Bolt
BOLT
2018
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Active Since 2016
Submit a short film screenplay or pilot then Barnstorm Media chooses the winner and MAKES YOUR MOVIE OR PILOT!
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About
Bolt is an innovative new screenplay competition from the creators of Barnstorm Fest. The rules are simple: Submit a short film screenplay, then Barnstorm Media chooses the winner and MAKES YOUR MOVIE. You get to be the Executive Producer. Also, every submission receives feedback from the producers at Barnstorm Media.
Benefits
1st place: Barnstorm Media will produce the winning screenplay. The winner will be made the Executive Producer of the project and will work in collaboration with Barnstorm Media. Once the film is complete, the film will be entered into the film festival of the winner’s choice courtesy of Barnstorm Media.
Three Finalists will receive a one on one consultation with a feature film producer about how to get your movie made!
Every submission receives feedback from the producers at Barnstorm Media.
Every submission receives a free subscription and free filmmaking classes from Videomaker Magazine.
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2024 Honorable Mentions on Coverfly
Top 10%
TV Script
· Comedy
· 30 Pages
Anxious to find some friends for her restless kids, an expat lures a few moms over to a fake charity event at her house. But as her guests arrive, she’s forced last minute to take her biggest client on a tour of Prague while muddling through her guests, family and client.
Seeking Representation
Brazilian-born American playwright and screenwriter creates female-driven stories that have social, political, and psychological depth, reflecting her international worldview, with a dash of humor - 'cause who can get through provocative themes without a joke or a caipirinha?
She holds a BA in Performing Arts from ASU and a Post Grad Diploma in S...
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Top 1%
Short
· Thriller
· 13 Pages
At wit's end with a motorhead neighbor always revving his big truck, a beleaguered artist takes matters into her own hands to finish her masterwork on time.
(A wish-fulfillment dark-comedy thriller)
Sioux Falls, SD
Mike Hanson has been writing since third grade when he won Cartoon Corral's "My Mom's Great Because..." contest. Later he'd be a stringer reporter in a death penalty case for the AP; write award-winning short stories; see his musings in TIME and Readers Digest; and write scripts, including The Heckler, an award-winning broad-comedy baseball feature...
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Top 10%
Short
· Drama
· 8 Pages
A little girl chases a white balloon, which leads her on a metaphysical journey of grief.
St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, GB
I am an emerging scriptwriter interested in writing moving and engaging scripts on important themes. I have an MA in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media from the Royal Central School for Speech and Drama.
My short screenplay The Balloon was selected as a runner-up for the White Rose International Film Festival, and a Quarter-Finalist for the Scr...
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