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4th Dimension Independent Film Festival
Final Deadline: 11/30/2023
Art, in all forms, inspires us. From the first drawings of the prehistoric man to Artificial Intelligence driven illustrations, the journey of art has been one of curiosity, progress and redemption. The form of cinema is the most impactful of them all. It is only this art-form that has the power to blend time with space. The real and the imaginary correspond to one another in films.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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San Francisco IndieFest Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 12/16/2023
For 25 years the San Francisco Independent Film Festival has developed a great reputation for filling theaters, getting press, and throwing great parties. Films at our fest regularly get Variety reviews, picked up at other fests, and find rabid groupies following the makers around town demanded autographs and buying them drinks. This is our third year hosting a screenplay contest with the goal of expanding our filmmaker reach.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Sedona International Film Festival
Final Deadline: 12/31/2023
The Sedona International Film Festival celebrates current independent film from around the world. The festival strives to bring the best in narrative features, documentaries, short subjects, animation and foreign language films in all genres to its indie audience. It provides a rich educational opportunity to filmmakers, students and the general public alike through its on-site workshops, panel discussions and seminars.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Sun Valley Film Festival/High Scribe Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 01/01/2024
The High Scribe Screenplay Competition strives to match seasoned screenwriters and producers with the finalists, to help in the journey of taking script to screen. A committed group of mentors/advocates have been instrumental in not only securing management, but also screenwriting jobs and screenplay sales for High Scribe winner and even Finalists.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Hollywood Diversity Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 01/20/2024
The values of Southern California reflect the diversity of gender, gender identity, and the many different cultures that reside within our region. And independent film has been the driver of change in the Hollywood mainstream, at times influencing and re-shaping the norms of studio and network content. With screenplay award presentations and screenings in Hollywood, our event celebrates independent films that embrace diversity of gender and cultural perspectives, and accepts our differences to promote understanding and empathy.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Richmond International Film Festival (Screenplays & Films)
Final Deadline: 02/15/2024
The 12th annual Richmond International Film Festival (RIFF) is a competitive festival that accepts feature and short screenplays, teleplays, and screens more than 120 international cutting edge film premiers making it one of the Mid-Atlantic's largest international competitive festivals. RIFF provides six days of industry panels, Q&As, industry mixers, live music performances, the FLOW Creative & Pitch Conference, and entertainment mixers that bring the spirit of Hollywood to beautiful Richmond, Virginia at the Bowtie Criterion/Movieland and the historic Byrd Theatre.User Feedback: 6 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Film Invasion Los Angeles
Final Deadline: 03/31/2024
The festival Film Invasion Los Angeles looks to showcase the best undiscovered movies in the heart of L.A. FILA has a category for unproduced screenplays of any length, feature or short or in between. Both movie and television screenplays are accepted. Screenplays will be evaluated by the jury based on merit, and winners will receive passes to the film festival and be cheered on by an audience when they are brought up to receive their reward.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Horror Hotel International Film Festival
Final Deadline: 04/01/2024
The International Horror Hotel fosters creativity within genre writers and filmmakers, providing a platform for them to share their work and gain recognition. Our main focus is in connecting those working within the horror (and sub-genre) community, helping them to expand their network and gain contacts to strengthen their work.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Faith in Film: International Film Festival and Screenwriting Competition
Final Deadline: 04/05/2024
Mission: Faith in Film is dedicated to forging a film festival and screenwriting competition that will launch the careers of filmmakers focused on adding the element of faith to their films. Our aim is to inspire, showcase, and support filmmakers of all faith’s to make great faith based films that leave others touched, moved and inspired. Our prayer is that our festival will open doors for filmmakers with a higher purpose.User Feedback: 9 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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New Media Film Festival Script Competition
Final Deadline: 04/06/2024
Honoring Stories Worth Telling. All Scripts. Short or long form, animation, comedy, sitcom, drama, books, web series, reality, live, TV anything scripted, this is for you. There is not a limit on page numbers. Top 3 winners in this category win Industry memberships valued at $1000.00 each & are still considered for Grand Prize Award ($45,000.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Los Angeles Crime and Horror Film Festival
Final Deadline: 04/06/2024
The Los Angeles Crime and Horror Film Festival is an IMDb qualifying event that aims to increase exposure for high quality crime and horror screenplays, including the many subgenres of crime fiction, mystery, psychological horror, and more. Winners are invited to attend the film screenings and the awards presentation in Hollywood.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Art of Brooklyn Film Festival
Final Deadline: 05/01/2024
THE ART OF BROOKLYN is a an award-winning international film festival designed to connect Brooklyn's vibrant indie scene with their peers around the world. Founded by working artists in 2011, we are a filmmaker-focused event, platform, and showcase for emerging creators and established voices. The future of narrative storytelling is in the hands of the next generation of writers.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Austin Action Fest
Final Deadline: 05/27/2024
Austin Action Fest is a film festival, Film Market, live action event and video game tournament all jammed into one! General Action, Kung Fu Flicks, Shooters, Thrillers and Horror Films are all welcome. As long as there is either kickin, stabbin, chasin, shootin, or jabbin, we don't discriminate!User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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HollyShorts Screenplay Contest
Final Deadline: 06/03/2024
HollyShorts Film Festival (HSFF) is an annual Academy Qualifying short film festival showcasing the best and brightest short films and short screenplays from around the globe. The festival showcases the top short films produced 40 minutes or less and is looking for the best short screenplays 30 pages or less.User Feedback: 2 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Los Angeles International Sci-Fi Film Festival
Final Deadline: 06/30/2024
The Los Angels International Sci-Fi Film Festival is an opportunity for genre filmmakers to showcase their work to the world! Our festival is focused on bringing value, opportunity and overall celebration to the world of sci-fi filmmaking. Our festival was founded by filmmakers, financiers and producers from the world of genre filmmaking. We're talking sci-fi, neo-noir, thriller, cyberpunk, and oh-so much more! Our community is filled with film industry that is passionate about stories in these and all other sci-fi sub-genres.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Astrophobia Sci-Fi and Horror Film Festival
Final Deadline: 07/21/2024
The Astrophobia Film Festival is an International science fiction and horror film and screenwriting festival that takes place in the Comox Valley on beautiful Vancouver Island. There are no restrictions on who can submit and we invite people from any nationality and ethnicity to submit their work. We two screenwriting categories: Best Feature Script (Sci Fi or Horror) and Best Short Script (Sci Fi or Horror).User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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L.A. Sci-Fi & Horror Festival
Final Deadline: 07/27/2024
The L.A. Sci-Fi & Horror Festival is committed to the future of humanity through Science Fiction and Science-based documentaries. We honour those who are committed to creating visions and concepts that inspire future generations. We also are very welcoming to horror and fantasy films under our leviathan categoryUser Feedback: Be the first to comment
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San Francisco International Screenwriting Competition & Film Awards
Final Deadline: 09/19/2024
We are San Francisco. We love film and we care so deeply about developing the next generation of filmmakers from the U.S. and abroad that we founded what we hope will be one of the most prestigious screenwriting competitions in the world for serious writers and serious subject matter. San Francisco Int'l Screenwriting Competition & Film Awards is an online film festival and screenwriting competition.User Feedback: 7 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Nantucket Film Festival Screenplay Competition
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The Nantucket Film Festival - unique in its dedication to supporting and promoting the art of screenwriting - launched the Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Competition in 1996. The Festival's screenwriting focus was inspired by Nantucket's rich history as a writer's retreat and is one of the main reasons for the event's distinction as an important cultural institution.User Feedback: 6 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Worldfest - Houston Int'l Film Festival
Final Deadline: 01/31/2023 (expired)
Contest founded in 1988 to provide an opportunity to compete with talent from around the world. The 42nd Annual WorldFest offers Cash Awards, Special Screenplay Master Classes, significant mentoring and project development opportunities during the ten-day festival. More than 550 international filmmakers and writers attend each year. All Remi Nominees receive VIP Gold All Access Passes to the Festival and the Master Classes (A $800 value).User Feedback: 7 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Slamdance Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 07/24/2023 (expired)
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.User Feedback: 47 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Ohio Independent Screenplay Awards
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Personal coverage and feedback from programmers and readers on your screenplay will be available to every screenplay entrant. Cash prizes are awarded in each of three categories: Best Screenplay, Best Voice of Color Screenplay (written by or about people of color), and Best Northcoast Screenplay (set in or about northern Ohio).User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Austin Film Festival Script Competition
Final Deadline: 05/31/2023 (expired)
The Ultimate Runway Now in our 30th year, the Austin Film Festival has been catapulting writers into life-changing careers for over two decades. Whether your dream is to sign a contract, land an agent, learn from an industry icon, or take home the coveted Bronze Typewriter Award, it’s simple: you can’t win if you don’t enter.User Feedback: 38 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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The 18th Annual FilmMakers International Screenwriting Awards
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To make Hollywood more accessible than ever before to more aspiring global screenwriters, Filmmakers is forming strategic alliances with the powers that be in Film and TV Script Writing; who are in search of top Screenplays & Writers... Filmmakers Championing Emerging Artists. FilmMakers International Screenwriting Awards has been in existence since 2000 (formerly known as The Radmin Company / FilmMakers.User Feedback: 40 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Moondance International Film Festival
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The objective of the Moondance International Film Festival is to inspire, motivate, promote and encourage the best writers & independent filmmakers, from every country in the world, and to inspire a greater understanding about the vital role of the arts in enhancing creativity, community spirit, and the preservation of our cultural heritage.User Feedback: 15 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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FLICKERS: Rhode Island International Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 07/15/2023 (expired)
To discover and honor the new voices of independent film. Screenplays will be judged on creativity, innovation, vision, originality and the use of language. The key element is that of communication and how it complements and is transformed by the language of film.User Feedback: 7 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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The 15th Annual American Gem Short Script & Literary Festival
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To promote and support new talent by creating real and original opportunities. To make Hollywood more accessible than ever before to more aspiring screenwriters, American Gem Short Script Writing Contest: presented by Filmmakers Magazine and Write Brothers, is forming strategic alliances with the powers that be in Film, TV and Literary Publishing.User Feedback: 7 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Screamfest Horror Film Festival and Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 06/22/2023 (expired)
Screamfest was formed in order to give filmmakers and writers in the horror/sci-fi genres a venue to have their work showcased to people in the industry. We are very proud that the majority of the films showcased now have distribution. Writers have garnered representation due to the festival.User Feedback: 11 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Twin Rivers Media Festival
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This festival is designed to promote Independent Media and Writing. Awards for Film, Video, Audio, Scriptwriting, Outdoor Journalism and Videos made on a Macintosh Computer. Categories include, Animation, Feature, Drama, Narrative, Experimental, Commercial, Documentary, and Outdoor Subjects.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Great Lakes Independent Film Festival Scriptwriting Competition
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The Great Lakes Scriptwriting Competition is now accepting entries of short and feature length screenplays, stage plays, and teleplays. The annual scriptwriting competition is a way for new and veteran scriptwriters to possibly get the break they need. Each year numerous agencies contact us about our winning scripts.User Feedback: 2 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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NHFX Screenwriting Competition
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This contest is restricted to new writers residing in New England and the Canadian Maritimes. It's objective is to identify local talent, and expose it to a broader market.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Screenplay Festival
Final Deadline: 08/15/2023 (expired)
Awards Ceremony at a Film Festival! Screenplay Festival winners get that rarest of experiences for a writer; applause from an audience. Our winners get to come out from behind the keyboard and be celebrated! Now Accepting Television Scripts! The writers spoke, and we listened. We have now added four categories to our contest for television scripts.User Feedback: 38 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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SHRIEKFEST Horror/SciFi Film & Screenplay Competition
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CALL FOR ENTRIES! Shriekfest, the Los Angeles Horror/SciFi Film Festival continues its tradition as Los Angeles' Premier horror film event, presenting an exciting program of films each fall with beautiful Los Angeles as its backdrop. Now, in its 20th year, Shriekfest takes place at the legendary Raleigh Studios, which is the largest independent studio operator in the country.User Feedback: 11 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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LA Shorts Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 05/26/2023 (expired)
LA Shorts International Film Festival ranks among the most prestigious and largest international short film festivals in the world. The festival is accredited by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences OSCAR®, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts BAFTA and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television (ACCT) presenters of the Canadian Screen Awards and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain (Goya Awards).User Feedback: 2 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Cinequest Screenwriting Competition
Final Deadline: 10/30/2023 (expired)
Cinequest voted Best Film Festival by USA Today Readers. Cinequest voted Best Film Festival by USA Today Readers. The Cinequest Screenplay Competition empowers global screenwriters through discovery, recognition, and opportunity. Cinequest loves writers, and we welcome you to submit your screenplay or teleplay to our renowned competition.User Feedback: 13 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Rome Independent Film Festival
Final Deadline: 07/31/2023 (expired)
The screenplay award is organized and promoted by the RIFF. The intent is to offer new filmmakers a concrete opportunity to grow professionally by developing their films, and making them accessible to the public.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Phoenix Film Festival Short Screenplay Search
Final Deadline: 12/13/2021 (expired)
We want to see the best short screenplays from around the globe.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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NYC Midnight Screenwriter's Challenge
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The mission of the Screenwriter's Challenge is to discover and support a new wave of talented storytellers from around the world. The Challenge is organized by NYC Midnight Movie Making Madness, LLC. NYC Midnight aims to provide the prizes and exposure necessary for writers to take their next big step towards writing professionally.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Waterfront Screenplay Competition
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To bring awareness of the craft of screenwriting to the Midwest.User Feedback: 2 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Female Eye Film Festival Scriptwriter Development Program
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The Female Eye Film Festival was established in Toronto in 2001. The 1st annual FeFF Script Development Program (open to men) took place in 2003. This two tier program is comprised of the Good To Go and Script Reading Series. Scripts get optioned for development annually and the FeFF offers awards for best screenplays in the following categories: Best Feature, Best Fresh Voice, Best Low Budget Feature, Crowd Pleaser and Best Teleplay.User Feedback: 5 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Eerie Horror Screenplay Competition
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The Eerie Horror Screenplay Competition offers beginning, aspiring and veteran screenwriters in the horror genre a chance to have their work recognized by people in the industry and beyond and to provide recognition and exposure for screenwriters in the horror, science fiction and suspense genres. The finalists and top 3 winning screenplays will be announced on all Eerie Horror Film Festival websites and winner's information will be forwarded to industry professionals for consideration.User Feedback: 2 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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The Indie Gathering International Film Festival
Final Deadline: 06/01/2023 (expired)
To recognize excellence in screenwriting of shorts and features in a wide variety of genres.User Feedback: 4 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Woods Hole Film Festival - Work-In-Progress Screenwriting Awards
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To showcase independent screenplays and laud those who work independently to create the blueprints for our independent films; to seek out screenplays which appeal to the filmmakers and audiences that frequent the Woods Hole Film Festival: to present a reading of a winning screenplay to the WHFF audience and allow the screenwriter to hear their words made real and receive feedback from an audience, actors, and filmmakers.User Feedback: 3 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 03/31/2023 (expired)
Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition seeks to discover and support the most original and innovative screenplays from emerging and established screenwriters from around the world.User Feedback: 7 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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International Horror and Sci Fi Short Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 12/13/2021 (expired)
To discover the best un-produced short screenplays by talented writers and present their work to LEADING INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Contest of Contest Winners
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The Contest Of Contest Winners joined the 2016 Sunscreen Film Festival (Florida/Los Angeles) to bring increased visibility and networking opportunities to winners! And this year 2017 the festivals and the contest will be putting writers with filmmakers in new ways!! There are hundreds of screenwriting competitions, but which screenplay from among the winners of all of these quality competitions is the best of the best? The Contest of Contest Winners (CCW) answers that question and shines the spotlight on many accomplished, award-winning screenplays in what amounts to a definitive last review of the elite.User Feedback: 24 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Vail Film Festival Screenwriting Competition
Final Deadline: 08/19/2022 (expired)
The Vail Screenplay Competition is a vehicle for aspiring screenwriters to have their scripts recommended to established film producers, managers, and agents who are actively working at the top level of the film industry. The Vail Screenplay Competition is a signature program of the Colorado Film Institute, producer of the annual Vail Film Festival, now entering its 19th year.User Feedback: 2 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 11/03/2023 (expired)
We are looking for innovative and compelling storytelling, for characters that surprise and challenge you, for words that pop off the page, and for narratives that twist and turn like a country back road. This year we’re accepting both feature scripts and pilot scripts; you’re more than welcome to submit in both categories.User Feedback: 4 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Terror Film Festival Screenplay Competition
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To showcase screenwriters and their work to the industry, and provide awards and cash to help support and compliment their careers.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Garden State Film Festival Screenplay Competition
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The Garden State Film Festival was founded in 2008 to promote the art of filmmaking on all levels by showcasing a wide variety of film, video and animated works, as well as to provide educational programs in the creative arts to the public by industry leaders. Our goal is to present films of the highest quality in both production value and content.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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