Category: Screenplay competitions

Are you doing your best against all the other writers with the same dream as you? Are you sure?

Some competitions, laboratories and scholarships receive more than 10,000 applications, including some from writers who have developed their art and their voice for years, even decades. They probably lost a lot more contests than they won, but they took their time, rose through the ranks, took notes and got better along the way.

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Contest readers want to find good scripts and they want to check out the next Greta Gerwig. So, trust that the readers of the legitimate contests know what they are doing and that they want you to improve. Trust the grades, rewrite, and enter three or four more contests until you stop getting bad grades or, better yet, win. From there you can move on to the bigger competitions and see how you fare.

Once you start winning, you could win amazing prizes including thousands of dollars in cash, trips to major festivals, presentations to top producers, agents, and more. And you’ll receive additional encouragement to elevate your art, improve your story, develop your voice, make new contacts, and build a pedigree that demonstrates to the industry that you are, in fact, a career-conscious screenwriter. This is what professionals do, and you are a professional on the rise.

Remember, Vince Gilligan (creator of breaking Bad) started his career from a small competition in Virginia. There is nothing wrong with starting small.

AUSTIN, Texas – (COMMERCIAL THREAD) – AFF, the first festival to recognize the writer’s contribution to cinema, announces its 2016 jury prize winners, the Hiscox Audience and Courage prize winners.

The following Film Jury Prize winners were selected by category:

Narrative dossier presented by Seed & Spark: Boys in the trees, written by Nicolas Verso
Feature documentary presented by POV: Santoalla, directed by Andrew Becker and Daniel Mehrer
Comic avant-garde feature: Hot air, written by Jeremy M. Goldstein and Derek Sieg
Characteristic of dark matter: The cliff, written by Natxo Lopez, Andres Martorell, Helena Taberna
Short narrative: Lucie in my eyes, written by Megan Park
Short narrative student film: The art of not appearing, written by Pernille Rivedal Hellevik
Short documentary film presented by IDA: Heaven is a traffic jam on the 405, directed by Frank Stiefel
Animated short film: Hugo bumfeldt, written by Eva Katinka Bognaar
Scripted digital series presented by New Form Digital: Guest appearances, created by Elizabeth Guest

The winners of the Hiscox Audience Award are:

Narrative feature: Blood band, written by Rémy Auberjonois and Kate Nowlin
Documentary film: Rebel High School in Berlin, directed by Alexander Kleider
Characteristic of dark matter: Images found in 3D, written by Steven DeGennaro
Comic avant-garde feature: Brave New Jersey, written by Michael Dowling and Jody Lambert
Short narrative: Kill thyme, written by Natalie Malla
Short documentary film: Heaven is a traffic jam on the 405, directed by Frank Stiefel
Animated short film: Moon of a white night, written by Takeshi Yashiro
Student narrative short: Red apples, written by Ophélie Harutyunyan
Scripted digital series: The listening box, written by Westin Ray
Cinema heart: American wrestler: the sorcerer, written by Brian Rudnick
Stories from abroad: My mother’s injury, written by Ozan Aciktan, Ozan Guven, Fethi Kantarci, Uygar Sirin, Mehmet Turgut, Funda Cetin
Texas Independent: State of origin, written by David Hickey and Blaise Miller
Marquee functionality: Lion, written by Luke Davies

A film has been selected to receive the Hiscox Courage Award. Elected by the public, the Hiscox Courage Award goes to the film that best embodies the virtue of courage and to the filmmaker who took the risk of sharing the story. The 2016 Courage Prize was awarded to Heaven is a traffic jam on the 405.

The following winners of the Screenplay Contest are:

Dramatic Screenplay Award presented by the Writers Guild of America, East: Static by Henry Jones
Comedy Screenplay Award presented by Sony Pictures Animation: Dinner with friends by Geeta Malik
Science Fiction Screenplay Award: Static by Henry Jones
Enderby Entertainment Award: Static by Henry Jones
Vertigo Entertainment Horror Award: Point of the rock draw
by Jeremy David Lee
AMC Hour Pilot Price: The devil and the depths by Kyle Bugg
Sitcom Pilot Award: To lose by Louise Rozett
Short scenario price: Future health
by Sarah Polhaus
Scripted Digital Series Award presented by New Form Digital: Main stream by JC Conklin
Price Spec. of one hour : Fargo: The Hunt for the Cobra King by Sarah Beckett
Sitcom Spec Price: Big city: short-term effort by Greg Wayne

ABOUT THE AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL:

Widely known as “The Writers Festival”, Austin Film Festival is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the art, crafts and business of filmmakers and screenwriters. AFF is funded and supported in part by a grant from the Texas Arts Commission, Office of Austin Economic Growth and Redevelopment Services / Cultural Arts Division, believing that an investment in the arts is a investing in Austin’s future.

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