Script_1 Workshop and Competition

 

IMAGINE IT, WRITE IT!!

Do you have a different way of looking at the world? Have you got a good story to tell? A unique experience? A story about where you live, someone in your life, or a mystical adventure? If you think it would make a strong short film then why not put pen to paper...

Now in its third year, SCRIPT_1 is an exclusive competition offering aspiring writers based in Gloucestershire the opportunity to develop their stories into scripts for the big or small screen.

To enter, write and submit an outline of your idea one-page maximum for a ten-minute fiction film spelling out the essential story elements- no scripts at this stage please. The story can be about anything: love, work, hopes, fears, the past, even the future. It can be funny, sad, dramatic or all three. What's most important is that the story has a point of view and shows a significant moment in life where you live. If there's an incident that sticks in your mind, a subject you feel strongly about, a place or person you love (or can't stand), then that's the germ of a story.

Please put your name, address, phone number, email address, and age on your entry (you must be aged 16+) and then email or send it to:

Cathi Beloe International Screenwriters' Festival Unit 24C Bath Road Stroud Gloucester GL5 3TL cathi@screenwritersfestival.com

COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED

If your entry is successful you will be invited to attend a screenwriting workshop on Tuesday 15th April 2007 which will be held at the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum where you will be shown how to approach turning your idea into a ten-minute film or television script.

You then have some 4 weeks to complete your entry and submit it to the above address.

Deadline for completed scripts May 29th 2008 (scripts are only accepted if you have been selected and attended the workshop)

The writers of the three winning scripts will be presented with their prizes

1st prize £300, 2nd prize £100, 3rd prize £50 and will receive their prizes at a ceremony on the second day of the International Screenwriters' Festival in Cheltenham held on Wednesday 2rd July 2008.

Competition and Workshop Rules:

• You must live in Gloucestershire to enter the competition.
• You must be over 16.
• Do not send a script in to us until you have been shortlisted and chosen to attend the workshop and have completed it.
• If you have previously attended a ‘Script_1' Workshop you cannot enter this year.
• Winning one of the prizes will only get you invited to the prize ceremony at the festival on the 2nd July 2008 but to attend the rest of the festival tickets must be obtained to gain entry.
• The story should be your work and not be copyright material belonging to anyone else.
• Winning the competition infers no commitment contractual or otherwise by SWF to a script or to it being made.
• Winners are expected to cooperate with any press and TV interest in the scheme and to have their photos taken.