Luke Guidici is managing the Emerging Filmmakers Program at Hollywood Shorts. He is overseeing a focused search for great feature length screenplays for a handful of their top directors, and has requested a look at the scripts discovered through Screenplay Festival.  Luke will soon have log lines from many of our Grand Prize and Honorable Mention [...]

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Congratulations to the Grand Prize and Honorable Mention winners for Screenplay Festival 2011!  Reading, judging, and ranking scripts is a very difficult process, and the scripts listed below made it through to the end and we applaud their great work. 2011 Winners:   Action/Adventure Grand Prize Winner: The Leonis Relic – T. Thor Leach Honorable [...]

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Screenplay Festival is pleased to announce that Caliber Media Company is taking a look at the winners of past competitions at Screenplay Festival.  We hope that this leads to great things!

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In order to choose the Grand Prize and Honorable Mention winners for Screenplay Festival, there are three rounds to the competition.  The scripts listed below made it through this process and deserve recognition as Screenplay Festival Finalists. We appreciate everyone’s hard work and would again like to congratulate everyone for their great writing! 2011 Finalists: [...]

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Producer and Director David Semel is working with Screenplay Festival to take a look at the loglines of our Grand Prize and Honorable Mention winners. We hope that many of the scripts pique his interest and that our writers find themselves working with an industry veteran of Mr. Semel’s standing.

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Screenplay Festival is working with Original Productions, getting them the loglines for the winning scripts from the last few years.  This is why screenwriters must have a great logline at the ready — that is what gets you in the door.

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Waterman Entertainment is working with Screenplay Festival to take a look at our Grand Prize and Honorable mention winners. We wish Waterman Entertainment and our winners the best and hope to see them working together soon!

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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!

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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