Scriptation
Scriptation Showcase - Teleplay Category
2024
Active Since 2019
Promoting scripts to its network of Hollywood directors, showrunners, and producers. 25 winners get to participate in a virtual meeting with professional writers, and have their scripts featured in the Emmy® winning app, Scriptation.
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About

The Scriptation Showcase is officially open for submissions! Emerging writers can now enter their best screenplay, teleplay, or short.

The Scriptation Showcase is the screenwriting competition that circulates winners’ scripts to the directors, showrunners, and producers behind your favorite movies and TV shows.

Why submit to the Scriptation Showcase?

UNPRECENDENTED EXPOSURE
Never before has a screenwriting competition made your script so accessible to working industry professionals. Fifteen scripts will be featured for a full year in Scriptation, the Emmy® award winning script app used on thousands of productions worldwide.

ANNOTATED FEEDBACK
Script coverage doesn’t give your story the complete story. The competition offers feedback via PDF markup (highly recommended). Entrants have the unique opportunity to review notes directly within their script and better understand the thought process behind each suggestion. This is how script competition feedback was meant to be.

PROFESSIONAL READERS
All script competition entries are read by professional script readers and story analysts. All finalists are read by some of the best executives, managers, and writers who will determine winners for top overall screenplay, teleplay, and short.

WRITER FOUNDED
Having won script contests and written for shows like Black-ish and Hot in Cleveland, Steve Vitolo knows how hard it is to get noticed. That’s why he made a script competition that directly connects screenwriters to working industry talent.

Benefits

We promote all winning scripts within Scriptation, the script app used by thousands of Hollywood film and television professionals.

Grand Prize (1 winner) - awarded to the top overall script

  • 1 Year Scriptation Showcase

1 Year Industry Pro Access

Virtual Group Meeting with Professional Film/TV Writers

One-on-one meeting with Film/TV Executive

Featured Story and Promotion


Top Prizes (3 winners) - awarded to the top script in each category: feature, teleplay, and short
1 Year Scriptation Showcase
6 Month Industry Pro Access
Virtual Group Meeting with Professional Film/TV Writers
One-on-one meeting with Film/TV Executive

Finalists (25 total finalists) - awarded to the top 5 scripts in each genre category: feature comedy, feature drama, teleplay comedy, teleplay drama, and short
1 Year Scriptation Showcase
3 Month Industry Pro Access
Virtual Group Meeting with Professional Film/TV Writers

Writer Success

The Scriptation Showcase was exactly as advertised. I got actionable, page-level notes on my script and as a winner received a cash prize, placement on the Scriptation app, and a one-on-one general meeting with one of the contest judges who had read my script and was excited to chat with me.
Kyle Jutkiewicz
2020-2021 Winner
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2025 Quarterfinalists on Coverfly

Top 1%
TV Script  · Drama  · 65 Pages
After beginning his transition, a transgender male high school student is forced to examine his history of gender-based violence while navigating the complexities of being a man during the #MeToo movement.
Philadelphia, PA
Profoundly shaped by their Alabama upbringing as a student activist and community organizer during the first Trump administration, Alex Marsha Sylvia is a black and transmasculine writer who uses their art to explore the intersections of young people, trauma, and politics.
Top 2%
TV Script  · Drama  · 70 Pages
A black and queer teacher and two black and queer students are forced to confront the intolerant underbelly of an elite Alabama boarding school after a hate speech incident.
Philadelphia, PA
Profoundly shaped by their Alabama upbringing as a student activist and community organizer during the first Trump administration, Alex Marsha Sylvia is a black and transmasculine writer who uses their art to explore the intersections of young people, trauma, and politics.
Top 1%
TV Script  · Comedy  · 36 Pages
Mayhem ensues when a young diabetic artist trying to break into comics is forced to live with a one-eyed, alcoholic Karate teacher in his broken-down martial arts school facing foreclosure.
Los Angeles, CA
David Herman is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles. His films have been featured in various festivals (Camera Image, London Film Awards, LA Shorts Fest, Ibiza Cine Fest, etc.). In 2010, he won a student BAFTA AWARD for his film, DELAYED. WILL WILSON won the 2017 Emerging Cinematography Award. David directed and executive produced GHOST, a film promo...
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Announcements

Jun 18th
Semifinalists
Jul 16th
Finalists
Aug 13th
Top Prize Winners