Dear Bill,
In the Spotlight today is the 3rd Annual United Film Festival Screenwriting Contest (UFF Screenwriting), providing an exciting forum for talents who are all too often overlooked during the filmmaking process: screenwriters. UFF Screenwriting offers the impressive passion, insight, and quality for which the United Film Festivals have become known, but uniquely directs those energies toward the magic of the written word. The result is a competition that strengthens writers, forges connections, and puts creative works in front of professional readers eager to celebrate great material.
UFF Screenwriting calls for submissions across a wide variety of genres, including drama, comedy, and horror/thriller, with separate competitive categories for short and feature-length submissions. Writers who submit to UFF Screenwriting have the option of purchasing written coverage of their scripts, a service designed to provide valuable insight from experienced screenplay readers on originality, story structure, characterization, dialogue, mechanics, and overall score.
Organizers will first announce three finalists in each category of competition and winners will be announced and honored at an awards celebration at the United Film Festival - Los Angeles Awards Night in May 2013. All finalists receive festival passes granting entry to all screenings and events. Attending finalists can network with fellow screenwriters, filmmakers, and industry guests at the Kickoff Party and Awards Night. Winning screenwriters will receive InkTip prize packages and Write Bros. Screenplay Studio Software.
UPCOMING DEADLINE
November 23, 2012 - Regular Deadline
MISSION AND OBJECTIVE
The United Film Festival Screenwriting Contest is committed to bringing together talented screenwriters from diverse backgrounds, thus creating a "United" showcase of creative energy and talent that aligns creative artists with the audiences they seek.
MORE ABOUT THE COMPETITION
All UFF Screenwriting entries must be original and unproduced works. They can be short pieces of fewer than 45 pages or feature-length projects of more than 45 pages. No matter its length or genre, submit your script to the United Film Festival Screenplay Contest today for the chance to take your screenwriting career to the next level!