Screenwriting Competitions, Opportunities & Announcements

2010 FOX-NYTVF Comedy Script Contest

I just got an e-mail saying that the Third Annual Fox-NYTVF Comedy Script Contest is on. I submitted a script to the contest last year; it was a good experience, and I was hoping they'd do it again this year.

There's no entry fee, but they require the script be registered. That costs $20 with WGA.

They're accepting submissions starting June 1, and ending June 15 (or when they get 1,500 entries, whichever comes first; last year they didn't reach that number).

ETA: First prize is nothing to sneeze at: $25,000, plus a development deal.

Good; now there's an announcement from NYTVF in the "Announcements, Events, and Self-Promotion" forum.

My work here is done. I'll be submitting a badger-related script.

I'm a bit new at this site. So, I'm learning the "ropes." Anyways, screenplay contest w/ no entry fees are always special. However, I can't write comedy -- yet. Know of any contest (no fees) for "serious" scripts?

DKM

Message copied from About to start pitching thread.

Amergin said:

Congratulations on completing such a thorough pilot package! as you know, it's a long shot, even for people already in the biz. Nothing ventured nothing gained, tho, right?

I think written queries are possibly the least effective. Better than nothing, but -- have you pitched in person yet? The Great American Pitch Fest is at the end of June; the Hollywood Screenwriters Expo is in October (I think), both in LA, both reputable and get a lot of producers to attend.

In addition, have you tried Virtual Pitch Fest? many of the same producers, companies, agents, and managers who attend the various LA pitch fests also take pitches on-line via VPF.

Last but not least -- People's Pilot! the contest closes in a couple of days, and it sounds like you are READY! there aren't many contests I'm aware of which actively seek out TV pilots, this one is pretty unique.

All the info you need about the PEOPLE'S PILOT, the contest for pilot scripts for your own new series ideas, including rules and prizes, is at http://peoplespilot.com All the info about the SPEC SCRIPTACULAR, which is for spec scripts written for MOWS (read, "screenplays") andcurrent or recent TV series, including rules and prizes, is at http://specscriptacular.comGood luck!

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Scriptsation 2010!

New Scriptsation Screenwriting Competition!

www.scriptsation.com

Top Prize $500

Top Two Scripts in each category will also receive consultation and production consideration with The Maine Studios.

Categories are: Short, Teleplay and Feature Length

Any Genre welcome.

Submit electronically at: www.scriptsation.com

FREE COMPETITION: The Showbizzle.com Writer Search

Announcing the showbizzle.com Writer Search!

showbizzle.com, the digital showcase and destination website for emerging talent, is looking for new writers to become part of our creative team. The showbizzle.com Writer Search is an open competition to discover and promote talented writers who are looking to have their material produced.

Here's how the showbizzle.com Writer Search works:
- We've posted five character prompts on our site: check them out here
- Choose your favorite prompt, or two, or even five!
- Write a 90-120 second monologue for each prompt you chose (500 words or less)
- Email your monologue(s) to [email protected] - we'll post them on the site, then allow showbizzle.com members to select, or "Like", the monologues they want to see showbizzle.com produce!

Monologues should be written in the conversational style of showbizzle.com's web series, Janey's Blog: your characters should be speaking to Janey. To get a better sense of how the Janey's Blog monologues work, scan the samples at http://showbizzle.com/monologues, and view the "blogisodes" they spawned at http://showbizzle.com/janeysblog!
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Who can submit:

All residents of the 50 United States and Washington, D.C. 18 years or older.
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Submission Details:

The Submission Period begins at 12:01 a.m. PST on June 15th, 2010, and ends at 11:59 p.m. PST on July 20th, 2010. After all entries have been received, all eligible submissions will be posted on the showbizzle.com Writer Search page in the order they were received.*

You may submit an entry for as many of the five characters as you choose, but only one monologue/entry per character.

Submit your entries via email to [email protected], preferably as PDF files.
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Selection Details:

After the Submission Period, monologues will be posted on showbizzle.com during the First Selection Round, when Members will be able to register which ones they "Like" best. Anyone can view the monologues, but only showbizzle.com Members can "Like" them, and they can only do so once per monologue.

The writer of the most "Liked" monologue for each character will automatically advance to the Final Selection Round. The other Finalists will be chosen by the Showbizzle Selection Team based on the quality and originality of the submission.

The FIRST SELECTION ROUND begins at 12:01 a.m. PST on July 21st, 2010 and ends at 11:59 p.m. PST on July 29th, 2010. Finalists will be announced on or about July 30th, 2010. This will open the Final Selection Round, which will close on August 8th, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. PST. Then, on or about August 9th, 2010, we'll announce the the Members' Choice and showbizzle.com Choice writers!
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Members' Choice? showbizzle.com Choice? Say what?

showbizzle.com's competitions are skill-based, but we care deeply about our Members' opinions, so in the end we designate both the Members' Choice and the showbizzle.com Choice. In this case, there can be a Members' Choice and a showbizzle.com Choice for each of the five characters - up to ten in all!

The Members' Choice is decided by showbizzle.com Members: the most "Liked" entry, wins!

The showbizzle.com Choice is determined by the showbizzle.com Selection Team, and is based on the quality and originality of the submission, as well as its use of the character prompt. Can one entry be named both the Members' Choice and the showbizzle.com Choice? But of course!
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THE PERKS:

- showbizzle.com Choice Perks:
1. $50 Cash
2. Your monologue will be used as the "sides" (script) for one or more subsequent showbizzle.com acting auditions. Translation: you'll get exposure, and will hopefully see your monologue performed onscreen by a number of actual human actors!
3. A featured spot on showbizzle.com as a showbizzle Favorite
4. Promotion on our site, and via Facebook and Twitter.

- Members' Choice Perks:
1. A featured spot on showbizzle.com as a showbizzle Fan Favorite
2. Promotion on our site, and via Facebook and Twitter


Submit to the Search and show us what you got!

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. This is a skill-based contest open only to legal residents of the 50 United States and Washington, D.C. 18 years and older. Void where prohibited.

* Please note that your entry will not be considered received until a confirmation e-mail has been sent to you, and that by submitting your monologue for The showbizzle.com Writer Search, you accept the Competition Details and showbizzle.com's Terms of Service and Master Competition Official Rules

UPDATE: DEADLINE EXTENDED!!

Hey all,

Wanted to let you guys know that we've extended the submission deadline for the Showbizzle.com Writer Search from July 20th to July 27th...that's a whole extra week to perfect those monologues!

For more details on the Showbizzle.com Writer Search, visit http://www.showbizzle.com/writers_search_info.

Just keep writing!
-teambizzle

Contest Cash Prizes. Screenplay- by Genre. Houston Writers Guild.

Houston Writers Guild Fall Contest www.houstonwritersguild.org
Novel/Screenplay By Genre
$2,000 TOTAL PRIZES
Six First Prizes
$300 for First Place in each genre
Plus Grand Prize for the Cream of the Crop: $800
(no ties)
1. Mystery/Thriller 2.Mainstream/Upmarket/Womans Fiction

3 Romance
[4] Narrative Nonfiction/Memoir
[5] Action/Adventure/ Sci-fi
[6] Young Adult (all genre)

$25 per entry Add a 2nd or 3rd
entry for $15 each
One page Synopsis
Cover page
First 12 pages your
Novel or Screenplay
Two copies each
Winner announced at the conference, on our webpage and in Scribbler the following week

Dead ƒ¾ line Sept 3, 2010

Don"t forget to enter Scriptsation!

Entries accepted until 10/31/10

Wingedman said:

New Scriptsation Screenwriting Competition!

www.scriptsation.com

Top Prize $500

Top Two Scripts in each category will also receive consultation and production consideration with The Maine Studios.

Categories are: Short, Teleplay and Feature Length

Any Genre welcome.

Submit electronically at: www.scriptsation.com

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Having failed (again) with the NYTVF competition, I'm considering the L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival (in the Half Hour Comedy TV Pilot category).

There's a $35 fee, a not insignificant sum to me these days. Does anybody know anything about this contest?

Anti Speeding Short Film Competition -> moved to stickied Competitions thread

The Road Safety Authority and Setanta insurance are running an anti speeding short film competition with a prize of €3,000 for the winning script/concept. It's open to 15 to 25 year olds and the theme is breaking the culture of speeding.

Find out more on their Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Anti-Speeding-Short-Film-Competition/143188679059022?ref=mf (Any "likes" would be much appreciated).

Or visit the competition website:

http://www.keepdramaofftheroads.ie/

The competition closes at 6pm on the 12th November 2010. Good luck

Hungry-Man Pitch Contest -merged into Screenwriting Competitions thread in Scripts, Stage and Screen

I just wanted to let you know about Filmaka’s new Hungry-Man competition. All you have to do is create a pitch for six 1 to 2 minute films featuring Hungry Heroes, in real life “on the street” situations, for Hungry-Mans new viral campaign. 5 to 6 films per each character will be chosen and each filmmaker will receive a prize of $10,000. The Hungry Heroes are Hungry Genghis, Hungry Da Vinci, and Hungry Davy Crockett. Pitches need to be geared to the American audience.

If your pitch is green lit you will receive a production budget of $30,000, Pitches are due November 22nd, production would start in January 2011.

Please go to filmaka.com/Hungry-Man to check out the all the Hungry Heroes.

I'm just a new person here (even though I've made like a zillion posts), but isn't there a thread for this? Writing-for-hire?

If I wanted to sell my creative genius to the highest bidder, I would have gone to advertising school.

BlueCat Screenplay Competition -> Moved to Stickied Comp Thread

THE BLUECAT FELLINI SCREENWRITING AWARDS

We are proud to announce a Call for Entries for the 2011 BlueCat Fellini Awards!
We are accepting SHORT Screenplays (5-45 pages) and FEATURE Screenplays (80 - 130 pages).
Each script will receive TWO ANALYSES, plus the numerical scores we use to judge your screenplay.
***EARLY BIRD Analysis Deadline - December 10***
Screenplays submitted by December 10 will receive their analysis by January 5th
Final Deadline is Fellini's birthday, January 20th, at midnight PST.
Five winners will be chosen and each winner will receive a MacBook Pro plus Final Draft software, or the cash equivalent. Each winner has the option to select cash for either or both prizes.
Finalists will be announced on April 15th, and the five winners will be awarded on May 15th. All analyses will be returned by April 1st.
Entry fee is $60.

SUBMIT YOUR SCREENPLAY:
http://www.bluecatscreenplay.com/main/index.php

BlueCat Screenplay Competition
Website: http://www.bluecatscreenplay.com
Facebook: http://facebook.com/pages/BlueCat-Screenplay-Competiton/140069287677
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlueCatPictures

2nd Annual Scriptsation Screenwriting Competition Begins!

2nd Annual Scriptsation Screenwriting Competition!

www.scriptsation.com

Top Prize $500

Top Two Scripts in each category will also receive consultation and production consideration with The Maine Studios.

Categories are: Short, Teleplay and Feature Length

Any Genre welcome.

Submit electronically at: www.scriptsation.com

Just got an e-mail about the Fourth Annual Fox-NYTVF Comedy Script Contest.

There's no entry fee, although they do require scripts to be registered. First prize is pretty amazing: $25,000 plus a development deal with Fox.

I've entered (and failed) the past two years; hoping to enter again this year, if I can get a script done in time. It's open to scripts for both regular and animated shows. (I've failed with one of each.) For me, it was a very worthwhile experience to write the scripts (though it would have been nice to at least make it into the 20 finalists). If you don't win, all rights revert to the writer a month after the contest concludes. (I've sent one of my failures elsewhere, where it will most likely also fail.)

So, just an FYI.

NYTVF-FOX Comedy Script Contest - Winner receives $25,000

Enter the 4th Annual FOX-NYTVF Comedy Script Contest and submit your script for an original half-hour comedy series. One winner will receive $25,000 and a development deal with FOX. 25 Finalists will have their scripts evaluated by FOX for possible development deal with the network and will receive NYTVF designation as 2011 Official Artists and be invited to the New York Television Festival, held in NYC in September, 2011.

There is no fee to enter the script contest.

Important Dates:
* * * *• * * * April 4, 2011……Script Submission Period Begins (at 12:00 noon ET)
* * * *• * * * April 18, 2011……Script Submission Period Ends (at 12:00 noon ET)
* * * *• * * * On or about September 17, 2011……2011 FOX-NYTVF Comedy Script Contest Winner is announced at Festival Award Show

Required Length and Format:
All scripts must be 25 to 35 pages in PDF format. For more information on the contest and how to submit, visit: http://nytvf.com/2011_fox_contest.htm

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About the New York Television Festival:
The New York Television Festival was founded in 2005 as the industry’s first creative festival for television artists. The NYTVF works in partnership with networks, studios, brands and agencies to more effectively and efficiently deliver the best projects and showcase the most promising artists.

Held in New York City each fall, the NYTVF hosts events ranging from red-carpet premieres (NYTVF Primetime), focused discussions on digital development and distribution (NYTVF Digital Day), fan panels (NYTVF Development Day) and screenings of the best in independent content (Independent Pilot Screenings). *For additional information, visit www.NYTVF.com

I've entered this in 2009 and 2010; try, try again.

Script Pipeline 2011 Screenplay and Teleplay Competition

The early deadline for the 2011 Screenplay and Teleplay Competition is quickly approaching! Enter by March 1st to receive $5 dollars off the regular entry fee. In addition, a special discount to writers at absolutewrite. Use the promo code "wordsmith" for 20% off the 2011 Screenwriting Competition.

In addition to $100,00 in cash and prizes for our winners, Script Pipeline uses its extensive connections in the Film Industry to showcase its finalists and winners to actual Producers, Managers, and Agents. The competition has assisted winners in securing writing assignments with studios such as Warner Brothers and Universal. 2008 winner Evan Daugherty's script Shrapnel will be directed by John McTeirnan (Die Hard, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Hunt for Red October). Enter by March 1st to receive a discounted entrance fee.

Visit www.scriptpipeline.com/screenwriting-competition for more contest information as well as additional success stories and writer's resources.

Scriptsation Adds More Prizes

2nd Annual Scriptsation Screenwriting Competition!

www.scriptsation.com

Top Prize $500

The top script will also receive consultation and production consideration with The Maine Studios.

An additional prize provided by Script Pipeline has been added for the Best Screenplay as well as the best of each format; Teleplay, Short and Feature.

Each of these four winners will receive a 1 yr membership to Script Pipeline Database (Value: $99.95)

Categories are: Short, Teleplay and Feature Length

Any Genre welcome.

Submit electronically at: www.scriptsation.com

Wingedman said:

2nd Annual Scriptsation Screenwriting Competition!

www.scriptsation.com

Top Prize $500

The top script will also receive consultation and production consideration with The Maine Studios.

An additional prize provided by Script Pipeline has been added for the Best Screenplay as well as the best of each format; Teleplay, Short and Feature.

Each of these four winners will receive a 1 yr membership to Script Pipeline Database (Value: $99.95)

Categories are: Short, Teleplay and Feature Length

Any Genre welcome.

Submit electronically at: www.scriptsation.com

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Sorry to sound cynical (actually I'm not sorry in the slightest) but you're advertising a competition with a first prize that is ten times greater than the late entry fee and 17 times greater than the normal fee. Do you not think this sounds like more a money-making exercise for the organisers than anything else? If they get 1000 entries at USD30 a pop they're making close to USD30,000 profit. Do you think they're after great scripts or your money?

I'm entering this. I love comedy and always had a desire to do stand-up. Began writing doing screenplays and teleplays so this ought to be damn fun! Plenty of time to develop for this

Come join the celebration of great film and great stories at the 16th annual Nantucket Film Festival and Screenplay Competition!

The screenplay competition provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to participate in the Screenwriters Colony, an annual month-long retreat where writers are encouraged to find their voice and push the boundaries of their craft under the guidance of established film professionals, an all-expense paid trip to the Festival in June, and a $5,000 cash prize. All competition finalists are invited to a Mentor's Brunch where they can discuss their projects with NFF's annual Screenwriters Tributee. The deadline for screenplay submissions is March 11.

Nantucket Film Festival will be from June 22-June 26, 2011.

Visit www.nantucketfilmfestival.org to submit!

Filmaka's Harbor Freight Tools Pitch Contest

You could win $14,000 for making less than 60 seconds of film in Harbor Freight Tools' commercial pitch competition. They're running a contest through filmaka.com to find ideas for commercials that will drive traffic to their stores and website. 10 pitches will win $500. Harbor Freight's goal is to produce up to three of the 10 pitches into commercial spots and air them on cable, network TV and online – a potential audience of millions. Those three winning pitches will each receive a $12,000 production budget, plus a $1,500 bonus for the writer-director. Including the $500 semi-finalist prize, that's a total of $14,000. Pitches are due Monday, April 4, 2011. Go to Filmaka.com/harborfreight to learn more