12/08/2024
✍️Screenwriters: The deadline for the 22nd annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition is 4 September 20244.
❌Already passed -- Early-Bird Deadline: 17 July 2024
🎬 Still open --- > Final Deadline: 4 Sept. 2024
👨⚖️ Have you submitted your scripts? Francis Ford Coppola is the judge.
🎥Winner receives a cash prize, plus the top 10 scripts will be sent to agencies and production companies for consideration.
Find details here: www.all-story.com/american-zoetrope-screenplay-competition/
GENERAL INFO: (copied and pasted direct for the website)
The mission of the American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition is to find and promote new and innovative voices in cinema. The competition considers feature-length film scripts, as well as pilot scripts for television/streaming services. Every script is read closely by a select handful of professional readers, and the American Zoetrope staff and Francis Ford Coppola choose a winner from among the ten finalists.
🏆💰 The winner receives a grand prize of $5,000.
The winner and nine finalists are considered for representation by the agencies CAA, Circle of Confusion, Energy Entertainment, Exile Entertainment, the Gersh Agency, ICM, Oasis Media Group, the Radmin Company, UTA, and William Morris Endeavor. Their scripts will be considered for option and development by the production companies American Zoetrope, Anonymous Content, Array, Cats & Dogs Productions, Double Hope Films, Fox Searchlight, Groundswell Productions, Icon Films, IFC Films, Jean Doumanian Productions, Lionsgate, LIT Entertainment Group, Lleju Productions, Number 9 Films, Oasis Media Group, Pretty Pictures Productions, Roserock Films, Sony Pictures Classics, Verisimilitude, and Working Title Films.
DEADLINES:
❌The EARLY-BIRD DEADLINE is July 17, 2024, at 11:59:59 p.m. PST.
🎬 The FINAL DEADLINE is September 4, 2024, at 11:59:59 PST.
RESULTS:
One winning script and nine finalists will be announced on February 10, 2025. Semi- and quarterfinalists will be announced at the same time.
FEES:
💵 The early-bird (before July 17) entry fee is $40; the regular fee is $50.
RULES, DETAILS, AND QUESTIONS:
Before entering, please read the Official Rules and FAQs (see tabs above), which include answers to commonly asked questions. With additional questions, please email [email protected].
Thanks for your interest, and good luck!
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