Script Pipeline
Script Pipeline Screenwriting Competition
2019
Active Since 2003
Script Pipeline discovers new screenwriters for industry and helps long-term with development, mentorship, and industry circulation.
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About

The 2019 Script Pipeline Screenwriting Competition heads into its 17th season, continuing the search for up-and-coming talent and connecting them with top producers, agencies, and managers.

This circulation process has resulted in over $6 million in screenplays and TV pilots sold from competition finalists and Recommend writers since 2003, including most recently Tripper Clancy's "Stuber," Evan Daugherty's "Snow White and the Huntsman," and numerous other former finalists who have sold material to networks and studios as a direct result of Script Pipeline's facilitation.

Awards for 2019 include:

  • $25,000 to winner, $2,500 to runner-up
  • Introductions to managers, producers, agents, directors, and others searching for scripts and new writers
  • Long-term script circulation to industry and continual guidance connecting with companies
  • Development assistance from Script Pipeline's senior execs
  • Additional script reviews and consideration of other material for industry exposure
  • Exclusive invitations to annual writer and industry events hosted by Pipeline Media Group

Benefits

The Grand Prize Winner, Runner-up, and Finalists receive the following:
  • Introductions to managers, producers, agents, directors, and others searching for scripts
  • Long-term script circulation to industry and continual assistance connecting with companies
  • Development assistance from Script Pipeline's senior execs
  • Additional script reviews and consideration of other material for industry exposure
  • Exclusive invitations to annual writer and industry events hosted by Pipeline Media Group

Writer Success

Placing semi finalist in the Script Pipeline features contest put Welcome Home on The Red List, which led to the Coverfly writers development team reaching out to me, which led to me partnering with my new manager Peter Katz at Story Driven.
Sara Strange
2021 Semifinalist
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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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Announcements

Jun 24th
Semifinalists
Jul 1st
Finalists
Jul 28th
Winners