The Sixth Borough Screenwriting Competition is a way for Screenwriters to get their scripts into the hands of industry professionals with the possibility of having their vision make it from page to screen. Sixth Borough Entertainment is currently in search of a script to make a 1 to 2 million-dollar feature within the next year. That is where you come in... The winner will be offered an option contract for a Feature Film! Do you have the next great script?
Sorry it's too low a budget to merit serious consideration.
Send me £100 none of your dollars and I will tell you how to run these kind of things.
I don't understand this bit:
"Grand Prize: $1,000 in cash, and a $10,000+ offer for your script to be made into a 1 to 2 million dollar feature film"
How does a $10,000 offer turn into a 1-2 mil dollar film!?
And $40 to enter! Have you seen the exchange rate?
Anyway I'm aleady tied to the five borough scheme where Local Authorities are funding a glorified sports day in 2012.
It's $70 if you want feedback. It'd have to be the most useful feedback ever to that price.
it's only $40 if you want your script left in a bin though.
it's only $40 if you want your script left in a bin though.
Is there an option for it to be recycled instead of dumped in a bin? 
These types on contests are popping up all over the place.
They were doing the same 10 years ago to bands with their "get your music in the hands of record labels" ballhang.
Quote: Mikey Jackson @ February 10 2010, 3:52 PM GMTballhang.
I had to Google that.
"The hanging of ones balls in disbelief"
Nope, still none the wiser.
I'm doing one.
It's a fiver to enter.
The prize is me filming your script on my mobile phone...maximum fliming time 2 hours, you travel to me - you do the editing.
Six quid if you want feedback.
Quote: bigfella @ February 10 2010, 9:30 PM GMTSix quid if you want feedback.
That's pushing it.
ballhang
I had to Google that.
"The hanging of ones balls in disbelief"
Nope, still none the wiser.
It's an expression I made up a few years back meaning rubbish, bollocks, etc.
e.g. You're talking a load of old ballhang.
or Oh, that it so ballhangable.
Funnily enough, someone has posted the word on the online Urban Dictionary site.
Writers inventing words??
It's an old tradition. Shakespeare supposedly coined over 3000 new words....heres just a few of them.
•accused
•addiction
•advertising
•aerial
•alligator
•amazement
•arouse
•articulate
•assassination
•bandit
•beached
•bedroom
•befriend
•besmirch
•birthplace
•blanket
•blushing
•bloodstained
•bump
•buzzer
•caked
•cater
•champion
•circumstantial
•cold-blooded
•compromise
•countless
•courtship
•critic
•critical
•daunting
•dawn
•deafening
•demure
•discontent
•dishearten
•dislocate
•dwindle
•educate
•elbow
•entomb
•epileptic
•equivocal
•excitement
•exposure
•eyeball
•fashionable
•fixture
•flawed
•frugal
•generous
•gloomy
•gnarled
•gossip
•gust
•hint
•hobnob
•hoodwink
•hurried
•hurry
•impartial
•impede
•investment
•invulnerable
•jaded
•label
•lackluster
•lapse
•laughable
•leapfrog
•lonely
•lower
•luggage
•majestic
•marketable
•metamorphize
•mimic
•misplaced
•monumental
•moonbeam
•mountaineer
•negotiate
•noiseless
•numb
•obscene
•obsequious
•ode
•olympian
•outbreak
•pander
•pedant
•premeditated
•radiance
•rant
•remorseless
•savagery
•scuffle
•secure
•submerge
•summit
•swagger
•torture
•tranquil
•trickling
•undress
•unreal
•varied
•vaulting
•wappened
•worthless
•zany
Quote: Alexis6BE @ February 9 2010, 6:53 PM GMTSixth Borough Entertainment is currently in search of a script to make a 1 to 2 million-dollar feature within the next year.
That's a tiny budget for a feature film. I imagine most scripts submitted would fail on not being suitable for such a low budget.