Virtual Pitch Competition

The ScreenCraft Virtual Pitch Competition gives writers the chance to pitch to industry professionals!

Here’s how it works:

• Submit your best elevator pitch – a written, typed pitch of no more than 350 words.
• Semifinalists will be asked to submit a 2-minute video pitch.
• The selected finalists will pitch live and online, to a panel of A-list industry professionals.

Your written pitch can include a brief description of characters, plot, themes, tone, writer background, comparable projects, etc. Writers can submit a written pitch for a film or television project even if the script is not completed.

Any submission of more than 350 words will be disqualified from the competition. Pitches should be for feature films and episodic series only. Please do not pitch a short film. There is no limit to the number of projects you may submit.

Grand Prize:

• Personal Introduction to industry professionals
• $500 Cash
• Finalist pitch to managers, screenwriters, and TV writers and producers

Runner-up Prize:

• First Runner-up
  • Project info and loglines will be circulated and recommended to our network of 150 Hollywood managers, agents, producers, and development executives.
• Finalists
  • Finalists will have the exclusive opportunity to pitch live, over Zoom, to a panel of industry professionals.
• Second Runner-up
  • Project info and loglines will be circulated and recommended to our network of 150 Hollywood managers, agents, producers, and development executives.

Previous finalists have signed during the pitch competition with a Hollywood Lit Manager. Past winners and finalists have also landed meetings with companies like Verve, Page Boy Productions, and more.

The contest is open to entrants who will be 18 or older at the time of the winners’ announcement. However, a writer who has earned more than $50 000 (or equivalent currency) from professional writing services for film or TV in the preceding year is not. (Contest winnings not included.)

All persons from anywhere in the world are eligible; however the material submitted must be in English (occasional dialogue in other languages is acceptable, if subtitle translation is provided)

Entry Fee: $34,99

Deadlines:

• Regular: 31 July 2024
• Final: 31 August 2024

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