Kinolime is a story-driven production company that discovers the best unproduced screenplays through our competitions. We involve the audience to read, rate, and vote for their favorite stories. We work alongside the audience to identify the best stories, but the final decision is always in their hands. Kinolime promises to fully finance and produce the winning screenplay at a production budget up to 15 million dollars* , bringing the story from script to screen.
Kinolime is the only screenplay competition that promises a fully-financed film as the winning prize. Also, we're free!
HOW IT WORKS:
1. SUBMIT YOUR SCREENPLAY - Submit your complete screenplay and 5-10 story page treatment on our website's competition page. No fee required. (https://www.kinolime.com/competition)
2. KINOLIME SELECTS THE TOP 26 SCREENPLAYS - Our development team reads every submission and determines the top 26 to move on to the next round.
3. AUDIENCE VOTING - You, the audience, read the story treatments of the Top 26 and vote on your favorites to advance to the TOP 10.
4. JUDGES PANEL SELECTION - Kinolime's development team reviews the TOP 10 screenplays and select 3 finalists.
5. AUDIENCE DECIDES THE WINNING SCREENPLAY - From the final 3 screenplays, YOU, the audience, read and vote on which screenplay Kinolime will option and produce into a film.
6. GREENLIGHT! - The winning screenplay is optioned and begins its journey from script to screen.
THE PRIZE: The biggest prize in the history of screenplay competitions: a green-lit feature film!
OPTION AGREEMENT: The winner of the 2nd annual Kinolime Screenplay Competition will be entitled to a cash prize via their option agreement.
GREENLIGHTING YOUR SCRIPT: Kinolime commits to fully financing and producing the winning screenplay into a feature film at a budget range up to 15 million dollars.
SCRIPTS WE'VE OPTIONED DIRECTLY FROM OUR COMPETITION: After our first competition, we optioned our winning screenplay, THE WAIF (read and watch all about this script's journey on our site), and immediately brought it into our development slate. Additionally, we optioned 3 other screenplays we adored from our first competition.
GUARANTEED EYES ON YOUR SCREENPLAY: Our development team reads Every. Single. Submission. we receive. Even if your screenplay does not win the competition, we operate as any other production company would and have negotiated options with screenplays we loved that came up short in our public voting.