Script Summit is a festival dedicated to supporting screenwriters. As a participant in the Script Summit Screenplay Competition, you can build your network, expand your knowledge with in-depth seminars taught by professionals, gain tremendous insight from Q & A Panels, experience scene table reads with professional actors, and attend hundreds of film screenings at no additional cost! You will have the opportunity to connect with directors, producers, and other writers at the Script Summit Networking Event.
There's even a grand prize of $1,000 in cash!
Winners are announced at the Awards Show.
PRIZES
TWO screenwriters will win representation from a Hollywood Talent Manager!
Grand Prize - $1,000
Multiple genres will be awarded! Best Feature, Tv pilot, Short, and Web Series will win screenwriting software from WriterDuet!
Our top 6 Winners will receive an InkTip Script Listing! Producers have made more than 350 films from scripts and writers found through InkTip.
The ISA (International Screenwriters Association) is sponsoring Script Summit 2020! They have committed to awarding 30 of our winners a free 6-month membership to the ISA Connect Network!
Indie Film Hustle and IFHTV will award a 6-month subscription to their channel for 30 winners. Their online film courses through IFHAcademy.com will award a free course on properly formatting a screenplay to 30 winners.
If the writer of the submitted screenplay is optioned/produced within the past 3 years they will not qualify for the Cash Prize or Talent Manager award. ?
We are currently accepting written submissions for features, shorts, and web series.
All genres are welcome.
One copy of an original feature film screenplay uploaded as a PDF file will be accepted. (Do NOT include more than 1 version). We do not accept hardcopy scripts.
The screenplay should be in standard industry format (12 point Courier).
Only one copy, draft or version of any screenplay may be submitted by an entrant or entrants per submission.
Under no circumstances will substitutions of either corrected pages or new drafts of an entry screenplay be allowed under the original submission without approval by the festival.
Corrected or edited screenplays must be resubmitted as a NEW entry and will require a separate submission fee.
Multi-part scripts should be submitted as separate, stand-alone screenplays.
Features that are over 120 pages will not be accepted.
Entry fees will not be returned or adjusted.
Submissions must have been written originally in English; translations will not be accepted. ?
Awards shipped internationally must be paid by the winner.
Submissions must be the original work of the entrant(s) and may not be based, in whole or in part, on any other fiction or nonfiction material, published or unpublished, produced or unproduced.
Entries may, however, be adapted from the entrant’s (or entrants’) original work, which should be noted in the logline required on the application form.
Entries lacking a logline in the application form may be disqualified at the festival's discretion.
If the script is based on a true story, historical or contemporary, the "based on true story/events" should be noted in the logline.
Collaborative work by two writers who share equally in its creation is eligible.
The collaborator’s name must be added during the online application process.
All entries must be received by or before the Extended Deadline of July 18th, 2020.
Winners will be announced at the Writers Award Show (Date TBD).
Entry fees will not be returned or adjusted.
FAQs
At wefixyourscript.com our goal is to support our fellow screenwriters — from our free 15 minute consultation to our one-on-one sessions. We didn't want to stop there so we've taken it a step further and created Script Summit to celebrate our fellow writers and give them opportunities to network with industry professionals such as producers, directors, and other writers. Plus, we are also providing some really interesting events such as:
Loved this contest! Walked away with Best Science Fiction feature. Nominated for Best Overall. I will definitely be back again next year with my new screenplays. Great comradery among the writers, mentors, and filmmakers. It felt like I walked into a room full of friends that I hadn't seen in a bit.
If the writer of the submitted screenplay is optioned/produced within the past 3 years they will not qualify for the Cash Prize or Talent Manager award. ?
We are currently accepting written submissions for features, shorts, and web series.
All genres are welcome.
One copy of an original feature film screenplay uploaded as a PDF file will be accepted. (Do NOT include more than 1 version). We do not accept hardcopy scripts.
The screenplay should be in standard industry format (12 point Courier).
Only one copy, draft or version of any screenplay may be submitted by an entrant or entrants per submission.
Under no circumstances will substitutions of either corrected pages or new drafts of an entry screenplay be allowed under the original submission without approval by the festival.
Corrected or edited screenplays must be resubmitted as a NEW entry and will require a separate submission fee.
Multi-part scripts should be submitted as separate, stand-alone screenplays.
Features that are over 120 pages will not be accepted.
Entry fees will not be returned or adjusted.
Submissions must have been written originally in English; translations will not be accepted. ?
Awards shipped internationally must be paid by the winner.
Submissions must be the original work of the entrant(s) and may not be based, in whole or in part, on any other fiction or nonfiction material, published or unpublished, produced or unproduced.
Entries may, however, be adapted from the entrant’s (or entrants’) original work, which should be noted in the logline required on the application form.
Entries lacking a logline in the application form may be disqualified at the festival's discretion.
If the script is based on a true story, historical or contemporary, the "based on true story/events" should be noted in the logline.
Collaborative work by two writers who share equally in its creation is eligible.
The collaborator’s name must be added during the online application process.
All entries must be received by or before the Extended Deadline of July 18th, 2020.
Winners will be announced at the Writers Award Show (Date TBD).
Entry fees will not be returned or adjusted.
FAQs
At wefixyourscript.com our goal is to support our fellow screenwriters — from our free 15 minute consultation to our one-on-one sessions. We didn't want to stop there so we've taken it a step further and created Script Summit to celebrate our fellow writers and give them opportunities to network with industry professionals such as producers, directors, and other writers. Plus, we are also providing some really interesting events such as:
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Jeffrey Howe's period coming-of-age drama, FLAT-RATE FRANK, was named "Best Concept" at this year's Script Summit in Las Vegas. The script is also a finalist at the Huntington Beach Film Festival (formally SoCal FF).
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FLAT-RATE FRANK, Jeffrey Howe's historical coming of age drama, advanced to the quarterfinals of the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. It also entered the semifinal round at the Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices competition.
Jonathon won Script Summit's Michigan Writers Award for the thriller drama short, A VISIT FROM THE CANDYMAN, (which had also placed as an Finalist with Honorable Mention distinction in the Southern California Screenplay Competition among other...
Jonathon Douglas', OLD TOM SYNDER, a short indie-style comedy/dramady about a man who loses it when his barber leaves town unexpectedly is on The Red List again this month for comedy shorts. Additionally, A VISIT FROM THE CANDYMAN, a thriller/drama...
THE REAL THING was a Finalist: Feature Comedy Screenplay, Script Summit (2020) Royal Oak, Michigan USA. One of the seven Finalists in this category, Matthew's screenplay brings up its 32nd Finalist placing since June 2019.
Warren Clarke's ATTACK THERAPY was named Grand Prize Winner at the 2020 Script Summit. The genre-bending psychological thriller also achieved a semifinalist placement in the 2020 Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition, as well as...
Warren Clarke's RELOCATION was named a semifinalist in the 2020 Emerging Screenwriters Genre Competition. The sci-fi thriller was also a semifinalist in these 2020 contests: Big Apple Screenplay Competition, Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting...
Warren Clarke's MENTAL has advanced to the semifinalist round of the 2020 StoryPros International Screenplay Contest. The thriller tells of a psychiatry student with a phobia for gore who is held captive by intruders at her mom's inn. She must use...
Warren Clarke's FAMILY SPIES has advanced to the semifinalist round of the 2020 Shore Scripts Feature Contest. The family-friendly action comedy tells of retired husband-and-wife spies who go to extraordinary lengths to keep tabs on their rebellious...
Warren Clarke's RELOCATION has made it to the quarterfinalist round of the 2020 Final Draft Big Break. The sci-fi thriller tells the story of an FBI agent who places witnesses in a high-tech relocation program. Her world unravels when her husband...
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Warren Clarke's GREEN WARS has been named a quarterfinalist in the 2020 Emerging Screenwriters Genre Competition. The comedy looks at what happens when a fast food executive's wife finds salvation with a militant vegan activist group.
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Warren Clarke's THE NUT FARM is in the running as a semifinalist in the WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Spring 2021 Screenwriting Lab. The one-hour fantasy TV pilot tells of a struggling single mother who inherits an almond orchard from her estranged...
Warren Clarke's ATTACK THERAPY was named a semifinalist in the 2020 StoryPros International Screenplay Contest. The female-driven thriller tells of a psychiatrist who must conquer old demons to survive an attack aimed at protecting the career of a...
Warren Clarke's THEY'RE OUT OF THIS WORLD has been named Category Winner at the 2020 Script Summit. The family feature tells the story of a newlywed who realizes his wife and stepchildren aren't who he thought they were after his bride is targeted...
We've created this group to bring together our peers, screenwriters. This is is a place to gather together and discuss our craft in a safe and nurturing environment. A place of support and positivity. This is Script Summit. Feel free to bring with you scenes, scripts, or outlines that you feel need work.
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