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2011
Expo Screenplay Competition:
The Access Prizes
The Expo Screenplay Competition
will get you and your script past the gatekeepers.
Dissemination To 800+ Producers And
Agents -- A Significant Prize!
Creative Screenwriting and the Screenwriting Expo enjoy a high
reputation with producers, agents, and managers. Our
reputation,
plus your
achievement in winning or placing high in our contest, combine to
allow us to “walk” your script past the gatekeepers
who block the entrance for unsolicited scripts at
studios, production
companies, agents, and managers. Your story gets in the door
of 800+
production companies, agents, and managers!
How We Entice
Producers, Agents, And Managers To Read Winning, Finalist, And
Semifinalist Scripts
We put winning scripts on line and make them available to a lost of
800+ studio execs, producers, agents, managers, and movie packagers
these execs online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Then, we periodically send these 800+ execs letters with enticing
"teasers" about what is in these scripts. We promise them
confidential, secure access to ensure that they will cross the digital
doorstep to read your scripts.
We’re also improving your chances with more kinds of
access:
Free
Screenwriting Expo Admission and Free Pitch Tickets
The Golden Pitch Festival is among
the
biggest pitch festivals held, with more than 60 production
executives, agents, and managers receiving pitches face to face.
And if you win, you get to pitch scripts free:
- The Grand Prize
winner receives a free Gold Pass (worth $319.95), five TEN
free pitch tickets (tickets are normally $25 each), and
front-of-the-line status to choose available pitch tickets.
- Genre Prize winners
receive free Expo Basic Passes ($109.95 value) plus two FIVE $25
pitch
tickets each.
- The Suzanne's Prize
winner receives a free Basic Pass plus two
FIVE $25
pitch tickets.
- Grand Prize runnersup
receive free Basic Passes ($109.95 value) plus two FIVE free
$25 pitch
tickets each.
- Teleplay Winners receive free
Basic Passes ($109.95 value each) plus two free $25 pitch tickets (or
refunds).
In summary,
the multiple kinds of access include:
- Pitch
to the industry. As mentioned above,
free entry pitch
scripts in the Golden Pitch Fest at the Screenwriting Expo.
- Perfect
timing
to get immediate attention for you and your script.
More than
60 production executives and representatives of agents come to the
Golden Pitch at the Screenwriting Expo each year. Since 2009, we
have timed the announcement of winners and the awards ceremony to
the evening before the Expo begins. We invite the industry to
attend
this event. As a contest winner or finalist,
your chances of gaining
industry attention are strongly enhanced by this
timing. As a winner,
when you enter the Golden Pitch Fest, you do so as the newest major
screenwriting contest winners in town.
- Publicity
is access. Your success as a semifinalist, finalist, and winner
will be heralded to Hollywood through
multiple
outlets: an article in Creative
Screenwriting Magazine, an email announcement to our entire list
of writers, directors and producers, press releases to the industry,
and through permament, searchable listing at the Screenwriting Expo web
site.
- Distribution
to The 800+. We
make winning , finalist, and semifinalist scripts and loglines
available to more than 800 production companies and agencies
which have asked to see them.
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Winner
Announcements:
- Semifinalists
To Be Announced Aug. 25, 2011, evening
- Top 20
Finalists to Be Announced: Aug. 27, evening
- Winners
To Be Notified: Aug. 31, evening; Announced At the Screenwriting
Expo
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