Script Summit
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Script Summit
Script Summit
2022
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Active Since 2017
At Script Summit you can win a Coverfly Development Package, an InkTip Pro Membership, and pitch your script on our #1 International Podcast, The Successful Screenwriter.
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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 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 Talent Manager!
Winners are announced at the Awards Show which is free to attend!
Benefits
TWO screenwriters will win representation from a 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 a 4-month InkTip Pro Membership. As an InkTip Pro Member, thousands of filmmakers can find and read your scripts, and you'll be able to pitch directly to production companies every week. With over 3,000 options and 400 movies made, InkTip is the place for independent film.
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
Announcements
Aug 19th
Finalists
Apr 20th
Today
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.
All genres are welcome.
Winners will be announced at the Writers Award Show.
Multiple Genres will be awarded. Only the best in show award receives the cash prize. All other winners in attendance during the awards ceremony receive a physical award at no cost.
If a winner can not attend the awards show. Their award can be mailed to them at the cost of the award plus shipping. A digital award is offered at no cost.
Golden age submissions for feature and television scripts are optional for writers over the age of 55 only.
Michigan Writers categories are for writers who currently reside in Michigan only.
Golden Age & Michigan Writers categories are their own awards and do not qualify for the Cash Prize or Talent Manager Contract.
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.
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.
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