by John | Mar 16, 2018 | Highlights, Our Winners, Results, Updates, WMC, WriteMovies News
The results are in… Winter 2018 Screenwriting Contest winners are revealed below!
Another contest complete, another group of winners revealed. We’ve seen the growth and improvement in many writers who have submitted – something that is reflected by the results! Thank you to all of you who entered for making our jobs of judging the scripts enjoyable.
We strongly encourage you to take advantage of our script consultancies to find out why your script placed where it did. Our top 3 now get those for free for the next year!
Here’s what our Top 3 win…
- Cash prize of $2000 for our Grand Prize Winner
- The 3 winners will receive one year free of script development and mentoring.
- We’ll also pitch and promote the scripts to the top of the film industry. Remind yourself what makes for winning writing HERE.
- Plus, exclusive prizes from InkTip – an InkTip Script Listing and the winning scripts’ loglines will be featured in InkTip’s Magazine, read by thousands of writers and producers.
CONGRATULATIONS to SLAVE SHIP by Tyler True for winning the Winter 2018 Screenwriting Competition!
A great win for Tyler for this excellent script about harrowing history and inspirational change. Tyler now takes home those wonderful prizes listed above. But we must also congratulate…
Second Placed Winner, CHARMER by David Kurtz – David has improved on his Third Placed finish in our Summer contest and was so close to taking home the main prize! Good job, David!
Third Placed Winner, INSURRECTION by Simon Bowler. Another win for Simon following on from his “Best Teleplay” win – another script that has continued to improve over multiple submissions!
And, of course, a special congrats to our Honorable Mentions: NEW REALITY by Carolyn Kras, MAGIC MAN by Norma Hickox, THE CRAWL-UP by Gabriell DeBear Paye, VALENTYNE by Dashiell Finley, THE DAWN OF EVE by James Bingham, A Shadow in Space by Bryan Reilly, and THE FOURTH COURIER by TIMOTHY JAY SMITH.
A very well done to everyone named here and the many other impressive scripts we read this time round. It’s been a tough field to choose from!
We’ll be telling you all about our winners in the coming weeks, and getting their script development phase underway.
Head to our Facebook page and our Twitter feed to congratulate our top three winners and Honorable Mentions yourself!
by John | Mar 12, 2018 | Highlights, Our Winners, Results, Updates, WMC, WriteMovies News
Huge congratulations to our Best Teleplay award winner, INSURRECTION by Simon Bowler! That’s two TV awards in two contests for Simon!
Simon now receives free Development Notes to help make his pilot breakthrough. With on-demand bringing the best shows into our homes whenever we want them, the appetite for scripted TV shows is massive and so are the range of new ways to get them made.
Our second placed television entry is SHAKESPEARE OF AVON by James Hanson! For finishing in second place, James will also gain free Development Notes on his pilot. We think there’s some great potential in these two teleplays and we’re looking forward to setting them on the path to success…
by John | Mar 12, 2018 | Highlights, Our Winners, Results, Updates, WMC, WriteMovies News
The book with the best screen potential is… A SHADOW IN SPACE by Bryan Reilly! We’re delighted to announce Bryan as just the second ever winner of this special award and we can’t wait for Bryan to claim his prize! Bryan now receives FREE Development Notes to help him adapt his book to a screenplay, or we’ll help him find a screenwriter who can. This could be an exciting breakthrough for Bryan!
Oh, but there’s more… In second place is THE LOCKSMITH by Jeffrey Ryan Morales– congrats Jeffrey! We will also be providing Jeffrey free Development Notes to guide him in the process of adapting his book to a screenplay.
Hopefully, this is the first chapter of many for these two talented writers!
by John | Mar 2, 2018 | Results, Updates, WMC, WriteMovies News
We are delighted to announce the Semi-Finalists for our Winter 2018 Screenwriting Contest.
We are delighted to announce the 26 Semi-Finalists for the Winter 2018 Screenwriting Competition! Selecting the scripts with the strongest claim to join our winners has made for a tough but enjoyable task for us the past couple of weeks.
Check out the full list of 26 Semi-Finalists below.
Head on over to our Facebook page and our Twitter feed to congratulate the Semi-Finalists yourselves!
The final results will be announced in two weeks’ time – Friday, March, 16th.
At this time, we try to only include scripts that we’re still considering as a potential winner. Having made the Quarter-Finalists shows that a script or writer already has some clear potential, and a Semi-Final place means that with more development this script could become a contender. Keep that in mind as you think about what to do with your script next. These results should give you a good guide to the current state of your idea, writing and script.
Next, we refocus our attention to the book and television entries as we wind up to next week’s TV and book awards announcement!
Here are the Winter 2018 Screenwriting Contest Semi-Finalists…
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Semi-Finalists |
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| THE DAWN OF EVE, James Bingham |
TO DIE IN TAJOUTE, Virginia Bola |
INSURRECTION, Simon Bowler |
| THE OUTSKIRTS OF PARADISE, Montgomery Burt |
WHEN THE WHITE DOVE SPEAKS, Al Case |
VALENTYNE, Dashiell Finley |
| ENDANGERED SPECIES, Mark Flood |
SHAKESPEARE OF AVON, James Hanson |
MAGIC MAN, Norma Hickox |
| BLACK SHEEP, John Hunter |
WHEN WE FALL BEHIND, Dan Hutchinson |
NEW REALITY, Carolyn Kras |
| CHARMER, David Kurtz |
THE LOCKSMITH, Jeffrey Morales |
BAD DOG, Phil Olsen |
| THE CRAWL UP, Gabriell DeBear Paye |
A SHADOW IN SPACE, Bryan Reilly |
SAVIOR, Bo Sanders
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| STAR BLUE SOLDIER, Donahue Silvia |
THE FOURTH COURIER, Timothy Jay Smith |
THE FIRSTBORN, William Smith |
| SLAVE SHIP, Tyler True |
LAST PRINCE OF WALES, Ethan Westgate |
COLD FOOTED, Tanya M. Wheeler |
| THE REALM, Tanya M. Wheeler |
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LEGACY OF THE GODS, Tim Wong |
by John | Feb 16, 2018 | Results, Updates, WMC, WriteMovies News
We are delighted to announce the Quarter-Finalists for our Winter 2018 Screenwriting Contest.
Since that Bonus Extension in January, we have had a lot of interesting and high-quality scripts to get through – but it’s been another great judging period!
Congratulations to the 51 Winter 2018 Quarter-Finalists! All of them had some special spark that caught our eye and we’re looking forward to giving them new eyes as we consider our Semi-Finalists and winners…
Those who didn’t make it this time were an equally fascinating set of submissions too, and showed a lot of promising qualities. We hope that you will stay in touch with us: we’re currently confirming details for our next contest and will keep you informed.
If you want to know why your script didn’t make it, or where to take it next? Has a revised edition of your script come out short yet again? We recommend that you consider getting a mentoring service or consultancy, too. That way you can find out what we currently feel is holding your script back. And as a sweet bonus, you’ll get free entry into our next main contest!
See the full list of Quarter-Finalists below…
Congratulate the Quarter-Finalists on our Facebook page and our Twitter feed.
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Quarter-Finalists |
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| STRANDED, Christopher Andre |
STEVE DEUCE, Justin Andreas |
BUSHIDO BASEBALL, Charles R. Astone |
| MEGABALL$, Marc Baron |
THE DAWN OF EVE, James Bingham |
TO DIE IN TAJOUTE, Virginia Bola |
| INSURRECTION, Simon Bowler |
THE OUTSKIRTS OF PARADISE, Montgomery Burt |
WHEN THE WHITE DOVE SPEAKS, Al Case |
| ADIONA, Ian Causer |
DEAD MAN’S HEAD, Ronald Ecker |
ICE CREAM DON’T MELT IN ENGLEWOOD, Richard Ehrenreich |
| VALENTYNE, Dashiell Finley |
ENDANGERED SPECIES, Mark Flood |
THE OATH, Axel Gerand |
| SHAKESPEARE OF AVON, James Hanson |
MAGIC MAN, Norma Hickox |
BLACK SHEEP, John Hunter |
| WHEN WE FALL BEHIND, Dan Hutchinson |
BOMMY!, Boim Hwang |
A SECOND CHANCE, Manny Jimenez Sr.
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| MATANZAS, Piotr Kaszuba |
NEW REALITY, Carolyn Kras |
CHARMER, David Kurtz |
| TALK THERAPY, Thomas Moore |
THE LOCKSMITH, Jeffrey Morales |
PROJECT ΩMEGA, P. James Norris |
| BAD DOG, Phil Olsen |
TREE HOUSE, Chris Ossman |
FINDING ATLANTIS, Katherine Panzella |
| AMERICAN REBEL, Sydney Parran |
THE CRAWL UP, Gabriell DeBear Paye |
GATEKEEPERS TO THE STARS, Thelma Pickett |
| A SHADOW IN SPACE, Bryan Reilly |
2020AD, Mike Rogers |
SAVIOR, Jerome Sanders |
| STAR BLUE SOLDIER, Donahue Silvia |
THE FOURTH COURIER, Timothy Jay Smith |
THE FIRSTBORN, William Smith |
| TIMBER, Patricia Stevens, Marian Mathews Clark |
CUL DE SAC, Charles Stock |
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, Charles Stock |
| SLAVE SHIP, Tyler True |
THE VENUS SYNDROME, Lynee Vincentnathan |
LAST PRINCE OF WALES, Ethan Westgate |
| COLD FOOTED, Tanya M. Wheeler |
THE REALM, Tanya M. Wheeler |
ISOLATION, Brian Whiteman |
| LEGACY OF THE GODS, Tim Wong |
DISRUPTED, Meredith Wood |
AMERICAN MYTHS OF BLACK & WHITE, Aaron Yarber |
by WriteMovies | Jan 26, 2018 | Ian Kennedy, Our Winners, Pitching, Updates, WMC, WriteMovies News, Writers' Journeys, Writing Insights
How we’re pitching our screenwriting contest winners to the industry…
Since our relaunch in February 2016, we’ve gained a wonderful, varied slate of award-winning scripts and writers, many of which have now completed their year of free script development as we prepare them and their writers for the pitching process. As our campaign to pitch them gathers momentum, I thought now would be a great time to show you what we’ve been doing for our winners and the great responses we’ve been getting. We can’t reveal the confidential details of course, but there’s plenty we can show you as this gains pace. (more…)
by John | Jan 12, 2018 | Highlights, Our Winners, WMC, WriteMovies News, Writers' Journeys
Our Wall of Fame 2017: Grand Prize winners!
We look back at our Grand Prize winners from 2017 today and reveal the full Wall of Fame infographic. If you enter the Winter 2018 Contest and come out on top, you could see your name up on next year’s Wall of Fame – as well as winning $2000 in cash!
Here’s all you need to know about our Grand Prize winners from 2017… The scripts are improving every day, and we’re closing in on pitching them to our industry contacts soon…
- BLACKOUT.CON by Ruben Bush III: “Two young African-American men find a unique and dangerous way to handle white supremacists and help their community.” Read more here…
- CHOKE JOB by David Dell Johnson: “A slick defense attorney with a penchant for getting guilty clients acquitted has his life methodically destroyed by a mysterious stranger and must embark on a desperate race to clear his name of murder.” Learn more…
- SPOON FED by Scott LaFortune: “A feisty feminist with a sweet-tooth is hired to curb the obesity crisis, then battles USDA corruption as she brings down a chauvinistic sugar lobby.” Read more…
Check out the full 2017 Wall of Fame below – click on it to see it in all its might! Then, with the inspiration juices flowing, finish off that script you have sitting on the shelf and take a chance with the Winter 2018 Contest before Sunday’s deadline…
Here’s what our Top 3 win…
And, of course, a special congrats to our Honorable Mentions: NEW REALITY by Carolyn Kras, MAGIC MAN by Norma Hickox, THE CRAWL-UP by Gabriell DeBear Paye, VALENTYNE by Dashiell Finley, THE DAWN OF EVE by James Bingham, A Shadow in Space by Bryan Reilly, and THE FOURTH COURIER by TIMOTHY JAY SMITH.
