The Directors Circle Scriptwriting Competition strives to discover scriptwriters and to transform their dreams into reality through discovery, international recognition, and career development.
Our competition is open to everyone, however script must not have been previously optioned, purchased, or currently be in production or previously produced.
The Director's Circle Scriptwriting Competition offers a $5,000.00 cash award to our first place winner of the 2010 competition among other prizes. The winning script will be forwarded to agents and industry professionals for consideration.
ALL competition winners, runners-up, and finalists will earn the chance to have their scripts read by established production companies and agents in LA and NY.
PLEASE READ AND FOLLOW ALL BELOW INSTRUCTIONS
Competition Rules:
* All genres are accepted.
* Must be 18 years of age.
* All countries are eligible.
* Scripts must be submitted in English.
* Feature Length Scripts should be between 80 (minimum) and 125 (maximum) pages not including the title page.
* Short Length Scripts should be between 1 (minimum) and 50 (maximum) pages not including the title page.
* Scripts should be properly formatted. Print on white paper using only 12 pt. Courier, or 12 pt. Courier Final Draft fonts.
* Covers must be card stock only
* Please include ONLY the title and the tracking number on the submitted manuscript to prevent reader biases. Full contact info, writer, title and company information should not be printed on any part of the actual screenplay.
* Body pages must be correctly numbered.
* Printed screenplay submissions should be bound with two or three brass fasteners.
* Electronic screenplay submissions should be in Adobe PDF or Word format
* All submitted submissions become property of the Directors Circle Scriptwriting Competition and will not be returned. At the end of the competition, the Directors Circle will destroy all screenplays.
* With the exception of the 10 finalists, rewritten/corrected pages WILL NOT be accepted once the entry has been received.
* Script submissions must be postmarked by deadline dates.
* Scripts must not have been previously optioned, purchased, in production or produced.
* Any script that becomes purchased, optioned or put into production before the final deadline will be eliminated from competition with no entry fee refund.
* Scripts written as adaptations of other works must have secured rights before being submitted.
* Scripts must be original work of the author
* Multiple authorship is allowed. If the script wins, the writers will divide the prize.
* Multiple entries are allowed, but their own completed entry form and their own appropriate entry fee must accompany each entry.
Film and script selections will be announced no later than October 2, 2010.
All entrants will receive confirmation of receipt of entry via email and all entrants will notification of acceptance or non-acceptance to the festival.
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