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Stop Screwing Around and WIN Your Next Screenplay Contest!: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Winning Hollywood's Biggest Screenwriting Competitions (Screenwriting: ...
Gone are the days of Hollywood agents
going home each night with a
stack of unsolicited screenplays written by
unknown writers in the hope of finding
their next star screenplay client.
Unsolicited material (your script)
just doesn’t get read.
Screenplay competitions are now
the system that provides the reading and
analysis formerly conducted by agents, producers,
and studio development executives.
The Hollywood film industry loves
script writing competitions simply because
they are an effective filtering system
the brings the best movie scripts
the top of the heap.
Any screenwriter who
wins a major screenplay competition today
suddenly winds up with a great IMDB profile and becomes visible to Hollywood producers, directors, and studio executives looking for the next hot property.
So, two things are obvious:
1. You need to submit your scripts to
the best screenplay competitions.
2. You need to WIN (or be a Finalist in the best script writing competitions.
This book won't teach you how to write a script.
It's only about one thing: How
to WIN a screenplay competition.
If that’s your goal, this is the book
for you.
Author Robert McCullough has more than
200 produced credits in film and
television, and is a Senior Judge at The Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards.
going home each night with a
stack of unsolicited screenplays written by
unknown writers in the hope of finding
their next star screenplay client.
Unsolicited material (your script)
just doesn’t get read.
Screenplay competitions are now
the system that provides the reading and
analysis formerly conducted by agents, producers,
and studio development executives.
The Hollywood film industry loves
script writing competitions simply because
they are an effective filtering system
the brings the best movie scripts
the top of the heap.
Any screenwriter who
wins a major screenplay competition today
suddenly winds up with a great IMDB profile and becomes visible to Hollywood producers, directors, and studio executives looking for the next hot property.
So, two things are obvious:
1. You need to submit your scripts to
the best screenplay competitions.
2. You need to WIN (or be a Finalist in the best script writing competitions.
This book won't teach you how to write a script.
It's only about one thing: How
to WIN a screenplay competition.
If that’s your goal, this is the book
for you.
Author Robert McCullough has more than
200 produced credits in film and
television, and is a Senior Judge at The Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards.
120 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 8, 2018
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January 13, 2023
Bought Out of Curiosity
I picked up this book because I was curious about what a Step-by-Step guide to winning contest would look like. It’s kind of like the how-to books that promise to tell you how to write a best selling novel. It’s not possible. There’s no formula or guide that can do that.
What this book does offer is some very good advice to someone new to screenwriting. If you listen to the advice here, learn how to tell a good story in 100 pages or less and you study actual screenplays you have a chance of placing or even winning contests. But he’s telling the truth when he tells you it’s hard work and you won’t do it overnight. But it might get you one step closer.
I picked up this book because I was curious about what a Step-by-Step guide to winning contest would look like. It’s kind of like the how-to books that promise to tell you how to write a best selling novel. It’s not possible. There’s no formula or guide that can do that.
What this book does offer is some very good advice to someone new to screenwriting. If you listen to the advice here, learn how to tell a good story in 100 pages or less and you study actual screenplays you have a chance of placing or even winning contests. But he’s telling the truth when he tells you it’s hard work and you won’t do it overnight. But it might get you one step closer.
January 2, 2021
A good guide to begin a career
Screenplay contests are now more important to reach a network of industry professionals. Contests are a wonderful way to gain exposure and to prove worthy of good writing.
Screenplay contests are now more important to reach a network of industry professionals. Contests are a wonderful way to gain exposure and to prove worthy of good writing.
July 16, 2024
Great read.
Well written bible for succeeding in screenplay contests. Now I feel prepared by the master. Wish I had read it first.
Well written bible for succeeding in screenplay contests. Now I feel prepared by the master. Wish I had read it first.
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