|
______________
*************
This issue sponsored by
BreakingIn.net
~ Where Screenwriters Go to Break In! ~
______________
*************
Dear Screenwriter:
Happy New Year to all aspiring and emerging screenwriters.
Give yourself every chance of success in 2003. Check out the script contests and production opportunities offered in this issue of Script Market News, then enter your best buffed scripts.
You can't sell your scripts unless they are read by many, many working film professionals. Script contests can expose your scripts to the film professionals that may help you get your foot in the door.
On with Script Market News...
SCRIPT
MARKET
NEWS
December 25, 2002
IN THIS ISSUE...
WRITER Q + A => Treatment Query
PRODUCTION OPPS => January Deadlines
MARKET TIP => Winter Contests
____________________
SCREENWRITER Q + A
QUESTION on QUERY LETTERS FOR TREATMENTS~~ I write books and short stories. Where could I send a query letter on a treatment for a script based on a true story in a book?
~~ June
ANSWER ~~ For your own protection, register your screenplays, stories and treatments with the Writer's Guild BEFORE you submit them for consideration.
How do you register a script? You can do it easily and inexpensively through the Writer's Guild. This mini-tutorial on the Writers Guild will tell you how
=>
www.breakingin.net/tswwritersguild.htm
For advice on how to target script submissions to agents
and producers go here => www.breakingin.net/target_submissions.htm
For advice on researching agents to query => www.breakingin.net/agents_hide.htm
Tutorial on writing a bombproof query letter => www.breakingin.net/tswquery.htm
Hope this helps!
____________
*******************
HOLIDAY SPIRIT...
Stuck for creative holiday gifts
for your writing friends?
Check out our BOOKLIST
for EMERGING SCREENWRITERS
CLICK => www.breakingin.net/books.htm
____________
******************
Production
Opportunities
=> FLICKS ON 66 WILD WEST SHOOTOUT
This unusual little film festival offers you the opportunity to see your vision on the big screen. In the past few years, Flicks has produced short movies by more than a dozen emerging filmmakers.
Writers provide the short scripts. Flicks provides cast, crew, digital cameras and everything else you need to make it happen. You have a few months before the deadline for script submissions - April 15, 2003 - so shake your bootie. The film festival runs in July.
DEADLINE ---> April 15, 2003
INFO ---> www.flickson66.com
QUESTIONS ---> flicksdigital66@aol.com
=> STAGED READING SERIES
Playwrights would benefit most from this opportunity; but many movie scripts work well as staged readings. So if you live in the New York City area, you might want to give this opp a shot. Old School Theatre Company is seeking scripts (30 minutes to 2 hours in length) for their annual Staged Reading series. For the right script, this opportunity would be invaluable.
INFO => www.oldschooltheatre.com/
E-MAIL => mollydawne@hotmail.com
++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Selling Your Work to the Movies?
LET www.breakingin.net
HELP YOU BREAK IN!
Bombproof Query Letters =>
www.breakingin.net/tswquery.htm
Freebie
Script Format Tutorial =>
www.breakingin.net/format
_ tutorial.htm
++++++++++++++++++++++++
MARKET
TIP
Winter
Screenplay Contests
=> CHRISTIAN SCREENWRITE
ChristianScreenwrite.com seeks diverse, entertaining entries. They welcome all genres including romantic comedies, slick and gritty thrillers, heart wrenching dramas, sci-fi and adventure scripts. They seek scripts that reflect the ethnic, cultural and social diversity among Christians and in the Christian screenwriting community.
Submissions must meet one or more of the following criteria:
~~ Scripts whose main storyline deals with or is based on Biblical Christian principles, morals, values and beliefs. Example: A Walk to Remember.
~~ Contemporary scripts whose main character is a Christian. Example: The Apostle.
~~ Scripts which explore the Supernatural from a biblical perspective.
DEADLINE => January 30, 2003
INFO => www.christianscreenwrite.com
=> CAROLINA FILM FEST FEATURETTE AWARD
Short scripts only! The winning featurette should be 30-60 pages. It must be about or set in the Carolinas.
Actors from the UNC Greensboro Theatre Program will perform a reading of the winning script on the last day of the Film and Video Festival. The author will receive a videotape of the reading.
CONTACT => carolinafilmfest@excite.com
INFO => www.uncq.edu/bcn/cfvf
=> LIVING IN MONTEREY? LUCKY YOU!
Does your script include at least 50% Monterey (California) locations? Then you might want to check out this screenplay contest sponsored by the Monterey County Film Commission. Cash prizes and publicity.
DEADLINE: January 31, 2003
DETAILS => www.filmmonterey.org/
=> WOMEN IN FILM ~ NEW ENGLAND
Women in Film and Video (New England chapter) offers this contest to search for high quality screenplays. Open to all members of Women in Film/New England -- men and women.
Finalists receive free admission to Michael Hauge's Writing for Hollywood Workshop. The Winning writer receives a free script consultation with Michael Hauge.
DEADLINE: January 10, 2003
INFO => www.Womeninfilmvideo.org
EDITOR'S TIP: For our series of interviews with this terrific script coach go here =>
www.breakingin.net/hauge1.htm
=> WORLDFEST COMPETITION
The Houston International Film Festival sponsors this terrific competition. They offer eleven categories for film and television scripts so check out the festival Website!
Cash prizes and raw stock grants!
DEADLINE: January 15, 2003
INFO => www.worldfest.org
______________
*******************
Hot BOOKS for Emerging Writers
Stuck for creative holiday gifts
for writing friends?
Check out our BOOKLIST
for SCREENWRITERS:
www.breakingin.net/books.htm
_____________
******************
Subscribe
to Script Market News
-
Free newsletter from
www.
Breakingin.net
-
Script
marketing advice:
Tips, Tools, Tutorials
-
Screenwriter
Q + A
-
Submission
opportunities
-
Twice a month by
e-mail (text)
-
Sample
issues CLICK
HERE!
_______________________
Do a writing pal a favor and
FORWARD Script Market News to them.
Then FINISH THAT SCRIPT before the
clock strikes twelve.
Happy New Year to ALL!
Lenore Wright, Editor
Script Market News
+++++++++++++
Jumpstart YOUR writing career!
www.breakingin.net/benefits.htm
If
you haven't seen my site for screenwriters... GO NOW
=> www.breakingin.net/
******
Miss the last issue? You can read it ONLINE here => www.breakingin.net/script-market-news24.htm
******
-------------------
SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE by email:
newsletter@breakingin.net
------------------
FEEDBACK: screenwriter@breakingin.net
---------------------
BACK ISSUES of Script Market ->
www.breakingin.net/tocscriptmarket.htm
-----------------
FORWARD Script Market to friends or writing groups.
----------------
|
