StoryPros
StoryPros Awards
14th Annual - 2021
Active Since 2007
Genre-based competition where scripts face off in 5 different categories. 3 winners per category plus an overall Grand Prize winner for 16 chances to win!
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Most contests favor dramatic, serious, or off-the-wall scripts as contest winners...but what about the comedy, western, fantasy, or horror screenplay that just plain kicks ass? How do you compare a comedy to a space opera? Or a heart-warming family film to a slam-bang actioner?

The StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest gives your genre script a fighting chance!

Scripts face off against each other in five categories:

  • Action/Adventure/Thriller
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Family/Teen/Animation
  • Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror

Cash and/or Prizes will be awarded to the First through Third Place Winners in each of these categories as the best examples of these genres. And one screenplay will be chosen from all of the entries as the Grand Prize Winner.  That means you have 16 chances to become a winner!

Benefits

$5,000 in cash prizes given to the winners!

The Grand Prize Winner and all five First Place Winners get guaranteed reads from:

  • Elements Entertainment
  • The Radmin Company
  • Category 5 Entertainment

The Grand Prize winner also gets  a guaranteed read from Foremost Films.

Here are just a few of the preferred companies that have asked to be notified about the winning scripts:

  • Escape Artists
  • Laurence Mark Productions
  • Trancas International
  • Lancaster Gate Entertainment
  • Management 360
  • Niad Management
  • Arpil Entertainment
  • Renee Missel Management
  • Emergence Entertainment
  • Creative Convergence
  • Cypress Point Prods
  • Rival Entertainment
  • and other great companies

Grand Prize Winner

* $2,500 in CASH 

* StoryPros StoryDraft Service on the script of your choice

* MovieMagic Screenwriter Software

* Save The Cat! Save The Cat! software and book set

* Script Studio Software outlining and script formatting all in one

* InkTip Script Listing A listing of your script on InkTip where producers and reps can find you

* Great Dialogue Software  

* Hollywood Script Express Copyright Protection service


First Place Winners

* $500 in CASH

* StoryPros StoryDraft Service on the script of your choice

* MovieMagic Screenwriter Software

* Save The Cat! Save The Cat! software

* InkTip Script Listing A listing of your script on InkTip where producers and reps can find you


Second Place Winners

* StoryPros StoryPolish Service on the script of your choice

* Script Studio Software outlining and script formatting all in one

* Great Dialogue Software


Third Place Winners

* StoryPros Deep Analysis Service on the script of your choice

* Save The Cat! Save the Cat!® Strikes Back book

* Hollywood Script Express Copyright Protection service


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18th Annual - 2025 Quarterfinalists on Coverfly

Top 2%
Feature  · Drama  · 98 Pages
In 1780s California, a conflicted mixed-blood scout, torn between his native heritage and Spanish conquerors, is thrust into a battle of survival and identity as he navigates oppressive mission life and brutal colonizers.
Born and raised in Cardiff, Wales. After studying in Nottingham, I emigrated and completed my masters and doctorate at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I taught English literature and Creative Writing at California State University, Chico. Many national and international award-winning screenplays.
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Feature  · Horror  · 88 Pages
Trapped in a basement after an apocalyptic earthquake, a grieving wife fights off a horde of parasitic monsters, unaware that her God-fearing husband has already decided her fate.
Carlsbad, CA
Hailing from the wilds of North Carolina, I spent my formative years drawing comic books and crafting epic sagas with my homemade toys. After editing low-budget horror movies and award-winning documentaries, I decided to dedicate my energies towards screenwriting, producing several award-winning original screenplays in the process. My goal is a loft...
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Feature  · Drama  · 90 Pages
When a scathing review threatens Jane Austen's career, she pens a letter to Walter Scott, giving him a piece of her mind.
Washington, DC
Caroline is a graduate of the UCLA Professional Program in TV Writing and has studied with the most in-demand writing instructors/professors (published/produced) who've influenced Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winners/nominees.
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Finalists
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