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Deadline Extended to Sept. 7, 2010
The
2010 Expo
Screenplay Competition Is Open For Entries
Click
Here
To Enter Online or Here
to Download the Mail-In Entry Form
Online Entry Is Highly Recommended
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.
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, the contest 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:
- A critically important new
addition: training in how to market yourself and your script and in
preparation of your marketing materials, through a new partnership with
screenwritingU.
- Distribution of infomation
about winners' scripts, and script hosting online for the
industry to see, through Sell-A-Script.
- Free entry 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 in
the CS Weekly E-zine (circ. 85,000), 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.
See deadlines
and fees below.
Quick
Summary Of Prizes
(See The Official
Prize List Page for the full list)
- Grand Prize: $20,000 Cash, Access
Prizes, Publicity, ScreenwritingU Course, Screenwriting Expo
registration and travel, and more.
- Each of four Genre Prize winners
receives $2,500 Cash Plus Access, Publicity, ScreenwritingU Course On
Marketing, 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.
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