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chaia
05-05-2009, 05:48 PM
With cash and prizes totaling $10,000, The Silver Screenwriting Competition will award the Grand Prize winner a round trip ticket to Los Angeles, three nights at a four star hotel on the Sunset Strip, meetings with three managers and lunch at the Ivy with Josh Zetumer, currently adapting DUNE for director Peter Berg. (Josh also worked on SHERLOCK HOLMES and JAMES BOND: QUANTUM OF SOLACE). How’d you like to pick his brain over lunch? And that’s not even including the MacBook Air, iPhone and $750 in cash.

Go ahead. Give it a try. Then start packing your bags for Hollywood. Deadline, May 10th, 2009, 11:59pm Pacific Time.
http://www.silverscreenwriting.com (http://www.silverscreenwriting.com/)
JoeBanks
05-05-2009, 08:22 PM
This would have been nice to know before I (and everyone else who entered prior the original deadline) submitted. Unless you're letting us submit a revised version to give us the same benefit as those who now get to enter late.
sc111
05-05-2009, 11:18 PM
How much is the entry fee to this contest?

Nevermind -- I found it in their FAQ -- $55.

Sort of steep for a lunch with another writer.

Nicholl is only $30.
ShaneBlackFan
05-06-2009, 08:51 AM
Why have they extended the deadline?
TheKeenGuy
05-06-2009, 10:09 AM
Why have they extended the deadline?
The kindness of their hearts?
qualitycontrol
05-06-2009, 11:51 AM
How much is the entry fee to this contest?

Nevermind -- I found it in their FAQ -- $55.

Sort of steep for a lunch with another writer.

Nicholl is only $30.

People know what Nicholl is too.
Bono
05-06-2009, 11:55 AM
99% of contests do this... And it's because they know they'll get more entries that way. Simple math.

I never do get the people that wait until the last minute to submit their scripts -- I wonder how many have won anything that way.

I get mad when writers don't give themselves time and rush to make competitions. And yes, I've done it too. But the only times I did well is when I had a script that has been ready to go, read, rewritten over the course of months.
JoeBanks
05-06-2009, 07:35 PM
Stupid diligent writers taking a contest at its word and treating a deadline like an actual deadline . . . what a bunch of chumps!
RichMike
05-07-2009, 03:34 PM
i can only speak from personal experience.

i had a script with a hot topic, great story, marketable, well constructed, great pace and inspirational ending.

i was working on editing, spelling, little things...and got the email about the deadline. i had no idea. either i missed the previous emails or was in another world.

so i entered that draft.

a week later, i am picking up small typos like marital vs. martial --- but i didn't want to miss the dealine.

it just happens that way.

in another week, maybe i only had 2 more typos. or 1. or maybe none.




99% of contests do this... And it's because they know they'll get more entries that way. Simple math.

I never do get the people that wait until the last minute to submit their scripts -- I wonder how many have won anything that way.

I get mad when writers don't give themselves time and rush to make competitions. And yes, I've done it too. But the only times I did well is when I had a script that has been ready to go, read, rewritten over the course of months.