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The Indie Gathering International Film Festival
Final Deadline: 06/01/2023
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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Write LA
Final Deadline: 06/01/2023
**A Moviebytes Top Screenplay Contest for 2023** Our winners and finalists have been signed by Literary Managers as a result of entering our competition!! Now in our sixth season, Write LA gives 5 writers the chance to be read and considered for representation by leading Literary Management Companies. Semifinalists receive several prizes - An online writing seminar from The Writer's Store, a screenwriting book from Michael Wiese Productions, a notebook from Decomposition Books, and free feedback from head judge and highly respected script coach Tim Schildberger.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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HollyShorts Screenplay Contest
Final Deadline: 06/02/2023
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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Mad Wife Productions Fellowship Program
Final Deadline: 06/14/2023
Mad Wife Productions (https://madwifeproductions.com/) screenwriting fellowship program is for aspiring writers who want to get their big break in the film industry! The aim of this fellowship program is to offer one or more writers the opportunity to work in the industry and learn the ins and outs of taking a story from script to screen.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Creative Screenwriting TV Pilot Competition
Final Deadline: 06/15/2023
Have you written the next This is Us, Insecure, Atlanta, Westworld, Veep, Game of Thrones or even an animation like Bojack Horseman? Or have you written something unlike anything we've seen before? We want to read it all! We're seeking 10 incredible TV Pilots in all genres! Each winner will receive $500 and be in the running for the Grand Prize including: $3,000, industry exposure and consideration for an option by Creative Screenwriter Productions and representation by Culture Creative Entertainment.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Capital Fund Screenplay Competiton
Final Deadline: 06/17/2023
The Capital Fund Screenplay Competition, now in its 9th year of successes, where your scripts are read direct by investors that buy projects and fund films at the studio level domestically and abroad. Our entrants have been optioned and sold at AFM, Cannes, Berlin, Toronto and Shanghai Film Markets. A Different Screenplay Contest Find out if your script can sell- is it commercial? Now get the answer with a CVR report.User Feedback: 2 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Dallas International Film Festival
Final Deadline: 06/18/2023
Dallas International Film Festival, Event Horizon Films, and Torfoot Studios have come together for the DIFF 2023 Screenplay Competition. Among the prizes, award-winning filmmaker Johnathan Brownlee at Torfoot Studios will produce and direct the winning short script for film festival screenings. Previous winning short scripts screened at Dallas Noir Fest, Dallas International Film Festival and ATX Short Film Showcase, and many others.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Finish Line Script Competition
Final Deadline: 06/20/2023
The Finish Line redefines the screenwriting competition, embracing the rewrite as an essential component in any successful screenplay, and incentivizing every entrant to dig deeper, find their best draft, and win. With the guidance of a seasoned script consultant, you can work on your rewrites AFTER submitting your script to the competition and then, after reviewing their notes, RESUBMIT your script to us, having improved your draft and thus bettering your chances to WIN! Our screenplay consultants will provide comprehensive development notes on your screenplay or pilot, for as many drafts as you choose, focusing on the fact that the STORY and WRITER are KING.User Feedback: 7 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards
Final Deadline: 06/20/2023
"Short-form films can be great calling cards. They help writers and directors flesh out their unique voices without great expense of time or money. They allow artists to venture out of their comfort zone, show off their wares, and speak to the world without first having to obtain studio or distributor permission...." The Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards were created to locate and expose up-and-coming screenwriters, as well as to empower and promote those talented writers still waiting for their invitation to the mainstream industry.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Adapted Story Showcase
Final Deadline: 06/23/2023
Submissions Open: February 3, 2023. The Adapted Story Showcase recognizes scripts, books, short stories, & stage plays in any genre that feature an adapted story.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Family Friendly Peer Review Screenwriting Festival - Season Two
Final Deadline: 06/27/2023
Screenwriters often don't get the results they were hoping for from a script but don't know how to fix it, leaving them confused or frustrated. Family Friendly Peer Review Screenwriting Festival offers you affordable feedback from other writers and actionable techniques from professional instructors that you can immediately use to refine your script, increase your skill level, and advance your career! Network with other writers in the Family Friendly genre.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Table Read My Screenplay Competition - Hollywood 2023
Final Deadline: 06/29/2023
An Unparalleled Table Read Experience See your script brought to life in a rehearsed, professionally directed table read with experienced actors in front of a live audience in Hollywood, CA. This isn't a standard table read. As an integral part of the creative process, you'll meet with the director, assist in casting actors, participate in the rehearsal and more, culminating in the live performance.User Feedback: 9 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest
Final Deadline: 06/30/2023
Big Break is an annual, international feature and television screenwriting contest designed to launch the careers of aspiring writers. Big Break rewards screenwriters with over $100,000 in cash and prizes, including a trip to Los Angeles for a series of A-list executive meetings. Winners and finalists alike have had their screenplays optioned and produced and have secured high-profile representation as well as lucrative writing deals.User Feedback: 29 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenwriting Competition
Final Deadline: 06/30/2023
The action genre is the one genre that producers and literary managers have recently requested the most, and which we have the least. So this could be one of our most successful competitions! Our jury is looking for emerging voices in the action movie genre. Whether you have a big-budget, tentpole family adventure movie, or a taut, low-budget action film, we want to read your script.User Feedback: 3 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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ScreenCraft $30,000 Film Fund
Final Deadline: 06/30/2023
Whether you have a simple screenplay or a film that’s already in production, we want to consider it for our grant program. We consider a range of projects, from standalone screenplays, to fully packaged projects seeking finishing funds. If your aspirations are solely to become a produced screenwriter, you can rely on ScreenCraft and BondIt to package the winning script with a talented director and in-house production resources with up to $30,000 in cash financing, judged on a case-by-case basis, depending on each project’s budget and needs as determined by our internal jury of industry professionals.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Shore Scripts TV Pilot Contest
Final Deadline: 06/30/2023
$6,000 in Cash Prizes + Industry Meetings. For screenwriters who are looking to get staffed on TV Shows and have their pilots picked up by production companies. A panel of EMMY & Golden Globe-winning Judges will decide this year’s Winners. Managers, Agents & Producers to read the best scripts. DISCOVERING NEW SCREENWRITING TALENT FROM AROUND THE WORLD.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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The TITAN Awards
Final Deadline: 06/30/2023
The TITAN Awards was established in 2021 by leading script consultancy Industrial Scripts® to offer access to a rare level of Hollywood judge... Judged only by heavyweight Hollywood producers, the prize discovers and champions exciting screenwriting talent and delivers it to people of stature who can genuinely give the project industry traction.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Short Com TV Sitcom Writing Competition
Final Deadline: 07/07/2023
The comedy platform Short Com are pleased to announce the return of their popular TV Sitcom Writing Competition for the fourth consecutive year in a row. The competition aims to find the best new and emerging comedy writing talent. Judging the quality of writing first ahead of whether a script has a really marketable idea. Founder Chris Aitken states ‘Over the course of the past three editions, we’ve beensuper impressed by the number of quality writers out there.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Slamdance Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 07/24/2023
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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Rome Independent Film Festival
Final Deadline: 07/31/2023
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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Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards
Final Deadline: 07/31/2023
The Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards were created to locate and expose up-and-coming comedic screenwriters, as well as to empower and educate those talented writers still waiting for their invitation into the mainstream film and television industries. Competition is open to comedic feature-length and short works, screenplays and teleplays.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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ScreenCraft Animation Screenwriting Competition
Final Deadline: 07/31/2023
Perhaps no other medium of entertainment liberates the writer’s imagination more than animation. From wildly experimental 2D animation, to photo-realistic 3D animation, and everything in between, the medium of animation can allow for many kinds of inventive, visual storytelling. Whether you’re writing an animated family feature, a serious animated series for adults, or a kids TV show, we’re honoring three categories in this annual competition!User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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SENE Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 08/04/2023
The SENE Screenplay Competition seeks to encourage, recognize and promote talented screenwriters.User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Set in Philadelphia Screenwriting Competition
Final Deadline: 08/07/2023
The "Set in Philadelphia" Screenwriting Competition (SIP), which is presented by the Greater Philadelphia Film Office offers over $20,000 in cash prizes. Screenwriters world-wide are invited to submit an original feature length screenplay or TV pilot length screenplay that COULD be produced in the Greater Philadelphia Metropolitan Area. Scripts are judged on their overall quality, and the extent to which they project "shootability" in the Greater Philadelphia region.User Feedback: 3 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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ISA Fast Track Fellowship
Final Deadline: 08/10/2023
"Winning the Fast Track Fellowship completely and immediately changed my life. Not only did I gain affirmation and access to the industry, I was offered representation before I [had my first meeting.]" ~ Sean Collins-Smith (staffed on reboot of Field Of Dreams) How would you like to pitch your screenplay to a Creative Exec at HBOMax, or Producer Chuck Hayward (WandaVision, Dear White People)? Or maybe you'd like to chat with Oscar-Winning Writer and Director Damien Chazelle (Whiplash, LA LA Land) about breaking in and what it's like to direct your own projects? That's just 3 of the 8 meetings you could have as a Fast Track Fellow.User Feedback: 7 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Screenplay Festival
Final Deadline: 08/15/2023
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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New York Metropolitan Screenwriting Competition & Film Awards
Final Deadline: 09/13/2023
We love New York and we love film! We especially love films shot, set, about, or written and produced and starring New Yorkers! And by New Yorker, we mean New Yorkers from the State, the City, and around the world. Even New Yorkers who haven’t made it here yet. We love you all. (And no, you don’t have to be from here to submit your scripts). You just have to have a great New York story to tell.User Feedback: 8 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Circa Historical Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 09/15/2023
Circa 2023 Historical Screenplay Competition accepts Historical Screenplays in three categories: Feature Screenplay, TV Pilot and Short Screenplay. All three categories compete for Circa Historical Screenplay Competition Award: "Best Historical Screenplay".User Feedback: 1 Comment (Post a comment of your own)
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Stone Knight Writers
Final Deadline: 09/21/2023
Welcome to the New (Stone Knight Writers). If you're a writer that wants to have your story read, get feedback, or win the cash prize, well, this contest is for you. Stone Knight Writers wants to help Writers get noticed in the film business. We know some excellent writers have exciting stories to tell the world. The Winner can win a cash prize and the possibility to have their story placed in the production of Stone Knight.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Scriptapalooza TV Writing Competition
Final Deadline: 10/16/2023
Our intention is to help open doors for the aspiring television writer. There are four categories you can submit to, which include 1 hour existing spec scripts, 1/2 hour existing sitcom spec scripts, original pilots, and reality programs. This competition is designed with the TV writer and crossover screenwriter in mind. The participants we have chosen to read the winning scripts are individuals from established production companies.User Feedback: 15 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Los Angeles Crime and Horror Film Festival
Final Deadline: 10/21/2023
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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Script Pipeline First Look Project
Final Deadline: 10/30/2023
To discover innovative, marketable, high-concept projects for studio-level development, including feature screenplays, TV material, and media content.User Feedback: 5 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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L.A. Neo Noir Novel, Film, & Script Festival
Final Deadline: 10/31/2023
FESTIVAL UPDATE: We are only accepting 10 VIP entries in the writing and film categories. So if you would like VIP privileges (three days 72 hours screening of films regardless of award placement, while everyone else has one screening, a video interview highlighted on our website, extensive consultation for your neo-noir project, and more) you need to secure your spot as soon as possible.User Feedback: 2 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Shore Scripts Script Development Fund
Final Deadline: 11/15/2023
$3,000 in Cash Prizes + 1 Year of Script Development and Support from Shore Scripts for 2 Winners in 2023. For screenwriters who need support to finish their screenplay and craft a script that will attract industry attention. We've helped launch the careers of 100+ writers, including deals with Sony, Blumhouse, Film4, and Hulu. This contest accepts the first ten pages of scripts, and treatments for Feature, TV, Shorts, and Animation screenplays.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Barnstorm Fest
Final Deadline: 11/30/2023
Barnstorm's ultimate goal is the preservation of independent film through the nurturing of independent voices. The future of independent film is in your hands. Let Barnstorm Fest be your guide.User Feedback: Be the first to comment
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Golden Script Competition
Final Deadline: 03/28/2024
The Golden Script Competition is a yearly international competition for short, feature and TV pilot screenplays from all around the world. You will be submitting to the 2024 edition and the winning scripts of this edition will be read by some of the best production companies and literary agencies (including some that have one several OSCARS and BAFTAS), giving you the chance to have your script produced or represented.User Feedback: 15 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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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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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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Warner Bros. Television Writers Workshop
Final Deadline: 05/31/2022 (expired)
The Warner Bros. Television Writers’ Workshop consists of three components, all geared towards preparing the writer for a successful career in television writing. Lectures Weekly lectures feature guest speakers currently working in television and include a mix of showrunners, directors, actors and agents. Each seminar will teach a new skill essential for surviving and excelling in a writers’ room as a staff writer and beyond.User Feedback: 5 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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BlueCat Screenplay Competition
Final Deadline: 12/11/2022 (expired)
The BlueCat Screenplay Competition, now in its 25th year, is accepting submissions for its 2023 competition. Founded in 1998 by award-winning writer Gordy Hoffman, BlueCat has supported thousands of screenwriters through written analysis provided to all entrants, many of whom have gone on to successful careers in the film and television industry.User Feedback: 182 Comments (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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Nickelodeon Writing Program
Final Deadline: 08/01/2022 (expired)
Founded in the year 2000, the Nickelodeon Writing Program is a full-time, paid, yearlong development Program for television comedy writers with unique voices and from underrepresented communities. Join us at the studio in Burbank for classes and workshops to sharpen your skills, executive mentorship and networking to build your professional relationships, and the opportunity to work in the iconic live-action and animation writers’ rooms at Nick.User Feedback: 5 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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WriteMovies 2022 Screenwriting Contest
Final Deadline: 06/05/2022 (expired)
Since 1999, WriteMovies’ screenwriting contests guarantee to develop our winners’ projects at our own expense and pitch them to producers with the power to make them happen. Our contests are designed to show you exactly how well your script currently competes in the market, and a clear ladder to success. Our results – with up to 50+ Quarter-Finalists, 25+ Semi-Finalists, 7+ Honorable Mentions and 5 winners – show you where your project currently sits in comparison to others, and our studio-quality tiers of script mentoring and script consultancy show you its potential and how to remove the obstacles to that success without compromising on the things that matter most to you about your script.User Feedback: 75 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) New Writers Awards
Final Deadline: 11/07/2022 (expired)
The CAPE New Writers Fellowship discovers and nurtures emerging writers launching their careers in television and film. Founded and co-chaired by Emmy Award-winning Creator and Showrunner Leo Chu and veteran film and TV executive Steve Tao, CAPE is one of few programs created by a creative and an executive. This immersive Fellowship arms each writer with the practical and business knowledge they need to succeed as a professional writer in the entertainment industry.User Feedback: 3 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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Writers Place
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To assist the aspiring screenwriter in realizing his/her dream of becoming a professional screenwriter. To eliminate industry chokepoints that stifle creativity and impede screenplay access to managers,agents & producers.User Feedback: 12 Comments (Post a Comment of your own)
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Cinequest Screenwriting Competition
Final Deadline: 11/30/2022 (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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