PVIFF is hosted by Gipp. Museums, Inc. PVIFF attracts 3,000+ people each year from around the world. PVIFF was created in 2006 under the previous name (Sweet Auburn International Film Festival) and have served as the launching pad for many successful filmmakers and other artists alike in the film & entertainment industry. This dynamic international film festival showcases feature length films, shorts, music videos, documentaries, and screenplays from around the globe. PVIFF also feature celebrity attractions, innovative workshops, panels, parties, and much more. PVIFF is one of the most celebrated film events through dynamic programming and a dedication to helping filmmakers excel in their careers. PVIFF's brand is entrenched in the old saying "It Takes A Village."

Faith in Film is designed to launch the careers of aspiring faith based writers, encourage established writers to transition into faith based film, and inspire writers of all faiths to include an element of faith in their films.

Faith in Film rewards screenwriters with cash and prizes, including distribution of your scripts to our database of A-list executives that represent the top agents, talent managers, and distributors in the faith based market.

We are delighted to announce the return of our main international competition for Summer 2017. The WriteMovies Summer 2017 Screenwriting Competition is now OPEN!

Win $2000 and become our next success story! There’s $2000 available in prize money, plus over $3000 in script development for the 3 winners, and new bonuses and promotion through InkTip (see below!) – we promise to develop and promote them to the top of the international film industry. Hundreds of writers have found representation or had their scripts produced through our competitions since 1999.

Screenplays, teleplays and pilot scripts are all welcomed. All submissions also get free automatic entry to our Featured Script of the Month contest – awarding free consultancy and re-entry to the most interesting script we receive every month!

"One of the UK's top film festivals to know about" - London METRO
"A top ten event" - Het Parool
"Culture Calendar" - VOGUE Nederland
"Amsterdam hosts a great cinema event" - iAmsterdam

LGBT Film Festival and Screenplay Competition.

We are looking for FILMS and SCREENPLAYS with an LGBT theme to be part of the New Renaissance Film Festival, which will take place in Amsterdam, next March (2018).

Different lengths and different genres are welcome, and we especially love quality drama shorts with strong emotional themes.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

The New Renaissance Film Festival had its successful inaugural event in Amsterdam in March 2017, and is part of larger festival which takes place in London. NRFF Amsterdam and LGBT NRFF Amsterdam will be held at the arthouse cinema LAB111, which is close to the famous Vondelpark in Amsterdam, a city known for its diversity and innovation in the creative arts. We will screen up to 100 films in two cinemas over the course of three days. The event will include professional MASTER CLASSES, Filmmakers Q&A's, Panel Discussions, a fun COCKTAIL HOUR and AWARDS CEREMONY.

The festival will be OPEN TO THE PUBLIC and ticket sales will be announced on the website in due course.

CCW seeks to discover which feature screenplay from the winners and finalists of the many quality competitions is the best of the best.

This year, we’ll be shouting it out at the Sunscreen Film Festival West, September 29-October 1, 2017 in Los Angeles where contest finalists and winners will meet with agents, producers, successful filmmakers, and celebrities.

ALL Entrants receive:
• 2 Industry Professional Script Evaluations on their entry coverage and score sheet) valued at more than $500. We are famous for these.

Ten Finalists also receive:
• • Presentation in Trophies Ceremony at Sunscreen Film Festival West
• VIP Passes to Sunscreen Film Festival West, which includes:
◦ access to all Films, Parties, Workshops, and Celebrity Events
◦ access to all workshops and panels by top Hollywood actors, producers, screenwriters and filmmakers
◦ discount lodging
• Publicity for writer, script title, and log line to Agents, Prodcos, Managers, and Industry News
• Continued promotion on ScriptDoctor.com
• Group membership with other Contest Finalists for networking and news, which includes our great Facebook sharing page for writers https://www.facebook.com/contestofcontestwinners

1st and 2nd Place Winners also receive:
• Story Notes from ScriptDoctor.com (rated No. 1 in national survey ) valued at $1500
• All Finalist prizes listed above like the Presentation in Trophies Ceremony
• A listing of your script on InkTip so that producers and reps can find you
• Publication of your logline in InkTip's magazine sent to nearly 15,000 producers and reps
• A 30 minute Consult with an Industry agent or producing company plus Bragging rights!

Discovering new screenwriting talent from around the world.




Shore Scripts Screenwriting Competition is focused on unearthing the best scripts from around the world and getting them into the hands of the producers and production companies who have the ability to get them made.




Patrick Tobin, the writer of CAKE starring Jennifer Aniston is one of our most recent successes. The film is to be released in Jan 2015 by Warner Bros. Have a look at our Alumni here: http://www.shorescripts.com/alumni/




We have the highest calibre of industry judges of any screenwriting competition in the world. Our 21 judges include OSCAR & BAFTA Winners. We also have OVER 100 PRODUCTION COMPANIES & AGENTS attached to read this years best scripts.




* OSCAR WINNING ACTOR, JEREMY IRONS - THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN, REVERSAL OF FORTUNE, DIE HARD +




* OSCAR NOMINATED WRITER, JEFFREY CAINE - THE CONSTANT GARDENER, GOLDENEYE +




* BAFTA WINNING WRITER, TONY GRISONI - FEAR & LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS, TIDELAND, THE RED RIDING TRILOGY +




* AFI WINNER & CANNES PALME D'OR NOMINATED DIRECTOR, RAY LAWRENCE - LANTANA, JINDABYNE +




* DIRECTOR PHYLLIDA LLOYD - MAMMA MIA, THE IRON LADY




* LIZA MARSHALL - HEAD OF FILM @ RIDLEY SCOTT'S, SCOTT FREE




* MICHELLE WRIGHT - IN CHARGE OF PRODUCTION @ WORKING TITLE FILMS




* OSCAR NOMINATED PRODUCER, PAUL WEBSTER - EASTERN PROMISES, SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN +




* OSCAR NOMINATED PRODUCER, STEPHEN WOOLLEY - THE CRYING GAME, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE +




We have a strong relationship with the production companies signed up to read the years best scripts. These scripts do not necessarily need to be winning scripts. If we feel a script is suited to a companies slate, we will send it on. This will always be with the writers prior consent, and can be at any point during and after the competition.




FEATURE PRIZES




Grand Prize Winner
* $4000 cash (£3200 approx)
* Your script will be sent out to all 80+ Production Companies, Agents & Managers
* Final Draft Version 9 Software
* InkTip Script Listing: A listing of your script on InkTip so that producers & reps can find you.




2nd Place
* $1000 cash (£800 approx)
* Your script will be sent out to all 80+ Production Companies, Agents & Managers
* Final Draft Version 9 Software
* InkTip Script Listing: A listing of your script on InkTip so that producers & reps can find you.




3rd Place
* $500 cash (£400 approx)
* Your script will be sent out to all 80+ Production Companies, Agents & Managers
* Final Draft Version 9 Software
* InkTip Script Listing: A listing of your script on InkTip so that producers & reps can find you.




4th Place
* $250 cash (£200 approx)
* Your script will be sent out to all 80+ Production Companies, Agents & Managers
* Final Draft Version 9 Software
* InkTip Script Listing: A listing of your script on InkTip so that producers & reps can find you.




5th Place
* Your script will be sent out to all 80+ Production Companies, Agents & Managers
* Final Draft Version 9 Software
* InkTip Script Listing: A listing of your script on InkTip so that producers & reps can find you.




SHORT FILM FUND
A production grant of up to $15,000 (£12,100 approx) will be awarded to the winning script.




TV PILOT PRIZES




Grand Prize Winner
* $2000 cash (£1600 approx)
* Your script will be sent out to all 42+ Production Companies, Agents & Managers
* Final Draft Version 9 Software
* InkTip Script Listing: A listing of your script on InkTip so that producers & reps can find you.




2nd Place
* $500 cash (£400 approx)
* Your script will be sent out to all 42+ Production Companies, Agents & Managers
* Final Draft Version 9 Software
* InkTip Script Listing: A listing of your script on InkTip so that producers & reps can find you.




3rd Place
* $250 cash (£200 approx)
* Your script will be sent out to all 42+ Production Companies, Agents & Managers
* Final Draft Version 9 Software
* InkTip Script Listing: A listing of your script on InkTip so that producers & reps can find you.




4th Place
* Your script will be sent out to all 42+ Production Companies, Agents & Managers
* Final Draft Version 9 Software
* InkTip Script Listing: A listing of your script on InkTip so that producers & reps can find you.




5th Place
* Your script will be sent out to all 42+ Production Companies, Agents & Managers
* Final Draft Version 9 Software
* InkTip Script Listing: A listing of your script on InkTip so that producers & reps can find you.




SHORT PRIZES




Grand Prize Winner
* $1000 cash (£800 approx)
* Your script will be sent out to all 30+ Production Companies, Agents & Managers
* Final Draft Version 9 Software
* InkTip Script Listing: A listing of your script on InkTip so that producers & reps can find you.




2nd Prize
* $500 cash (£400 approx)
* Your script will be sent out to all 30+ Production Companies, Agents & Managers
* Final Draft Version 9 Software
* InkTip Script Listing: A listing of your script on InkTip so that producers & reps can find you.




+ MORE

The Moondance International Film Festival invites all talented US & International filmmakers, writers and music composers to submit their films, written works and film scores to its 18th annual season.

Moondance is known as the “American Cannes” of film festivals, and features the very best of indie films, music & writing by talented artists from around the world. Plan now to participate in this unique competition and film festival! For the last 17 years, the annual Moondance International Film Festival has showcased many hundreds of top-quality award-winning indie films, and promoted filmmakers, writers, composers, actors, industry professionals and media, from around the world.

The Filmmatic Screenplay Awards were created by the Filmmatic.com staff to locate and expose up-and-coming screenwriters, as well as to empower and educate those talented writers still waiting for their invitation to the mainstream industry.

You've worked hard on your screenplay, and our staff and Judges are excited to read your work. Entries can be made via the form on our website, or through the FilmFreeway or Withoutabox systems.

The competition will result in 1 Overall Winner, 10 Categorical Winners, and 100 Honorable Mentions. All Winners and Honorable Mentions will be announced by September 15, 2017.

The program’s objective is to help writers improve their craft so they may learn the skills necessary to help them achieve their goal of obtaining representation, selling or optioning their work, and/or landing a writing assignment. This program is for feature and/or screenplays only.

"One of the UK's top film festivals to know about" - London METRO
"A top ten event" - Het Parool
"Culture Calendar" - VOGUE Nederland
"Amsterdam hosts a great cinema event" - iAmsterdam

A FESTIVAL FOR INSPIRING ARTISTS AND STORYTELLERS

This three day festival is organized by JAN HENDRIK VERSTRATEN and MASSIMO BARBATO who are themselves filmmakers and writers. They believe at the heart of every great film is a great story, one that will inspire an audience and hopefully help to shape culture in a positive way.

NRFF had its successful inaugural festival in London in August 2016, and then in Amsterdam in March 2017. The second edition of NRFF Amsterdam will be held in March 2018, at the arthouse cinema LAB111, which is close to the famous Vondelpark in Amsterdam, a city known for its diversity and innovation in the creative arts.

NRFF Amsterdam has several categories for International, Benelux and LGBT filmmakers. We especially love quality drama shorts with strong emotional themes.

We will screen up to 100 films in two cinemas over the course of three days. This event includes a screenwriting competition, professional MASTER CLASSES by industry professionals, Filmmaker Q&A's, Panel Discussions, a fun COCKTAIL HOUR and AWARDS CEREMONY. The festival will be open to the public and ticket sales will be announced on the website in due course.

3 Film and 3 screenplay winners will receive an InkTip Script Listing so they can promote themselves and their scripts to InkTip’s entire network of producers, managers, and agents. Screenplay winners will also have their logline featured in InkTip Magazine . InkTip Magazine is sent to over 15,000 producers and representatives.

Companies who are InkTip members include: ABC, Anonymous Content, APA, CBS Films, HBO Films, ICM, Paradigm, Paramount Pictures, Hallmark Channel, FX, Universal, WME, Echo Lake, Zero Gravity, Bad Robot, 20th Century Fox, and many more.

Producers have made more than 315 films from scripts and writers found through InkTip.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
​Welcome to TheWriteRoom.Org/Screenplay Competition-2017

Our aim is to discover and recognize the brightest new talented original voices in storytelling from around the world that spotlights women and girls as protagonists in positive light at all age ranges as the writer/s deem interesting. We are open to all genres with the exception of explicit sex i.e. pornographic or stories that use excessive torture against /or of women as a thematic device.
We seek to support and nurture the artistic entertainment literature (screenplays) of Women for the benefit of an international and domestic audience. Male writers are encouraged to participate; all screenplay entries must EITHER have female protagonist(s), feature dimensional female character(s) and/or have been either WRITTEN, CO-WRITTEN by a woman.

BEST SCREENPLAY:
This category is a competition.
$500 US Dollar cash prize

BEST NEW VOICES
Winners will receive a scholarship to attend
a TheWriteRoom.Org/Program
Cash Value: $200 US Dollar

Apply Today and&GOOD LOOK!

We are all about giving agents, showrunners, and executives exactly what they now are looking for: Spec pilot teleplays that showcase you, the new writer operating at your very best. If the suits love the writing of a spec pilot, they have the best reason in the world to trust the writer to come through in the development process. A strongly-written spec pilot shows you’re ready for the gig.

Winners, Finalists, and Semi-Finalists of TVWriter™’s past contests are or recently have been on the staffs of:

LETHAL WEAPON
WESTWORLD
MOM
NARCOS
TIME AFTER TIME
GREY’S ANATOMY
THE LEFTOVERS
THE BASTARD EXECUTIONER
ANIMAL PRACTICE
KILLER WOMEN
NTSF:SD:SUV
GIRLFRIENDS
FILTHY PREPPY TEENS
MELROSE PLACE
SNEAKY PETE
CHICAGO PD
CHICAGO FIRE
PERSON OF INTEREST
THE WALKING DEAD
RIZZOLI AND ISLES
COLONY
ONCE UPON A TIME
TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES
SMALLVILLE
ROME
PRIVATE PRACTICE
SNOWFALL (upcoming)

And that doesn’t include various TV movie assignments & other one-offs!

The PEOPLE’S PILOT COMPETITION is held yearly, opening for entries June 1 and closing November 1. We do our best to announce the Winners, starting with Semi-Finalists, over a two week period in January and February of the following year.

The contest is for scripted series intended for just about any media you can think of. Broadcast TV. Cable and satellite TV. Internet series on major sites from Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu through YouTube, Vimeo and other popular uploading channels and venues, to your own personal website.

Categories

The PP is divided into 2 prize-giving categories plus a Special Bonus Category:

Scripted Comedy Series – intended for any electronic platform (including broadcast and premium cable series, internet series, cell phone series et al) of any length of any length required for telling your story
Scripted Drama & Action Series – intended for any electronic platform (including broadcast and premium cable series, internet series, cell phone series et al) of any length required for telling your story
NEW! Special Bonus Category – Thanks to Manner Movie Limited, a longtime PEOPLE’S PILOT sponsor, and Global Saga Media Entertainment, both of Hong Kong, all entries in this year’s competition automatically will be eligible for the Special International Production Award, which will be given to an entry or entries that the judges deem especially suitable for the global television market.
All categories are open to any imaginable sub-genres, including:

Drama
Comedy
Action
Dramedy
Anthology
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Children’s
Soap Opera
Medical
Legal
Police & Detective
Historical
Live Action
Animation
Puppetry
Anything else we haven’t mentioned that you want your series to be.
In other words, the PEOPLE’S PILOT is wide open to whatever you want to express and whatever expresses you as a creative force best.

Established in 2008, the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards are the motion picture industry's PREMIER screenplay competition, with Oscar nominated and Emmy winning judges on the panel who are focused on discovering, promoting, and producing the works of new writing talent.

This years amazing panel of judges include: Stuart Benjamin (Ray, Mortal Thoughts), Bob McCullough (Star Trek, Soldier of Fortune), Ron Friedman (Transformers, G.I. Joe), Michael Sloan (The Equalizer, Kung Fu), Mikhael Bassilli (Blue Bloods, Royal Pains), Jerry London (Hawaii Five-0, Shogun), Garner Simmons (Poltergeist, The Last Samurai), Suzanne Herrera (Zorro, Falcon Crest), Gordon Webb (Ghostbusters, Six Days Seven Nights), plus more!

Feature Films, TV Pilots, and Short Film Scripts are all welcome to submit. With over $10,000 in prizes, LAISA has a track record for the cultivation, mentorship, and employment of talented up-and-coming screen and television writers. Winners not only win a cash and development deal, but they will also be identified and promoted as ready to present to major Hollywood agents, producers, and studios.

The Action on Film 13th Annual Film Festival and Writers' Celebration recognizes, celebrates and honors writers of all genres and formats like no other festival does. Now in our 13th year, our screenplay competition has garnered a solid reputation as being one of the premier competitions. The AOF has created a solid community of writers from around the globe. AOFFEST embraces the written word and acknowledges that it is the basis to all good films, teleplays, TV series etc. Without the Word, there would be no action. Action on Film accepts written word screenplays, teleplays, stage plays, poetry and prose in ALL GENRES. Let the AOF be your partner in getting your written works, read, recognized, celebrated and honored. Submit and be a part of the AOF Family.

The Cynosure Screenwriting Competition seeks to reward screenplays in two categories: scripts with compelling female protagonists and scripts that showcase diversity. There will be one $5000 Grand Prize winner. This winner can come from either category. Additionally, the Grand Prize Winner will receive a Cynosure Mentorship - a meeting with an established Hollywood Producer, Agent or Manager. The First Runner-Up from each category will receive a cash prize of $500. The Second Runner-Up from each category will receive a cash prize of $250. The Winner and Runner-Ups will also receive prize packages from InkTip and SellAScript.com. For more information and additional prizes, please visit the Contest page.

The Visionfest Screenwriting Competition is a magnificent platform for writers of both, feature length and short subject films, looking to provide original and viable 'blueprints' for tomorrow's new wave of cinematic classics. Open to screenwriters 18 years of age and older, this exciting, competitive forum honors Outstanding Achievement in Screenwriting with awards recognition, sponsored services, & cash prizes. Started in 2004 as a sidebar entity of the New York based film festival, VISIONFEST: THE OTHER FESTIVAL, the Visionfest Screenwriting Competition has grown to become its own little juggernaut for tomorrow's visionaries... today.

Breaking Walls is the leading screenplay competition for writers in the thriller genre. Well-written thrillers are an excellent way for writers to show the pros a combination of commerciality and effectively delivered narrative.

Hollywood literary representation and production companies have agreed to receive each round's winning script as well as consider all of the finalists' loglines for read requests.

Plus: Cash prizes for the winner and runner-up... and winner gets a free Inktip listing.

**RECEIVE FREE FEEDBACK WITH ENTRY UNTIL SEPT 12th**
The Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition seeks to identify, nurture and bring to market the most promising new voices in screenwriting. With over $20,000 Cash & Prizes, FREE Feedback, guaranteed reads, plus script and career consultation, it is no wonder Fresh Voices has become one of Hollywood's top screenplay competitions for emerging screenwriters and a trusted source of material by the industry.

Since 2009, Fresh Voices has helped thousands of screenwriters to hone their voice and have developed a successful track record of discovering new screenwriters with many previous winners now signed by representation, produced, and staffed on TV series.
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The Second City Training Center has developed, nurtured and produced some of the most prolific and talented writers and performers in the movie business. Now it’s your turn to show us what you’ve got! The SCTC Comedy Screenplay Contest is looking for the next hit comedy feature script that’s funny and completely original. So polish up that script that’s been sitting in your drawer. Write that story that’s been bouncing around in your head.

◈ Grand Prize ◈

We are pleased to announce that Thruline Entertainment (Los Angeles) and Creekside10 Entertainment will be joining the SCTC Comedy Screenplay Contest!

Other prizes TBD

The winning script and two finalists will be sent to Thruline Entertainment and Creekside10 Entertainment. The winner will have a consultation with a manager at Thruline via Skype or phone as well as a consultation with Laura Hilker at Creekside10 Entertainment.

A listing with InkTip.com

Thruline Entertainment
Founded in 2003, Thruline is a Beverly Hills-based management firm which boasts a roster of new voices as well as established award-winning clients comprised of actors, writers and directors working in television, film and theater. The company also has a production arm and has produced over 150 hours of scripted television for the major networks. Thruline enjoys a special relationship with The Second City and is committed to developing new comedic voices and introducing them to the professional community.

Creekside10 Entertainment
Laura Hilker develops scripted content for TV, film & digital. From 2005 to 2015, Hilker worked in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles at such companies as FOX, Fox Television Animation, and Michael Eisner’s production company, The Tornante Company. She produced The Cleveland Show’s promo for the 2007 Upfronts in New York City and did voices for the series. Hilker helped Tornante launch its animated series for Netflix, BoJack Horseman. She loves comedy, traveling, and knowing nothing about Bitcoin. Angela Lansbury is her hero.

The Grand Prize-winning screenplay will be read by professional actors at the Beat Lounge at The Second City Chicago in front of a live audience on November 16, 2017 from 6-8pm.

An Apple iPad – perfect for writing on the go!

Second City Gear
◈ Two Runner-up Prizes ◈
An online class at the Second City Training Center – either online or in-person
Second City Gear

Others TBD