The Feature Length Spring Screenplay Competition
Submitted by Christopher on May 1, 2010 – 5:21 pm5 Comments
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Screenplay Competition Details
The Spring Screenplay Competition is the first of four seasonal competitions in 2010 focused on discovering the most talented screenwriters working within the feature-length medium.
Guidelines
- All submissions must be between 85 – 125 pages in length.
- Submissions must be submitted in .PDF, .DOC, and .FDR format.
Prizes
- Publicly announced and recognized by Scriptxray.com
- Free xCoverage from Scriptxray.com ($125 value)
- Free Stork to producers from ScriptStork.com ($75 value) – learn more!
Entry Fee
Each submission should be accompanied by an entry fee of $25 — this covers thetime it takes to read and provide xOne Coverage for the feature length material (usually about 2 – 3 hours).
Unlike most competitions out there, the entry fee won’t skyrocket as we approach the deadline.
Submission Deadline
All screenplays must be submitted by May 31st.
Click the submit button above to submit your screenplay via email. If you’re entry fee is sent from a different email than your screenplay submission, please let us know.
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Christopher,
What makes your contest different
from these:Savvy,Bluecat,Frenzy etc.
For starters, it’s way smaller and way cheaper (with the exception of Frenzy which is modeled after the free NaNoWriMo challenge).
Though other competitions, such as BlueCat, offer a great deal of prize money and prizes to the winner, it’s also easy to become lost in the thousands of submissions they receive — Bluecat received 3,229 submissions during their last competition.
Additionally, the majority of the competitions you’ll find at Scriptxray.com are focused toward a specific area of screenwriting, be it character development, subtext, or story setup (last month’s competition).
Not every competition is geared toward finding the best writer out there — rather, each one focuses on finding the writer best at what they do, whether that’s character development, subtext, or story setup. I wanted to throw a competition that brought light to writers that might not always be considered the best of the best, but rather the best at what the competition was focused on — thereby giving writers fair opportunity to become recognized for their talent.
In the industry, it’s not always about hiring the best of the best — it’s often about hiring one writer really strong with character and another writer strong with action and pace.
The feature screenplay competitions at the end of each season do, however, focus on general feature length work, so there’s still opportunity there as well.
In addition, all submissions are automatically entered into the annual competition — winners will be announced at the start of next year.
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Really it’s a nice way to encourage all the screenwriters working within the feature-length medium. And the guidelines are given very precisely. The offered prize is attractive. And the most happening thing is entry is free. Good luck to all participants.