Missouri Stories Scriptwriting Fellowship |
2022
The Missouri Stories Scriptwriting Fellowship is a national competition for screenplays and television pilot scripts with storylines set in Missouri. Winning writers receive entry to an immersive retreat with working industry writer/mentors. All submission writers will get their scoresheets and written feedback. Submission writers do not have to be from or based in Missouri, just the scripts must be set here.
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TV Script
· Fantasy
· 45 Pages
In search of a story that could jumpstart her career, a big city journalist discovers more than one supernatural mystery hiding in the frontier town of Peculiar.
Paola, Kansas
Jennifer Ramsey grew up in rural Kansas with her horse…her dog…and her nose perpetually buried in a fantasy novel. When she’s not saving all creatures great and small at her day job as a veterinarian, she writes stories for both stage and screen that blend the fantastic with the everyday. Jennifer is a Missouri Stories Fellow and her scripts have ...
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Feature
· Horror
· 100 Pages
A Twain adventure/horror on the Mississippi River where teen rivals join forces to fight amphibious beasts who poach humans and struggle to rescue family even as the military searches for the monsters for their own mysterious reasons.
St Louis, Missouri
Last year winner of Missouri Storytellers for a Mark Twain horror. A retired lead family caseworker who loves to write sexy film noir and entertaining creature features with an underbelly of humor. Written over ten features which have won and placed in numerous contests. A film noir featured on The Black List and a horror/comedy pilot pitched to a m...
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Feature
· Historical
· 108 Pages
The true story of Felix Carvajal, a quiet and diminutive postman from Havana with no official athletic experience who made his way to the third Olympic Games in Saint Louis, Missouri and ended up shocking the field in the 1904 Olympic Marathon.
Dallas, TX
Like most film students in the early 80's, Shawn planned to be the next great Director. Unfortunately, he discovered that he didn't know f-stops from sprocket holes. However, he did discover that he could write. After experiencing some early writing success, he focused on family & career. After 20 successful years running Art House Cinemas, Shawn p...
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Feature
· Drama
· 100 Pages
When a depressed man's 61-year-old mother gets pregnant in a small
town, he grows to a height of 30 feet tall.
Sydney, Nsw, AU
Scott has written and sold several screenplays to the Hallmark Channel. When Scott’s not writing screenplays, he’s working in the ad industry as an award-winning Executive Creative Director for large advertising agencies around the world. He has worked in the US, New Zealand and Australia. Originally from Minnesota, he currently lives with his wife ...
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