The Screencraft has organized a comedy screenplay competition for all those people worldwide who love to write TV scripts or Film scripts. The competition is for people who are 18 or above. Scripts can be a romantic comedy, dark, slapstick, broad or dry, or any other comedy scriptwriting. The Best medicine is laughter, and this competition wants the concepts and talent hidden in people to bring out and celebrated. The competition is purely based on laughter and comedy creative writings. The program will also offer opportunities to the participants to showcase their talent and set their careers.
The winners for this competition will be chosen based on their written scripts, one grand prize winner will receive an award amount of $1,000, not only this but will also get to be personally introduced to top literary managers and accepted into the ScreenCraft Development Program, and an exclusive invitation to a Finalist only workshop to position themselves and their writing to the industry and other runner ups will also receive some honor and awards. This will motivate and encourage people to establish their careers in the Hollywood industry with known companies.
The Screencraft was launched in the year 2012 and is a for-hire script development consultancy with a focus on developing and celebrating commercially viable and genre-focused screenplays from emerging talent. Their mission is to foster the careers of emerging writers and filmmakers by inspiring and insight into the craft of screenwriting and the business of Hollywood.
Brief Description
Check out the below table to get a quick idea about this competition:
| Organization | Screencraft |
| Education Level | Any (18 or above age) |
| Subjects | All |
| Amount | $500-$1000 |
| Access Mode | Online |
| Number of Awards | 5 |
| City | Any |
| Nationality | Domestic and International |
| Country | USA |
| Contest Deadline | February 28, 2022 |
| Application Fees | $49.50-$119.00 |
| Requirements | Varies |
Who is Eligible?
- All writers at least 18 years of age are eligible
- All persons from anywhere in the world are eligible
Readout all eligibility criteria provided here.
How to Apply?
Participants around the world who are interested in this fantastic competition should select the entry package of their choice among standard entry, which costs $49.50, and standard entry + feedback which costs $119.00 (adds feedback to the applicant’s entry for scores, and over a page of notes to further improve their project). Participants must fill out all their details in each section and field, including project information, packages, additional information, and summary. Students must click on the below link to get into the competition and apply.
(Participants who want to take benefit of Add-on prize should select the add-on at the time of entry and read its requirements)
Grab your entry here.
Check out the rules, selection criteria, legal and additional information here.
Benefits
Participants who write best of their talent, skills, creativity will be selected based on reading and judging the scripts based on voice, concept, story, structure, characters, dialogues, and genre conversations. Among all the participant’s scripts, one grand prize winner will receive a cash amount of $1,000; with this, they will be able to get personally introduced to top literary managers, accepted into the ScreenCraft Development Program, and an exclusive invitation to a finalist only workshop to position themselves and their writing to the industry, as well as three runner ups prizes, will also be distributed as Feature winner and the Pilot winner who will receive a cash amount of $500 (for each), also accepted into ScreenCraft Development Program and an exclusive invitation to a finalist only workshop to position themselves and their writing to the industry and the 3rd one as finalist who will receive an exclusive invitation to a finalist only workshop to position themselves and their writing to the industry.
Add-on prize opportunity:
Participants who submit the competition and include this add-on at entry are only eligible for this prize. This ScreenCraft First Look Bootcamp add-on benefit is separate from the ScreenCraft Comedy Competition prizes and placements. The winner must be one writer/writing team will get selected for this prize by manager and producer Ari Lubet of 3 Arts Entertainment based on the participant’s outstanding concept from the ScreenCraft Comedy Competition for intensive development to get the project ready for the market over 12 months, including personalized meetings, development notes, and a business strategy to sell the project.
Application Deadline
Writers who are fascinated by this competition should cheer themselves up and bring out their talent and write the best story they have ever written, and get into this competition by the early deadline of February 28, 2022.
(Competition have other two deadlines as regular deadline March 31 and Final deadline April 30)
