2010 Screenplay Contests Deadlines & New Links
The following are the deadlines and links to the best 2010 screenwriting competitions.
Nantucket Film Festival Showtime’s Tony Cox Awards Screenplay Competitions
March 1, 2010
Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Competition
May 1, 2010
Austin Film Festival Screenplay And Teleplay Competitions
May 15, 2010
Samuel Goldwin Writing Awards Competition for Theater, Film and Television
June 1, 2010 — University of California Students only!
Zoetrope Screenplay Contest
September 7, 2010
For more information about each of these contests, please read last year’s post that includes writers’ discussion in comments section:
Top 8 Screenplay Contests of 2009 and the Scams
Good luck!
You may review other contests or add your own screenwriting competition to the comments section here. Thank you.
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2010 Screenplay competition, part of Southwest Writers 28th Annual Writing Contest
On behalf of BlueCat Screenwriting’s goal to bring more exposure to International screenwriters, I’m writing to cordially invite writers in your community to consider submitting a feature length screenplay to the 2010 BlueCat Screenplay Competition.
Below please find full competition details if you wish to post on your website or blog or send along to your community.
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2010 BlueCat Screenplay Competition
DEADLINE March 1st
EVERY SCREENPLAY RECEIVES WRITTEN SCRIPT ANALYSIS
*Winner receives $10,000
*Four Finalists receive $1500 each.
*The best screenplay from the UK will receive $2500.
*The best screenplay from outside the USA, Canada, and the UK will receive $2500
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DEADLINE: March 1, 2010 with an entry fee of $50. LATE: April 1, 2010 with an entry fee of $60.
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PAST WINNER SUCCESS:
Ana Lily Amirpour
2007 BlueCat Grand Prize Winner – The Stones
*Participant for 2009 Tribeca All Access
*Recipient of first annual Adrienne Shelly Screenwriting Award and Fellowship
*Ana Lily has been invited to attend the BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS #8 in Berlin (selected from over 4700 applicants from 128 countries)
*Recently signed with CAA
Andy Pagana and Justin Thomas
2004 BlueCat Grand Prize Winner – Man in the Rearview Mirror
*2004 Nicholl Fellowship Semi Finalist
*Winner in the 2006 Austin Film Festival Heart of Film Screenplay Competition
*Under option with Shirley MacLaine and Emmy-nominated director Michael Rhymer attached
Andy Stock and Rick Stempson
2005 BlueCat Grand Prize Winner – Balls Out: The Gary Houseman Story
*Starred Sean William Scott and was released by Sony in early 2008
*Second produced screenplay released last year—The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, was directed by Neal Brennan, and starred Jeremy Piven
Lance Hammer
2004 BlueCat Finalist – The Imperfect Cell
*Wrote, directed, edited, and distributed Ballast, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Lance won the Directing Award, and Ballast was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.
*Ballast was nominated for 2009 Independent Spirit Award and Best Film at the 2008 Gotham Awards, where Lance won the Breakthrough Director Award.
Aaron Guzikowski
2005 BlueCat Finalist – Panacea
*Signed with Endeavor with his screenplay Prisoners
*Set to direct Mark Wahlberg in a remake of the acclaimed Icelandic thriller, Reykjavik-Rotterdam
Ryan David Jahn
2005 BlueCat Finalist – The Break-In
*Recently released a novel entitled Acts of Violence
*Ryan has turned his BlueCat Finalist The Break-In, into a novel to be released in July as Low Life
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Open to any unold writers
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Deadline: August 31, 2010
See website for more details
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On behalf of SCRIPTOID, I’d like to say thank you for considering our competition!
ANDREA ALBIN
Competition Director
The SCRIPTOID Writer’s Challenge is a different kind of screenwriting competition- and it’s becoming a sensation!
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