Shore Scripts 2015 Screenwriting Competition NOW O

I wanted to post to let you know that 2015's Shore Scripts Screenwriting Competition is OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS. http://www.shorescripts.com/

Shore Scripts has grown from year to year. We have over 100 Production Companies onboard to read this years top scripts. As well as that, 21 Oscar & BAFTA winning industry Judges will read our Winners screenplays. They can all be seen below. We are also giving away £9000+ in cash and prizes to our Feature & Short Winners.

Our goal is to help kick start the careers of upcoming screenwriters. With the Judges, Production Companies and Agents onboard, we believe Shore Scripts is the perfect platform for writers to get noticed.

You can Enter your Feature here: http://www.shorescripts.com/shore-scripts-screenwriting-competition/feature/ You can Enter your Short here: http://www.shorescripts.com/shore-scripts-short-script-submission/

Here are our full list of our Judges and a handful of the Production Companies.

* Jeremy Irons / Oscar Winning Actor / The French Lieutenant's Wide, The Mission, Dead Ringers
* Tony Grisoni / Writer / Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Red Riding Trilogy, Tideland
* Phyllida Lloyd / BAFTA Winning Director / Mamma Mia!, The Iron Lady
* Stephen Woolley / Oscar Nom Producer / The Company of Wolves, Interview with the Vampire, The Crying Game
* Jeffrey Caine / Oscar Nom Writer / The Constant Gardener, GoldenEye, Rory O'Shea Was Here
* Liza Marshall / Head of Film & TV at Scott Free / Welcome to the Punch, Life in a Day, Boy A
* Paul Webster / Oscar Nom Producer / Eastern Promises / Salmon Fishing in the Yemen / Atonement
* Christopher Figg / Producer / We Need to Talk About Kevin, Trainspotting, Hellraiser, 4,3,2,1
* Michelle Wright / Head of Production at Working Title / O Brother, Where Art Thou, Billy Elliot, Bridget Jone's Diary
* Ray Lawrence / Palme d'Or Nom Director / Lantana, Jindabyne
* Kasi Lemmons / Actress, Director / Silence of the Lambs, Hard Target, Eve's Bayou, The Caveman's Valentine
* Sierra Nielsen / Producer / Kill Your Darlings, King of the Castle, A Fall From Grace
* Andras Hamori / Producer / The Sweet Hereafter, eXlistenZ, Sunshine, Crash
* Kees Kasander / BAFTA Winning Producer / Fish Tank, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Ken Park
* Carrie Comerford / Producer / Red Road, Manderlay, Dear Wendy
* Finola Dwyer / Oscar & BAFTA Nom Producer / Stoned, Severance, Tsunami: The Aftermath, An Education
* Kevin Loader / BAFTA Nom Producer / In The Loop, Nowhere Boy, Wuthering Heights, Enduring Love
* Adrian Sturges / Producer / The Escapist, The Disappearance of Alice Creed, Albatross
* Todd Eckert / Producer / Control, Depravity
* Diamuid McKeown / Producer / Trance, 127 Hours, Eden Lake, The Descent 2
* Robert Bevan / Producer / Killing Bono, Little Ashes, Grabbers

A few of the Production Companies include:

Warp Films
Echo Lake Productions
Big Talk Production
Future Film Group
Bankside Film
Ruby Films

Thanks a lot,
The Shore Scripts Team
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So entry is free is it?

You think they would have mentioned it, but no.

£25 is not bad, though.
it's a pretty good group of judges...

Who can freely nick your ideas. Why else would so many prod cos and pro writers be in on it?

These things are a jamboree for competing prods and prod cos and unscrupulous writer judges. Some may say a scam, or certainly have said about the proliferation of US screenwriting comps.

There is no promise of production or commission or even an option in the prizes. So I am sceptical.

We are also giving away £9000+ in cash and prizes
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£3,500 cash, which you'll recoup from the first 140 entries. The other prizes are promotions any company does with new products.

Looking at that list of judges I think it would be worth a punt. Surely worth a chance to get your work read by that group of people?

And seems rather a lot of hassle for Jeremy Irons et al to go to for a few script ideas.

Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 12th April 2015, 8:30 AM BST

Who can freely nick your ideas. Why else would so many prod cos and pro writers be in on it?

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Really?
You might want to take the tin-foil hat off for a moment.
You'd spend £25 in stamps and phone-calls just to get any one of those judges to have a read.
And the world is not short of ideas - it's short of good writers.
If any of those guys see anything they like, threy'll be on the phone trying to strike a (cheap) deal.

It would be nice if Shore Scripts posted a response but I suspect they have been scared off.

Scared or not, we are their clients!

Judging by the cut off title of this thread (NOW O) I'm guessing Shore Scripts might have used spam software to automatically add this message to 1000s of forums and contact forms throughout the interwebby.

Great response on this thread.

Sorry it's taken a while to answer you guys.

Basically, any screenwriting competition worth its salt is going to ask for an entry fee. It takes a lot of time to organize and operate so kudos to anyone who can read hundreds of screenplays at no cost but it's just not financially realistic. Yup, we want to make a profit. We're a business. The film industry is a business primarily focused on making money. But hopefully we can help aspiring screenwriters produce some quality work at the same time. We're trying to help find quality writers because quality sells. It's a difficult business to get into. We're not guaranteeing a script will go into production (which takes years by the way) we're helping you get noticed and giving you exposure.

Production companies won't steal your idea. This is something a lot of amateur writers seem to have strong belief in but no one actually does this. It's easier to option a script than it is to fight a lengthy legal battle, any day.

You've got to have a winning script, of course. And if you've got a fantastic idea, your script will find its way into the right hands no matter what avenue you take it down as long as it's not just sitting on your hard drive that is.

Regards,
The Shore Team

Any Screen writing competition worth its salt DOES NOT charge an entry fee.