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.
If you have any questions, would like to request a written interview with our founder, or wish to introduce yourself further, feel free to email us!
Thank you very much for time,
The BlueCat Team
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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
SUBMIT YOUR SCREENPLAY: http://www.bluecatscreenplay.com
DEADLINE: March 1, 2010 with an entry fee of $50. LATE: April 1, 2010 with an entry fee of $60.
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Since 1998, we have built a large community of writers passionately committed to writing original, unforgettable work. Join our community for industry interviews, screenwriting advice articles and videos, and competition notifications.
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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
BlueCat Screenplay Competition
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Open to any unold writers
Must be industry standard full-length feature film
75% of locations must be shootable in Nevada
Deadline: August 31, 2010
See website for more details
SCRIPTOID, though brand new, is a highly connected and respected competition based out of South Florida. Please visit the website for prizes, judges and all contest-related information:
http://www.scriptoidchallenge.com
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!
TODAY- JUNE 30TH- is our EARLY BIRD DEADLINE. Enter by MIDNIGHT PST to qualify for our $35 entry fee.
Hello Fellow Screenwriters:
Let’s face it, there are a gazillion screenwriters coming out of almost every college in America and beyond. Colleges are making a fortune off these kids by churning out writers whose work may never see the night for day on a movie set unless they produce or direct them.
Personally, I feel we need more local producers coming out of colleges creating local film jobs, and less writers running off to Hollywood, but that’s just my point of view. And I suggest any writer to marry a producer if you can find one that loves you and your work as much as you love them.
But as a writer/director/producer who writes both books and screenplays, I feel the best thing for me to get out of entering a script contest is having something on the backend of it to promote my ability to write in general, regardless if I win, place or show.
After kicking around LA for nearly 30 years creating a life to draw upon I feel
that my best work is coming out of me right now in the form of my own novel series “Jozeph Picasso – Alien Trilogy, Filmmaking Adventures,” due out in October, 2010 and “Prolific Screenwriter,” a screenwriting process developed with the help of UCLA Extension of which I teach from, released July 20th 2010 in Kindle Books ASIN: B003QCIOBG and Paperback, ISBN: 1450590780 EAN13: 9781450590785 available on Amazon, Createspace.com https://www.createspace.com/3432995 and at LapTopPublishing.com.
Having the ability to draw daily upon a monetary return from my years of writing efforts is what’s most important now that I have children, a wife and a house to support.
That’s why I went out to LA in the mid-70s not only to learn how to write screenplays, but to invent a unique screenplay writing process that I could share with generations of writers who take the Hollywood Screenwriter Adventure after me, just in case I never end up selling the Great Write One to retire on. And it ain’t over yet. I’ve got three great scripts out there right now.
“Prolific Screenwriter” is that book, an Innovative Five-Step Reformatting Technique that turns outlines into screenplays and eliminates the fear of the blank page forever.
30 books and scripts later this unique writing process, that took the advent of the computer to prefect, has made writing screenplays for me so enjoyable that I had to force myself to stop writing and start marketing my scripts and now my books.
So I created my own publishing company, LapTopPublishing.com, and from here in Carmel, Indiana I now market my personal Hollywood Adventures, and use my success in screenplay contests as part of my marketing tools.
Having said that, this is what one of my scripts did in contests:
“One Lucky Pony” (aka “The Bankers Cup”)
Won First Place in WriteMovies.com A/Exposure Screenplay Contest.
Passed Quarterfinals, Entered Consider List at scDaily AAA Screenplay Contest.
Advanced To Nicholl Fellowships Quarterfinal Round.
Advanced To American Accolades Semi-final Round.
What people have said about the Script:
“One Lucky Pony is the first polo script to come my way that gets it right.”
Steve Crowder – Coach of American Cup Polo Team.
“Really well done. Congratulations!”
Alex McPhail – Screenplay Competition Director, Austin Film Festival.
If you are interested in learning more about becoming a “Prolific Screenwriter” feel free to contact me through LapTopPublishing.com
Write on,
Karl J. Niemiec
Karl — Awesome! Thanks for sharing your personal experiences and accomplishments. Looks like a lot of interesting work you have produced.
I agree strongly that people need to make opportunities where they are.
Here is my latest article about that:
http://www.screenwritingforhollywood.com/screenwriting-tips/nyc-or-la-hollywood-where-should-screenwriter-liv
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