by Tom | Mar 1, 2024 | 2023 Screenwriting Contest, Contests, Industry Diary, News, Our Winners, Pitching, Updates, WriteMovies News
Steven R. Monroe is the director attached to Whiskey Mountain Days, our latest grand prize winner by Bill Walker!
Monroe is known for being one of the most prolific directors working today. To date, he has directed almost 60 long-form projects, including the acclaimed HOUSE OF 9 starring Dennis Hopper, two films for legendary producer Stephen J. Cannell, the controversial and critically acclaimed re-make of the 1978 classic I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, and the sequel I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE 2. He has also recently directed five Tubi original horror/thrillers.
Monroe has an impeccable reputation as a director who brings a unique style to each project and pushes for good performances. He is fast yet efficient, and he is respected by both cast and crew. Having such a director attached is a great benefit as we continue to invite approaches from the industry!
Click here to learn more about Whiskey Mountain Days by Bill Walker!
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by Tom | Feb 23, 2024 | 2023 Screenwriting Contest, Contests, Industry Diary, Industry News, News, Our Winners, Pitching, WriteMovies News
Pitch: Whiskey Mountain Days: When a college student joins director Bill Grefé’s independent film shooting in Georgia, he falls passionately in love with a much older woman on the crew, only to face her ex-husband from Hell…
WHISKEY MOUNTAIN DAYS is a sweet coming-of-age romance. If you like show business backdrops, hopelessly smitten heroes, humorous banter, and heartbreaking drama, then you’ll adore Bill Walker’s tender tale of maturation.
We’re inviting approaches now from the industry to take this script from our latest Grand Prize winner to the widest audience possible – and have news on an attachment to the project to share with you next week!
Here’s a little more about WHISKEY MOUNTAIN DAYS by Bill Walker… (more…)
by John | Dec 18, 2023 | 2023 Screenwriting Contest, Contests, News, Our Winners, Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award, Updates, WMC, WriteMovies News
Thanks for all your entries to our 2023 contests.
The WriteMovies Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award is a thrilling journey into other realms, exploring the vast possibilities of the human imagination through your scripts. Amidst the captivating landscapes and intricate narratives, we have, after careful consideration, selected a deserving winner!
Sci-fi and fantasy genres often birth franchises, offering storytellers rich lore and expansive story worlds to delve into. This amplifies the excitement as we eagerly anticipate presenting all our winners to the industry.
Remember, even if you didn’t clinch the victory this time, your writing journey continues. Persevere and re-enter future contests, for persistence is a writer’s essential trait!
Seeking assistance? Explore our sci-fi and fantasy-themed writing insights articles, covering aspects like worldbuilding and dialogue. For personalized guidance, consider our Elite Mentoring service, connecting you with industry veterans.
Thanks for all your entries to our 2023 contests, which closed on November 26th. We’re enjoying judging your works, now with our next winner to announce: our 2023 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award Winner revealed: THE REVOLT OF THE WHALES by Michael Rhodes!
Congratulations to Michael for an inventive and visionary screenplay. We’re really looking forward to helping develop this further and pitching it to industry.
Congratulations once again to our
2023 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award Winner!!
Michael Rhodes
by John | Dec 11, 2023 | 2023 Screenwriting Contest, Contests, News, Our Winners, Rom-Com award, WMC, WriteMovies News
Thanks for all your entries to our 2023 contests.
Thanks for all your entries to our 2023 contests, which closed on November 26th. We’re enjoying judging your works and we’re already set with our next winner to announce, postponed a few days due to the contest extension: our 2023 Romance and Comedy Award winner, WHISKEY MOUNTAIN DAYS by Bill Walker!
Congratulations to Bill for an imaginative and unique screenplay. We’re really looking forward to helping develop this further and pitching it to industry.
Congratulations once again to our
2023 Romance and Comedy Award Winner!!
Bill Walker
by John | Nov 27, 2023 | 2023 Screenwriting Contest, Contests, Horror Award, News, Our Winners, Screenwriting Contests, WriteMovies News
Thanks for all your entries to our 2023 contests.
Thanks for all your entries to our 2023 contests, which closed on November 26th. We’re enjoying judging your works and we’re already set with a first winner to announce, postponed a few days due to the contest extension: our 2023 Horror Award winner, THE LAND OF BROKEN SKY by Jeremy D. Thompson!
Congratulations to Jeremy for a vivid and highly original script full of unique visuals and skin-crawling moments. We’re really looking forward to helping develop this further and pitching it to industry.
Congratulations once again to our
2023 Horror Award Winner!!
Jeremy D. Thompson
by John | Oct 20, 2023 | 2023 Screenwriting Contest, Development Notes, Elite Consulting, Industry Diary, Matt Rose, News, Pitching, Screenwriting Contests, WriteMovies News
Our Development Notes have been getting our winners ready for industry.
Major wins for all writers this month with the WGA and AMPTP reaching a tentative deal expected to end the strike, and meeting many of the WGA’s demands! For a breakdown of the deal, see the WGA’s Summary of the 2023 WGA MBA. And thanks to this, we’re resuming pitching and relishing it!
With the strike coming to a close, we are thrilled to soon resume pitching our winning scripts from the last contest cycle! Polished through a cycle of incisive WriteMovies development notes and exciting rewrites by our wonderful writers, we are ready to cast a wide net in pitching these stories to studios, producers, and financiers. We have been researching a wide variety, from big names to indie powerhouses, to contact with our pitches and strategically crafted one-sheets when the time is right. And that time is near!
Maintaining relationships with our winning writers, our team has offered their analysis and insight on numerous drafts, in order to make these scripts as compelling as they can be and ensure they pop off the page for potential producers. As we reach the climactic pitching preparations for our last contest cycle, we are also ramping up on a new screenwriting contest that is currently accepting submissions. Resuming pitching is an exciting time for all of us and we’d love you to be a part of it too…
Have you written your next (or first!) masterpiece but you’re not sure how to get it off the ground? Need the motivation to finally finish a story you’ve been yearning to tell? Get your script in before the submission window closes! A contest submission guarantees your script is getting out in the world and getting read by a panel of analysts and industry judges. Winners will receive development notes and the full pitching force of WriteMovies.com. For all entrants, we guarantee feedback on your first 10 pages, and you may opt-in for full-on development notes as well. We look forward to reading your stories! (And, hopefully, one day, watching them on the big screen!)
See our current contests here!
