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$10,000 Cash Grant to Get Your Short Screenplay PRODUCED! Written FEEDBACK from 5 Academy Award® Winning Judges! MENTORSHIPS from Oscar® Winners!

The Academy Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival (HSFF) is an annual short film festival showcasing the best and brightest short films and short scree...

The 8th Annual Film Pipeline Short Script Competition awards $5,000 and supports writers and writer-directors looking to move their projects forward.

Promoting scripts to its network of Hollywood directors, showrunners, and producers. 25 winners get to participate in a virtual meeting with professional writers, and have their scripts featured in the Emmy® winning app, Scriptation.

With live script readings and cash awards, Pittsburgh Shorts & Script Competition is a destination festival for creators from around the world. November 20 - 23, 2025

The 2025 Spring Season of the Shore Scripts Short Film Fund will award a $15,000 cash production grant to one short script and $4,000 cash in finishing funds to one short film in post-production. Plus, free camera equipment rental from ARRI Rental, mentorship from two-time Oscar-nominated producer, festival strategy package from Tribeca programmer, and more.

We're looking for short films to develop, produce, and finance for 35k. We're looking for singular stories. We're looking for you.

Rare opportunity to have managers and producers reading your horror short screenplays and short stories.

What do George Lucas, Neill Blomkamp, and Lynne Ramsay all have in common? They started their careers from a short script. We want to help build new great careers for amazing short script writers.

The Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards were created to locate and expose up-and-coming screenwriters. Accepting all genres of shorts (Up to 50 pages).