Script Pipeline
First Look Project
2018
Active Since 2012
The First Look Project searches for higher-concept screenplays and pilots to develop new writers and connect them with industry.
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About

The 7th Annual First Look Project fulfills the requests of studios, production companies, agencies, and top managers by finding unique, high-concept material across two main categories:

Screenplay - divisions for Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror/Thriller, and Sci-fi/Fantasy

TV Pilot - divisions for Hour and Half-hour original pilots, any genre

One winner in each division receives a share of $15,000, industry circulation, and long-term development assistance from Script Pipeline’s executive team.

Benefits

Supported by Good Fear Film + Management (Rings), Panay Films (Masterminds), Lakeshore Entertainment (Age of Adaline), Zero Gravity Management (Ozark), Silent R Management (reps the Academy Award Winning director of Moonlight Barry Jenkins), Madhouse Entertainment (Prisoners), CAA, and other Script Pipeline partners, the competition introduces the best scripts to major companies.

Unlike Script Pipeline's main Screenwriting and TV writing competitions, entries for First Look are judged equally on writing ability and commercial potential. The originality of the concept and a strong understanding of genre and marketplace trends will take precedence, as well as overall writing ability.

On top of distribution, the Feature Screenplay winner will receive $10,000 and the TV Screenplay winner will receive $5,000. We can't wait to read your projects!

Writer Success

My script was circulated to a few managers after winning the Script Pipeline First Look competition and I was "signed" shortly thereafter.
Morgan Smith
2021 Winner
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SUNSHOWER
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Feature  · Drama  · 103 Pages
A young Chinese American man visits his ailing grandma with dementia, but she mistakes him for her long lost love. As he plays along with this new “role” out of kindness, he begins losing sight of his true self.
Stefanos Tai is a Chinese–Greek–American writer/director. His works remind us of a simple idea: we have more in common than sets us apart. He's played Tribeca, BAM, Cinequest, DOXA, Palm Springs, Hawaii, Houston, Singapore– and has been recognized from Asia Society, the United Nations, Scholastic, and several universities. He has also crafted brande...
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Top 1%
TV Script  · Comedy  · 31 Pages
Desperate for cash, a status-obsessed fashionista turns her fortune around by building a replica bag empire out of her Upper East Side apartment, with a new streetsmart partner. INVENTING ANNA meets HACKS
Los Angeles, CA
Yagmur Tok is a Turkish immigrant and comedy writer based in Los Angeles. A graduate of Northwestern University’s theatre department, Yagmur writes irreverent coming-of-age stories with global appeal, centered around misfit female protagonists. When she’s not using humor as a coping mechanism, Yagmur can be found producing Webby award-winning market...
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Purebred
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Feature  · Sci-fi  · 102 Pages
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Brooklyn, NY
Sam Robotham is an award-winning screenwriter and non-award-winning filmmaker and podcaster currently based in Brooklyn. With roots in playwriting, his genre heavy scripts have gathered a handful of Best Screenplay awards, as well as placements in the Nicholl Fellowship, Austin Film Festival, Screencraft and named one of the ISA Top 50. His career i...
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