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Slamdance Screenplay Competition
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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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 | $65 (feature) |
| Regular | June 15, 2024 53 |
$75 |
| Late | July 19, 2024 87 |
$85 |
| Final | July 26, 2024 94 |
$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
Report Card |
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Contest News
Slamdance 99K Feature Project Set for April 22nd & 23rd
Don’t Ask For Permission – How to Make a Successful Independent Film
Slamdance’s first 99K Feature Project is open to all aspiring filmmakers and
screenwriters that want insight into the world of independent filmmaking from over 40
practicing filmmakers, producers, screenwriters, writer/directors and industry
professionals. The 99K Feature Project will take place Saturday, April 22nd and Sunday,
April 23rd at the Village (1125 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles, CA 90038).
99K Feature Project participants will spend two days with Slamdance in ten panels
learning how independent films are made outside the studio system. Panels will cover
everything involved in a low budget production, from concept to financing and alternative
distribution.
“Don’t ask for permission. Get down to earth and learn how to make a successful
independent film from our experts in the low-no budget realm of independent filmmaking”
states Slamdance President and Co-Founder Peter Baxter.
Panelists include authorities on independent filmmaking:
Nicole Arbusto (Casting Director), Pete Ballard (Lab 601), Peter Baxter (Slamdance,
Cofounder/President), Richard Bever (Andrew Lauren Productions, VP of Development &
Production), Jim Corbett (Mix Magic), Jeremy Coon (Producer, Napoleon Dynamite, The
Sasquatch Dumpling Gang), Ben Cote (DivX), Mickey Cottrell (Inclusive PR), Eric
D'Arbellof (Roadside Attractions), Sarah Diamond (Slamdance, Director of Programming),
Kevin Di Novis (Writer/Director, Surrender Dorothy, Death & Texas), Samuel Engelbart
(Executive Vice President, 7ate9 Entertainment & Artfire Films), Paul Federbush (Warner
Independent, Sr. VP Production & Acquisitions), Christian Gaines (AFI, Director of
Programming), Micah Green (CAA), Stephen Gutwillig (Outfest, Executive Director), Jenny
Hinkey (Line Producer, Neo Ned, Death & Texas), Stephen Israel (Producer, Swimming
with Sharks, Death & Texas, Boy Culture), Meredith Kadlec (Here!TV, Regent
Entertainment), Hal "Corky" Kessler (Funkhouser Vegosen Liebman & Dunn Ltd.), Julian
Krainin (Producer, Quiz Show, Something the Lord Made, 3-time Peabody award winner),
John Manulis (Visionbox Media Group), Dan Mirvish (Slamdance Cofounder, Director, Open
House), Joe Neulight (Co-Founder & President, Withoutabox ), Linda Phillips Palo (Casting
Director, The Rainmaker, The Virgin Suicides, Death & Texas), Howard A. Rodman
(Professor and Chair Division of Writing, USC School of Cinema-Television), John Stoddard
(Slamdance, Screenplay Competition Director), Heidi Van Lier (Writer/Director, Chi Girl,
Monday), Wash Westmoreland (Director, Quinceanera, The Fluffer), Steven J. Wolfe
(Producer, Twin Falls Idaho, Beautiful Loser)
In addition to the ten panels, the 99K Feature Project will host nightly receptions and
screenings of Slamdance 2006 Feature Films:
• April 22nd (7-9pm) "THE OTHER SIDE" Directed & Written by Gregg Bishop
• April 23rd (7-9pm) "NEO NED" Directed by Van Fischer, Written by Tim Boughn
For more information, pricing, to attend please visit www.slamdance.com/99k
e-mail 99k@slamdance.com or call 323-466-1786.
Updated: 04/13/2006
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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