WriteMovies Spring 2025 Screenwriting Contest: Now Open!

WriteMovies is celebrating 25 years of promoting great global writing! Since 1999, WriteMovies’ screenwriting contests guarantee to help develop our winners’ projects at our own expense and pitch them to producers with the power to make them happen. Our contests are designed to show you exactly how well your script currently competes in the market, and a clear ladder to success.

Our results – with up to 50+ Quarter-Finalists, 25+ Semi-Finalists and 3 Winners – show you where your project currently sits in comparison to others, and our studio-quality tiers of script mentoring and script consultancy show you its potential and how to remove the obstacles to that success without compromising on the things that matter most to you about your script.

Because we’re serious about selling our winners’ scripts, and we can prove we have the contacts and meetings to put them in front of decision makers at the heart of the international entertainment industry, our contests are designed to give all writers a clear sense of where their script currently stands in the market – and the clear answers you need about all that your project could achieve and how to fulfil it.

All script submissions receive a one-page summary of the strengths and weaknesses of your entry’s crucial first ten pages – and then you can resubmit your redraft for free to the same contest, up until the contest closes!

For an additional opportunity to win, enter our Script Pitch Contest! Submit a one-page pitch featuring the author's name, a logline, and information about your project (max 500 words) for the opportunity to be a prize winner. The winner will receive the same prizes as the 3 overall winners of the full contest. You can enter with just a Pitch, or submit a Pitch alongside your Script for the additional opportunity to win!

Get Studio Coverage to see exactly how an analyst would currently assess your script and pass on a summary and recommendations to studio executives. Discover what an industry professional would like of your work and what key elements you need to focus on in the future.

Get Development Notes to receive clear, constructive, studio-quality guidance on the current state of your script and what to do next for it to fulfil its potential. You'll get automatic entry to the contest and you can resubmit your new draft of the same script free of charge before the end of the contest once it's ready.