ScreenCraft
ScreenCraft Animation Competition
2020
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We welcome FAMILY GUY showrunners Richard Appel and Alec Sulkin as Grand Jurors! Past finalists and winners have signed with literary managers and secured shopping agreements.
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About

Animation sets writers free! Explore stories untethered from constraints of live-action storytelling, and have fun with style, tone or subject matter. ScreenCraft is celebrating great emerging writers with our Animation Screenplay Competition. Comedic or dark, broad or quirky, we’d love to read your script!

Benefits

The overall grand prize winner in either film, TV or short category will receive personal introductions and phone calls with one or more top Hollywood literary managers who are looking for talented emerging animation screenwriters.

The top 3 winners’ project info and log lines will be circulated and recommended to our network of over 60 Hollywood managers, agents, producers and development executives.

ScreenCraft has a proven track record for getting writers signed with representation, and staffed in writing rooms.

This Year's Judges

Jim Copabianco is the screenwriter Pixar’s RATATOUILLE, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated film. He has also worked as a story artist on A BUG'S LIFE, TOY STORY 2, MONSTERS, INC., and FINDING NEMO.

David Magee is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter whose credits include FINDING NEVERLAND, LIFE OF PI, and MARY POPPINS RETURNS. He is currently writing the live-action adaptation of THE MERMAID.

David Kidd is an award-winning producer and screenwriter best known for his work on YOURS, MINE & OURS and the Academy Award-nominated FERDINAND.

Elizabeth Glass works in feature film development at DreamWorks Animation, the production company behind such iconic animated franchises as SHREK, KUNG FU PANDA, SHARK TALE, and MADAGASCAR.

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2023 Winners on Coverfly

Top 3%
Short  · Animated  · 29 Pages
In the wake of a traumatic loss, the Clarke family finds itself grasping for answers to make sense of their son’s death. Older brother, Theo, plunges into his late brother’s comic book world to face the beast that took him—a beast that has since been stalking his family.
Philadelphia, PA
Ethan is a writer, clown, and puppeteer, with a special interest in stop motion animation. He loves to develop projects where folk mythology meets modern times.
Top 1%
TV Script  · Comedy  · 36 Pages
So you're a ghost in need of legal representation? Well, you're in luck! Jenkins & Watts will defend you from overzealous law enforcement, the mob, and literal demons from hell…for fair market price.
Phoenix, MD
As a kid, I wrote rudimentary screenplays, for my less fortunate friends, of the R-rated horror films my older sisters took me to see. I've written drama, horror, comedy, action, and family; specs, works for hire, and a book adaptation. I found my voice with my comedy-horror pilot, Jenkins and Watts: Paranormal Attorneys at Law. I love both featu...
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Top 1%
Feature  · Fantasy  · 116 Pages
A young, misunderstood Medusa teams up with aspiring hero Perseus to escape her doomed fate, navigate the dangers of Ancient Greece, and try not to lose her head.
Tristan Bellawala is a screenwriter raised on D&D sourcebooks, comics, and video games. A recent Chapman grad, he aims to work in animation development, a path in life chosen when his love for animation was countered by sketching stick figures at a third-grade level. Writing with a whimsical style, he loves putting a twist on reality with stories an...
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Announcements

Sep 16th
Semifinalists
Oct 21st
Finalists
Nov 4th
Winners

Rules

At the program's request, Coverfly will automatically remove your title page for you if you include one when submitting to this program.

  1. Submissions are accepted via electronic submission only, between May 1, 2020 and July 31, 2020.
  2. Entry fee for each submission (whether feature, short or TV) is $49 until the early deadline on May 31, 2020, then $59 until the regular deadline on June 30, 2020, and then $69 until the final deadline on July 31, 2020.
  3. Optional feedback from a professional reader may be requested at the time of entry. Requests for feedback after an entry is submitted will not be accepted.
  4. Feature screenplays must be a minimum of 75 pages and a maximum of 150 pages. TV pilots must be between 25 and 75 pages. Shorts must be between 1 and 40 pages. Any screenplay submission longer than 120 pages will incur a $1 per page overage fee for each page over 120.
  5. There is no limit to the number of projects you may submit.
  6. Entries must be received on or before the deadline dates by 11:59PM Pacific Time, and submission fee payment must be made in full at time of the submission. All entry fees are non-refundable.
  7. All submitted material must be original, and all rights must be wholly owned by the writer(s).
  8. Material must be submitted by the writer. Material written by writing teams must be submitted by one of the writers, with consent of the other(s). All writers must be credited on title page.
  9. If a writing team is chosen as a winner, prizes will be given to the person who submits the project. Each team is responsible for dividing or sharing the prize money.
  10. Substitutions of either corrected pages or new drafts of the entered material will be allowed for free within the first 24 hours, and for a $5 re-entry fee through our submission management platform Coverfly at any time until the finalists are announced. Please proofread your script carefully before submitting.
  11. It is recommended that original material be registered with the WGA or The Library of Congress US Copyright Office before submitting to any competition, however we do not require WGA or Copyright registration.
  12. Contact info may be included on the cover page of the screenplay, however it is not required.
  13. ScreenCraft claims no ownership nor option on your work. All ownership and rights to the scripts submitted to this contest remain with the original rights holder(s).