Finishing in 2nd place for our Spring 2016 international screenwriting competition is a great achievement. Paul and his script DIMINUENDO fought off some high-quality scripts, including third placed AMBER by Johnny Sanchez and other honourable mentions. Paul thoroughly deserved this placing and we are delighted to tell you all a little more about him.
Finishing in 3rd place for our Spring 2016 international screenwriting competition is a great achievement. Johnny and his script AMBER fought off some high-quality scripts that ended up earning honourable mentions. Ultimately though, Johnny and his script, AMBER, thoroughly deserved this placing and we are delighted to tell you all a little more about him.
Warren now receives a year of free script development from us worth over $3000 and our monthly cash prize of $200! To follow in Warren’s footsteps enter our latest competitions: https://writemovies.com/current-competitions-payment/. Don’t forget to check our current Summer Consultancy offers, too, for our Judging Feedback (just $69 – normally $99), and Studio Consulting ($99 – normally $129) and Development Notes ($149 – a huge $50 discount from the normal $199!) and we are freezing the price of our Elite Consultancies at $299 – a unique price to get up to an hour of consultancy from a top studio executive! (more…)
We are delighted to be able to announce the semi-finalists for our Spring 2016 competition! It was a tough task whittling down the semi-finalists from the 52 quarter-finalists, but those who did get through have thoroughly deserved it. All of the scripts featured here go through to our final round for consideration – we’re aiming to reveal the overall winners on August 5th.
If you haven’t already, check out our Director of World Wide Development’s special article about What Your Scripts Have Been Telling Us over this period (CLICK HERE to read it and consider how the trends he’s noticed might relate to your script). We’re also compiling other Writing Tips from our reports to publish on the site soon, with general tips for helping your script sing. Don’t forget that many of our writers got their careers going by using our consulting service: CLICK HERE
Here is the full list of the WriteMovies Spring 2016 International Screenwriting Competition Semi-Finalists…
(Les quart de finalistes et les demi-finalistes de notre Concours Printemps 2016 ont été annoncés ! Nous félicitons ces auteurs…)
| SEMI-FINALISTS | ||||
| Urs Aebersold, DAS BLOCKHAUS | Urs Aebersold, LINDAS RACHE | Jean-Pierre Audebert, BRADDY WEBBY | James Bingham, THE DAWN OF EVE | Christian Bourgeois, LA VENGEANCE DU COBRA |
| Rohna Buehler, DER VORHANG | Michael D. Dalzell, BOLLES | Linda Falcão, OUT FLYING PAST MY BEDTIME | Mark Flood, BITING THE BULLET | Paul Gross, DIMINUENDO |
| Edyta Juzyk, NINJA WARRIORS | Astrid Korten, FROM LILY WITH LOVE | Jacques Koskas, LE SAC DE VOYAGEEN CUIR FAUVE | Rob Laffin, THE PEOPLE VS. GOLDMAN SACHS | Aleksandra Muni Leykauf, DIE PHÖNIX DIÄT |
| Paul Littell, BREAKTHROUGH | Christophe Lourenço, MYSPACE LOVE – UN SENS A TA VIE! | Matthew McHugh, THE AUTEUR | Graham Parke, PANDORIUM – SEQUENCE #1: HOW TO CATCH A TIME TRAVELER | Parthena Pavlidou, IN DER STILLE DER NACHT |
| Johnny Sanchez, AMBER (AKA COLOURS OF REBELLION) | Timothy Jay Smith, A VISION OF ANGELS | Timothy Jay Smith, FIRE ON THE ISLAND | Tyler True, LOVE IS SOMEWHERE ELSE | Tessa Wenslany, OLD |
Matthew now receives a year of free script development from us worth over $3000 and our monthly cash prize of $200! To follow in Matthew’s footsteps enter our latest competitions: https://writemovies.com/current-competitions-payment/ and don’t forget to check our consultancy packages: https://writemovies.com/consulting/
Runner-up:
LUCIOUS, Jacob Trask
Semi-finalists:
BLOOD BROTHERS, Matthew Elam
JUS’ PLAIN HARRY – Pat Pattan
MALE DELIVERY, Paul Penley
Thank you to everyone who entered this time! There was a great variety in the scripts for this contest, and we hope this trend can continue into our future competitions.
Here is a little background on Matthew:
Matthew Heinze has been writing movies since he was a kid growing up in Chicago. He learned the actual screenwriting art form and format at Columbia College where he majored in Fiction Writing. After graduating, he and several close friends started a small indie film company where he was a writer and director. During their 7 years of collaboration, they pumped out short and feature-length comedies which showed in many film festivals.
For the past 8 years Matthew has been working in the field of Instructional Design, developing and writing online training scripts and interactive course material for a wide variety of clients.Matthew moved to Austin, Texas in 2012 and has since been focused on taking his screenwriting to the next level.
Here is a brief synopsis of the winning script:
If you’re wondering what issues we’ve been noticing in less successful scripts so far this year, take a look at what your scripts have been telling us recently here: https://writemovies.com/scripts-telling-us-january-june-2016/
Last week, we confirmed Phillip Ramati as our winner for the UK Screenwriting contest for his script MADAME CAVELL. Phillip was one of the first people to enter this contest and for winning he receives a cash prize of £500, a year of free script development and mentoring worth over $3,200, and potential representation within the British industry to studios, producers, and commissioners.
Here’s some background information on Phillip:
“I have dual US/UK citizenship. I was an award-winning journalist for 21 years and now work for in public relations for a university. I am a former Disney/ABC Writing Fellowship finalist, made it to the Austin Film Festival second round with three different scripts, and finished in the Top 10% of Nicholl Fellowship scripts the last two years.”
Phillip’s winning script, MADAME CAVELL, is based on true events that happened during World War I, and with our announcement of the results coming on the hundredth anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, this seems like a somewhat fitting winner.
Here’s more about the script in Philip’s own words.
“Based on a true story, British nurse Edith Cavell helped save hundreds of lives during World War I by smuggling English, French and Belgian soldiers out of Belgium to avoid capture. She was arrested, put on trial and executed, causing worldwide outrage.”
A huge thank you to everyone who entered to the competition! We received a lot of entries considering the recent inception of the contest, and the quality of the scripts was very high. Praise must also go out to our runners-up and semi-finalists – the full list of which, can be found here: https://writemovies.com/uk-screenwriting-competition-results/
Once again, congratulations to Phillip for his well-written and intriguing script.