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Sun Valley Film Festival
Sun Valley Film Festival
2021
Active Since 2018
Submissions now open for The Sun Valley Film Festival’s High Scribe Competition. Festival dates - February 28 - March 3, 2024
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About

The Sun Valley Film Festival strives to help screenwriters get script to screen. In 20201 Bradley Thomas will be zoom mentor/judge. Past mentors and judges remain involved and advocate for High Scribe finalists.

Bradley Thomas is a co-founding partner of Imperative Entertainment, an innovative entertainment studio  specializing in the development, production and financing of film, television, podcasts and documentaries.  

Since co-founding the production company with Dan Friedkin in 2014, Thomas has served as an Executive  Producer on the Academy Award® nominated and Palme d’Or® winning film The Square (Ruben Östlund,  2017 Cannes Film Festival) and a producer on the Academy Award® nominated All The Money In The World (Best Supporting Actor, directed by Ridley Scott), He is currently executive producing Triangle of Sadness 

(Ruben Östlund) and prepping several high-profile projects, including the film Killers of the Flower Moon (directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio & Robert De Niro), and limited series In With  the Devil (Producing alongside Richard Plepler at Eden Productions & Kary Antholis for Apple TV)  

Thomas, a native of Baltimore, graduated from the University of Maryland before beginning a year of  volunteering that took him around the globe. While working in India with Mother Teresa, he met a film  producer who was scouting locations for an upcoming film and won a job as Roland Joffe's assistant on  City of Joy. He then returned to the US and entered the ICM training program before working with  filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci on Little Buddha. He next joined the Motion Picture Corporation of  America, where Thomas oversaw production on dozens of MPCA projects and built a film library consisting  of over 100 titles. One of those titles was the Farrelly Brothers' Dumb and Dumber, where he first met the  directorial duo. 

In 1998, Thomas and the Farrellys formed a partnership by creating the production entity Conundrum  Entertainment. Under the banner, Thomas produced films such as There's Something About Mary, Me,  Myself & Irene, Shallow Hal, Stuck On You and Fever Pitch. Thomas' films have gone on to gross over $1.5  billion in the worldwide theatrical box office and have been recognized by the American Film Institute,  The Golden Globe Awards, MTV Movie Awards, Film Critics Circle, The People’s Choice Awards and  American Comedy Awards. 

Several of the past High Scribe winners have gone on to secure representation, paid writing gigs or move one step closer to getting their work produced because of the connections they made at SVFF as the High Scribe winner. 

Benefits

The three High Scribe finalists will be have a zoom mentorship with Bradley Thomas. They will also be connected to previous mentor/judges. 

The High Scribe winner will be invited to Sun Valley Film Festival 2022 to be a part of Screenwriters Lab.

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Announcements

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Rules

All submissions must be accompanied by a logline and a non-refundable entry fee.

Applicants must submit ONE (1) copy of their screenplay or PDF file. Submit the entire script.

Multiple entries are permissible, but each entry must be accompanied by a separate entry and fee.

Submissions will not be returned.

All fees are nonrefundable.

All works must be original and unproduced as of March 1st, 2021.

Finalists will be notified in March.