Panel: Why Screenwriting Competitions are Necessary
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- Опубликовано: 19 янв 2018
- Past ScreenCraft winners and a runner-up get together for a roundtable discussion. They cover the importance of screenwriting competitions and why going all-in matters.
From Left to Right:
Aaron Steven -- Runner-up, ScreenCraft's 2014 Action Thriller Contest
Kenlon Clark -- Winner, Bootleg Universe Adi Shankar ScreenCraft Contest
John Rhodes -- Moderator, Co-Founder of ScreenCraft
Rowan Wheeler -- Winner, ScreenCraft's 2015 Pilot Launch Script Contest
Sam Laskey -- Winner, ScreenCraft's 2016 Comedy Contest
You'd stand in the rain to watch it. Great test for if a script should be shown. I'm going to ask myself that.
Hundreds of talented people enter contests who have great scripts, but may not have appealed to that one particular reader who likes another type of story. So, that great script goes back into the pile of scripts that will never get attention from an agent. It would be great if there was a screenplay service that would let writers pay a reader to read their script and if it was good enough, recommend it to an agent or manager or production company. Why is the "We Don't Accept Unsolicited Material" still the rule in today's world where everything is on RUclips and Facebook anyway. Why are agents so reluctant to read unsolicited material? They miss out on so many good screenplays because of that rule. It's so unfair to the writers who spend years writing their scripts, but can't get anyone to read them because of that rule. If anyone is reading this that has a way to set up a service for writers besides a contest that a screenwriter can hire you to read the script at a reasonable cost, and recommend your script to someone in Hollywood who can actually do something with it, that would be great and you'd probably make a fortune because so many writers would probably pay you to get their script through the gatekeepers.
You should create that company. That would be awesome. Let me know when you start.
I agree. I haven't found any winners of contests who sold that winning script. I feel it's just a money grab. They dangle a carrot, ie money, and thousands of writers enter. The odds aren't good, but they have to select someone, so it basically becomes a lottery. Makes more sense to target producers.
Launchpad coverage service does that. If you get a recommend you go into their mentorship program
@Tim Guay Perhaps that is good…. If the mentorship leads to meeting producers or something lucrative like that. I’ve never been interested in getting coverage because it always looks like another cash grab. I don’t think coverage matters to producers much, unless it’s their own readers… (with their jobs or possible promotions on the line) …giving them a recommend to read it. if anyone has their own experience to share about that, I’d welcome hearing about it.
Thank you for this! I got a lot of affirmation from this and have a lot of things I am going to implement.
Thanks, @ScreenCraft. Super helpful.
Great stories about the craft.
That was awesome and very usefull. Thank you everyone! 😀
as a first time screenwriter, I am definitely entering the contests.
How was your experience? Any advice or tips?
@Maximum Ninjutsu Power tf is you talking about?
@Maximum Ninjutsu Power i was in production for my film then coronavirus hit us. im not waiting for a contest anymore. FOH all talk? FOH
@Maximum Ninjutsu Power you dont have to believe shit you puss ass kracka
Wow, really great information. Thank you!
So helpful! Thanks a lot!
Thanks for this, Im working on my 4th draft in hopes to have it in your 2021 competition
Very interesting information. Thanks a ton @screencraft for this.
You're welcome, Jeffery! What's your key takeaway from this? Is there anything the panel didn't touch on that you'd like to learn more about?
This video was dropped six years ago. Who has had success entering a screenplay competition, win or lose, and has had the good fortune of pitching it to a producer?
and have your own special coffee mug...
So tell me why winners don't actually sell that winning script.
Where can I join the contest?
I look at who won the years before and why?
Very helpful. Thank you for sharing. :)
Just another question: Do you have to be an American resident or can you send in screenplays from abroad?
Anyone can submit to most of these contests, as long as the screenplay is in English.
Seems like there is tension in the room between these 4 writers...
sometimes they can't even make eye contact... huh...
The Artisan , that’s just awkward writers lol
These 4 people are writers, so they prefer sitting alone in a room, talking to themselves.
If you've got to sell people on the idea that screenwriting competitions are necessary, you have a problem.
Actually they're neccessary because there are thousand of people who need the 15 or 20 bucks they're paid to read and judge amateur scripts. If you think that's a fare rate, then you obviously haven't read some of the scripts that are submitted.
Putting myself in her shoes, I do not know what I would do if I had to be the only woman in the room with all male screen writers.To comment on the tv script about "The psychopath who develops feelings," hmmm, I wonder where that idea came from. #MeToo
Get over your self persecution. No one made any comment about her being the only woman in the room except you. She's just a writer like any other writer as far as anyone else is concerned.
It's Sexist to suggest someone's comment can't be criticized because they are female