Silver Screenwriting

Four years ago, in the long distant Hollywood past, Julie Gray began the Silver Screenwriting organization as a way of finding and championing writing talent.

Since then, the original feature script contest has gone from strength to strength, with nearly 1000 entries this year alone. We now run a TV contest, the Golden Age of Television, and the Short Script Competition.

With some well known media players we are about to announce a synopsis competition to find the greatest movie ideas in the world.

Who We Are

A regular contributor to the Huffington Post, Julie Gray is the founder of The Script Department, Hollywood’s premier script coverage service. She also directs the Silver Screenwriting Competition and consults privately with a wide variety of writers. Julie teaches classes at Warner Bros., The Great American PitchFest, The Creative Screenwriting Expo and has taught at San Francisco University in Quito, Ecuador, Columbia College in Chicago, West England University in Bristol and The Oxford Union at Oxford University. Julie lives in Los Angeles, California; her book Just Entertain Me is slated for release by Michael Wiese Publishing in April, 2011.

Named one of MovieMaker Magazine’s top blogs for writers and filmmakers, Just Effing Entertain Me is the destination for screenwriters interested in learning the ins and outs of Hollywood. With classes and workshops offered year round, mini-competitions and a forum for writers, Just Effing Entertain Me is the place to connect with Julie Gray. Read More

The Script Department

Let our crack team of professional readers give you the feedback you need to get your script into the right hands. Hands down the most respected coverage service in Hollywood, The Script Department has helped writers from all over the world get meetings, representation, options and competition wins time after time. Read More

Shane Black

Shane Black is one of the iconic screenwriters, justly famous both for his style, his headline grabbing ability to sign big ticket deals and his lasting contribution to the craft through his work with the Screenwriting Expo.

He sold his first screenplay Lethal Weapon released in 1987 for $250,000 and was paid $125,000 as a co-writer of Lethal Weapon 2 released in 1989. Since then he made substantially more money as a screenwriter. He received $1.75 million for his screenplayThe Last Boy Scout released in 1991, and $1 million for Last Action Hero released in 1993. At the height of his career he was the highest paid screenwriter in the Hollywoodmovie industry, making $4 million for penning The Long Kiss Goodnight. Black was the writer and director for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

Kristen Campo – Fuse Entertainment

Fuse Entertainment, a full service creative management company with a production arm has clients like Josh Schwartz (THE OC, CHUCK, Gossip Girl), Matt Nix (BURN NOTICE), James Vanderbilt (Zodiac, Spiderman 4) and producer Dan Lin (Terminator 4, Sherlock Holmes). Kristen Campo, CE at Fuse will be judging the top ten scripts along with Julie Gray.

KARL IGLESIAS teaches at UCLA Extension’s Writer’s Program and Writers University.  He is the best-selling author of The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters, and Writing for Emotional Impact.  He also writes the regular column on the craft for Creative Screenwritingmagazine. As a script consultant passionate about great storytelling, he specializes in the reader’s emotional response to the written page. He is a STAR Speaker of the Screenwriting Expo. Karl will be doing a 30 minute phone consult with the lucky Grand Prize winner.

PILAR ALESSANDRA is the director of the popular writing program “On The Page.” A sought after teacher and lecturer, she’s traveled the world teaching screenwriting and is in high demand at major writing conferences and film festivals. As a consultant, she’s helped thousands of writers create, refine and sell their screenplays. Her students and clients have sold to Disney, DreamWorks, Warner Brothers and Sony and have won prestigious competitions such as the Austin Film Festival, Open Door Competition, Fade-In Competition and Nicholl Fellowship.

Pilar jump-started her career in film as a script reader for Amblin Entertainment. With the formation of DreamWorks, she became Senior Story Analyst and a reader liaison between the studio and Robert Zemeckis’s company, ImageMovers. Her expert script analysis was also sought out by The Robert Evans Company, Cineville Entertainment, Handprint Entertainment and Saturday Night Live Studios, and work at Interscope Communications led her to a position as Senior Story Analyst for Scott Kroopf’s production company Radar Pictures.

In 2001 she started her own company, “On the Page,” and in 2004 opened the On the Page Writers Studio in Sherman Oaks, California. In the interest of expanding access to her teaching tools, Pilar has created a new instructional “On the Page” DVD. She also presents weekly “On the Page” podcasts with guest hosts from within the industry. The shows regularly appear in the iTunes Top 100 list of film and TV podcasts.

Silver Screenwriting (2010)

It’s Not About How You Play.

It’s About What You WIN.

With over $15,000 in prizes, The Silver Screenwriting Competition awards our Grand Prize winner with something even more awesome than a new MacBook Air, an all expense paid trip to Los Angeles, script reads by managers and producers, three grand and lunch with Shane Black.

More than all that?!

Yeah. That’s right.

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80% of success is showing up.

-Woody Allen

Add a good script to the mix and you’re golden.

-The Silver Screenwriting Competition

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There’s nothing like coming out to Hollywood and playing the part of a writer on the rise.

Hey, we figure meeting the right people might be just the opportunity you’ve been waiting for.  So enter today and see what happens. You might be coming to Hollywood sometime very soon and having the time of your life and the chance of lifetime. No pressure.

We’ll also back you to the hilt by developing the winning scripts with The Script Department’s Julie Gray and a host of top flight studio readers. Winning is just the first step and we’ll see to it that all the professional and commercial help you’ll need is on tap.

The Silver Screenwriting Competition seeks and rewards new screenwriting talent and encourage writers to raise the bar by writing innovative, well-executed scripts that take risks and think outside of the box office. Did you enter competitions for show, or do you want a real Hollywood writing career? The Silver Screenwriting Competition is the only contest with ongoing script and professional development. With over $15,000 in prizes, the 2010 SSC is better than ever in its third year, and taking entries until June 1st, 2010.  Enter today for a chance to win an all-expense paid trip to Los Angeles where you will meet 3 managers to discuss your career and Kirsten Campo, CE at Fuse Entertainment with a new seven figure deal at Fox, plus Bedrock, Back Lot and Bedford Falls.

Execs from Fuse Entertainment and Bedford Falls are on the SSC selection committee, and will select the top three winners from the Competition’s top ten finalists. The Second and Third Place winner each receive two manager and producer reads of their screenplay, plus prizes totalling $6,750 in value: screenplay coverage and notes from The Script Department, gift certificates to the Writer’s Store, and $1,000 and $750 cash, respectively. All winners are also invited to attend SSC’s awards party in Los Angeles, where they will be recognized among industry players.

See what last year’s winner, Kodjo Akeseh Tsakpo had to say about his amazing week in Los Angeles, meeting Steve Faber (WEDDING CRASHERS) Josh Zetumer (THE BOURNE IDENTITY) and Jeff Bushell (BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA) to name only a few!

GRAND PRIZE

  • MacBook Air
  • Round trip flight to Los Angeles
  • Lunch with SHANE BLACK
  • A one-on-one conversation via Skype with Chris Sparling, writer of red hot Sundance feature BURIED, starring Ryan Reynolds
  • 3 nights accommodations at the London Hotel on the Sunset Strip, home of chef Gordon Ramsay’s newest restaurant
  • A day of meetings with 3 managers.
  • Cocktails at the Chateau Marmont with The Script Department.
  • Lunch at the Ivy with SHANE BLACK!
  • A meeting with Kristen Campo, CE, Fuse Entertainment.
  • $3,000 in cash.
  • Pilar Alessandra’s amazing 12 Week Weekly Workbook.
  • A free 30 Minute phone consult with Karl Iglesias.
  • A copy of Save the Cat Goes to the Movies plus the STC software package.

PLUS a one-on-one script consult with the Goddess of Script, Julie Gray!