place Like OM
Nabil Chowdhary, The Replacement
Natalie Howell, Ink Stains
Neal Wiser, QUANTUM EFFECTS – Pilot: My First Time
Reeve Segal, Kaela Crawford, How Grace Got to Run the World
Robert Dillon, The Sistahood
Sam Martin, Commercial Space
Steve Blame, Fits the Crime
Suzanne Slack-Smith, Red Flag
Thomas Gough, The Emerald Triangle
Vincent Stoia, I am not a Cereal Killer

SHORTS (31 Semi-Finalists)
Alyssa Lerner, Bubble
Andy Erikson, One More Day Inc.
Christina Kinsella, Static
Eduardo Garabal, Less The Divine Mary
Eric Hajjar, Mainline
Garrett Kruithof, Sweetie Pie
Glyn Carter, Sossity
J. R. Dawson, Aira
Jamie Benyon, CRUISIN'
Jason Petrovitch, White-Collar Crime for Kids
Jen Gutierrez, Louisiana Rain
John Kontoyannis, SAIRA
John Le Brocq, Jeremiah 8.8
Josh Smooha, Dr. Hash
Joshua Michael Payne, Doesn't Fall Far
Kelly Holmes, The Prescription
Kristen Alario, Holes of Glory
Kylie Rolincik, Mother Mary
Matthew Hopper, Steve Kenny, No Ordinary Stranger
Matthew Muchka, Do Unto Others
Montgomery Haines, Vacation From Yourself
Natasha Mynhier, In a Beat
P.J. Palmer, North Star
Patrick Nash, The Storyteller
Rob Rex, The Klawg
sarah polhaus, Ruby Throat
sarah polhaus, The boy's gone
Shai Taylor, Cracked Red Clay
Stephanie Bollag, ESTHER IN WONDERLAND
Steven McMillan, Skin Clean
Stuart Creque, WET ROT

Updated: 11/06/2018

Shore Scripts Feature Screenplay Contest

Contact

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

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

Contact: Justine Owens, Director of Contests

Report Card

Overall: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
Professionalism: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.5/5.0)
Feedback: 3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars3.5 stars (3.7/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (3.9/5.0)
Report Cards: 30    
Have you entered?
Submit a Report card

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