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Table Read My Screenplay
Table Read My Screenplay Hollywood at AFM
Spring 2023
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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About
An Unparalleled Table Read Experience
With a professional table read, the Grand Prize Winner will receive $1000 and gain insight into their script from a working director and trained actors as it is rehearsed and performed, then showcased for an audience online. This is how Oscar-winning writers tighten their story, sharpen their dialogue and fine-tune pacing, character and other important elements of their latest projects. Past winners have been staffed, premiered at Cannes and been nominated for an Oscar among other successes.
The Top 10 Finalists will receive $500 cash each and have a meeting with an agent, manager or executive mentor.
Benefits
GRAND PRIZE WINNER
- $1000 Cash - In addition to the Top 10 Prize Money
- Table Read of Your Screenplay - Experience a virtual table read of your script workshopped by a professional director and actors
- Roundtable with Industry Executives - Participate in a roundtable Q&A discussion with the director, actors and industry execs following your table read.
- Pitch Practice & Guidance - This includes revision notes on the winning script and advice on pitch deck creation.
- Meeting with an Executive from Legion M
- Two 1-Hour Sessions with Suzanne Gundersen of ScreenwriteNOW - Suzanne mentors screenwriters and industry creatives to clear the path that lets their writing flow.
- Industry Insight - Receive access to our industry contacts' current mandates plus development of a personalized producer outreach plan.
- 16-Year Copyright - Provided by Creators Vault
- 12-Month ISAConnect Membership - Connect with industry pros, submit to paid writing gigs and more.
- Script Studio
Receive Script Studio's Hollywood Hits Volume 1 - Plus Top 10 Prizes
- $1000 Cash - In addition to the Top 10 Prize Money
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TOP 10 FINALISTS
- $500 Cash Each
- General Meeting with an Agent, Manager or Executive
- ISA Development Slate Consideration - Development Slate writers are championed to top agents, managers and producing contacts.
- Consideration by Legion M
- Script Studio - Copy of the ultimate writer's toolbox, Script Studio
- 1-Hour session with Suzanne Gundersen of ScreenwriteNOW - Suzanne mentors screenwriters and industry creatives to clear the path that lets their writing flow.
- 10-Year Copyright - Provided by Creators Vault
- Consideration for Grand Prize - 1 of the 10 Finalists will be selected as the Grand Prize Winner
- 1-Year WrapPro Membership - $150 value provided by The Wrap
- $500 Cash Each

Coverfly Program Insights
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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
Mar 23rd
Quarterfinalists
Apr 6th
Semifinalists
May 25th
Top 10s
Jun 8th
Grand Prize Winners