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2022 Screenplay Competition Finalists Announced

Three scripts went on to Ojai Film Festival Screenplay Competition judges for their final determination of this year’s winner. “Pride and Prudence” by Fran Evelyn Ervin of Los Angeles CA “Prizrack” by Jeff Kaufman of Studio City CA “The Prison Club” by Catherine B. Owens of Hillsborough NC Award-winning writer and filmmaker Fran Evelyn Ervin’s distinctions include Project Greenlight Finalist, Creative Screenwriting CS ...

Submissions Now Open for 23rd Ojai Film Festival

Ojai Film Festival, ranked one of the top 100 Best Reviewed Festivals on FilmFreeway, continues to grow in prestige. The festival, which begins November 3, 2022, showcases the finest new films by emerging and established filmmakers from around the world. Both the film and screenplay competitions opened to submissions March 1. In the previous 22 years 15 alumni received Academy Award nominations, two won an Oscar, and numerous others went on to gain distribution and win prestigious awa...

Pim Hendrix announces the Screenplay Contest Winners in Byron Bay Fest

Pim Hendrix : BBIFF SCREENPLAY CONTEST DIRECTOR announced the three winners of the script competition: 3rd place:Happy Alone  by Lloyd Seddon 2nd place: Mescalero by Anderson Boyd 1st place: Storms of Tobruk by Christopher J. Morrison The pandemic may have brought the economies of many countries to their knees, but if the winning entries in this year’s Byron Bay Film Festival Screenplay Contest are any guide, it did nothing to dampen the creativity and br...

Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards

The Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards were created to locate and expose up-and-coming TV and web-series writers, as well as to empower and educate passionate and talented screenwriters still waiting for their invitation into the mainstream industry.

Competition is open to TV pilots, webisodes and inventive TV-series scripts of all genres.

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Season 4 results will post by November 15, 2019.

Thanks to our sponsors: Script Reader Pro, Screenwriting Staffing, Filmmatic, Monday on Main Street, The Script Coverage Co., and Jungle Software!

The 2021 BlueCat Screenplay Competition: CALL FOR ENTRIES

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition, now in its 23rd year, is open for submissions for its 2021 competition. BlueCat remains committed to the undiscovered writer and continues its tradition of providing written analysis on every script submitted.   BlueCat accepts features, shorts, and pilots and awards over $40,000 in cash prizes each year, including the Fellini Award, which gives $2,500 to the best script written by an international writer. Are you ready to submit y...

Fine Arts Film Festival

The Fine Arts Film Festival (FAFF) is dedicated to showing the finest films in the world about art, photography, collectors and artists of all mediums in and out of their studios, galleries, museums, public art, and alternative art spaces. This includes video art, curated as a Film or a Virtual Reality medium and a new Screenplay Competition!

FAFF Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iygn3HSi5zY

The 6th Annual Fine Arts Film Festival will be held on May 23-24, 2019 at the historic Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center Theatre, which is celebrating it's 50th Anniversary on November 10, 2018. 

Featuring exceptionally creative and important films about art, artists, and the art world - many premiering for the first time in the United States - from countries around the world!

Information about the Festival: 
www.thefineartsfilmfestival.com

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Screenwriting Event! August 16, 2018!

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One of our 2018 sponsors, ISA, is holding a free event on August 16th at 7 pm in NYC! As a part of their Third Thursdays events, ISA will be presenting 'From First to Final Draft' - a disucssion with screenwriter, James V. Hart!  WHERE: The Assemblage John Street, 17 John Street, New York, NY, 10038 "Join us for a special Third Thursdays with the ISA - New York as we present the next in our "First Draft to Final Draft" discussion series with screenwriter ...

Tuesday The 23rd Is The Last Day

Hey everyone, if you haven’t heard tomorrow, Tuesday 23rd, is the last and final day to enter the 3rd Annual Silver Scream Film Festival. We’ve announced a bunch of accepted films already with more on their way. You still have a chance to join these talented filmmakers for an unforgettable event in wine country.  As a reminder, all accepted entries get two complimentary passes to the event in Santa Rosa, CA this February 16-18.   We’re accepting al...

Call For Entries: Tomorrow Is The Last Day To Enter

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Tomorrow is the last day to enter your feature, short, animation, screenplay, or graphic novel to the Silver Scream Film Fest.    The Silver Scream Fest is this February 16-18 at the Roxy Stadium 14 Theater in Santa Rosa. This year we're celebrating The Heroines Of Horror - Kelli Maroney, Barbara Crampton, and Dee Wallace. Meet the original Creature From The Black Lagoon Ricou Browning. There's even a special screening of the 4K Criterion Edition of Night Of The Livi...

One Week Left to Submit!

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ONE WEEK LEFT: Submit to NYTVF Scripts Today! Only one week left to submit to the Second Annual NYTVF Scripts Competition. Submit by Tuesday, May 16 for the opportunity to have your script read and considered by the largest group of industry partners on the TV Festival landscape. NYTVF Scripts is accepting original comedy and drama series pilot scripts from around the world. Want to get your script in front of TV decision-makers? Submit to NYTVF Scripts and join the indie television movement...

OPEN NOW: Submit to NYTVF Scripts - Accepting Comedy & Drama TV Pilot Scripts

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Are you an aspiring TV writer? Want to get your work in front of agents, managers, and development execs across the TV and digital landscape? Submit to NYTVF Scripts for a chance to have your project named an Official Selection of the 2017 New York Television Festival, become eligible for awards and development deals from NYTVF partners,  participate in the 2017 NYTVF Writers Workshop, and engage with the largest collection of television decision-makers anywhere on the Festival circuit. ...

13Horror.com Film & Screenplay Contest

13Horror.com is back with THE go-to contest for horror screenwriters and film-makers!

The categories for the contest are: 
1) Feature-length screenplays 
2) Short screenplays 
3) Feature-length movies 
4) Short movies

Winning entrants will receive some truly awesome prizes, including:

- Cash 
- Publishing deals 
- Movie distribution offer 
- Film-making classes 
- Contacts with horror movie industry insiders 
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Grand Prix of the Americas went to Rajko Grlic’s Constitution (FFM 2016)

The Constitution (Ustav Republike Hrvatske), Croatia, Czech Republic, UK, Slovenia, Macedonia Directed by Rajko Grlic; written by Ante Tomic & Rajko Grlic; cast: Nebojsa Glogovac, Dejan Acimovic, Ksenija Marinkovic, Bozidar Smiljanic... The Story: Four characters (or rather three and a half, since the father of the protagonist is tied up to a deathbed with amputated legs, hardly able to speak) live in the same building, yet separated by different social status, political and ideological ...

Local Sugar

LOCAL SUGAR--Look at all the laurels! It's been a whirlwind trip through all of these festivals--some enough I was lucky enough to go to in person, some only live online, and others are on my bucket list.  If you want to see what all the fuss is about, please go check out the script at http://www.animation-writer.com .

Local Sugar, a Louisiana animated feature screenplay

LOCAL SUGAR, a Louisiana animated feature screenplay Mouse mayor Mary Lou, newly elected--her wedding to beau Sly Snake is expected. Unfortunately for the town, the sugar mill has just burned down. Rowley (frog and, frankly, scum) has town and bride under his thumb. Just one day--that's all Sly's got, to save his gal and foil the plot. "Best Screenplay - Animation" 2014 International Family Film ...

Local Sugar - Meet the Credits! I think that's how this works! Maybe!

(some of) THOSE WHO MADE IT POSSIBLE TO GET THIS FAR with LOCAL SUGAR

Local Sugar - Meet Deputy Tib, dogged detective

DEPUTY TIB from LOCAL SUGAR

Local Sugar - Meet Sheriff Hoggert, justice on the hoof

SHERIFF HOGGERT from LOCAL SUGAR

Local Sugar - Meet Miz Coco - part of our gatored community

MIZ COCO from LOCAL SUGAR

Local Sugar - Meet Uncle Neet - captain, mascot, CEO--ghost?

UNCLE NEET from LOCAL SUGAR

Local Sugar - Meet slimy local land baron Rowley--if you must

ANTHONY J. ROWLEY from LOCAL SUGAR

Local Sugar - Meet Sly Snake, our handless but handy mechanic

SLY SNAKE from LOCAL SUGAR

Local Sugar - Meet mouse mayor, Mary Lou

MARY LOU from LOCAL SUGAR  

Local Sugar - Meet the characters from the award-winning animated feature screenplay!

LOCAL SUGAR-- MEET THE CHARACTERS This and the following images are a quick introduction to the citizens of Sugarville, who have banded together to stop an evil plot that threatens their town--not to mention a wedding!

TWO WEEKS AWAY: Get your scripts ready!

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2016 NYTVF Scripts Competition Accepting Original Sitcom Scripts Are you an aspiring TV writer? Want to get your work in front of agents, managers, and development execs across the TV and digital landscape? Submit to NYTVF Scripts for a chance to have your project named an Official Selection of the 2016 New York Television Festival, become eligible for awards and development deals from NYTVF partners, and engage with the largest collection of television decision-makers anywhere on the Festi...
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