2025 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
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Shore Scripts TV Pilot Mentorship Program

Shore Scripts TV Mentorship

Contact

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

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

Contact: Sarah Eagen, Director of Contests

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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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Objective

The Shore Scripts TV Writer Mentorship Program prepares writers to get staffed or have their pilot picked up, while offering behind-the-scenes looks at working on top TV shows. This isn’t your typical screenwriting contest! It’s a one-of-a-kind game-changing experience to level up your TV writing career.

TV WRITER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

This year, SIX winners will be invited to attend our 8-week TV Writer Mentorship Program where writers will meet over a series of sessions that will include meeting with:

  • Showrunner Beth Schwartz (ARROW, SWEET TOOTH, DEAD BOY DETECTIVES)
  • Dev Exec Duane Luu, Director of Drama Development at NBCUniversal
  • Industry Leader Karen Horne, who ran the NBC and Warner Discover programs for over a decade
  • 1:1 mentorship from TV Writers from YOUNG SHELDON, AVATAR:THE LAST AIRBENDER, SUPERMAN & LOIS, DEXTER: ORIGINAL SIN
  • Sean Charles, Development & Production Manager at AMC Networks
  • David Katsman, Manager (Sugar23)
  • 1:1 work with Shore Scripts' Writer Development Manager
  • And more!

In an intimate, small group setting writers will get an insider’s look at what it’s really like to work in a TV writers' room, develop the pitch-perfect presentation to help them land rep and writing gigs alike, and get their most pressing questions answered with direct mentorship from established industry pros. Show More

Deadline/Entry Fees

Deadline Date
Days till:
Entry Fee
Early March 14, 2025
31
$50 (half-hour pilot); $55 (one-hour pilot)
Regular April 11, 2025
59
$60 (half-hour pilot); $65 (one-hour pilot)
Final May 16, 2025
94
$70 (half-hour pilot); $75 (one-hour pilot)

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Notification: Jul 16th: Quarterfinalists;Aug 6th: Semifinalists;Sep 3rd: Top 10 Finalists;Sep 3rd: Winners.

Eligibility

Open to everyone! 1-Hr Scripts 40-65 pages. ½-Hr Scripts 20-35 pages.

Rules

  • ½-Hour Pilots should be within 20-35 Pages. 1-Hour Pilots should be within 40-65 Pages.
  • Writers can exceed the recommended limits by up to 15 pages, with an additional fee of $1 per page.
  • Please only submit the first episode/pilot of your TV series.
  • 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 & 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 the 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 in standard formatting and submitted electronically as a PDF.
  • We accept all genres, including animation. 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 on any other platform, whenever we see fit.
  • Shore Scripts staff and associates are ineligible 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

Comprehensive 8-Week TV Writer Mentorship Program for 6 Winners. This year, 3 winners in each ½ hr and 1-hour pilot category will win spots in our career-changing Shore Scripts TV Writers Mentorship Program. The Program will include weekly Zoom sessions over 8-weeks in the fall of 2025 where participants will have sessions with showrunners, development execs, mentors, agents and managers, and more.

Please see website for schedule and details!

Shore Scripts TV Mentorship

Contact

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

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

Contact: Sarah Eagen, 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 Mentorship Program

Contact

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

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

Contact: Sarah Eagen, 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 Announces TV Pilot Semifinalists

Shore Scripts has announced their 1-hour and 1/2-hour TV Pilot Semfinalists, which represent the top 5% of this year's submissions.

TV PILOT 1 HOUR SEMIFINALISTS

(47 screenplays)

NAME(S): SCRIPT TITLE

Aimiende Negbenebor Sela & Andrew Rubin: Wake Up! Wake Up! Wake Up!
Alex Vickery-Howe: Gemini
Alyssa Kramer: DALE: Keep Your Eyes Open
Amanda Prentiss: Black Caesar
Annique Arredondo: Scene Queen
Barry Leach: Same Old Tricks
Brandon Gale: Magneto
Brandon Shorter: The Experimenters’ Game
Bruce Buschel: Vial
Calum James: TWENTY7
Charlotte Balogh: Kill the LAX Bro
David B. Guthrie: Nightfall
David Christopher Loya: Esperanza
Elena Zucker: The Ten Plagues
Gregory Abbey: Shark
Gregory Field: Wearing the Flag
Heather Farlinger: The Lavender Panthers
Hue Anthony: My Brother’s Keeper
Hugo Lasalle: Body Electric
Irene Jiang: The Extraordinary Disappearance of Morwenna Gray
Jamee Decio: Esperanza
James Rushbrooke: Afterglow
Janna Jilnina: The Three of Us
Jarod Backens: The Bubble
Jay Tigers: Dirtbag Fantasies
Jo Harper: Tiger mum
Joe Wolff: Buntline & Cody
John Bensink: Corner of Crenshaw & Life
Johnny Gilligan: Alphastate
Kris Hall: Red World
Lorraine Flett: The Believer
M. Rowan Meyer: New Cardiff
Marine Mondelot: Eon
Mia Volta: Sunnier Climes
Neiman Outlen: The Mighty Mind of Imani Strong
Parker Whitmore: Eden’s Valley
Patrick Tierney: M&Ms
Paul Knox: Bailey House
Philip Enchelmaier: Rudy Champion and the Edge of the Earth
Rae Binstock: Butch
Shiloh Creveling: The New World
Simon Foster: NightFall
Sophia Dienstag: Echo Falls
Stephen Scarlato: When the War Came Home
Stuart Creque: Aspmnia
Tavish Gudgeon: Rats
Tim Kontje: Black Butterfly

TV PILOT 1/2 HOUR SEMIFINALISTS

(35 screenplays have progressed)

NAME(S): SCRIPT TITLE

Adrián Burke: Laughey Giraffey
Amy Depaola: Tiki Bar Funeral Home
Ana-Marija Stojic: Stefan
Andy Knuth: Mortified
Anna Kate Fahey: Techies
Annie Fick: The 6 Chick
Carly Silverman: The Apothecary’s Apprentice
Chris Watt: Southbank
Daniel Sussman: BOOKED: Library Day
David Murphy & Ric Marble: The Right Track
Emily E. Ellis: Stuntwomen
Francesco Capussela: GIN-VERSE: A Ginless Bar
Jackson Hukari & Landon Laub: Lap of Luxury
Jasmine Aziz & Dan McNeil: Here She Comes
Joel Michalak: Re-Gifted
Kimberly Gore & David Sanchez: CLiCK!
Lavar James: Guards
Luna Al-Kaisy: Student Debt
Maria Hinterkoerner: Young Agatha
Marty Johnson: In the Wings
Matija Sraj: Queenmaker
Max Conroy: The Oracle
Mike Nielsen: Living Assisted
Mischa Webley: Hasaan Hates Portland
Natalie Bendheim: The Struggler
Pearse Lehane: Written Out
Phil Hamer: The Davieses
Robert Knoll: The Eye In Time
Rudi O’Meara: AMENDS: It’s All Gooooood…
Ryan O’Donoghue: Mom Crush
Samuel Sutton: The Megalomaniacs
Simon Pond & Joe Clabby: Shaky Town
Teri Shavoz: SHE.e.o
Tony Hendriks: Mystic Pictures
Will Clempner: My Father is Dead to Me

Updated: 09/10/2023

Shore Scripts TV Pilot Mentorship Program

Contact

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

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

Contact: Sarah Eagen, 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  
Have you entered?
Submit a Report card

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