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  • You Can Only Enter 5 Feature Screenplay Competitions

    What five do you enter?

    What if your script is a horror screenplay? What five do you choose?
    "All of us trying to be the camera behind the camera behind the camera. The last story in line. The Truth" Chuck Palahniuk - Haunted

  • #2
    Re: You Can Only Enter 5 Feature Screenplay Competitions

    BL3.0

    BL3.0

    BL3.0

    BL3.0

    And the Nicholl.

    (Yes, even though the Black List isn't technically a "competition").

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    • #3
      Re: You Can Only Enter 5 Feature Screenplay Competitions

      Based on the track record of contestants getting discovered and starting their screenwriting careers, I recommend:

      Sundance Labs
      Nicholl
      Black List w/ paid evaluations
      Austin
      Trackingb

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      • #4
        Re: You Can Only Enter 5 Feature Screenplay Competitions

        Originally posted by ATB View Post
        BL3.0

        BL3.0

        BL3.0

        BL3.0

        And the Nicholl.

        (Yes, even though the Black List isn't technically a "competition").
        I think it's technically a competition, albeit a rolling one. There are scores. High scores may or may not get open doors. A lot like Trackingb.

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        • #5
          Re: You Can Only Enter 5 Feature Screenplay Competitions

          Horror in particular, I think Austin and Slamdance would be your best bets.

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          • #6
            Re: You Can Only Enter 5 Feature Screenplay Competitions

            If it's a genre screenplay, e.g., Horror, then I would recommend entering it into the PAGE in that category.

            Late Night Writer

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            • #7
              Re: You Can Only Enter 5 Feature Screenplay Competitions

              Nicholl

              Tracking b

              Page

              Script Pipeline

              Austin


              Not necessarily in that order, but Nicholl definitely first.

              I still haven't gotten into the Black List, but time will tell.

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              • #8
                Re: You Can Only Enter 5 Feature Screenplay Competitions

                Nicholl
                Austin
                Page
                Tracking B
                Sundance (but ONLY if it's a "Sundance type" project)

                I think there are a couple specifically for horror


                not technically competitions:
                BL
                Amazon Studios
                Inktip
                "People who work in Hollywood are the ones who didn't quit." -- Lawrence Kasdan

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                • #9
                  Re: You Can Only Enter 5 Feature Screenplay Competitions

                  Originally posted by Hamboogul View Post
                  Based on the track record of contestants getting discovered and starting their screenwriting careers, I recommend:

                  Sundance Labs
                  Nicholl
                  Black List w/ paid evaluations
                  Austin
                  Trackingb
                  I agree 100%. Check out the Page Awards too.

                  Sundance doesn't accept non-US citizens living outside the US though. Check out this link for their international programs.

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                  • #10
                    Re: You Can Only Enter 5 Feature Screenplay Competitions

                    Originally posted by LauriD View Post
                    Nicholl
                    Austin
                    Page
                    Tracking B
                    Sundance (but ONLY if it's a "Sundance type" project)

                    I think there are a couple specifically for horror


                    not technically competitions:
                    BL
                    Amazon Studios
                    Inktip
                    Co-Sign this.

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                    • #11
                      Re: You Can Only Enter 5 Feature Screenplay Competitions

                      I've entered Nicholl and am entering AFF and trackingb.

                      Also have a script up on the BL and that's helped get it some reads.

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                      • #12
                        Re: You Can Only Enter 5 Feature Screenplay Competitions

                        Blacklist
                        Austin
                        Nicholl (although I'm reluctant to say that is the most horror friendly place, still a great contest though)
                        Slamdance (had a horror script do well here before)
                        Tracking B! -- personal favorite here. This contest launched my career and the guy who runs it is awesome.
                        Last edited by CameronAlexander; 04-04-2013, 08:50 PM.
                        Twitter @CameronAlxander

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                        • #13
                          Re: You Can Only Enter 5 Feature Screenplay Competitions

                          Originally posted by CameronAlexander View Post
                          Blacklist
                          Austin
                          Nicholl (although I'm reluctant to say that is the most horror friendly place, still a great contest though)
                          Slamdance (had a horror script do well here before)
                          Tracking B! -- personal favorite here. This contest launched my career and the guy who runs it is awesome.
                          Congrats on your script sale! Just saw it.

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                          • #14
                            Re: You Can Only Enter 5 Feature Screenplay Competitions

                            Originally posted by jsay View Post
                            Congrats on your script sale! Just saw it.
                            +1. Congrats, man!

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                            • #15
                              Re: You Can Only Enter 5 Feature Screenplay Competitions

                              Thanks
                              Twitter @CameronAlxander

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