Links

AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL
Drama and comedy feature screenplays win $5,000 each. Other prizes available for other categories of scripts.

http://www.austinfilmfestival.com

DISNEY/ABC FELLOWSHIP
$50,000 annual salary to be mentored on location at the studios and networks for a year.

http://www.abctalentdevelopment.com

FINAL DRAFT’S BIG BREAK SCREENWRITING COMPETION


http://www.finaldraft.com/products-and-services/big-break/

NANTUCKET FILM FESTIVAL
Showtime’s Tony Cox Award for Screenwriting receives $2,000 plus a month long, all-expenses-paid retreat on the island of Nantucket. A select number of writers are invited to workshop their feature screenplay projects with guidance from industry mentors. Participating writers live together in an atmosphere of secluded creativity at picturesque Almanack Farm, perched on the edge of Nantucket’s cranberry bog conservation land. In addition to intensive one-on-one feedback sessions, writers and advisers enjoy a sociable colony experience over dinners and island outings.

http://www.nantucketfilmfestival.org

NICHOLL FELLOWSHIPS
Up to 5 people will each win $30,000 fellowships from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the folks who do the Academy Awards and give out the Oscars.

http://www.oscars.org/awards/nicholl/

SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
$5,000 grand prize and industry exposure.

http://www.slamdance.com

ZOETROPE SCREENPLAY CONTEST
Francis Ford Coppola’s motion picture production company Zoetrope offers $5,000 to the grand prize winner of its Screenplay Contest, plus excellent Hollywood industry exposure and opportunity.

http://www.zoetrope.com/contests/

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