CONTESTS
AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL SCREENPLAY COMPETITION 
The Austin Film Festival has extended the Screenplay Competition postmarked deadline to June 1, 2005. Screenplays can be submitted into either the Adult/Family or Comedy category. You may then also choose to be considered for the NEW Burnt Orange or Sci-Fi awards.
The AFF and Burnt Orange Productions are searching for the best low budget screenplay that could be FILMED in Texas (does not have to be set in Texas). Burnt Orange (www.burntorangeproductions.com) will consider the winning script for production.
The Sci-Fi Award will be looking for the best script containing one of the following elements: fantasy, magic realism, horror, surrealism, science fiction, myth/legend and/or fantastical storytelling. Joe Bob Briggs (http://www.joebobbriggs.com) will participate as a Finalist judge for this award.
Please visit our website at www.austinfilmfestival.com, or call Dawn at (800) 310-3378 for more information.
SHORT FILMS BIG PRIZES SCREENPLAY GIVEAWAY CONTEST
You've got less than a month to get your fantastic film idea onto paper and enter into this year's WSFF Screenplay Giveaway Contest.
You could win our BIGGEST prize to date! It's valued at over $90,000 and includes:
• Standard or high definition transfer or Cinema DI at Cine-Byte
• Post Production services by Deluxe Laboratories
• Studio time at @Wallace Studios
• Panavision camera equipment rentals
• Kodak film stock
• Script consultation courtesy of The Development House
• Two Programming passes for WIFT-T
• Legal advice from Heenan Blaikie Barristers and Solicitors
• Private screening courtesy of Famous Players Inc
Enter your script (40 pages or less) by mail or in person to:
WSFF Screenplay Giveaway
2489 Bayview Ave.,
Toronto, ON M2L 1A8
(Fax submission will NOT be accepted.)
For more info call 416-445-1446 ext.406
Info posted May 20, 2005
ONLY 4 WEEKS LEFT TO ENTER TV WRITER.COM WRITING CONTESTS
1. PEOPLE'S PILOT and SPEC SCRIPTACULAR writing contests sponsored by TV Writer.Com, WriteSafe.Com, and Cloud Creek Institute For The Arts. Entries for both contests are due on or before June 1, 2005 if sent in as direct online uploads, or must be postmarked no later than June 1, 2005 if sent by <gulp> snail mail.
The PEOPLE'S PILOT is for great new series ideas, and all you have to do is send in a proposal/presentation. The show can be any genre - drama, action, sitcom, reality, game, lifestyle, animation, kids show, you name it - and can be intended for broadcast networks, cable channels, PBS, even local stations - regardless of country. (All we ask is that your entry be written in English!)
Entry forms and full info on rules, prizes, and eligibility can be found at http://www.peoplespilot.com
2. The SPEC SCRIPTACULAR is for spec scripts written for TV, and all have to do is send in a completed teleplay. The script can be for any existing drama, action show, or sitcom, or for an original TV movie or even for a pilot in any genre, and can be intended for broadcast networks, cable channels, PBS, and local stations - no matter what the country. (But we do ask that scripts for existing series be for shows broadcast in English, and that everything completely new be written in English as well.)
Entry forms and full info on rules, prizes, and eligibility can be found at http://www.specscriptacular.com
Deadline June 1, 2005
CINECITY - OUT ON SCREEN: SCRIPT COMPETITION
Three scripts will be short-listed for a public read at the Vancouver Queer Film + Video Festival, August 4-14, 2005.
The winning script, as decided by an Out On Screen + Citytv jury, will be awarded $5000 in development funds.
We are thrilled to offer this exciting new competition to both established and emerging artists. On August 14, one British Columbian writer will be walking away with $5000 to further develop their script!
Made possible by the generous support of Citytv and the CineCity Initiative, the CineCity-Out On Screen: Script Competition gives priority to visible minority and Aboriginal artists.We are thrilled to offer this exciting new competition to both established and emerging artists. On August 14, one British Columbian writer will be walking away with $5000 to further develop their script!
Got a story to tell? Send us your script!
Download the CineCity-Out On Screen: Script Competition Guidelines and Application Form.
http://www.outonscreen.com/_artists/artists_diy.htm
Deadline for Scripts: Friday May 27, 4:00pm.
Contact:
Michael Barrett, director of programming
(604) 844 1615
michaelb@outonscreen.com
I'M A LITTLE PICKLED THEATRE COMPANY
Playwrighting Contest
Prize : $2000
&
We'll produce a two week run of the show!
We are pleased to announce the search for a playwright to create an original show for our theatre company to produce.
This is a pilot program that will coincide with our first full season beginning in September 2005. The season will be comprised of four plays running for two weeks each. The fourth and final show of the season will be the original play by the winning writer and will run for two weeks in May 2006.
I'm A Little Pickled Theatre Company prides itself in producing shows that are rarely produced. We like to take risks with subject matter. I'm A Little Pickled Theatre Company is a Registered Non Profit Theatre Society and is an equal opportunity artist platform. Our purpose is to create live theatre that evokes emotion. To have fun with what we love. Plain and simple. Nothing more, nothing less.
Application details:
Deadline - June 30, 2005.
Application fee - $10 Canadian (via cash, money order or certified cheque).
Please submit your resume, an outline of a proposed script and/or two samples of your writing to:
I'm A Little Pickled Theatre Company - Playwrighting
c/o Randie Parliament, Co-Artistic Director
Suite 203, 1999 Nelson Street
Vancouver, BC V6G 1N4
Canada
Phone interviews with five finalists will take place on July 15, 2005.
The announcement of the winning playwright will be made on or before August 1, 2005.
Full script is not required. Story line and character outline is suggested.
Completed script of the winning writer will be required in January 2006 for a public reading in February 2006. A video and panel review will be sent to the playwright following the reading.
Award of the grand prize will be divided into two payments. $500 will be issued upon announcing the successful applicant, and $1500 will be issued on Opening Night of the play.
This contest is open to absolutely anyone with the creativity to write a play! Regardless if you live in Australia or in Sudan, or if you are 15 or 75 you have equal opportunity. All plays and correspondence must be translated into English. Subject matter and Musicals are open. We will accept complete, not yet produced scripts for consideration. Scripts will not be returned.
Questions? - email info@pickledtheatre.com
http://www.pickledtheatre.com
FINAL DRAFT
Final Draft's 6th Annual Big Break! International Screenwriting Contest Increases Prize Value to $15,000
Winner to Receive $15,000 in Cash and Prizes Plus Meetings with Industry Professionals
Our 6th annual Big Break! International Screenplay Contest has added more valuable prizes! Microsoft Corporation has just become our 2005 Premier Sponsor and is donating a Tablet PC, loaded with software, to the top three finalists.
The winner is also awarded $10,000 cash, plus meetings with industry professionals. The top ten finalists will receive a copy of Final Draft scriptwriting software, a Microsoft software package, a screenwriting course from Gotham Writers' Workshop, one-year subscriptions to Fade In and scr(i)pt magazines and a gift certificate from The Writers Store.
Big Break! is an annual, global screenwriting competition designed to promote emerging creative talent. Many of the previous years' winning scripts have been produced or optioned. Entries will be accepted until June 15. For more information about the Big Break! Contest, visit www.bigbreakcontest.com.
Liz Alani
Contest Director
bigbreak@finaldraft.com
AAA SCREENPLAY CONTEST
Call for Entries!
Online Entry is Now Open
Breaking into the world of screenwriting is no easy task. Creative Screenwriting Magazine (http://www.creativescreenwriting.com/) is proud to present the AAA Screenplay Contest, a chance for a few talented writers to take the next step in their writing career.
Access
The winning script and synopses for the top ten screenplays have been requested by the following companies:
* BenderSpink
* David Foster Productions
* The Donner Company
* Endeavor
* Escape Artists
* The Gersh Agency
* Hofflund/Polone Management
* International Creative Management
* New Line Cinema
* Paradigm
* Radar Pictures
* The Radmin Co.
* Spring Creek Pictures
* VH1
* Weintraub/Kuhn Productions
* Winkler Films
* Zide/Perry
Plus over eighty additional agents, managers, and development executives. For an updated and complete list of companies, click www.creativescreenwriting.com/aaa/access.
Acclaim
The winner of the AAA contest will be profiled in Creative Screenwriting magazine and the names of the top ten finalists will be published in CS Weekly. Finalists and their screenplays will also be publicized in press releases and ads placed in industry publications.
Achievement
Prizes include $3,000 cash for the Grand Prize winner, plus the winning script mailed to over 100 agents, managers, and development executives who have requested it, screenwriting software, a subscription to Creative Screenwriting, and free admission to Screenwriting Expo 4. Second and third places receive $500 cash, free software, subscription, and admission. Plus the top ten have synopses for their scripts submitted to over 100 agents, managers, and producers who have requested them.
Submit your best work in any genre.
DEADLINE June 1, 2005
Only $40 to enter.
For complete details, http://www.creativescreenwriting.com/aaa/
To submit your screenplay right now, https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/step1.php
Contact Information
email: csdaily@creativescreenwriting.com
voice: (323) 957-1405
web: http://www.creativescreenwriting.com
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