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Screenplay Festival is proud to announce the involvement of sponsors in the following areas: Screenwriter's Resources, Production Companies, and Management Companies.

Screenwriter's Resources

InkTip.com

Grand Prize winning contestants will receive the following prizes from sponsor InkTip.com. First, an e-mail announcement about their winning screenplay to approximately 6,500 industry professionals. Second, placement of at least the scripts logline and synopsis on InkTip.com's password protected web site. Grand Prize winners may also place their treatment and/or script. Third, InkTip.com will include a logline (pitch) for Grand Prize winning screenplays their printed publication, which is snail-mailed to approximately 5,000 Industry Professionals.

So You Wanna Sell A Script, Inc.

Every Grand Prize winning contestant will receive the following prizes from sponsor So You Wanna Sell A Script, Inc.. Total Script Express + Query Editing Service: Total Script Express sends a personal e-query to over 3,000 industry professionals comprised of studio executives, producers, agents, etc. Query Editing Service takes the writer through several drafts of their query letter until it is just right. Six Month subscription to the Writer's Rolodex - the Rolodex allows writers to manage their contacts and track their industry submissions. One Year free listing in the So You Wanna Sell A Script "Script Marketplace"; a private online database, only open to and regularly viewed by industry professionals looking for screenplays for option/purchase. Placement in one issue of the Hollywood Bugle; an e-newsletter sent to over 3,000 industry professionals. It features the logline and author info for the select few screenplays listed.

Script Delivery.net

Every Grand Prize winning contestant will receive Full Script Delivery and Eight months of Contact Database access from sponsor Script Delivery.net. Full Script Delivery sends a personal e-query to over 3,000 industry professionals comprised of studio executives, producers, agents etc. The Contact Database has contact information for thousands of studios, production companies, producers, literary agencies, managers and executives, plus it allows writers to keep custom contact lists and keep notes on their dealings with companies they're submitting to.

WriterGuard

WriterGuard offers comprehensive protection for writers and artists by bundling creative works registration, encrypted document backup, digital rights protection and document revision management into a single online service. Moreover, WriterGuard’s irrefutable “Timeline of Development” provides unparalleled forensic evidence of authorship for copyright protection. Get comprehensive protection and peace of mind for pennies a day..

Megahit Movies

What is it about the megahit movies that makes them so popular? What does an audience feel and experience in a dark theater for about two hours that provides them with an emotionally satisfying experience and makes them enthusiastic about these movies? To learn the answers to these questions, and to learn how to write your own megahit movie, visit The Megahit Movies.

ScriptFLY

ScriptFLY focuses on Development and Marketing for all screenwriters, from novice to advanced. Changing our name and narrowing our focus gives us new opportunities to offer. ScriptFLY offers excellent tools to help beginning, as well as advanced, screenwriters hone their skills. These tools include: Professional screenplay coverage, story analysis and straight forward studio coverage; quality articles about screenwriting; scene studies; discussions forums; originally formatted screenplays to read; a newsletter with a growing mailing list that offers free tips and information; and tons of screenwriting resources.

Creative Screenwriting Magazine

www.creativescreenwriting.com - Creative Screenwriting was named "the best magazine about screenwriting" by the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. Sign up for CS Weekly for free.

Screenwriting Expo

www.screenwritingexpo.com - The largest event in the world for screenwriters, Screenwriting Expo 5 features hundreds of seminars on every aspect of writing imaginable as well as numerous A-list guests of honor.

CS Web

www.csweb.ws - This portal to the screenwriting world includes more than 1,000,000 words of advice to help you make the transition from aspiring to professional screenwriter.

Screenwriting Expo DVDs

www.expodvds.com - Creative Screenwriting magazine brings you the best A-list speakers and seminars from the Expo on DVD. Beginning at only $14.95, these DVDs are a huge value.

Movie Scripts Online

www.moviescripts.name - A huge online database of film and TV scripts that features links to additional articles and interviews for every script included.

Screenwriter Interviews

www.screenplaywriter.net - There is no better way to learn the craft and business of screenwriting than speaking with the best scriptwriters working today. Screenplay Writer offers more than 150 complete interviews from the likes of Paul Thomas Anderson, John August, William Broyles, Antwone Fisher, David Goyer, Brian Helgeland, Charlie Kaufman, Kenneth Lonergan, Christopher McQuarrie, Alexander Payne, Richard Price, Tim Robbins, Gary Ross, John Sayles, Ron Shelton, Andrew Stanton, Ted Tally, and Nia Vardalos.

How to Write a Screenplay

www.howtowriteascreenplay.net - Writer/director James P. Mercurio presents a step-by-step approach to writing your screenplay, whether it's your first or fiftieth.

TV Screenwriting

www.screenwriting.tv - Veteran TV writer and producer Catherine Clinch presents her method for writing a TV screenplay from concept to production, discusses how the networks and studios work, the rules of writing two, four, and seven-act scripts, and how to approach writing a spec for an existing show.

Script Sales

www.literarysales.com/ls/index - Use this free database of spec script and pitch sales dating back to 1995 to see what types of screenplays have sold in the genre you're working in, or to the producers you're interested in working with.

Screenplay Contests

www.screenplaycompetition.net - Offering ratings on every active screenplay contest, this site is a comprehensive guide for entering and winning contests and features interviews with contest coordinators and contest winners.

Entertainment Industry

www.entertainmentindustry.name - Writer/producer Heather Hale presents a step-by-step guide on how the entertainment industry works and who has the real power in Hollywood.

Scriptwriting Business

www.scriptwriting.ws - Writer/producer Michael Lent presents his five-year plan for scriptwriting success and writer/producer Ron Suppa fills in the gaps in your knowledge base on becoming a working professional.

Screenplay Format

www.screenplayformat.net - You have to look professional to be considered in Hollywood, and this site presents the standard screenplay format and answers all your questions.

Screenplay Treatment

www.screenplaytreatment.com - Writer/Producer Michael Halperin lays out an approach you can use to writing treatments for your feature and TV scripts.

Screenwriting Books

www.screenwritingbook.net - The number of books available on screenwriting is staggering and it can be difficult to decide which ones would be the most beneficial for your writing and career, but with detailed reviews of more than 200 books for screenwriters, you should check here before you buy.

Screenwriting Resources

www.screenwritingresource.com - This great site lists the best products and services available to any writer including the biggest screenplay consultant reviews as well as a large database of production companies accepting unsolicited material.

Screenwriting Message Boards

www.messageboard.ws - The best place on the net to seek advice from fellow writers or to check out the job board and build your career.

Production Companies

Showcase Entertainment

A distribution and production company with a catalogue of over 100 feature length films in a variety of genres to their credit, Showcase Entertainment will be taking a look at Screenplay Festival's Grand Prize and Honorable Mention winners. Says Showcase's Cara Shapiro, "Showcase is looking to produce films. I will absolutely take a look at the winners. Who knows what we could come across!"

Arpil Entertainment

Arpil Entertainment is a Literary Management and Production Company that strives to provide the entertainment industry with the highest quality literary material from new, undiscovered talent. Adam B. Finer said of Arpil Entertainment, "We draw upon extensive marketing, management, development, and production experience to nurture and promote new talent."

Sequoia Pictures

With a focus on the new frontiers of digital and high definition video, Sequoia Pictures has special interest in those scripts competing in the "Experimental/Arthouse" category. Says Sequoia's founder, "It takes a special project to take full advantage of what these new technologies in movie making have to offer. We're hoping that Screenplay Festival helps us to find that special script we all hope is out there."

Management Companies

FMA Management, Inc.

FMA Management, Inc. is an aggessive new Hollywood literary management company focusing entirely on feature film screenplays. Representing both new and established writers, FMA provides service and results - fast - always with the long term goals of the client in mind. Formed in 2002, FMA is owned and operated by Felippe Marques in association with various partnerships of strength and leverage. FMA is interested in high concept, commercial screenplays in all genres - with a preference for action, thrillers, comedy and horror.

Arpil Entertainment

Executive Talent Consultants

According to Daniel Iorio, vice-president of Executive Talent Consultants, "Screenplay Festival provides us with an excellent opportunity to take a look at fresh, new writing talent that we might not have the chance or time to find otherwise." Screenplay Festival will be forwarding a copy of every script that is given a Grand Prize or Honorable Mention.