Finishing in 2nd place for our Summer 2016 international screenwriting competition is a great achievement. Stephen Woodward and his script THE FLYER fought off some high-quality scripts, including third placed BALLERINA GIRL by Evan Cooper and other honourable mentions. Stephen thoroughly deserved this placing and we are delighted to tell you all a little more about him.
Finishing in 3rd place for our Summer 2016 international screenwriting competition is a great achievement. Evan and his script BALLERINA GIRL fought off some high-quality scripts that ended up earning honourable mentions. Ultimately though, Evan and his script, BALLERINA GIRL, thoroughly deserved this placing and we are delighted to tell you all a little more about him.
We are proud to be able to announce THE DAWN OF EVE by James Bingham as the winner of our Featured Script of the Month for December.
We are delighted to announce the semi-finalists for our Summer 2016 Screenwriting Competition. It’s been a tough, yet enjoyable task whittling down the 42 quarter-finalists to this deserving batch of semi-finalists. The finalists, runners-up, and winners are set to be announced on December 2nd.
Congratulations to MYSTERY HERO GUY by Rico Lara Marin as the winner of our free monthly script contest winner for September 18th-October 31st!
We are proud to be able to announce MYSTERY HERO GUY by Rico Lara–Marin as the winner of our Featured Script of the Month for September 18th to October 31st – the time of our late surge of Summer contest entries. The dates for the November Featured Script of the Month will be back to normal, though, spanning the whole month of November.
We are delighted to announce the quarter-finalists for our Summer 2016 Screenwriting Competition. Since that late surge of entries and the unfortunate hacking of our website, we had a lot of scripts to get through – and it’s been an enjoyable task reading through every one submitted – so thank you to everyone who entered the contest. We will announce Semi-finalists, winner and runners-up in the next few weeks. (more…)
We are delighted to be able to announce EMILY’S HOUR by Alvin Chua as the winner of our Featured Script of the Month for September for submissions we received between the 1st and 17th of the month – we have chosen to only allocate these dates this time around because most scripts we received thereafter were part of the late surge in entries we received for the Summer 2016 Screenwriting Contest – scripts from the 18th September onwards will be in with a chance of winning our next Featured Script of the Month.
This bonus prize has been created to reward and develop the most interesting script we receive in the previous month (in this case August 2016) and the result has no bearing on the result of other entries to any of our competitions. It was an interesting challenge to pick the most interesting script from such a wide variety of scripts written to a high-quality, but Alvin thoroughly deserves this. For winning the Script of the Month, Alvin receives free Judging Feedback worth $99 plus a free resubmission for a redrafted version of his script, EMILY’S HOUR, to our latest main Competition! On top of that, we will give Alvin and his script the kind of publicity that our previous Monthly Contest winners have received.
Honorable Mentions:
SOME OTHER EDEN, Anthony Etherington.
PERSUASION “Pilot”, Susan Hippen.
IN THE LADIES ROOM, Andrew Smith.
Here’s a little info on Alvin:
“I immigrated to the United States from the Philippines in 1993. Here, I wrote short fiction and published a few in small circulation magazines. I started writing scripts mid-2014 and started sending features to contests 2015 and 2016.
In the two-year contest cycle, this Featured Script of the Month win in WriteMovies is my first.
However, I advanced to the quarterfinals twice in Page International screenwriting contest and twice in the same category in Scriptapalooza. I was also Second Rounder in the Austin Film Festival competition this year.
Currently, I’ve started writing a novel based on one of my eight feature scripts.”
And here is a brief synopsis of the winning script, EMILY’S HOUR:
Awake for only one hour per day, a lady afflicted with a rare sleeping beauty disease called Klein-Levin Syndrome — enters the cusp of womanhood juggling turbulent relationships with three people that cares for her most: An affianced tutor she had a crush on, an under-aged admirer she can’t brush off, and a worry-wart mom struggling to save their home.
Congratulations once again to Alvin for winning the first Featured Script of the Month! To be in with a chance of winning the Featured Script of the Month yourself, all you have to do is submit your script to a contest (CLICK HERE) or order a consultancy package (CLICK HERE) and you’ll be entered into the Featured Script of the Month FOR FREE!