Script Summit
Script Summit
2023
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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 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, and gain tremendous insight from Q & A Panels.
There's even a grand prize of a Coverfly Development Package!
Benefits
This is a Blind Contest. Cover pages and contact info will be removed before judges read the submissions.
Prizes
-Coverfly Development package
-InkTip Pro Membership
-The Successful Screenwriter Pro Membership
-Pitch your script on our #1 Podcast
Best feature will receive a Coverfly Development Package!
Best Pilot will receive an InkTip Pro Membership.
We want to help more writers get signed, staffed, and produced. Coverfly has built strong relationships with industry professionals and has found unique opportunities to partner with talent discovery programs and use those connections to help bolster success efforts and achieve greater results for writers. Through this writers have been signed, staffed, or had projects optioned/financed.
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.
All winners will receive a Pro membership to The Successful Screenwriter where they can have access to our unique character database, courses, interact with industry pros, as well as pitch their script on our #1 international podcast!
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
May 15th
Quarterfinalists
Jun 30th
Semifinalists
Jul 30th
Winners
Jul 30th
Finalists
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.
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.
Features that are over 120 pages will not be accepted.
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 Last Minute Deadline
