Script Summit
Script Summit
2021
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!
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About
Script Summit is a festival dedicated to supporting screenwriters. As a participant in the Script Summit Screenplay Competition, you can build your network, expand your knowledge with in-depth seminars taught by professionals, gain tremendous insight from Q & A Panels, experience scene table reads with professional actors, and attend hundreds of film screenings at no additional cost! You will have the opportunity to connect with directors, producers, and other writers at the Script Summit Networking Event.
There's even a grand prize of $1,000 in cash and TWO writers will walk away with a contract of representation by a Hollywood Talent Manager!
Winners are announced at the Awards Show which is free to attend!
Benefits
TWO screenwriters will win representation from a Hollywood Talent Manager!
Grand Prize - $1,000
Multiple genres will be awarded!
Best Feature, Tv pilot, Short, and Web Series will win screenwriting software from WriterDuet!
Our top 6 Winners will receive an InkTip Script Listing! Producers have made more than 350 films from scripts and writers found through InkTip.
The ISA (International Screenwriters Association) is sponsoring Script Summit 2020! They have committed to awarding 30 of our winners a free 6-month membership to the ISA Connect Network!
Indie Film Hustle and IFHTV will award a 6-month subscription to their channel for 30 winners. Their online film courses through IFHAcademy.com will award a free course on properly formatting a screenplay to 30 winners.
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%
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.
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.
Top 1%
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.
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 4%
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.
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
Aug 15th
Finalists
May 29th
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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, shorts, web-series, television pilots, synopsis, treatments, and pitch decks.
If the writer of the submitted screenplay is optioned/produced within the past 3 years they will not qualify for the Cash Prize or Talent Manager award.
Golden age submissions for feature and television scripts are optional for writers over the age of 55.
All genres are welcome. Multiple Genres will be awarded. Only the three top best in show awards are cash prizes. All other winners will receive a physical award at the awards dinner. If you can not attend the dinner. Your award will be mailed to you.
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.
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)."
Only one copy, draft or version of any screenplay may be submitted by an entrant or entrants per submission.
Under no circumstances will substitutions of either corrected pages or new drafts of an entry screenplay be allowed under the original submission.
Corrected or edited screenplays must be resubmitted as a NEW entry and will require a separate submission fee.
Multi-part scripts should be submitted as separate, stand-alone screenplays.
Features that are over 120 pages must be submitted as 2 different entries.
Entry fees will not be returned or adjusted.
Submissions must have been written originally in English; translations will not be accepted.
Multi-part scripts should be submitted unless each part can be read as a separate, stand-alone screenplay.
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.
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.
Entries lacking a logline on the application form will be disqualified.
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.
Collaborative work by two writers who share equally in its creation is eligible.
The collaborator’s name must be added during the online application process.
All entries must be received by or before the Extended Deadline of July 18th, 2020.
Winners will be announced at the Writers Award Show.
Awards shipped outside of the US must be paid for by the winner.
