ScreenCraft Horror Competition
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ScreenCraft Horror Competition
2016
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“The industry’s #1 horror screenplay contest.” – IndieWire.
Our jury is scary good, featuring talent reps from Zero Gravity, Gersh, Energy Entertainment, and more!
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Writer Success
The ScreenCraft Horror Competition completely changed the trajectory of my career as a screenwriter and director. Before winning the competition, I was getting a little traction on my script, but nothing solid. Now, I have a fantastic manager thanks to ScreenCraft, and am well on my way to getting my film made! The ScreenCraft team is so wonderful and really spends time working with their finalists and winners to make sure they are able to form a career plan that ensures success.
Ariel Sinelnikoff
2022 Winner
My script RAGE placed as a Finalist in the 2020 Horror Screenplay competition. The result of that is a production company has optioned it and has a savvy, beloved horror film director attached. When you write your nightmares passionately on the page — dreams become realities!
Don Roff
2020 Finalist
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Top 2%
Feature
· Horror
· 97 Pages
A fanatical religious family on a small rural farm spirals into insanity as they grapple with the terrifying effects of a world-changing, cosmic event.
Conway, Arkansas
Jason is a writer/director whose upbringing in a small southern town contributes to his stories about hardship and struggles of identity — often in the modes of horror and horror-adjacent, as with his 2023 directorial debut GHOSTS OF THE VOID.
After writing and directing several well-received short films throughout his time in film school, Jaso...
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Top 1%
TV Script
· Horror
· 38 Pages
Mel's trained to be a Final Girl her entire life-- and she gets her chance when her agnostic preacher father takes her to summer camp. Stakes heat up when they realize their ill-fated family trip is fated to begin the Apocalypse.
Valencia, California
Final Girl fanatic Sophie Mutiara Nova is a queer, half-Indonesian, SLE-diagnosed Writer-Director. (Writing Fellow of the ACEX TV Initiative, Finalist of the Emmy's TV Academy Foundation Directing Program). Their TV series have won the Launchpad Pilot Competition, ScreenCraft Horror Competition, and many others; their film work's screened in festi...
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Top 2%
Feature
· Horror
· 100 Pages
In a small village, the community holds a monthly lottery to determine which of their children will make a “small sacrifice” to the flesh-eating spirits of their dead ancestors, but after the death of her sister, a 16-year-old girl desperately seeks the truth and end the villagers’ suffering before they are slowly devoured by the past.
MD
Laura’s writing journey began in the bunny-eat-bunny world of children’s publishing. She published two middle grade novels before venturing into the indie world, where she published a series of paranormal mysteries. Always ambitious, she thought why not try her hand at screenwriting, because it seemed like a highly stable career choice. She’s a love...
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