We’ve had an exciting few months reviewing the submissions for the WriteMovies 2024 Writing Contest. Now the journey has reached its conclusion, it’s time to announce the top 3 winning scripts! 

You made our skin crawl in the Horror Award, delighted us in the Romance and Comedy Award, and transported us to distant worlds in our Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award. New for this year we also launched our Script Pitch Contest and received some fantastic ideas!

2024 Prize Winners

Honorable Mentions

CALL ME THOR
Jamie Campbell

STRING THEORY
Vanisha Renée and Alex Serafini

THE VIGORISH
Jason K. White

THE AGE OF EMPATH
Steve Brown

THE LAST WORD
James Crisp

GAL BABY
Tommy Roswell

The Hidden Rook
Sara Althani

The top three entries and all award winners have secured fantastic prizes, including a year of script development, guaranteed representation from TalentScout International Management and the opportunity to pitch to the international entertainment industry!

With the large variety of submissions, the competition was tough. If you didn’t make it don’t be disheartened; here are some valuable lessons we learned from your scripts for your future projects:

Keeping a modern audience engaged, stands as the most crucial, yet overlooked element. Remember, your script won’t come to life if nobody wants to watch it so ensure you understand your target audience. Also remember that in today’s era of analytics-driven storytelling, where executives pore over how many seconds of each movie or show that people watch before drifting away, getting into the story quickly is more important than ever.

Use our feedback on your first ten pages. The opening of your script is pivotal, hooking the viewer, setting expectations and making a lasting impression. Many of our Winners and Honorable Mentions made use of the resubmission opportunity to sharpen their scripts and improve their results! 

Keep varying the kinds of conflict we see too; it’s pivotal for maintaining engagement. Conflict breeds drama, our interest wanes without it. Keep challenging your protagonist – we’ll appreciate them all the more for overcoming their struggles.

For additional support, explore our Script Consultancy Services or the Elite Mentoring service to tap into the expertise of script analysts and seasoned industry professionals. Click here to learn more!

Congratulations again to our 2024 Screenwriting Contest Winners!

Anytime Entry Service!

The 2024 Contest may have closed, but you can enter at any time! Choose an option below then email WriteMovies your script.

Enter your script at any time at our website for just $45, and you will receive:

• An analysis of the first ten pages of your script, focusing on its key strengths and weaknesses in the key passages that the industry would actually consider before deciding whether to continue.
• A writer evaluation, confirming either that we believe the industry’s analysts would Pass this entry, Consider this entry for representation and pitching (which we will do by entering it in any one of our annual Awards and Prizes this year!)… or that our analyst can immediately Recommend it – guaranteeing you Representation, public promotion and pitching to industry in return for a signed contract to be managed and publicly promoted by us and our partners at TalentScout International Management!

It also guarantees you the chance to win any relevant WriteMovies prize or Award that we announce in 2025 – giving you a second shot at representation, promotion and pitching by the end of the year as our view of your entry and the market develops! And even better than that: if you get a ‘Consider’ outcome, you’ll be allowed to submit a new draft of your project to that contest before it closes – giving you every chance to learn from the feedback you got first time around and nail it before the contest winners are decided.

Enter now at WriteMovies.com – see the options in the right sidebar or navigate to the service you’re interested in!

Email us at info@writemovies.com to enter after payment! Enter a contest directly, or commission a Mentoring/Consultancy service and get free entry with it!

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