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Write for a Cause!

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Hey all, if you haven’t already checked out our newsletter, our twitter page, or our FB page, please note that we’re putting on a cool competition! Here’s what we sent to our users yesterday:

Scripped will award the winning writer $500 for his or her short script.
Please sign up for the contest email list for instructions on how to enter on this page, and here are the highlights:

  • Write a 5-10 page script relevant to the current financial crisis
  • The final judging panel includes Alex Albrecht - new media mogul and co-host of Diggnation,  Sean and Laurie Percival - the editors of Lalawag and Alexia Tsotsis - the technology/business lifestyle reporter for the LA Weekly
  • Entry fee is $10, and your script is due by August 1st (we encourage you to submit earlier)
  • We will buy the winning script for $500 and publicize it heavily to our user-base. We will also send your script to the entire Harvard Kennedy School current student and alumni list-serv. There is a chance your script will be produced, though financial constraints do apply :)
  • Send us an @reply on twitter and we will give you feedback on your topic
Good luck in the competition, and please contact us with any questions. Let us know what you think about the changes we’ve made to the dashboard section of our site….

Happy Scripting,

Zak, Ryan, Sunil, & Josh
The Scripped Guys
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Our friends at Co-Write are Promoting a Competition

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

In association with management/production company BENDERSPINK (A History of Violence, The Butterfly Effect, Just Friends) Cowrite (www.cowritescript.com) has launched a truly innovative screenwriting competition. The contest provides a unique opportunity to those who have always thought they could write a screenplay to play an essential role in a potential Hollywood blockbuster.

A fun movie premise has been posted on the Cowrite website and writers now have the opportunity to contribute to the developing story. The script is being written in ten page increments by aspiring writers throughout the world and is currently on page 85.

Every other week, the best ten-page script submission will be added to the developing story until the script is finished and ready to be sold. For their ten-page contribution, each winning entrant will receive money and prizes totaling $3000, a pitch meeting with Benderspink and a chance to win the grand prize of a paid rewrite of the script. Winners will also share in any potential script sale proceeds.

Another exciting aspect of the Cowrite website is the “Pro’s Take” section where professional screenwriters and industry professionals are offering comments and suggestions on the developing story. Guest mentors have already included screenwriters Andrea Berloff (World Trade Center), Jesse Wigutow (Irreparable Harm) and Josh Schaer (TV’s Jericho).

Cowrite is believed to be the first screenwriting competition where the end goal is to try to sell a collaborative screenplay. In true Web 2.0 fashion, Cowrite utilizes social networking and the “wisdom of the crowd” to create a community-sourced product. Cowrite believes this method of art creation will become a widely accepted, and, in fact, sought out way of finding new talent while producing blueprints for major motion pictures. After all, what better market research tool for studios trying to figure out what audiences want to see at the theaters than letting the audiences provide the content?

Cowrite has already been featured in The NY Daily News and Script Magazine’s newsletter.

Please check out the website at www.cowritescript.com.

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