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Script Summit
Script Summit
2025
Reads in Coverfly
Active Since 2017
Script Summit offers screenwriters industry exposure & top-tier prizes—win big and get your script in front of Hollywood producers!
Accepting Features, TV Pilots, and Shorts
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Enter on or before May 1st to save $10

About

Script Summit was created to help more writers get signed, staffed, and produced. Our previous winners have been signed by talent managers, seen their scripts get produced, and have had their work pitched to production companies.

This is why Script Summit is listed as one of the Top 20 Biggest Screenwriting Contests in the world by the ScriptLab!

With our contest, you can even receive feedback from our professional readers.
 

Prices & Deadlines

May 1st
Regular
Jun 1st
Late
Jun 15th
Final
Features
$50.00
$60.00
$70.00
TV Pilots
$50.00
$60.00
$70.00
Shorts
$45.00
$50.00
$60.00
Features or TV Pilots with Feedback
$115.00
$125.00
$135.00
Shorts with Feedback
$105.00
$115.00
$125.00

Benefits

This is a Blind Contest.

Cover pages and contact info will be removed before judges read the submissions.


Prizes:

⏺ Industry Exposure:  Winning scripts will be read by Hollywood Producers & Directors  including:

    ◽ Alexandra Essoe (Doctor Sleep, Midnight Mass, The Fall of the House of Usher)

    ◽ Alexis Iacono (The Black Dahlia Haunting, The Carnal Soul, Whistleblower)

    ◽ Paris Films (The Past Comes Knocking, The Housekeeper)

⏺ InkTip Pro Membership

⏺ WriterDuet Screenwriting Software

⏺ Pitch Your Script on The Successful Screenwriter Podcast


Why These Prizes Matter:

- Industry Exposure: Your script will be read by established producers and directors, providing a real opportunity for industry recognition.

- InkTip Pro Membership: Thousands of filmmakers can find and read your script, plus you can pitch directly to production companies weekly. With over 3,000 options and 400 movies made, InkTip is the go-to place for independent film.

- The Successful Screenwriter Pro Membership: Gain access to our unique character database, exclusive courses, and interact with industry pros.

- Podcast Pitch: All winners get the opportunity to pitch their script on our #1 international podcast, The Successful Screenwriter, reaching a global audience of filmmakers.

- WriterDuet: A powerful industry-standard tool for writing, collaborating, and refining your script with ease.

Writer Success

Being a finalist in the Script Summit Competition 2022 was the highlight of my year. It is my hope that it will lead to my award winning Jolt Survival Tele Series I - X being optioned!
Roberta M Roy
2022 Finalist
Script Summit continues to exemplify the collegial writer-retreat experience and provides something every participant can benefit from. The staff is outstanding. The program and presenters are fantastic and invested in helping the writers grow in their careers. I would highly recommend Script Summit to any emerging screenwriter who wants to have their voice discovered.
Frank Monteleone
2022 Winner
Script Summit was efficiently run. There was a generous cash prize, delivered in a timely way. I got the sense that the folks over there understood and appreciated my work, and the experience was incredibly validating.
Warren Clarke
2020 Winner
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2024 Winners on Coverfly

Top 4%
Sad Blue Dan
Feature  · Horror  · 105 Pages
A Native American family grapples with the unbelievable possibility that their simple-minded son and his ancient doll may be responsible for unspeakable evil.
by David Smallwood 11 Accolades
David Smallwood
Phoenix, Arizona
Award-winning screenwriter and non-traditional Indigenous artist, specializing in comedic features and contemporary Indigenous sub-genres. Works blend humor with modern perspectives, focusing on narratives that both entertain and resonate with diverse audiences.
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Top 2%
DEAD DAUGHTER
Short  · Horror  · 17 Pages
A gay transgender man, who, while spending the night in his former childhood home, is forced to confront the demons from his past and his dead bigoted mother.
by Leon Masters 7 Accolades
Leon Masters
Los Angeles, California
Leon is a queer man who was raised in the proudly weird, central coast hippie-town and former Murder Capital of the World, Santa Cruz, California. He writes crime thriller, supernatural horror, and science fiction teleplays, features, podcasts, and shorts that place gay and transgender characters in key roles and explore LGBT+ issues. Leon has an ...
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Top 6%
MURDER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD
TV Script  · Thriller  · 61 Pages
Beautiful sunny Santa Cruz is known for being the destination for surfers, sightseers, and stoners, but its tall redwood trees and cool ocean breeze also attracts another more sinister type of tourist; soon two 90’s teenagers find themselves stumbling into a bloody mess of dead bodies, murderers, and cult members.
by Leon Masters 7 Accolades Other
Leon Masters
Los Angeles, California
Leon is a queer man who was raised in the proudly weird, central coast hippie-town and former Murder Capital of the World, Santa Cruz, California. He writes crime thriller, supernatural horror, and science fiction teleplays, features, podcasts, and shorts that place gay and transgender characters in key roles and explore LGBT+ issues. Leon has an ...
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Announcements

Jul 28th
Semifinalists
Aug 11th
Finalists
Aug 11th
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.

We are currently accepting written submissions for features,  television pilots, and shorts.

All genres are welcome.

One copy of an original feature film screenplay uploaded as a PDF file will be accepted. (Do NOT include more than 1 version). We do not accept hardcopy scripts.
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The screenplay should be in standard industry format (12-point Courier).

By entering Script Summit, you authorize us to use any trusted third-party online and cloud-based services and databases for hosting, managing, and/or transmitting your submission file(s)."
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Only one copy, draft, or version of any screenplay may be submitted by an entrant or entrants per submission. 
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Under no circumstances will substitutions of either corrected pages or new drafts of an entry screenplay be allowed under the original submission.
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Features that are over 120 pages will not be accepted.
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Entry fees will not be returned or adjusted.  
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Submissions must have been written originally in English; translations will not be accepted. 

Submissions must be the original work of the entrant(s) and may not be based, in whole or in part, on any other fiction or nonfiction material, published or unpublished, produced or unproduced. 
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Entries may, however, be adapted from the entrant’s (or entrants’) original work, which should be noted in the logline required on the application form.
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Entries lacking a logline on the application form will be disqualified.
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If the script is based on a true story, historical or contemporary, the "based on true story/events" button should be noted in the logline.
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Collaborative work by two writers who share equally in its creation is eligible.
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The collaborator’s name must be added during the online application process.
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All entries must be received by or before the Last Minute Deadline
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