Contest Coordinator

Expired. Previous Deadline: 09/07/2010
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Our $90,000 in prizes aim to reward what Creative Screenwriting has been celebrating for the past 15 years: the art and craft of screenwriting.

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Screenplays which are unproduced, unoptioned and wholly original works of writers who have not earned more than $8,000 writing for film or television and who have not won a fellowship or contest with a 'first look' clause.

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1. All submissions must be postmarked by deadline. The Competition reserves the right to extend the deadline.
2. Submitted screenplays must be the unproduced, unoptioned, and wholly original work of the writer(s). There must be no dispute about the ownership of submitted screenplays or the writers' right to submit screenplay. Submitted teleplays will adhere to the industry "spec script" practice of being a derivative work based on a pre-existing television series, however submitted teleplays must contain original story and dialogue. For teleplays, any characters created by the writer(s) must bewholly original work. Pilots for unproduced television shows or episodes of an unproduced series will not be accepted.
3. Scripts by more than one writer are eligible, but only one prize will be given and it will be the writers's responsibility to distribute the prize. If writers of a script are unable to agree on the distribution of a prize, their script will be disqualified.
4. All writers of submitted scripts must be at least 18 years of age.
5. Writers of submitted scripts must not have earned more than $8,000 (in cash or other consideration) for writing services for film or television. Furthermore writers must not have won a fellowship or writing contest that includes a "first look" clause.

Please see Expo website for the rest of the rules.

$20,000 Cash Grand Prize!!!

Plus:

A media campaign, huge industry exposure, a trip to Los Angeles to the Screenwriting Expo, free tickets to pitch A-list companies and agencies, and much more!

• Four Genre Category Prizes Totaling $10,000 Cash
• A "Suzanne's Prize" Winner For Best Love Story - $2,000 Cash
• Two $1,000 Cash Winners for Television Scripts
• $500 Cash For Short Screenplay Winner