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1ST PLACE WINNER WILL RECEIVE A FREE SCREENWRITING SOFTWARE
FROM WRITE BROTHERS.
TOP 3
WILL EACH RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
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RULES
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This
contest is open to anyone except all employees, directors, associates,
the immediate families of American Gem, FilmMakers.com, Write Brothers,
all the affiliates and/or sponsors
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Students
must supply a letter from the head of the Writing department and/or equivalent
declaring such status.
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Multiple
entries are permissible, but each entry must be accompanied by an Entry
Form,
signed, and an entry fee.
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Once
material has been
entered, no substitutions of new drafts or corrected pages will be considered.
You may submit a revised draft of your manuscript as a new submission,
fill in an entry form and pay the
appropriate entry fee.
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Collaborative
work is eligible, but each must fill and sign an
Entry Form
individually.
The writers are responsible for the distribution of the contest prize (s).
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Writers
under the age of 18 years old must sign the
Entry Form and have a parent or guardian sign the
Entry Form.
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Contest applicants
must accept without reservation the decisions rendered by the jurors.
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Writer understands and accepts
without reservation that he/she/ is an independent contractor and
American Gem/Write Brothers are not responsible for withholding any
taxes or payments to any government agency, at any level, be it
state, local or federal
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Writer understands that it
is his/her sole responsibility to register Material with the U.S. Copyright
Office and/or with the Writer’s Guild of America or the appropriate agency in
his/her country.
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You have retained at least one copy of the submitted material, and
you understand that all
material we receive cannot and will not be returned under any circumstances.
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Make
your money order, bank/personal check, credit card check (in U.S. funds only), payable
to:
Media Pro Tech Inc.
Format and
Length
- manuscript must be minimum 300 words
to a maximum of 12,500 words
- in English
- typed on standard white paper,
double-spaced
- paginated
- unpublished at the time of
submission
- original fiction written by the
applicant (translations are eligible)
- ONLY THE TITLE OF THE STORY SHOULD
APPEAR ON THE FRONT COVER! As all reading is anonymous the writer's
name should not appear anywhere on the script.
- you must include a SEPARATE cover
sheet
Cover sheet
should include:
- TITLE
- WRITER'S NAME
- ADDRESS
- PHONE NUMBER
- EMAIL ADDRESS
Final Deadline:
August 31, 2009.
Entry fees:
- Manuscript up to 2750 words: $29
- Manuscript from 2749 - 5000 words: $35
- Manuscript from 5001 - 12500 words: $39
Resubmission
Deadline:
August 19, 2009
Notification date: First round notified on or by 10/30/2009.
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Testimonials
I want to say that we have been in initial contact with Fox regarding Frijolito, Go! and would like to thank you very much for opening that door.
Tony Mosher and Mitch Larson
Angela's Decision," has been produced in
Australia by award-winning director
Mat King. It is now making the film festival rounds in 2007. It has received a
Gold ACS Award for Best Cinematography from the Australian Cinematographers
Society. It received Honorable Mention in the George Lindsey UNA Film Festival
for Best Feature. One of the film's songs, "Run
To Nowhere," composed by Christopher Slaski, was a finalist in the Garden
State Film Festival's film music competition. And it's on to the Phoenix Film
Festival next. Hopefully, this is just the beginning for the film. (In some
festivals it is considered a short and in some it's a feature due to its
length of 48 minutes.) Thank you for your competition. It really does mean a
lot to screenwriters to receive recognition, which in my case resulted in
getting the script produced.
Gena Ellis
My journey with
American Gem has done so much for helping me realize my own dream. I feel like
I can make it, writing for a living...
After I
completed The Gardener, I felt that the script actually had a
voice. I researched online for the best short screenplay contest. You
guys are it!
Musa Jackson
American Gem’s intentions are genuine. Few contests honor the short script
form the way they do. They don’t present themselves as a “fly-by-night” kind
of organization by any means. And to have the chance to compete and have your
short produced is too good to pass up.
Angie M. Comer
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