Hey, guys and girls!
I'd like to take a minute away from arguing against fascism and for rational, thoughtful suicide to illuminate the wonders of the trackingb.com screenwriting contest (which is in no way affiliated with fascism or suicide ).
My bro and I entered this contest last year with a page-one rewrite of a script that made the Top 30 overall in the 2008 Nicholl competition. That Nicholl placement garnered us only two reads (good reads, but still). I believe it had something to do with Nicholl only publishing genre and title (our title was HEART, a drama - sounds prosaic, but the story is far from it).
Well, we decided to enter the trackingb.com contest as well, based off the endorsement of Joe 9alt and others. Good move.
It's a smaller contest, with some stiff competition, as only people that are actually taking screenwriting seriously enough to be tracking industry trends and such were exposed to it in infancy. Our rewritten script finished as an honorable mention with trackingb, Top 8 out of almost 800 entries, if I remember right.
Well, based off of that contest placement we got WAY more requests for our script than the Top 30 Nicholl gave us, and The Insider also put our logline up with the title on the website - a boon, in our case.
This put us in touch with a few managers and prodcos, one of which (manager) loved our writing but understandably had a few issues with the script's commercial prospects. We went ahead and finished a rewrite on another script and sent it to our new contacts. Lo and behold, we had a couple offers of representation.
We settled on a manager (the one previously mentioned) in June and last week, with him getting us in some very exclusive rooms, signed with a top agent at WME (so no, they are not on lockdown, to answer another thread's question).
The point being: this small contest has some weight to it.
Placing in the trackingb.com contest had more of an impact for us than placing in the Top 30 out of 5,224 entries in the Nicholl. This is no reflection on the Nicholl, just an illustration of what the trackingb.com contest can do for a screenwriter.
If your script is in sound shape and ready to go, you'd be wise to consider entering it in the trackingb.com contest.
I think the early deadline this year is September 1st. Get to work. Make something happen.
I'd like to take a minute away from arguing against fascism and for rational, thoughtful suicide to illuminate the wonders of the trackingb.com screenwriting contest (which is in no way affiliated with fascism or suicide ).
My bro and I entered this contest last year with a page-one rewrite of a script that made the Top 30 overall in the 2008 Nicholl competition. That Nicholl placement garnered us only two reads (good reads, but still). I believe it had something to do with Nicholl only publishing genre and title (our title was HEART, a drama - sounds prosaic, but the story is far from it).
Well, we decided to enter the trackingb.com contest as well, based off the endorsement of Joe 9alt and others. Good move.
It's a smaller contest, with some stiff competition, as only people that are actually taking screenwriting seriously enough to be tracking industry trends and such were exposed to it in infancy. Our rewritten script finished as an honorable mention with trackingb, Top 8 out of almost 800 entries, if I remember right.
Well, based off of that contest placement we got WAY more requests for our script than the Top 30 Nicholl gave us, and The Insider also put our logline up with the title on the website - a boon, in our case.
This put us in touch with a few managers and prodcos, one of which (manager) loved our writing but understandably had a few issues with the script's commercial prospects. We went ahead and finished a rewrite on another script and sent it to our new contacts. Lo and behold, we had a couple offers of representation.
We settled on a manager (the one previously mentioned) in June and last week, with him getting us in some very exclusive rooms, signed with a top agent at WME (so no, they are not on lockdown, to answer another thread's question).
The point being: this small contest has some weight to it.
Placing in the trackingb.com contest had more of an impact for us than placing in the Top 30 out of 5,224 entries in the Nicholl. This is no reflection on the Nicholl, just an illustration of what the trackingb.com contest can do for a screenwriter.
If your script is in sound shape and ready to go, you'd be wise to consider entering it in the trackingb.com contest.
I think the early deadline this year is September 1st. Get to work. Make something happen.
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