Screenwriting Competition

The Baltimore Film Office will accept entries for the 2010 Baltimore Screenwriters Competition on October 1, 2009 through January 29, 2010.  The early submission deadline for entries is November 30, 2009.  The early submission  application fee is $35; thereafter, the fee is $50.  The absolute deadline for entries is January 29, 2010.  Final scripts will be judged by film industry professionals.  Returning judges are Grant Curtis, Nina Noble and Richard Walter.  

The competition is designed to create awareness of screenplay as a literary art form and to encourage new screenwriters into the entertainment industry.  The Baltimore Screenwriters Competition is a project of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the Baltimore Film Office at the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts and sponsored by Municipal Employees Credit Union of Baltimore (MECU), Maryland Film Festival, NEXTCAR and Visit Baltimore.

For an application or more information, please click here.

The winners of the fourth annual Baltimore Screenwriters Competition were Steven Sullivan, David King and Ralph Hruban, and Chris LaMartina. 

SCREENWRITING RESOURCES
Visit these links for industry tips, news and general information on writing for films 

*Important Viewing Today from Roundtable on Television on the Internet
 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-10076798-80.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0

Screenwriting Sites
*Life after Lisa was one of the five finalists from the 2008 Baltimore Screenwriters
 Competition. Now it's a web-series, check it out!
 http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/2008/11/cast_crew_from_hbos_wire_begin.html 

*Great Columns and general information
  http://www.wordplayer.com/

*Copyright information to Augment WGA
  http://www.copyright.gov/

*Charles Deemer: Nuts & Bolts Screenwriting Section
  http://www.geocities.com/cdeemer/

*Author’s website with great links & columns 
  http://www.craftyscreenwriting.com/

*Writer’s Guild of America
  http://www.wga.org/

*Best website for free screenplays in master scene format (and transcript form only)
  http://www.script-o-rama.com/

*Strunk and White’s Elements of Style On-line
  http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html



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