The Australian International Screenwriting Awards (AISA) is a screenwriting competition committed to the discerning selection, recognition, and professional growth of emerging screenwriters from all over the world.
Australia, our home base, is a perfect merging of great cities and abundant nature. From big waves and rainforests to mountains and the massive outback. You can be diving the Great Barrier Reef one moment and checking out a contemporary art exhibit the next.
In this huge country that also happens to be the world’s smallest continent, you think you know what to expect but adventure and diversity lie around every sun-drenched corner. Each city is distinctly stimulating, ideal for a people so vigorously experimental, readily immersing themselves into the arts, the ocean, a sensory overload of biodiversity, a thriving cafe culture, or an intriguing cinematic history.
The Australian film industry began in the early 1900s and since then has produced internationally recognized filmmakers and actors who have made names for themselves locally as well as in Hollywood. Our country is perhaps the only one that can boast of numerous filmmakers who made it here first before venturing to the United States, Hong Kong, or Europe to further their craft and their international careers.
Our vision is to discover new talent in screenwriting, and we are passionate about opening exciting opportunities for them internationally.
We at AISA want to provide a platform of opportunities for top screenwriters. As such, our artistic director has created a robust and passionate panel of readers and judges to select our winners. With great discernment, we take a critical and unique approach to script critique, with decision-making based on a blend of artistic merit and entertainment value. Scripts are deliberated on fairly and substantially, with writers’ information kept confidential to ensure that writing is based solely on its quality and potential.
The top 10 winners are selected, and from this roster we award a first, second, and third prize winner and seven semifinalists.
We welcome stories of all genres and themes from everyone. Every narrative is worthwhile. Extraordinary ones need to be known.
The first prize winner will be awarded:
- A one-hour phone call with a top film development executive
- Two 15-minute consultations with film executives
- Our official laurels
- An InkTip introductory membership that includes access to hundreds of production companies
- Script coverage from our pool of professional screenwriters
The second prize winner will receive two 15-minute consultations with film executives, our official laurels, and script coverage from our pool of professional screenwriters.
The third prize winner will receive a 15-minute consultation with a film executive, our official laurels, and script coverage from our pool of professional screenwriters.
Semifinalists will receive our official laurels as well as script coverage from our pool of professional screenwriters.