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Prizes
April 7th, 2010 | 
Author: Golden Age of Television
Opportunity, access and acclaim.
We’re looking to find the next generation of tv writers, get them a polished range of samples and get the repped. Our prizes are focused on professional development, and include close, personal help getting onto the first step of the ladder.
Grand Prize
For both Spec Scripts & Pilots/Movie of the Week:
- Winner of each category receives $1000.
- All winners and finalists may receive consideration by established production companies and agencies.
- Telephone consult and full script development with Just Effing’s Julie Gray.
- A free studio coverage from Just Effing.com.
Short Script Grand Prize
For any script of 20 pages or fewer:
- Winner receives $500.
- All winners and finalists may receive consideration by established production companies and agencies.
- Telephone consult and full script development with Just Effing’s Julie Gray.
- Free studio coverage from Just Effing.com.
Silver Screenwriting
It’s About Winning. SRSLY.
We’ve put together everything you need to succeed in Hollywood. From flights & accomodation, to meetings with A Listers and producers to a nice fat wad of cash – our prizes are the opportunity of a lifetime to live a real writer’s life in Los Angeles in the heart of the movie industry.
Enter your feature script by June 1st, 2010 and you’ll have a chance to win:
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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
- Pilar Alessandra’s online workbook
- A free 30 minute phone consult with Karl Iglesias
- A copy of Save the Cat Goes to the Movies PLUS the Save the Cat software package
PLUS: one-on-one script consult with Julie Gray, Founder of The Script Department!
SECOND PRIZE
- TSD Story Notes with Julie Gray
- $500 gift certificate to The Writer’s Store
- Two manager reads of your work
- Two production company reads.
- $1,000 in cash
- A copy of Save the Cat Goes to the Movies
PLUS: one-on-one script consult with Julie Gray, Founder of The Script Department!
THIRD PRIZE
- Free 3 Reader Service from the Script Department
- $250 gift certificate from the Writer’s Store
- “What comes next” phone consultation with Julie Gray
- Two manager reads of your work
- Two production company reads.
- $750 in cash
- A copy of Save the Cat Goes to the Movies
PLUS: one-on-one script consult with Julie Gray, Founder of The Script Department!
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In addition, the Top Ten Finalists will all receive an invaluable, free one year subscription to It’s On the Grid, a cash value of over $3,000!
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Competition Update
We’re into the last two weeks, and scripts continue to flow in from around the globe. We’ve seen some great concepts and wonderful writing already. We’re hoping for many more as we have production companies hungry to read. In fact, we’ve had so many requests, across such a broad range of genres and styles, that we’re looking to pitch both the winning scripts, and those which make the grade and meet production criteria.
A major trend this year has been multiple submissions. Many writers are sending two or more of their scripts. Each entry is a small, valuable investment in each project, and a great, low cost way of moving a script forwards towards that sale at the end of the rainbow.
We’re delighted with the range of scripts. The mixture of settings, styles, genres and approaches to the craft is fantastic, and it shows that it isn’t the dull, middle of the road studio fare which is inspiring you, it is eclectic global cinema and quirky Hollywood artists.
So, please keep ‘em coming. We can’t wait to read more…
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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2009 Semifinalists
Bet on Blood (horror) by Patrick Barb
Chimana (romantic drama) by Paiman Kalayeh
Endowment (drama) by Ian Samplin
Everlasting (drama) by Brent Spencer and Jonis Agee
Fertile Attraction (rom-com) by Mariah Wilson
Hair Today (comedy/family) by Dennis Douda
Hero Quest (action/comedy) by Joel Dorland
Horror Comic (thriller) by Stephen Hoover
Hunting Picasso (thriller) by Marlene Shikegawa
Inugami (thriller) by Rich Figel
Life Among the Ruins (heist thriller) by Anthony Fisher
Meadowlanz (drama) by Moon Molson
Mechanicsville (drama) by Jason Thornton and Chris Thornton
My Brother Mick (drama/thriller) by Kim Nunley
Offramps (comedy) by Patrick O’Riley
One Night Stand (horror) by Ian Coyne
Plus Size (comedy) by Jacob Roman
Raeford’s Grill (drama) by David Meyer
Shift (thriller) by Kodjo Akeseh Tsakpo
The Basement (drama) by Scott Shackleford
The Cool Kids (thriller) by Cliff Zimonowski
The Great American Loser (dramedy) by Jess DiGiacinto
The Happiness Experiment (dramedy) by Alex Darrow
The Warriors of Westgate (drama) by Michael Harriel
Upgrade (sci-fi) by Louis Rosenberg
Way to the Cage (drama) by Richard Michael Lucas
When in Limbo (thriller) by Adam King
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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
B
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
G
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
L
Lights on the Lake, Jason Tucker
Loss of Innocence, Eric Gaunaurd
Lucifer’s Bounty, R.D. Wright
M
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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