The 2011 Expo Screenplay Competition

The Expo Screenplay Competition is one of the industry's most prestigious screenplay contests.  Since its inception, it has offered some of the biggest cash prizes of any screenplay competition in the world.  The Grand Prize includes $20,000 plus a publicity campaign and multiple forms of access to the industry.  In all, the contest offers more than $33,000 in cash prizes.

Cash Prizes Are Great ... But  Cash + Access = Better
However, the cash prizes have always been merely part -- and, we believe, the lesser part -- of the prizes and benefits this contest offers  From its inception, this  contest has focused on giving its winners publicity, visibility, and prominence. We call these services the ACCESS PRIZES.  The strongest focus of ths contest is on access to  the industry --  getting winners' and seminalists' names and scripts past the gatekeepers to the movers and shakers who turn scripts  into movies and TV shows.    The multiple kinds of access and attention include:

• We started the tradition of sending winning scripts to producers, agents, and managers.  The Expo Screenplay Competition and its fellow contest, the AAA Screenplay Contest, share and send scripts to an exclusive list of 300 producers, agents, and managers who have asked to see  winners.
• In 2010, we created a new system to provide winning and semifinalist scripts on line for producers, agents, and managers.  We combine this list with repeated notices and tantalizing letters and "teaser" ads sent by mail and email to more than 800 executives who can now log in and see wiinners online.
• Free entry to pitch scripts in the Golden Pitch Fest at the Screenwriting Expo.  Winners' chances are strongly enhanced by the timing: winners are announced at the Screenwriting Expo the evening before the Golden Pitch opens -- so, as a winner, when you enter the pitch fest, you do so as the newest major screenwriting contest winners on the block.
• Publicity, through multiple outlets: an article in Creative Screenwriting Magazine, an article to the Creative Screenwriting email blast list (100,000+ names), press releases to the industry, and posting at the Screenwriting Expo web site.     
  

To see the full official set of prizes, go to the Official Prize List page.   To see more details on the Access to The Industry prizes, see the Access Prizes page.  Click here to enter on line or here to download the form to mail in an entry.

• Grand Prize: $20,000 Cash, Access Prizes, Publicity,  Creative Screenwriting winner profile, Screenwriting Expo registration and travel, and more.
• Each of four Genre Prize winners receives $2,500 Cash Plus Access, Publicity, Screenwriting Expo registration, and more
• Suzanne's Prize Winner for Best Love Story receives $2,000, Expo registration, publicity, and more 
• Two Television script winners receive $1,000 each 
• A new Comedy category prize of $1,000 is offered. 
• A new $500 Reality TV prize is offered
• Best short script receives a $500 prize
• Semifinalists receive non-cash prizes. 
• All winners' scripts and loglines disseminated to the industry.
• Sponsor prizes, including classes and benefits at ScreenwritingU.