Stowe Story Labs Names Participants & Mentors
Updated: 07/04/2020
Stowe Story Labs has announced its 2020 Roster of Participants and Mentors for the Stowe Writers' Retreat. The event is typically held at the Timberholm Inn in Vermont, but will be held remotely this year due to the coronavirus crisis.
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Screenwriting Contest News 
Scriptapalooza Produced Short Wins Festival Accolades
Tics, a short film executive produced by Scriptapalooza's Mark Andrushko, has been winning festival recognition for its unique take on mental illness, the need to ask for and receive help, and the consequences when help isn't received. Scriptapalooza is currently producing shorts and features through a newly launched division of the company. [Updated: 07/06/2020]
Screenwriters Network Launches 2nd Annual 'Killer Shorts' Horror Short Screenplay Competition
The Screenwriters Network has partnered with literary managers, producers and executives to unearth the next visionary talent in horror. The Top 10 scripts will be read by a star-studded panel of industry judges, with a further combined $5,000 worth of prizes up for grabs including copies of Final Draft screenwriting software, waived entry fees to multiple screenwriting contests, increased rank on Coverfly's The Red List, free subscriptions to on-demand horror streaming service Shudder, and more. [Updated: 07/01/2020]
Filmmatic Announces Season 5 Drama Contest Winner, Plus Finalists and Semifinalists
Dawn Garcia's The Confidence Men has been named the Winner of the Filmmatic Season 5 Drama Contest. [Updated: 07/01/2020]
Interview with StoryPros Comedy Category Winner Thomas Leupp
Comedy writer Thomas Leupp was born and raised in Los Angeles, and his sports comedy Tres Banditos was the comedy category winner of the 2019 StoryPros Awards, and a runner-up for the 2019 Inroads Fellowship.
Shoot Your Shorts Names Grand Prize Winner & 100 Finalists
Emerging Screenwriters has named Rachel Thomas-Medwid as the Grand Prize Winner of their 2020 Shoot Your Shorts Screenplay Competition for her script The Influencer. The contest's top 100 finalists have also been announced. [Updated: 06/27/2020]
CineStory Names 2020 Quarterfinalists
CineStory has named 128 quarterfinalists from almost 600 submissions to this year Feature Retreat and Fellowship Competition. Quarterfinalists will be offered any open spots to this year's retreat after the semifinalists, finalists, and winners are invited to attend. Attendees receive three 90-minute one-on-one sessions with CineStory mentors. Attendees also participate in informal rooms run by mentors that cover topics ranging from pitching like a pro to the state of filmmaking in the digital age. [Updated: 06/22/2020]
StoryPros Awards Names Contest Winners
Johnny Cruz has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 13th Annual StoryPros Awards for his script Repair the Carrows. [Updated: 06/16/2020]
Interview with 2020 Fresh Voices Horror Division Winner Harry Aspinwall
Harry Aspinwall is a writer and actor who grew up in Scotland, but has been living the U.S. - currently Brooklyn - since he was 16. His historical horror script Henrietta was the First Place Winner of the Horror Division of the 2020 Fresh Voices Screenwriting Competition.
Shore Scripts Names 2020 Film Fund Winner
Lindiwe Makgalemele's The Town has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 Shore Scripts Short Film Fund Competition. The script is about a seven year old girl who believes she's responsible for a car break-down in an anonymous South African town. [Updated: 06/07/2020]
ScreenCraft Names Comedy Quarterfinalists
ScreenCraft has announced quarterfinalists from among almost 2,400 submissions to the 2020 ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Competition. [Updated: 06/04/2020]
Interview with 2019 Shore Scripts Short Film Fund Winner James Gould-Bourn
James Gould-Bourne, winner of the 2019 Shore Scripts Short Film Fund Competition, is originally from Manchester, England, but now lives with his wife in Malaysia after four years of living in Lithuania. His debut novel, Bear Necessity, will be published in U.S. on August 4, 2020.
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Interview with StoryPros Comedy Category Winner Thomas Leupp
Comedy writer Thomas Leupp was born and raised in Los Angeles, and his sports comedy Tres Banditos was the comedy category winner of the 2019 StoryPros Awards, and a runner-up for the 2019 Inroads Fellowship.
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Interview with 2020 Fresh Voices Horror Division Winner Harry Aspinwall
Harry Aspinwall is a writer and actor who grew up in Scotland, but has been living the U.S. - currently Brooklyn - since he was 16. His historical horror script Henrietta was the First Place Winner of the Horror Division of the 2020 Fresh Voices Screenwriting Competition. -
Interview with 2019 Shore Scripts Short Film Fund Winner James Gould-Bourn
James Gould-Bourne, winner of the 2019 Shore Scripts Short Film Fund Competition, is originally from Manchester, England, but now lives with his wife in Malaysia after four years of living in Lithuania. His debut novel, Bear Necessity, will be published in U.S. on August 4, 2020. -
Interview with 2019 Creative World Award
Winner Taylor HopkinsTaylor Hopkins was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2019 Creative World Awards for his screenplay, Stagecoach Mary, a true story about a hard-drinking, cigar smoking black woman in Montana in 1885, who uses her six shooter and tough as nails attitude to defend a convent of nuns from the perils of the Wild West.
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Interview with 2018 CineStory Second Place Winner Avishai Weinberger
CineStory Co-Executive Director Carlo Martinelli catches up with the 2018 CineStory Fellowship second place winner, Avishai Weinberger.
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Interview with ScreenCraft Fellowship Winner Davia Carter
Davia Carter was named a 2018 ScreenCraft Fellowship Winner on the basis of her TV pilot Double Time Dames, a one-hour drama set in the jazz age that tells the story of a brilliant female trumpeter who sheds her life of abusive men and attempts to start an all-female band as an Italian mob tries to stake their claim in her town.
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Interview with ScreenCraft Fellowship Winner Georgina Love
Georgina Love was named a 2018 ScreenCraft Fellowship Winner for her sci-fi feature Pig, which follows an experimental scientist as he raises a sentient pig as a mirror image of his terminally ill son. When the pig learns his "father's" plans have a sinister bent, he fights to resist the inevitable.
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Interview with ScreenCraft Fellowship Winner Brock Newell
Brock Newell was named a 2018 ScreenCraft Fellowship Winner for his feature screenplay Ravenous, a fresh take on the cabin in the woods horror genre, about a man who invites his new girlfriend on a camping trip with his friends, only to realize that she's a cannibal who intends to kill them all. Brock graduated from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana with a degree in Creative Writing, and has been living in LA for 10 years by way of Chicago.
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Final: 07/15/2020WSPro Discount: $5.00
WeScreenplay Television Pilot Competition
Regular: 07/15/2020WSPro Discount: No
Stage 32 Search for New Blood Contest
Regular: 07/15/2020WSPro Discount: No
Sherman Oaks Film Festival
Extended Deadline: 07/15/2020WSPro Discount: No
San Francisco International Screenwriting Competition
Standard: 07/16/2020WSPro Discount: No
Toronto Metropolitan Int'l Screenwriting Competition
Ext Regular: 07/17/2020WSPro Discount: No
NHMC Television Writers Program
Final: 07/20/2020WSPro Discount: No
Slamdance Screenplay Competition
Late: 07/20/2020WSPro Discount: No
Your Script Produced! International Film/TV/Short Script Competition
Late Deadline: 07/20/2020WSPro Discount: $10.00
Page Turner Screenplays - Feature & TV GENRE New!
Regular: 07/20/2020WSPro Discount: $5.00
Stage 32 Screenplay Contest
Final: 07/22/2020WSPro Discount: No
Australian International Screenwriting Awards
July: 07/23/2020WSPro Discount: No
Scriptation Showcase Features & Shorts
Final: 07/26/2020WSPro Discount: No
Slamdance Screenplay Competition
Final: 07/27/2020WSPro Discount: No
Roadmap Writers JumpStart Writing Competition
Regular: 07/27/2020WSPro Discount: No
New Renaissance Film Fest (London, UK)
Extended Fast Track: 07/28/2020WSPro Discount: $5.00
SCRIPT 2 SCREENS
Extended: 07/29/2020WSPro Discount: No
Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest
Last Chance: 07/30/2020WSPro Discount: No
ScreenCraft Drama Screenwriting Competition
Final: 07/31/2020WSPro Discount: No
Shore Scripts Feature Screenplay Contest
Regular: 07/31/2020WSPro Discount: No
ScreenCraft Pilot Launch TV Script & Series Bible Competition
Early: 07/31/2020WSPro Discount: No
Shore Scripts TV Pilot Contest
Regular: 07/31/2020WSPro Discount: No
Screenplay Festival
Final : 07/31/2020WSPro Discount: $5.00
Richmond International Film Festival (Screenplays & Films)
Regular: 07/31/2020WSPro Discount: $5.00
Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards
Extended: 07/31/2020WSPro Discount: No
L.A. Neo Noir Novel, Film, & Script Festival
Regular: 07/31/2020WSPro Discount: $5.00
Nickelodeon Writing Program
Final: 08/01/2020WSPro Discount: No
American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest
Early: 08/01/2020WSPro Discount: No
SCRIPT 2 SCREENS
Final: 08/01/2020WSPro Discount: No
trackingb.com Screenplay Contest
Early: 08/03/2020WSPro Discount: No
2020 Set in Philadelphia Screenwriting Competition
Final: 08/03/2020WSPro Discount: No
Stage 32 Search for New Blood Contest
Final : 08/05/2020WSPro Discount: No
Athena List
Regular: 08/07/2020WSPro Discount: No
Destiny City Film Festival
Regular: 08/07/2020WSPro Discount: $10.00
2021 BlueCat Screenplay Competition
Midsummer: 08/09/2020WSPro Discount: $10.00
ISA Fast Track Fellowship
Final: 08/12/2020WSPro Discount: No
Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition
Early: 08/13/2020WSPro Discount: $5.00
San Francisco International Screenwriting Competition
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Launch Pad Screenwriting Competition
Final: 08/14/2020WSPro Discount: No
WeScreenplay Television Pilot Competition
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Cynosure Screenwriting Awards
Late: 08/15/2020WSPro Discount: $5.00
Sherman Oaks Film Festival
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Williamsburg International Film & Music Competition
Final: 08/15/2020WSPro Discount: No
Women in Film & Television Vancouver
Regular: 08/15/2020WSPro Discount: No
Page Turner Screenplays - Feature & TV GENRE New!
Late: 08/17/2020WSPro Discount: $5.00
Film Independent Screenwriting Lab
Non-Member Deadline: 08/19/2020WSPro Discount: No
Roadmap Writers JumpStart Writing Competition
Late: 08/24/2020WSPro Discount: No
Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition
Final: 08/27/2020WSPro Discount: No
Shore Scripts - Short Film Fund
Early: 08/29/2020WSPro Discount: No
Richmond International Film Festival (Screenplays & Films)
Late: 08/30/2020WSPro Discount: $5.00
Rome Independent Film Festival
: 08/30/2020WSPro Discount: No
CineStory TV/Digital Retreat & Fellowship
Late: 08/31/2020WSPro Discount: No
ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenwriting Competition
Early: 08/31/2020WSPro Discount: No
Shore Scripts Feature Screenplay Contest
Late: 08/31/2020WSPro Discount: No
Shore Scripts TV Pilot Contest
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Circus Road Screenplay Contest
Early: 08/31/2020WSPro Discount: No
ScreenCraft Stage Play Playwriting Competition
Final: 08/31/2020WSPro Discount: No
Athena List
Late: 08/31/2020WSPro Discount: No
Your Script Produced! International Film/TV/Short Script Competition
Final Deadline: 08/31/2020WSPro Discount: $10.00
L.A. Neo Noir Novel, Film, & Script Festival
Late: 08/31/2020WSPro Discount: $5.00
American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest
Final: 09/01/2020WSPro Discount: No
The Killer Shorts Horror Short Screenplay Competition
Early: 09/01/2020WSPro Discount: No
Film Independent Screenwriting Lab
Member Extended Deadline: 09/02/2020WSPro Discount: No
12th New Media Film Festival Script Competition
Early: 09/03/2020WSPro Discount: No
trackingb.com Screenplay Contest
Late: 09/07/2020WSPro Discount: No
Page Turner Screenplays - Feature & TV GENRE New!
Final: 09/07/2020WSPro Discount: $5.00
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