Table Read My Screenplay Competition Hollywood at AFM
Enter Now
Final Deadline is 2 months and 2 weeks from now
May 12th
Open
May 29th
Mega Early
Jun 19th
Early
Jul 10th
Regular
Aug 7th
Final
Table Read My Screenplay
Table Read My Screenplay Competition Hollywood at AFM
2025
Active Since 2010
A Career-Launching Experience at AFM and Beyond.
Take your screenplay from the page to the global stage with Table Read My Screenplay.
Accepting Features and TV Pilots
Enter Now
Final Deadline is 2 months and 2 weeks from now
About
This isn't your typical table read.
Take your screenplay from the page to the global stage with Table Read My Screenplay. This years Grand Prize Winner will experience two unmatched career opportunities: a professionally directed live staged reading with seasoned actors and a chance to pitch their project at the 2025 American Film Market® (AFM)—one of the film industry’s most powerful and prestigious gatherings. Present your pitch live on stage to a room full of producers, agents, and executives, and receive candid, professional feedback designed to elevate your project.
The Grand Prize Winner will receive flight and accommodations in Hollywood and consideration for the ISA Development Slate. Writers on the Slate are championed by the development team to producers, literary representatives and other industry executives from companies like CAA, ICM, Sony, MAX, Amazon/MGM Studios, Lucky Chap and many more.
Past Table Read winners have been staffed and their projects have been optioned, premiered at Cannes and been nominated for Oscars among other successes.
Prices & Deadlines
May 29th
Mega Early
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Jun 19th
Early
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Jul 10th
Regular
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Aug 7th
Final
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Feature
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$39.00
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$59.00
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$69.00
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$89.00
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TV Pilot
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$39.00
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$59.00
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$69.00
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$89.00
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Feature + Full Script Notes
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$108.00
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$128.00
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$138.00
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$158.00
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TV Pilot Full Script Notes
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$108.00
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$128.00
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$138.00
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$158.00
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Feature + Development Evaluation
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$189.00
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$209.00
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$218.00
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$239.00
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Pilot + Development Evaluation
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$189.00
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$209.00
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$218.00
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$238.00
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Feature + Accelerator
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$799.00
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$799.00
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$799.00
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$799.00
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Pilot + Accelerator
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$799.00
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$799.00
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$799.00
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$799.00
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Benefits
Grand Prize Winner Receives:
1 Platinum Badge for the 2025 American Film Market (Valued at $1,295)November 11 - 15th at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, CA.1- Opportunity to pitch live on stage during the AFM Pitch Conference
A distinguished panel will provide candid, constructive feedback on strengths and areas for improvement.
- Table Read Performance
- Trip to Hollywood
- Meeting with ISA Development Executive
- Two 1-Hour Consultation Sessions with Suzanne Gundersen of ScreenwriteNOW
- Interview with Film Inquiry
- 1-Year subscription to Scriptation
- Custom Poster
- 12-Month ISAConnect Membership
Runner-Up Receives:
- 1 Platinum Badge for the 2025 American Film Market (Valued at $1,295)
- Opportunity to pitch live on stage during the AFM Pitch Conference
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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
Sep 4th
Quarterfinalists
Sep 11th
Semifinalists
Sep 25th
Top 10s
Oct 2nd
Grand Prize Winners
Rules
- This competition is open to anyone except all employees, directors, associates, and immediate families of the Table Read My Screenplay Competition.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, color, sex, age, veteran status, or disability. It is our intention that all qualified submissions be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions are based on script-related factors alone.
- Promotional discounts offered may only be utilized at the time of submission and no partial refund for a promotional code may be issued after an entry has been officially submitted.
- Promotional discounts or waivers offered may not apply on all submission platforms (i.e. ISA, Film Freeway).
- Once material has been entered, no substitutions of new drafts or corrections will be considered past 24 hours from original submission time and date. After this time the writer may fill in an entry form and pay the appropriate entry fee to submit any script revisions or changes as many times as they like up until the deadline.
- The writer understands that feedback can take up to 90 days turn-around time and may not be received before the end of the contest.
- TRMS Grand Prize winners from previous seasons may only submit to a contest city outside of the city in which they won and may only submit with a new screenplay.
- TRMS 2nd-10th Place Finalists may submit again with a completely different screenplay. Those who have placed as a top 10 (2nd-10th place overall) winner three times with three different screenplays in two different cities (3 in each city for a total of 6 placements) are ineligible to submit in any future contest season.
- Adaptations from other works are permissible provided the writer has the original author's written permission to adapt the work.
- Adaptations of works in the public domain are permissible, however the writer is responsible for the legalities of this.
- Collaborative work is eligible; the writers are responsible for the distribution of the contest prize(s).
- Writers under the age of 18 years old must have parent or legal guardian’s permission to participate.
- The work or submitted material must not be in a current option agreement, or may not have been previously sold or produced for profit.
- Writer understands and accepts without reservation that he/she is an independent contractor and that the contest administrators are not responsible for withholding any taxes or payments on prize money to any government agency, at any level, be it state, local or federal.
- Writer understands that it is his/her sole responsibility to register material with the U.S. Copyright Office and/or with the Writers Guild of America West or the appropriate agency in his/her country.
- Recommended length of work: Feature – (70 – 120 pages), TV Pilots – (10 – 60 pages)
- If a screenplay is submitted for feedback and is over 120 pages, an additional fee of $1 per page will apply and the contestant will be contacted and billed separately for the extra, or only the first 120 pages will be read.
- All entries must be received by Final Deadline. TRMS reserves the right to extend the contest deadline up to 90 days.
- TRMS is not responsible for late, lost, unacceptably formatted, corrupt, or incorrect submissions.
- Contestants may submit their screenplay to any other person, contest, producer, agent, publisher, and/or organization.
- Contestants retain all rights to their screenplay, subject to the terms and agreements contained herein.
- TRMS will only accept submissions if the writer assures us that to the best of their knowledge they are the sole originator of the idea and that they have the legal right to submit it for judging to TRMS.
- The writer understand that their logline and / or screenplay will be reviewed by our employees and/or our panel of Industry Judges for evaluation. The writer also understands that any one of these employees or judges may have been or may be exploring ideas similar to the submission and hereby waives any claim that TRMS, its employees or judges may have misappropriated any ideas or portions of the submission logline or script.
- No agreement for compensation, other than the TRMS prizes listed, has been implied.
- If the writer wins an ISAConnect membership, the membership will auto-renew after the free term if they do not cancel it, and they will be billed the regular monthly fee.
- TRMS intends to submit the Finalists to respected producers with the writer's permission, which will be granted upon clicking the ‘I have Read and Understand the Contest Rules’ button. The writer can withdraw from this process at any time.
- When the writer's screenplay, application, and payment have all been received, they will be notified by email only. If the writer's email address changes, it is their responsibility to let us know.
- By entering this contest and in the event the writer / their screenplay places in the competition, they understand and accept that TRMS will be free to use their name and likeness for advertising or promotional purposes without additional consideration.
- If the writer is a GRAND PRIZE Winner, they agree to give TRMS permission to post their video or audio Table Read on its web site.
- All contest participants understand and agree with the following:
- TRMS reserves the right to award a cash prize, at its discretion. A Grand Prize Winner is under no obligation to accept the associated prizes but will not be awarded or owed a cash replacement upon electing not to move forward with prizes offered. This includes local winners.
- International flight not to exceed $1,500. Domestic flight not to exceed $800. There is no cash reimbursement for flights that cost more than the limit nor will there be a disbursement of the difference for flights that are less than the $1500 / $800 limit.
- TRMS may develop a series or documentary style program based on the inner workings of the contest and the production resulting there from. TRMS reserves the right to contact contestants with offers to participate in any such production. Contestants are under no obligation to participate therein.
- Contest applicants must accept without reservation the decisions rendered by the judges.
- There are no refunds for submissions at any time for any reason.
- TRMS has the right to change or add to the prizes at any time, without notice, and/or substitute prizes of equal or lesser value.
- There are no refunds for submissions at any time for any reason.
- Additional rules may be amended at the sole discretion of TRMS.
- By submitting to this contest, the writer's email address will be added to the contest database as well as the International Screenwriters' Association newsletter for weekly updates, contest promotions and other notifications. The writer may unsubscribe at any time.
- It is our full intention to fulfill all prizes as posted. However, due to any unlikely “force majeure” event (whether an act of God or otherwise), we reserve the right to update or edit prizes in our sole and absolute discretion, including, without limitation, the right to move any prizes and/or packages to an online format.
- By selecting ‘I have Read and Understand the Contest Rules’ on the entry page and submitting, the writer agrees to all of these rules.