TV Pilot Screenplay Competition

Screencraft is looking for TV pilots that push genre boundaries like Stranger Things, inspire change like Abbott Elementary and Grey’s Anatomy, transport viewers to other worlds like The Last of Us and Dark Matter, and entertain like The Bear, Girls5Eva and Beef.

All finalists are guaranteed a meeting with an industry professional and will be invited to an exclusive workshop on how you can best position yourself and your writing in Hollywood. Plus a Q&A session with Emmy-nominated writer and showrunner Kirk Ward (THE CONTINENTAL).

Grand Prize:

• Personal Introduction to industry professionals
• Accepted into the Writer Development Program
• $1 000 Cash
• An exclusive invitation to a Finalist+ workshop to position yourself and your writing to the industry

Runner-up Prizes:

• Category Winners (Half-Hour & Hour-Long) 
  • $500 cash award
  • Accepted into the Writer Development Program
  • An exclusive invitation to a Finalist+ workshop to position yourself and your writing to the industry
• Finalists
  • An exclusive invitation to a Finalist+ workshop to position yourself and your writing to the industry
  • Exclusive virtual Q&A session with VIP Grand Prize Mentor Kirk Ward

All writers at least 18 years of age are eligible. However, a writer who has earned more than $50 000 (or equivalent currency) from professional writing services for film or TV in the preceding 12 months or $500 000 (or equivalent currency) from professional film or TV in the proceeding 10 years is not eligible. (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:

• Standard Entry & Feedback: $139
• Standard Entry (without feedback): $69,99

Entries may be any length. The standard 1/2 hour is between 20 to 40 pages, and the standard hour long is between 40 to 70 pages. Any script submission longer than 70 pages will incur a $,50 per page overage fee for each page over 70 if it does not include feedback and $1 per page if the entry does include feedback.

Deadlines:

• Regular deadline: 31 August 2024
• Final deadline: 30 September 2024

Submissions are accepted via electronic submission only. There is no limit to the number of projects you may submit.

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