Table Read My Screenplay Hollywood at AFM
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Table Read My Screenplay
Table Read My Screenplay Hollywood at AFM
Austin 2021
Active Since 2010
A Career-Launching Experience at AFM.
Take your screenplay from the page to the global stage with Table Read My Screenplay.
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Your Script Read Live at the Austin Film Festival!
- Script Showcase - Live table read of your script with a professional director and actors at the festival.
- Flight & accommodations to attend the Austin Film Festival.
- Producer’s Badge ($675 value) - Access to screenings, panels, and other festival events and parties.
- Connections & Support - Continued career development, pitch consultation and more as an ISA Development Slate writer.
- Cash Prize - $500
As the Grand Prize Winner, you’ll also become an elite member of the ISA Development Slate where our team will get you and your script in front of producers, agents and managers. All 6 Genre Winners will be considered for the ISA Development Slate. Over 80 scripts from ISA Development Slate writers have been produced, optioned or sold.
Accepting Features, TV Pilots, Shorts & Web Series in:
ACTION / ADVENTURE
COMEDY
DRAMA
HISTORICAL / BIOPIC
HORROR / SCI-FI
MYSTERY / CRIME / THRILLER
Benefits
PRIZES
GENRE WINNERS
(Features/TV Pilots)
- $500 Cash
- ISA Development Slate Consideration
- ISAConnect Membership
- Script Studio
- ScreenwriteNOW's "The Episode"
- 8-Year Copyright Provided by Creators Vault
- Consideration for Grand Prize (1 of the 6 Genre Winners will be selected at the Grand Prize Winner)
FEATURE/TV PILOT GRAND PRIZE
(Selected from Genre Winners)
- Live Table Read of Your Script with a Professional Director and Actors
- Flight & Accommodations to the Austin Film Festival.
- Producer's Badge - ($675 value) includes access to conference panels, screenings, parties, events and more.
- ISA Development Slate Acceptance
- Pitch Practice and Guidance
- Industry Insight Including a Personalized Producer Outreach Plan
- Professionally Designed Movie Poster
- 12-Year Copyright Provided by Creators Vault
- Plus Genre Winners' Prizes
SHORT/WEB SERIES GRAND PRIZE
- $500 Cash
- Recorded Performance of Your Script with Professional Actors, Published on the Curious About Screenwriting Podcast Network
- ISA Development Slate Consideration
- Script Studio
- 12-Year Copyright Provided by Creators Vault
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Cannes 2025 Finalists on Coverfly
Top 1%
Feature
· Drama
· 97 Pages
This Is How It Ends (Hybrid Live Action/Animated Family Drama)—Unable to save her opioid-addicted father in the real world, an imaginative ten-year-old girl creates a comic book where she can rescue him.
Danville, California
Melia Gabriel always expected to be a fairy princess or a superhero when she grew up. As the years passed and her powers never manifested, she turned to the only real magic she knew--writing. Melia wholeheartedly believes in the power of writing to help others.
Top 1%
Feature
· Comedy
· 104 Pages
A Victorian aristocrat attempts to manipulate her children into wealthy, but unhappy marriages so she can secure their futures while also paying off the enormous debt left by her late husband- before the rest of Suffolk finds out.
Clarksville, TN
After graduating from an arts high school in Los Angeles, Phillip went to film school at Emerson College with a focus on screenwriting. That was probably a poor financial decision as far as majors go, but his wife is a doctor, so if things don’t work out, his fall back career of trophy husband is very promising. He was able to enjoy insightful devel...
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COUNTERPOINT
Private
Feature
· Drama
· 93 Pages
In New York City, the friendship between two violinists at an elite high school conservatory turns vicious when a life-changing competition is announced.
Los Angeles, CA
Arden Earnest is the recipient of the Slamdance Screenplay Award, a ScreenCraft Grand Prize Winner, and was recently awarded AFI's Writers Room Ready distinction. An alum of the AFI Conservatory and USC School of Cinematic Arts, she is currently in post-production on a short film she wrote and directed, inspired by her award-winning feature script C...
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Announcements
Aug 26th
Top 100 (Feature or TV Pilot)
Aug 26th
Top 25 Shorts or Web Series
Sep 2nd
Top 10 (Feature or TV Pilot)
Sep 2nd
Top 10 Shorts or Web Series
Sep 16th
Grand Prize Winner (Feature or TV Pilot)
Sep 16th
Grand Prize (Shorts or Web Series)
Sep 16th
Genre Winners
Sep 16th
Honorable Mentions