Five Things To Nail Down Before You Write
Updated: 01/26/2012
In a period of declining WGA employment, movies are still being made. Lots of them. In this environment, though, you need to be sure what you're going for when you start a project. Here are five things to nail down before you start your next script.
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Finalists have been announced for the 2012 Free Screenplay Competition. [Updated: 02/05/2012]
SURGE Announces Selected Scripts
The SURGE Film Festival has announced the officially selected scripts, stage plays and teleplays of the 2012 Sixth Annual International SURGE Film Festival. [Updated: 02/02/2012]
Austin Fest Announces Enderby Entertainment as New Screenplay Competition Sponsor
The Austin Film Festival (AFF) has announced that Daniel Petrie, Jr. and Rick Dugdale's production company Enderby Entertainment is the new judge for the sponsored award category of the 19th Annual Screenplay Competition. [Updated: 02/01/2012]
BlueCat Announces Quarterfinalists
The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced their 2012 quarterfinalists. [Updated: 02/01/2012]
MoviePoet.com Announces December 2011 Short Script Winners
Jem Rowe's Sophie's Desert has been named the winner of the December, 2011, MoviePoet Short Screenplay Contest. [Updated: 02/01/2012]
The-Greenlight.com Announces Monthly Contest Results
Richard Brett has been named the winner of the December, 2011 The-Greenlight.com Screenwriting Contest for his script, Love Is Blind. [Updated: 01/31/2012]
Screenplay Search Announces Contest Results
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Philadelphia ScreenplayFEST Announces Contest Winners
Robert Cahill's Lookout Lou has been name the winner of the Philadelphia ScreenplayFEST Screenwriting contest. [Updated: 01/27/2012]
FilmMakers.com Announces Quarterfinalists
The FilmMakers.com Screenwriting Competition has announced their quarterfinalists. [Updated: 01/25/2012]
Scriptapalooza Fields More Scripts Requests
Intrigue Entertainment, Foremost Films, The Bauer Company and more have requested scripts from Scriptapalooza. [Updated: 01/25/2012]
Search for America's Newest Comedy Writer Announces Winner
Megan Angelo has been named the winner of the Search for America's Newest Comedy Writer for her script, O'Connell for Congress. [Updated: 01/25/2012]
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Emancipation
In the pre-Civil War South, much to the dismay of his father, young Kentucky Mavis and a slave boy, Levi, are inseparable.
Author: Greg Scupholm
Genre: Drama,Action-Adventure,Historical
Eke'bolos
Greece, 1974: In the waning days of the military junta, a traumatized veteran comes head to head with a terrorist plot to incite final war between East and West.
Author: Stephen Settle
Genre: Drama,Thriller,Historical
Bi
A 30 minute one camera comedy drama about a hurt, confused, yet funny and eccentric bi-sexual male and his adventures and crisis with his oddball character of friends and aquaitences living in NYC.
Author: Jeffrey Collette
Genre: Drama,Comedy
The Free And The Brave
An American pilot, stranded in neutral Switzerland,
must choose between love and war.
Author: Edward Rathje
Genre: Drama,Action-Adventure,Historical
Positive Variance
An FBI agent investigates a NASA hacker, only to find himself thrown into a new reality where he has become the identity of his sister in a world that is a part futuristic and part 1920's utopia.
Author: Michael Gibrall
Genre: Sci-Fi,Horror,Urban
Submission
When his mother dies, a talented college wrestler moves in
with his estranged father and pursues a mixed martial arts career against his wishes.
Author: Bruce Rose
Genre: Drama,Action-Adventure,Sports
Office Of Corrections
When a super-genius boy sees his father jailed for a crime he did not commit he sets upon the corrupt judicial system that jailed him by using his super-computer-like brain to prove him innocent and then to use his skills to get justice for the most-wronged
Author: JOE KISCH
Genre: Drama,Family
Emily
On the way to work, a doctor is kidnapped and forced to work for a ruthless cartel that runs a body harvesting facility that abducts travelers and whose CEO wants to find a compatible donor for his dying son; only the drug addict they abduct, Emily, becomes the hunter, having come from the future to release someone important to her future world.
Author: JOE KISCH
Genre: Action-Adventure
Devil's Machine
In a time of plague and fear, a humble inventor on the verge of perfecting a world-shattering invention battles a powerful corrupted Pope determined to destroy his invention before it destroys the Church.
Author: JOE KISCH
Genre: Drama,Thriller,Family
Swimming Against The Currents
An under-appreciated genius inventor, Nikola Tesla, travels to the USA with a new invention that will transform the future of human life, only to battle impenetrable prejudice, destitution and a rockstar-like scientist and his idol, Thomas Edison, for supremacy in electrical power distribution.
Author: JOE KISCH
Genre: Drama
