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Quarterfinalists Announced!
July 1st, 2010 | 
Author: Here you go, everybody! The top 50 scripts of over 1,000 submitted. So this represents the top 5% and that’s quite an accomplishment! The 20 semi-finalists will be announced on August 1st.
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Abeyta, April & Kim Nunley – Super Ted
Amdahl, Joseph- A Boy in the Woods
Axelrad, David & Michel Plaxton – Machine Gun Kelly: The Real Story
Barlowe, John & Irin Evers – Miss Christmas
Bauer, Kristin – Edultery
Booth, Thom – Jaunt
Bowlden, Kelli – Venus Envy
Brown, Harold – Dewey and the Magic Library
Burningham, JR & Tess Ortbals – Terra Incognita
Cambria, Craig – Canaries
Catz, Sarit & Gloria Ketterer – Instant Karma
Cecchini, Ron – Blue Lady
Dilier, Matthew – The Sandbox
Donald, Mike – Cortex
Donald, Mike – Shadow Trade
Donnelly, Scott & Joe Douglass – Cows
Downs, Christine – The Jupiter Syndrome
Evans, Corey- Death’s Horizon
Farrand, Carol – Nobody in My Family Has Sex
Fass, Rick- Love Erasers
Figel, Rich – The Doll
Fortune, Jules – Better Than Broadband
Headley, Jason & Michael Tumino – Seniors
Hoover, Stephen – Buried South of Galatians
Hoover, Stephen – Ghosted
Hoover, Stephen – To Live, Press 1
Luu, D.N. – Faithful
Jackson, Ryan – Fix
Knutson, Forrest – Samurai High
Lammey, David – Shotgun Wedding
McCoy, Michael – Under the Rising Sun
McMinn, Dave – O Boy
Moore, Sherry Lynn – Hunting Season
Nolan, Tom – The Quick Way Home
Puterbaugh, Joseph – The Jack Johnson Story
Ridone, Steve – Colby on the Potomac
Rosen, Jane – Ancestral
Sayle, Allie & Liz – Troublemakers
Sheehy, Rich – The Intake
Simpson, R. Ian – Paraplizzle
Spiegelman, Bruce – IsiS
Stein, Christopher – Moment of Conception
Shyu, Tony – Macau Twilight
Stirling, Bruce – The Embalmer’s Apprentice
Wasserman, Daniel – Stowaways
Watson, Robert Keith – Bank Robbing for Dummies
Wiggins, Joseph – Amsterdam XXX
Wolfe, Celeste Chan – Spotnik
Tze Yun, Sun – The Sun Rises East
Zakalik, Marc – Drumadoon
Now, a word to those of you who didn’t place. Why god, why? you might be asking yourself right now. There were two of three reasons your script didn’t move up to the quarter finals and they are (broadly speaking) a) your script had significant format, spelling and language usage problems b) your first ten pages were not entertaining, the genre wasn’t clear and the tone was all over the map and c) subjectivity.
Now a small (but loving ) slap on the wrist and weird pattern I will note: this year, the scripts that didn’t make the cut were far worse than the scripts that didn’t make the cut last year. The scripts that made the cut, however, were far better. I have no idea why this is but the scripts that are moving up to the next round are going to be VERY tough to judge. I have my eye on about ten or twelve that I particularly like but on the other hand, I read one that was SO excellent for the first seventy five pages – great, right? – and then tanked out with a confusing, illogical, lazy ending.
So the real judging begins now. Can you write opening pages that engage, that are professional, that entertain and intrigue? Can you write with the proper format and without eight (YES, true story) pages of action lines first? Great. That makes you a quarterfinalist. Let’s see what you quarters can show us beyond that. This is where the going gets much tougher.
Good luck to you all and for those who didn’t make the cut here but did somewhere else, don’t forget subjectivity is at play here, so don’t be too downhearted. As I am wont to say, until they invent the Read-a-tron 5000, you have to make do with live humans who have experience and background reading scripts. If you didn’t place anywhere else, take this as a sign that you are completely NORMAL and just need to keep writing. Don’t take it too seriously or too personally. Every single person who took the time to enter and who tried his or her best is a winner in my eyes and if you’ve ever met me you don’t doubt the truth of that. Onward!
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Enter Now or Forever Hold Your Piece
Well the Silver Screenwriting Competition closes its doors for 2010 in just over two and a half hours. Phew! The scripts have been pouring in and especially in the last few days and hours!
This is your last chance for 2010, to win a MacBook Air, lunch with Mr. Shane Black (LETHAL WEAPON, KISS KISS BANG BANG), $3,000 in cash, hotel and airfare for three days in Los Angeles and tons more.
So either get to entering that script NOW or start writing one for NEXT year!
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Silver Screenwriting 2010 Latest
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.
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!
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.
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
- A meeting with Kristen Campo, CE, Fuse Entertainment, plus Bedrock, Backlot and Bedford Falls. Fuse just signed a 7 figure deal with Fox.
- A day of meetings with 2 managers
- $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
Who We Are
Julie Gray, the founder of The Script Department, Hollywood’s premier script coverage service also directs the Silver Screenwriting Competition. Julie consults privately with a wide variety of writers and 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.
Pilar teaches screenwriting and story analysis at the UCLA Writers’ Program. 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.
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How Do I Get An Agent or Manager?
So you’ve written several scripts, gotten feedback, done your homework, paid your dues and got into three fights with somebody on a message board. Now I’ll give you the keys to the kingdom. Drum roll, please….
In order of efficacy, here are the best methods for seeking representation:
1) Friend of a friend.
2) Be a competition winner or finalist
3) Query selectively using the HCD
4) The Schwab’s Drugstore Fantasy
FRIEND OF A FRIEND
The friend of a friend is obviously something very few people can take advantage of. But you can cultivate relationships in the business that could lead to a hand-off at some point in the future. You never know. That’s how I got my first manager. But as I look back, it was a long time coming until the stars were aligned and I just so happened to have a good script and it just so happened to be right up that manager’s alley. Luck = timing + opportunity. How can you tip the odds? Network, network, network.
COMPETITIONS
A much more realistic approach is to enter your scripts into competitions. There are many to choose from and by and large, they really are a terrific way to get noticed. I would avoid those contests that run competitions frequently and that don’t seem to have much in the way of industry credibility. In my opinion, some competitions which can really pay off for you are:
The Nicholls Fellowship
The Austin Film Festival
Final Draft Big Break
The Blue Cat Screenwriting Competition
Slamdance
The Silver Screenwriting Competition
Creative Screenwriting Expo Competition
Competition winners will have their work exposed to industry professionals. Some competitions are more illustrious than others – Nicholls comes to mind – but all of these competitions are designed to help launch writers. I urge all my clients to enter as many of these competitions as they can.
QUERYING
This is not the most effective method but hey, if you aren’t a neighbor of Jason Reitman or a friend of a friend of Josh Olsen, you gotta make like the regular people and buy yourself the latest edition of the Hollywood Creative Directory for agents and managers (it is updated quarterly) or get an online subscription of same. As you flip through the book, have your IMDB at the ready. Read the company descriptions carefully, look up execs and their resumes.
If you are a newer writer, the smaller boutique management shingles are the best place to look. The HCD will include absolutely everybody but there are two things to be very aware of: The long shots and the shysters. A short list of the long shot agencies and management firms would include:
CAA
ICM
WME (William Morris/Endeavor)
UTA
Benderspink
We know that these agencies represent the crème de la crème in both the literary and acting realms. Not the best place for a newbie to come a’ knockin’. Which is not to say you can’t try – just be aware that it would be quite an accomplishment to even get a response to your query through these venues. Just keeping it real, folks.
The shysters are usually the one-man outfits, usually. With addresses outside of Los Angeles or New York. Yes there are managers and agents in Chicago, Atlanta and Minneapolis; but that’s not where the business is. How effective and connected is a manager who can’t do lunch easily and regularly with potential buyers? As you peruse the HCD, IMDB the principal and see if anything comes up. If you do call or query, absolutely do NOT pay a fee for anything. Some of these unethical charlatans prey on new writers by charging fees to send your work out. These types of people are tempting for new writers because they will pick up the phone more or less immediately, they will talk to you and they will agree readily (most often) to read your material. That’s because they aren’t in the business of making deals – they are in the business of bilking writers. If it’s too good to be true – it probably is.
Do not pay any fees – ever. Believe more highly in your work than to be lured into the grasp of these bottom feeders.
The steps to get representation through querying are quite simple:
1) write a great script
2) then write another one
3) stick with the same genre
4) have a dossier of several great ideas in the form of loglines
5) write a brief, powerful, polite, effective query letter
6) get hold of a Hollywood Creative Directory
7) focus on 10 to 15 agents or managers that seem like a good fit
8) query
9) wait
10) wait more
11) follow up with an email or phone call if you haven’t heard back in six weeks
Pretty simple, right? It actually is. But here is what writers often do – they jump the gun. They query when they only have ONE good script. They don’t get feedback on what they think is a good script and so really have no idea where they stand. They query managers or agents all over town, indiscriminately, without doing any research. They send poorly worded queries with dull loglines and wonder what’s up with the silence.
If a manager or agent likes your query, you should hear back pretty quickly. If they like the read, you’ll hear back quite quickly. They’ll ask you what else you have. They’ll ask you about you – your writing experience, where you live, what competitions you may have placed in.
THE SCHWABS DRUGSTORE FANTASY
Legend has it that Lana Turner was discovered while sipping a soda at Schwab’s Drugstore in Hollywood. And hell, that’s not even true. It was the Top Hat café. See, you just cain’t never believe what you hear. The point being that we’ve all heard stories of an actor or writer being discovered at odd moments or locations. And yes, it can indeed happen. Which is why you should always be prepared to talk about your work. However. The instances of a writer making a profitable connection with a representative or producer while shopping for shampoo are – well – miniscule. If you are doing everything in this list to find representation and then you run into Tom Hanks while you are checking out with your Clairol Herbal Essence – terrific. But don’t count on it.
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Silver Screenwriting 2010
Screenwriters! Our scriptwriting competition is a contest like no other. In our neverending quest to make you a better writer, The Script Department and Julie Gray created the most effective screenwriting competition for writers. Even with over $13,000 in prizes, we reward our entrants with something even more precious than silver or gold — a chance to kick-start a career.
In this, our third year of existence, The Silver Screenwriting Competition has so far welcomed a record-breaking number of scripts and we love it! So much so that we had to extend our deadline to June 1st!
We’ve also raised the bar because this year, the top ten finalists will be judged both by Julie Gray AND by Kristen Campo, CE at Fuse Entertainment. Kristen will also be taking a meeting with the Grand Prize Winner.
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!
Check out the grand prize for 2010!
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
- A meeting with Kristen Campo, CE, Fuse Entertainment
- A day of meetings with 2 managers
- $3,000 in cash
Submit today for the chance to come to LA, kick-start your career by building relationships, and experience what it feels like in the day of a life of a writer in Hollywood.
For questions you may have about how to enter or more descriptions of our awesome prizes, please email us HERE. Be patient, you guys are going nuts this year!
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Tags: competition, contest, film, movie, option, sale, screenplay, screenplay competition, screenplay contest, screenwriters, screenwriting, script, script competition, script contest, television, tv, writers |
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2009 Winners & Finalists
Bet on Blood (horror) by Patrick Barb
Endowment (drama) by Ian Samplin
Everlasting (drama) by Brent Spencer and Jonis Agee
Horror Comic (thriller) by Stephen Hoover
Inugami (thriller) by Rich Figel
Life Among the Ruins (heist thriller) by Anthony Fisher
Shift (thriller) by Kodjo Akeseh Tsakpo
The Great American Loser (dramedy) by Jess DiGiacinto
The Happiness Experiment (dramedy) by Alex Darrow
Way to the Cage (drama) by Richard Michael Lucas
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2008 Winners & Finalists
Grand Prize Winner:
Freebird, Hilary Graham
2nd Place:
The De-Haunters, Calvin Field and Bryan Bagby
3rd Place:
The Orchard, Diane Stredicke
Top Five Finalists
Blood Snow, Adam Hong
Influence, Dov Engleberg
Snilderholden’s Jungle, Jennifer Thomas
Sleeping with the Lutefisk, Wenonah Wilms
Unsigned: The Feature, Danny Musengo and Christopher Wasmer
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2008 Semifinalists
Blood Snow, Adam Hong
Freebird, Hilary Graham
Influence, Dov Engleberg
Jam the Flow, Galen Young
Lucifer’s Bounty, R.D. Wright
Mr. Unlucky, Tony Nichols
Shooting Bambi, William Goins
Sleeping with the Lutefisk, Wenonah Wilms
Snilderholden’s Jungle, Jennifer Thomas
The De-Haunters, Calvin Field and Bryan Bagby
The Friendliest Evil Clown Around, Michael C. Pauly
The Lam of God, Drew Langer
The Orchard, Diane Stredicke
The Terminals, Matt Umbarger
The Warrior Within, Nicholas Wright
Through the Night, Edward Martin III
Unsigned: The Feature, Danny Musengo and Christopher Wasmer
Wrocklage, Steve Daniels
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2008 Quarterfinalists
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A Soldier’s Honor, Mike Scherer
All The King’s Horses, Richard Huber
Another Time, Another Place, Skip Berry
Apricot Harmony, John Killeen
Aurelious Rising, Paul Cooper
Away Games, Michael Cheung
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Bad Rap, Mark Grisar
Bananafish Sandwich, Kevin O’Malley
Battle Mountain, Kristine Hurst
Blood Money, Michael Eging
Blood Snow, Adam Hong
Blowback, Jeff Travers
Body Work, Haik Hakobian
Bridie Molloy, Daniel Donnelly
Bull’s Eye, Tamara Farsadi
Business or Pleasure, Sara Zofko
C
Chapman, Justin Owensby
Christmas 1914, Robert Milius
Cross My Heart…, Rich Sheehy
Cul-De-Sac, Galen Young D
Devil Of Sorrow, Robert Lewis
Devil’s Due, Neil Cumbria F
Family First, Patrick Barb
Feed the Monster, Rob Rex
Felix the Flyer, Christopher Canole
Fort Miserables, Leonard Lawson
Freebird, Hilary Graham
Free Skate, Caitlin McCarthy E
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Garbo’s Last Stand, Jonathan Miller
Ghoul, Kelly Parks H
Hanging On, Matthew Kaplan
Hate Day, David Kempski
Head Games, Scott Marengo
Hunger, Michael Hogan I
In God’s Name, John Killeen
In Trust, Justin Owensby
Influence, Dov Engelberg J
Jam the Flow, Galen Young
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Lights on the Lake, Jason Tucker
Loss of Innocence, Eric Gaunaurd
Lucifer’s Bounty, R.D. Wright
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Marry Me, Daniel Korb
Mr. Unlucky, Tony Nichols O
P
Phantom Noise, Yvette Bou
Powder Brown, Philip Dorr Q
Qumran, Mike Scherer R
Red Card, P Montgomery
Relative Terms, Deborah Stenard
Revived, Jennie Von Eggers
Running Gun, Mike Bencivenga S
Salt and Light, Natalie Zimmerman
Scavengers, Diana Kemp-Jones
Scent of Jasmine, Israela Margalit
Scents of Justice, James Albert
Searching for Ernie, Ron Vigil
She’s Got A Way, Elise Stempky
Shooting Bambi, William Goins
Sisters in Arms, Barry Leach
Sleeping With the Lutefisk, Wenonah Wilms
Sliding Into Home, Rich Sheehy
Snilderholden’s Jungle, Jennifer Thomas
Something For Me, Juan Sebastian Jacome
Sonny Takes to Peru, Mark Hammer
Soulmating, Christopher Bosley
Stakeholder, Stephanie Branco
Stolen Sky, Dan Fabrizio
Stuck on Love, R.J. Berens
Stupid Love, Steven Zelman
Swing, Christie Havey-Smith T
The 6, Brandon Vega
The ABCs of Mr.D, Alex Darrow
The Adventures of Zara Zancón in Cactus Canyon, Amy Quick Parrish
The Bermuda Prawn, Patricia Semler
The Bottomless Puzzle, Patrick Daly
The De-Haunters, Bryan Bagby
The Devil in Saint Nick, Christopher Burns
The Doll, Rich Figel
The Fire Store, Allen Colombo
The Friendliest Evil Clown Around, Michael Pauly
The Goddess, Rafael De Leon Jr.
The Hinge, Vining Wolff
The Knuckleballer, Michael Murphy
The LAM of God, Drew Langer
The Magic of Merin: Inside the Lamp, David Kiez
The Nazi Method, Matthew Grant
The Nutcracker, Connie Tonsgard
The Orchard, Diane Stredicke
The Placeholder, Amy Neswald
The Price of Vengeance, Patrick Hoeft
The Prisonaires, Mike Freeman
The Saxon, Nigel Grant
The Spinning Wheel, Natashia Saunders
The Terminals, Matt Umbarger
The Tooth Fairy, Michael Hogan
The Warrior Within, Nicholas Wright
Through The Grapevine, Shequeta Smith
Through the Night, Edward Martin III
To The Sea, Elizabeth Robinson
Tool, G.T. Field
Tooth Lake, Richard Topping
Truthies, Carlo DeCarlo
Turnabout, Mike Scherer
Turning Annie, Bruce Stirling
Twilight, Sebastian Moretto U
Unity, Eugene Langlais
Unsigned: The Feature, Christopher Wasmer
Utopia, Kevin Norman W
Wait For Me, Brantley Black
White Niggers in the Woodpile, Paul Van Zyl
World Wide Web, Jason Arnopp
Wrocklage, Stephen Daniels
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Yard Sale, Irin Evers
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Big Bear Lake International Screenwriting Competition
www.bigbearlakefilmfestival.com/page.php?8 The Big Bear Lake International Screenwriting Competition stresses providing opportunities for winning screenwriters to make key film industry contacts and to have their script read by our jury panel of Hollywood professionals. With contacts made through our competition, one of our winners, Iris Yamashita, recently worked directly with Paul Haggis and Clint Eastwood to write the Academy Award nominated film, Letters From Iwo Jima, the companion movie of Flags of Our Fathers. Another winner signed with a manager and sold the script she entered in the competition. Another signed with an agent and sold a screenplay not entered based on the attention gained by the one entered. And other winners have signed with agents or managers or gotten writing contracts and made valuable contacts they are still utilizing.
