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Screenwriting Contests Online Login Home Contests Upcoming Contests Contest Directory Contest Calendar Playwriting Contests Contest Discount Coupons Pro Contest Queue Submit a New Contest News Free Newsletter Sponsor Us Best Contests 2020 WinningScripts Home Login Austin Fest Names Script Competition Finalists Updated: 10/14/2020 The Austin Film Festival has announced their contest finalists. 59 scripts were chosen for the Final Round with one winner to be determined in each of the 18 categories. The winners will be announced during this year’s Conference. Upcoming Contest Deadlines Screenwriting Contest News Scriptapalooza Interviews Top 3 Contest Winners Scriptapalooza has posted video interviews with the top 3 winners of their 2020 Scriptapalooza Feature Screenwriting Contest. [Updated: 10/11/2020] Filmmatic Names Comedy Contest Winner Henry Sarwer-Foner & Noel Baker have been named the winner of the Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards for their feature screenplay, Dick 2.0 , about a Wall Street billionaire facing a divorce who clones himself in order to save his marriage. When he sees how much more his wife loves his duplicate, he must battle his better self to win back his better half. [Updated: 10/07/2020] Write LA Names Grand Prize Winners & Finalists Fräulein Schreiber's Mixtape , by Nathan Dame, has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2020 Write LA Screenwriting Competition. Finalist and semifinalist loglines have also been released. [Updated: 10/07/2020] Table Read My Screenplay Names Contest Winners But On Point by Marshall Gillson has been named the Feature/TV Pilot Grand Prize Winner of the Table Read My Screenplay Competition, while Kimberly Truong's The Ride was named the Grand Prize winner for shorts. [Updated: 10/02/2020] Write LA Names 2020 Contest Finalists Write LA has announced their 2020 contest finalists, who will each receive targeted promotion through Roadmap Writers extensive network of agents, managers, and producers. The Finalists will also get a free copy of Final Draft 11 courtesy of Final Draft and an additional screenwriting book courtesy of Michael Wiese Productions. [Updated: 10/01/2020] Academy Names Nicholl Fellowship Winners Five individuals have been selected as winners of the 2020 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. The fellows will each receive a $35,000 prize and be highlighted at the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards and Virtual Table Read on Thursday, December 3, where an ensemble of actors will read selected scenes from the winning scripts. [Updated: 09/30/2020] HollyShorts Announces Screenplay Semifinalists The HollyShorts Film Festival has announced semifinalists from a record number of over 1,000 submissions to their 7th annual screenplay contest. [Updated: 09/25/2020] Scriptapalooza Names 2020 Contest Winners A Reindeer Story by Jay Michael Jorgensen & Lisa Juslin has been named the 1st Place Winner of the 2020 Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition. [Updated: 09/22/2020] PAGE Names 2020 Finalists The PAGE International Screenwriting Awards has announced the top 10 Finalists in each of their ten genre categories. This year’s Finalists include writers from all across the United States and 14 foreign countries: Australia, France, Belgium, Spain, England, Ireland, Japan, South Korea, Morocco, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Mexico, and Canada. [Updated: 09/16/2020] Write LA Names 2020 Semifinalists Fifteen semifinalists have been announced for the 2020 Write LA Screenwriting Competition. Each semifinalist will receive a free screenwriting book courtesy of Michael Wiese Productions, a phone call from head judge Tim Schildberger to discuss their scripts, and a professional logline polish from co-founder Angela Bourassa. [Updated: 09/15/2020] Scriptapalooza Celebrates Top 30 Writers Scriptapalooza has posted a video celebrating the top 30 writers in this year's Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition. [Updated: 09/15/2020] + More Contest News Contest Finalist? Get the ATTENTION You Deserve! Subscribe to WinningScripts PRO to put your loglines and script excerpts in front of hundreds of industry professionals. From MovieBytes.com, the Internet's #1 site for screenwriting contest info. winningscripts.com WinningScripts: Hollywood's Best Unproduced Screenplays Writers: Promote your screenplays with a subscription to WinningScripts Pro ! Best Biography Scripts Untouchable! BULLY! (Teddy Roosevelt and the Panama Canal) Murder in Emergency! BOSS TWEED Doors of Miracles Elsa The Benefactor! The Woodpecker Waltz THE GREAT QUEST Kingbird and Franklin Best Supernatural Scripts LEGACY (retitled LEGACY TWO: ORIGINS) LUANA (retitled LEGACY ONE: LUANA) Seraphim’s Miracle Visions The 49th Day BAD LISTING Restoration Doors of Miracles Uniforms Perfect Contrition Best Animation Scripts A Whisker Past Midnight VICKI IN VIEWLAND BIRDS OF A FEATHER Outstanding In The Field Saga of the Dwarf Turf War BORN TO BE YOU The Cat and The Rat + More WinningScripts Hollywood IQ News, opinions, interviews and more from Hollywood and the screenwriting contest scene. Interview with Author/Screenwriter Michael Weinreb Michael Weinreb studied journalism at Penn State, and creative writing at Boston University, and published a book of short stories and several books of non-fiction before trying his hand at screenwriting with The Big D , a sports drama based loosely on the SMU football scandal of the 1980s. Interview with Screenwriters Carlo and Erin Carere Carlo and Erin Carere are partners in life and in writing. Carlo was born in Naples, and published several novels in Italy before turning his attention to screenwriting. Minneapolis native Erin, meanwhile, was a playwright and singer-songwriter. The couple have been writing together since 2014, and their sci-fi TV pilot Dark Horizons has scored more than a dozen contest placements from some of the best-rated contests on MovieBytes. Interview with StoryPros Comedy Category Winner Thomas Leupp Comedy writer Thomas Leupp was born and raised in Los Angeles, and his sports comedy Tres Banditos was the comedy category winner of the 2019 StoryPros Awards , and a runner-up for the 2019 Inroads Fellowship. Interview with 2020 Fresh Voices Horror Division Winner Harry Aspinwall Harry Aspinwall is a writer and actor who grew up in Scotland, but has been living the U.S. - currently Brooklyn - since he was 16. His historical horror script Henrietta was the First Place Winner of the Horror Division of the 2020 Fresh Voices Screenwriting Competition. Interview with 2019 Shore Scripts Short Film Fund Winner James Gould-Bourn James Gould-Bourne, winner of the 2019 Shore Scripts Short Film Fund Competition, is originally from Manchester, England, but now lives with his wife in Malaysia after four years of living in Lithuania. His debut novel, Bear Necessity , will be published in U.S. on August 4, 2020. Interview with 2019 Creative World Award Winner Taylor Hopkins Taylor Hopkins was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2019 Creative World Awards for his screenplay, Stagecoach Mary , a true story about a hard-drinking, cigar smoking black woman in Montana in 1885, who uses her six shooter and tough as nails attitude to defend a convent of nuns from the perils of the Wild West. Interview with 2018 CineStory Second Place Winner Avishai Weinberger CineStory Co-Executive Director Carlo Martinelli catches up with the 2018 CineStory Fellowship second place winner, Avishai Weinberger. Interview with ScreenCraft Fellowship Winner Davia Carter Davia Carter was named a 2018 ScreenCraft Fellowship Winner on the basis of her TV pilot Double Time Dames , a one-hour drama set in the jazz age that tells the story of a brilliant female trumpeter who sheds her life of abusive men and attempts to start an all-female band as an Italian mob tries to stake their claim in her town. Interview with ScreenCraft Fellowship Winner Georgina Love Georgina Love was named a 2018 Sc...