Sponsored by several top production and management companies, Screenplay Festival offers an honest opportunity for undiscovered writers to get their work into the right hands. Importantly, awards are given for each of the following five categories: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, and Thriller/Horror. Why should a drama and an action movie compete for the same prize? [...]
Atlas Entertainment looking Winners
Los Angeles based Atlas Entertainment is looking at Screenplay Festival’s winning scripts with a specific interest in the Thriller/Horror genre. We wish Atlas Entertainment and our winners the best and hope to see them working together soon!
Continue Reading →2011 Semi-Finalists
In order to choose the Grand Prize and Honorable Mention winners for Screenplay Festival, there are three rounds to the competition. In the first round, every script is read by three judges and rated regardless of genre. The screenplays with the highest ratings move into the second round, or the Semi-Final Round. The scripts listed [...]
Continue Reading →2011 Competition Closed
The October 7, 2011 final deadline has passed, which means that Screenplay Festival is no longer accepting entries for the 2011 competition. To be clear, writers who have begun the process of entering their scripts will be able to complete their entries, but new applications sent from this point forward will technically only be eligible [...]
Continue Reading →Deadline Extended to October 7
The final deadline for the Screenplay Festival 2011 competition has been extended to Friday, October 7. Each year we get many requests from panicked writers about being allowed to enter their scripts after the deadline, especially when our deadline in on a weekend like this year had been. In response to this, we have [...]
Continue Reading →Interview with Grand Prize Winner Hilliard Guess
Screenplay Festival is proud to see one of our 2010 Grand Prize winners, Hilliard Guess, moving forward with his career. He forwarded a link to an interview he recently gave and we could not be happier for him. And not just because he had this to say about Screenplay Festival: “I give a big thumbs-up [...]
Continue Reading →Manus Entertainment looking at winning scripts
Manus Entertainment is working with Screenplay Festival to take a look at our most recent Grand Prize and Honorable Mention winners. We wish our winners and the people at Manus Entertainment the best and hope to see them working together in the future.
Continue Reading →Final Deadline October 1
The Early Entry deadline has passed, and now the Final Deadline to enter Screenplay Festival’s 2011 contest is October 1. Enter today! The best way to get a reminder about our deadlines is to follow Screenplay Festival on Facebook or Twitter.
Continue Reading →High Integrity Productions looking at winners
High Integrity Productions, makers of Resurrection Marry, will be taking a look at Screenplay Festival’s winning scripts. We wish the best for them and our writers and hope to see big things for our writers.
Continue Reading →Little Studio Films looking at winners
Little Studio Films is taking a look at Screenplay Festival’s recent group of winners. Little Studio films is a dynamic, aggressive and rapidly expanding production and management company based in Los Angeles, California. We consider ourselves as a “one stop shop” for all international and national companies and individuals who are involved in all creative [...]
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"Since winning Screenplay Festival's Thriller/Horror Grand Prize, I've received so many requests for my script...it's scary! I've always been wary of most of the screenplay contests out there, but Screenplay Festival was definitely worth submitting to."
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